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It is working! CREGFIX, HIMEMX, PATCHMEM, AHCI Driver (with patcher9x), GeForce 7900 GTX, Delock 89135 USB 2.0 PCI-E x1 card with USB Mouse and USB Audio Card attached. No LAN - too new, no DOS/NDIS2 drivers available. Rebooting doesn't work but Shutdown -> Ctrl+Alt+Del works equally well. Need to run using WIN, rather than automatically, otherwise every second boot fails on AHCI.PDR, weird...

This is huge news! I will definitely try this with my i3-12100F, 7900 GTX and the PRO H610M-B DDR4. @Omoresmaybe you should see this

But you wrote: The IBM file I mentioned earlier does this: Which matches what you wrote in that post. Is IgnorePnPBIOS even a valid option? I can't find it mentioned anywhere besides your posts, hard to believe no-one found it before you...

I have tried that CamStudio on 98SE on VirtualBox using SoftGPU and the Microsoft Video 1 codec and the videos are looking fine, have you tried different codecs?

How they are different? And yes, I know regular setup works well for majority of appropriate machines (having official 9x support) but for those that are newer or have Device Manager problems with ACPI, switching to APM using "setup /p i" fixes all issues without any drawbacks, or at least I do not know of any major ones.

Old CamStudio 2.0 should work: https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2020/07/camstudio-20.html Of course best "screen capture" would be to use a capture card

ACPI often messes up with the device enumeration. A 9x PC with ACPI can have yellow marks in Device Manager whereas the same system without it, is perfectly fine. I do not see any benefits to use ACPI on 9x, even on period correct hardware...maybe hibernation? But hibernation on FAT32 is not a good idea anyways... It is not a coincidence that IBM specifically tells the user to install 98SE without ACPI as can be seen here in one of their files for their T4x series of ThinkPads, see here: https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/tpisos98.txt http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/tpisos98.exe

It is highly recommended (outside of VirtualBox I think) to use "setup /p i" rather than "setup /p j" regardless of how old or new the PC is.

No harm in testing them regardless. If needed, force the install by selecting the regular 7800 GTX from the list of devices.

You do not need chipset drivers. You can use rloew's AHCI driver to avoid legacy IDE modes, and select enhanced SATA mode and avoid the devil that is ESDI_506.PDR for maximum performance. LAN - if built-in solution is Realtek, it might have drivers, just search the model number. If something else, try finding drivers, if can't find them, look for NDIS2 drivers, if still no luck, try a cheap PCI Realtek LAN card. AUDIO - If built-in is HD Audio - then there are no drivers, use a cheap USB Sound Card or a PCI sound card. If built-in is AC'97 - there are drivers. GPU - Integrated - only Intel Extreme Graphics 2 has drivers. Use GeForce 6000/7000 or Radeon X550/X600/X700/X800/X850 PCI-E GPUs, or an AGP motherboard/card for more choices. (Geforce 2 to 6000 series, Radeon 8500 to 9800 AGP, etc.) USB 2.0 - use unofficial drivers.

INF file size limit for Win9x is 64KB I'm pretty sure. Are you sure these drivers did not work without WDMEX? Do you get sound? I hope you're not talking about HD Audio, that would be a major breakthrough

82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller = Intel Extreme Graphics 2, latest Intel GPU compatible with 98SE, latest drivers are here: https://download.asrock.com/Drivers/Intel/VGA/VGA_ME_98(13.6.1.3732).zip It does have 3D Acceleration, it's not great but passable, haven't really played with it much but it's better than having to use VBEMP...

SoftGPU (or more specifically, its "wine9x" and "mesa9x" components) seems to be the only(?) option for some kind of universal software 3D Acceleration (using llvmpipe) for Win9x running on real hardware, not talking about any virtualization. I've tested it on real hardware with my 7900 GTX and it workes just like it does on VirtualBox with all its current limitations, and it's quite buggy. In this case, whenever DirectX is being requested by an application using ddraw, d3d8, or d3d9 - CPU does all the work, leaving GPU running simply as a dumb basic display adapter using VBEMP or thing like that.

I saw today's news of WUv4 now being available for (English) Win98/ME, and yes, it does indeed work, I am so happy!

Most of Win9x updates are not multilingual, only some of them are, depending on the DLL being patched, like KERNEL32.DLL.

Windows 98SE is a KernelEx for Windows 95 if you think about it...

Try different SiS IDE Drivers, this might be helpful: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/hp-vectra-vei-7#downloads

PATCHMEM from R.Loew limits/fixes the VCACHE in the same way that Xeno86's VCACHE fix did years ago here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/105373-vcache-fix-attempt

Are you talking about vmdisp9x? Yes, the author is updating his SoftGPU suite from time to time, I am keeping an eye on the developments as well.

This is quite the news. It is indeed a custom installer using MSYS with quite a variety of WineD3D versions to choose from. I think it would be beneficial to compare those DLLs with the ones we already know. The ISO doesn't contain any source code, so I think it is against the rules, but he has changed the donation text since June 30th so currently it is not available for new donators. Maybe the source code was provided in a separate archive and only the compiled ISO was uploaded?

LitePC also was (is?) providing embedded Win9x solutions -> https://www.litepc.com/eos.html As for slipstreaming updates, there's rloew's SLIPSTRM -> https://archive.org/details/slipstrm Not sure if anyone actually used it, can be an interesting adventure.

ALC6xx? That is HD Audio, no drivers for Win9x (apart from the clunky Win3.1 driver with low quality sound and system hangs) As you're using 98 FE, please do note that WDM implementation in FE is not really that good, WDM was properly introduced/fixed in 98 SE/ME. Pretty much all OEMs recommend using VxD drivers for 95/98 FE and WDM drivers for 98 SE/ME, that's for a reason! What is the model of your USB Audio Card? It should install natively as a "USB Audio Device" using WDMA_USB.INF file.

I haven't tested them on real hardware, though switching interest to VM's rather to real hardware makes sense.

But MMHID.DLL is related to USB, look at HIDDEV.INF Curiously, I can't find MMHID.DLL in CAB files in 98SE, is it only in 98FE? Is @awkduck using 98FE?

This: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/windows-9x-video-minidriver-hd/ and this: https://github.com/JHRobotics/vmdisp9x can be considered successors to VBEMP. (And don't get me started on the SciTech Display Doctor, ugh)