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The ISA, EISA and PCI clock speeds have been progressively increasing since conception till about the end of the Pentium 3 era but PCI-X 64 bit is twice as fast especially with dual processor boards. It means that add on cards have to be very good and the best ATI chips were put into the All In Wonder graphic cards. I may not be helpful much except your board is a good all rounder but I personally would remove the sound card at first and try the on-board sound. Also make sure everything works on Vista 32 bit for example. If you have a known good video card for testing, this is the best idea. Test game for nVidia is ExtremeG2 or Trackmania Nations Forever. Nations Forever should work with your card as I have used MX similar card myself. Most cards may not work properly.

Not funny, disrespectful. No more criticizing 98/ME or KernelEX please. MSFN has less active ME/98 member support than 2K we do not need knockers.

>>Lastly, where do I obtain the QUARTZ.DLL 6.5.1.907? Only place I find it mentioned is problemchyld's unofficial 98SE service pack Yes the service pack has it or the one I gave here https://msfn.org/board/topic/153566-windows-98-as-high-quality-video-player/?do=findComment&comment=1173681 The link a direct download from Microsoft still working I just checked. It is direct download http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/WindowsME.Windows98SE-KB904706-DX9-x86-ENU_3120a22628e0848051a2449a878677f.exe I can not find it in the SP either now yet I found it yesterday, it was in unofficial Direct X update I think.

>>I also tried to mess around with stubs. I analyzed the application with ImportPatcher, then just added whatever functions appeared to be missing to the Kstub822 file. The result was MPC-HC causing an error and closing immediately Make sure there are no duplicates that are already catered for in KernelEx already.

Fair enough but in a general sense for other players too. If you look you should find. I am sure the prereleases are fine to test/extract although Vista is no longer supported and they are a bit useless as installers are tuned to only use final releases. It makes use of these binaries in which someone has used their valuable time creating. EDIT > I did ask why my very early post web link was removed and it was not because of prerelease material. What would make using final release binaries back in older OS more legal than using a prerelease? They both were distributed and prereleases were free.

If there is hardware card not toggling properly can cause this too. My machine if overclocked too much does this. My machine/video card is getting better though.

I am happy with the choices I still have with WinME but if necessary I do have to go to Win10.

Quartz of later versions is OK but needs BASE to register/work. My mistake. I had Quartz 6.5.1.907 KEX disabled. I have tested Quartz from LH 5048 and OK DelayLoadFailureHook=>SetLastError. See also https://msfn.org/board/topic/153566-windows-98-as-high-quality-video-player/?do=findComment&comment=1179890

>>I have no opinion using MSVCR80.DLL as a MSVCRT-substitute. Do not overlook this version 8.0.31113.25 distributed in Framework v2.0.31113 available in LongHorn 4047. Members should look into my findings and report back for other members or they are not serious about 98/ME. Using KnownDlls is the same as renaming the file, the registry is loaded very early.

Accessing XP remotely though does not count as working with 98/ME operating system although I understand now that you access Win98 from within the VM. It also says something about VMs compared to a real machine.

Intel core duo can bench higher with PhotoWorxx - much higher. Also Opera 12.02 seems to be faster. AMD dual core does not bench with PhotpWorxx any higher than single core AMD. 1994 - 2004 is a wide range of gaming and I recommend having too separate machines for this because an ATI Rage graphics card is best for old games while a Geforce > 7300 is best for newer games and besides CPU slow down software may not be desirable. I just tried to get some used motherboards from eBay and all failed with some hardware faults. So obtaining good hardware is the challenge and the motherboards have to work 100%.

KMP using EVR uses EVR.dll & Dxva2.dll when selecting Enhanced Video Render +3D Texture + Bicubic and does transform to different aspect ratios. EVR.dll needs BASE. I said I can use more KEX modes with KMP but not entirely true, only 2K minimum, the options preferences crash with lower settings in my case. Quartz from LH5231 is linked to Dxva2, D3d9 as well as Ddraw so if ideas of above post are employed and DelayLoadFailureHook import is directed to SetLastError then it will work must not be set KEX disabled but use BASE, do not forget to register. This version might be the better one to choose for 98/ME as later versions did not include Dxva2 or D3d9. Using Quartz 5231 results in the bit rate across the video having less affect on CPU usage. x265 tested at 1120 x 630 with plenty in reserve 720p OK @ 2.9GHz.

Even VLC web site warned against using Msvcr71 as a system file. If KEX setting of Win98 is to be used then you should do as Jumper described in the Core.ini. "Add experimental mode to Core.ini that inherits from NT or XP and specifies anything you want from the other."

>>Quartz is not a renderer, my understanding is that it just loads the file and pass it to an appropriate splitter. Quartz.dll 6.3 versions work but are an earlier release than 6.5.1.907, I did my tests a while ago and later XP versions did not do everything they were supposed to do. Look into advanced filter info. Mine is 6.5.1 but not as recent as 914. Where can 6.5.1.914 be obtained, 6.5.1.907 is still downloadable and specifically for 98/ME. The Video Mixing Renderer7 (Windowed) is the rendering output I have chosen in KMP for this post.

>>no registry setting is going to change that. I was referring to CometBird 9 or FireFox 9. There is a narrow blue line above your post Loblo viewed in IPS -theme. No gone now. If you go straight to the web address it is easier on the browser than going through Google. cc333, MSFN forum is an easy site to load what other sites work, have you had any stalling? The proper install of the Service Pack seems to be the way to go, but with ME changing to a different machine; it would not happen.

It requires KEX setting of XP like I said here https://msfn.org/board/topic/153566-windows-98-as-high-quality-video-player/?do=findComment&comment=1179316 and my next post. The heart of a player is its codecs and 70.2-16 from LAV is the latest one to work, the rendering is also important Quartz of 6.5 does not work with 98/ME it does not render. Do not use Msvcr70 as Msvcrt as it has missing functions and stopped Divx player and other programs. Some members are resistant to try Msvcr80 version 8.0.31113.25 as Msvcrt. No programs fail you won't be regretful.

Its not KernelEx that has a problem. It would be registry settings IMO and I do not think that having original installation of 98 as a test is going to work as you have trouble. In about 2012 I grabbed an old drive having ME installed and KEX 4.5.1 or I installed 4.5.1. I started with Opera and installed Wyzo - Mozilla 3.6.4. Opera speed up after installing Mozilla. I was using a Duron 1800 VIA Mercury board. Then I steadily upped the versions of FireFox in the interim I must have installed KEX4.5.2. If stalling exit and then reboot but best to exit when browsing full page download success and then reboot to lock in setting changes in registry and the browser profile. I found CometBird and switched to that. Originally 9 would stall but if exiting before stall happened as per previous sentence that got it to work. ThunderBird 11 looked as though it was going to work but if too many downloads at once or under certain page rendering it would stall. I used ThunderBird 9 until TLS 1.0 could not talk to some servers. I then used Opera 12.02 for an email client.

I found when trying to edit post with CometBird 9 here MSFN, uploaded images appear but the text does not show - IPS Theme.

Are these functions catered for in KEX GetLocaleInfoEx > Kernel32 GetSystemDefaultLocaleName > Kernel32 IsValidLocaleName > Kernel32 LCIDToLocaleName > Kernel32 GetFontFileInfo > Gdi32 This one is asking for the font name GetFontRealizationInfo > Gdi32 This one is asking for the font ID and is a ROS function call Is there any chance of these functions set to work or stubbed. Does this make sense @@ -8180,7 +8245,7 @@ static BOOL freetype_GetFontRealizationInfo( PHYSDEV dev, void *ptr ) info->flags |= 2; info->cache_num = physdev->font->cache_num; - info->instance_id = -1; + info->instance_id = physdev->font->instance_id; if (info->size == sizeof(*info)) { info->unk = 0;

I think that link does not work but I found this https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?search=pcidevs is that the same?

I have turned off the numeric file naming for DOS several years ago so I am not as familiar with short file naming as I should be. To get numeric tails on a search, Explorer must just be looking at the first 7 characters of the file. KexBasen & KexBases having only 8 characters complies with short file naming 8 dot 3. To register a library with RegSvr32.exe the DLL must have function DllRegisterServer & to unregister DllUnregisterServer. The MSVC series of files do not have these functions. When registering a library it can call other modules not directly connected to it and if there is a problem with one of these indirectly connected modules then it may not register. For instance registration may not occur in a folder with spaces in the name and if the other modules it requires are not in the same folder or in a mapped folder. See AutoExec.bat for instance, for folder mappings, Set Path=. KernelEx folder is not a mapped folder unless you make it such. So if a library requires a file that you have placed in KernelEx folder then it will not register if it can not find the file. Check this by using Dependency Walker and see if Depends can find the files. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] "Win31FileSystem"=hex:00 "NameNumericTail"=hex:00

Most of my sound cards were faulty and would not work on a moderner OS. A cheap USB sound card, one that has 3D written on it near the USB plug, I bought several of these and they all worked. Sound is good.

>>Well i though that only newer not Win98 compatible versions has this options, if is not true and only older version have this option, let me know which version to try.. Revolutions Pack is only compatible with Win98/ME. AFAIK latest update is 9.7.2 and it tells you the version under Misc tab. The update has version 6.0.2900.2180 assigned to the executable and updates Comctl32 and Dibeng to 4.98.8000 and has Ctras vs 0.2.0.3. Also has Gdiplus but I use 6.0.3264.0 which has more functions than any other compatible version. When exiting using Ctrl+Alt+Del to tell windows to terminate a program that is not responding, do it twice after a few seconds as often this is required. ATI had hot keys so perhaps a key assignment program can assign Process Explorer. Latest PE is v10.2 for 98/ME, PE is important to see what libraries are relocated due to image base conflicts.

>>I tried logging onto eBay.com, which mostly works, but the sign in page is broken eBay.com USA can log in but eBay.com.au Australia can not. I can confirm the IPS Theme fixes width issue in Opera and Mozilla cannot reply although Jumper said KM76 could. When I tried some latter FireFox's it said XPCOM.dll could not load (was missing) and previous versions are incompatible. SeaMonkey equivalent for FF13 2.9.1 was still compiled with VC80.CRT.

SciTech Display Doctor - not free ware & can not be used/installed while using main display driver. http://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/05/scitech-display-doctor-7.html - where to download I could not find a compiled version of an early version of Mesa either.