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Hi! Is this possible? I need to upgrade graphics card so want to move to PCI-E at same time. Most sellers say the PCIE cards are for XP only, but I understand this is microsoft dirty dealing with WHQL - right? But does win98 work with PCIE? I tried to search forum for this but no luck so sorry if this is an old issue. Any help at all much appreciated

Does anybody know - will I be able to use FSX on win98se? This new sim, due around christmas, will be the greatest flight sim ever, with pedestrians cars and a real-life graphical experience, incomparable to anything which has gone before. I do NOT want to have to fork out for XP on top of the rip-off price which the sim will undoubtedly sell for. Any informed details would be much appreciated

That's great, MDGx. Thanks very much.

I never got that background texture thing with 98se, it just never worked for me. Then I was designing myself a more colourful desktop and stumbled on it - yeah, you need the windows Appearance colour to contrast with the Background colour. Loving the Stone effect. Yeah, I know. I'm pathetic....

I too find win98se with the latest upgrades a fantastic OS, all that I want or need from an OS. I do fear it would be a total disaster without the great support which the guys on this site provide. MS are not very loyal to their purchasers. I will never buy Vista. I will keep 98se for all my uses and if necessary get a XBOX 360 for gaming. Sure, MS still win, but they dont rip me off so much. In fact, Xbox was a loss-leader and the 360 may end up being too. Which makes its buyers winners

We're all in agreement here, I think. Win98se is a great OS, I love it as much for what it HASN'T got as for what it has - anyone with an XP system, try checking in your local/temp folder sometime, millions of useless files accumulating purposelessly. I just checked some other purchases, and found - unnoticed till now - that Richard Burns Rally - a fantastic rally sim - is also allegedly for 2000/XP. Works ok for me ( I mean me, not ME!)

I'm sure we all check what OSs software will work with before buying. Last week, seduced by a rave revue in Computeractive, I went in Game and looked for GTR FIA - an amazing state of the art racing simulation. Imagine my disappointment to read under Min Spec: Windows Me/2000/XP. Under 'Recommended' it just said XP! Knowing that Game usually swap if you got a good reason, I bought it anyway - and it works on my 98se absolutely great! Fantastic graphics, frame rates and total stability. I can only assume they just couldn't bother checking it on a 98 PC. A great mistake, millions still use it.

That's correct. I tried it and scandisk in w98se would not work. SO, not much use really...

Tanks for the heads-up, MDGx. Good to see that nVidia are now doing the decent thing by us w98 users. Wish they would be as conscientious about their nForce chipset drivers.

They would acknowledge your appreciation, only they're just too busy...

All I can say, Wolf, is that when I had this trouble it was caused by Video drivers or DX9. Run DXdiag, check video is shown as okay, check AGP, then update drivers and if all that fails consider re-downloading DX9c, in case it's a corrupted download. Good luck

MDGx, do I understand you to say the Gate A20 BIOS option can lock memory? In 98SE? Please explain, I have always had this option ON and dont think it's caused problems, but then again...

Me too! Really, the price of MS stuff at least here in UK is criminal. Thankfully, I now got my purchased W98SE going great again at last, thanks to the helpfull people here. I was on the verge of going XP (I have it on my laptops) but just couldnt bring myself to pay $125 for an oem which I then had to replace if I change the motherboard.

azagahl, you da man again! Some great suggestions there. My fave is Windows Classic

I'm with you, azagahl. But how do you use XP without activation - now that's the question. Well, I guess you must mean you use XP on somebody else's machine, at work or something?