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I'm trying to play Tank Wars in Win98 SE. With a GeForce 7800 GTX, it works properly. But with an ATI X850 XT PE, it crashes on startup with the message: "An internal stack overflow has caused the session to be halted. Change the STACKS setting in your config.sys file, and then try again." What's going on here and any idea why it's happening only for ATI card? Any way to debug and fix this issue (I have no idea how I should change the config.sys file)?

Hi all! Sorry if it's a noob question - I have checked out a bunch of threads on kernelex and there's an overwhelming amount of info on it so far. On retrosystemsrevival blog, the following steps are mentioned: I have KernelEx 4.5.2 installed so far. But then there seems to be version 4.5.2016.17 (my understanding is that newer KernelEx versions than this are not for end users) PLUS the steps above. I'll post my version of the steps that I think I should take: Extract Unicows to C:\Windows\System Install KernelEx 4.5.2 and reboot Download KexBeta.17.7z, extract to some location, exit to DOS, then copy contents of that archive to C:\Windows\KernelEx. Reboot Download Kstub822.zip (do I need to install K452stub before this?). Installation instructions of older versions of stubs are mentioned in this thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/157173-kext-diy-kernelex-extensions/. BUT for Kstub822.zip, I don't see any instructions to "modify contents= line in Core.ini" Once Kstub822 is installed, reboot to be safe I guess. Then install iphlpapi4 by following instructions in post 116 of above thread. Again reboot to be safe Then put these files in the C:\Windows\System folder Msvcrt.dll <- Msvcr70.dll / Msvcr71.dll Msvcr90.dll 9.00.21022.8 Finally I can install these auxiliary updates for increased compatibility: https://msfn.org/board/topic/173302-kernelex-auxiliary-dll-updates/. But again, not clear on how to install, so would be grateful for instructions or link to some post that explains it Is the above process accurate to get a max compatibility version of kernelex? I hope this thread can help out anyone else end user who wants to update kernelex in the best way possible. I'll update this post based on your replies. Thanks!

But the problem is that it doesn't support Win98 SE. I went to the asus website and it drivers only up to Win2000

Hi! I have two options for motherboards I can buy - one is Asus P5PE-VM, and the other is Asrock 775i65G. I wanted to build a gaming system that's compatible with Win98, and both these are socket 775 (which according to my limited knowledge is the latest socket type that'll run Win 98). But I have no idea which of these would be a better option. What all should I consider before buying either of them?

Nope I removed the MaxPhysPage setting. Just the custom MaxFileCache value. And yeah, I'll do a stress test - will play an album start to finish.

@deomsh: Thanks for the info! So what worked for me was setting MaxFileCache=512000. After doing that, every single thing works perfectly.

Update: I managed to reproduce this buggy audio behavior in a different setting: I re-installed Win98 and only the sound driver. The sound was working perfectly. But after that I modified the MaxPhysPage setting in system.ini to 20000. After restarting, I saw the same kind of buggy audio behavior as I detailed in the first post. Maybe that'll give some insight?

@deomsh: Ah sorry I mistyped! I've changed the title and post to correct the typo. Regarding the link you posted, I checked it out and downloaded "Audio: QFE Update [269601USA8.EXE]". I ran that on the optiplex but see no change - the audio issues are still there

Hi all! I have a Dell Optiplex GX260 with me. Clean installed Win98 SE on it, then installed the sound driver (Analog Devices ADI 198x Integrated Audio, v.5.12.01.3508, A03). With no video driver installed, audio works perfectly in all respects. But as soon as I installed the video driver (Intel 845 G/GL Integrated Video, v. 4.13.01.3084, A00), the sound started showing these behaviors: Important: Startup sound no longer plays The navigation sounds in the explorer ("tick" sounds when double clicking folders), the error sounds and all play just fine .wav files play fine (in mplayer2) when I double click on them in the file explorer Important: When I go to Control Panel -> Sounds, and I try to preview the various sounds, the sounds play alright if they're really short (like "Start Navigation" or "Empty Recycle Bin" events). But for longer sounds ("Default Sound" or "Chord" or "Start Windows" events) I get the Error: "Windows cannot play the (path).wav file. The file may be damaged or may use an unrecognized compression format." Or sometimes I get the error: "Windows cannot play the (path).wav file. It may be damaged or may not be a valid sound file" Some more info which may or may not be relevant The computer has 1 Gb RAM (in My Computer properties it shows 1022 Mb RAM) In dxdiag it shows that the sound card of your system doesn't support hardware accelerated sound Can anyone please help me to get the sound back to normal behavior, like it is in a normal, properly functioning Win98 installation? Thanks!

Hi all! I have a Dell Latitude D830 and I installed Windows 98 SE on it. I used this thread for audio driver installation this post to edit the SYSTEM.INI and SYSTEM.CB files this driver for video nusb36e for USB drivers Additionally, I've installed Win98 Plus and DirectX 9.0c (this one probably won't be of use but I did it anyway). Now the issue is, sometimes I get Windows Runtime Error 202 and the laptop crashes. Earlier the laptop would crash when I tried to change the Plus! theme. Then I edited MinFileCache from 2048 to 16384, after which at least I could change the theme without crashing. BUT the laptop still crashes whenever I try to install something or even change the keyboard repeat rate in Control Panel -> Keyboard settings. The error is something like "Windows runtime error 202 at 0003:020E" (I'm not sure if the 0003:020E bit is the same everytime). Another important thing: sometimes (rarely) when I boot into Win98 SE, the USB driver and audio driver aren't functioning - in those cases the crashes don't happen while installing a program. So I guess the drivers are causing the issue? Could I please get some help on how I can fix this? Do I need to change some system configuration files? Or install something else? etc. Would appreciate any help.