"DOS Guy" <D...@Guy.com> wrote in message news:4E9C936D...@Guy.com...
> Rod Pemberton wrote:
>
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> > EVGA Nvidia 7960GT 512MB
>
> I was under the impression that 512 mb on a video card was totally
> incompatible with windows 98. Perhaps that was only if the card was
> PCIe. Is your card AGP?
>
No. It's definately PCIe. It uses Nvidia ForceWare 82.69 modded by Tihiy
for Win98. Probably from either MSFN or MDGX or driver website ... I
literally had zero problems with this. It installed and worked. The "Auto
overclocking" and "Manual overclocking" work too! Actually, everything
works in the control panel, AFAICT, except identifying the GPU. I've got my
vid set to 1680x1050-32bit color right now. Uncapped, it gets roughly 450
to 700+ fps in Q3A.
ForceWare reports:
"Graphics card information"
"Processor: NVIDIA {Unknown}"
"Video BIOS version: 5.71.22.42.55"
"IRQ: 10"
"Bus: PCI Express x16"
"Memory: 512MB"
"ForceWare version: 82.69"
"TV Encoder Type: NVIDIA integrated"
I wasn't able to get 98 drivers for the onboard ethernet. The sound card's
AC drivers gave me fits too, so I installed a card for that works for 98.
The SATA SSD is BIOS IDE emulation. It's still unbelievably fast and
silent. Is BIOS IDE emulation is just for the boot device? SATA DVD-ROM
had to go through cheap aftermarket SATA-IDE bridge. (BTW, you cannot
update your DVDs firmware that way ... doorstop.) The only way I've been
able to get any SATA is for the CD/DVD-ROM is through a DOS driver called
GCDROM.SYS. Unfortunately, no Joliet support though ... (for long names on
some installation disks). XGCDROM.SYS does not work for my system with
SATA. NUSB provides native USB support. Xeno was working on native SATA
support by modifying Universal ATA drivers:
"Win 9x/ME support (now we have separate build with some limitation, thanks
to Xeno)."
http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/
I think I found the Win98 modded version of this driver, but couldn't figure
out how to get it to work:
BusMaster_v39j.rar
BusMaster_v39j1.rar
BusMaster_v39j1_Dbg.rar
> > Memory is capped at 1GB for WinSE by HIMEMX, but full 4GB should
> > be available in MS-DOS. I've not confirmed though.
>
> I believe that DOS can see all 4 gb.
With XMS, I can't so far ... 2GB is all I've been able to get. I tried a
bunch of XMS drivers a while back, but not all that I knew about. With
DPMI, I can. At least, DPMI says all 4GB is there, I've not actually
allocated it to confirm. The machine's BIOS only recognizes 3328MB of the
4GB. The rest is supposedly allocated via MMIO (video card), PCI bus, and
BIOS mapping.
> You're right that himemX must be
> used to prevent Win-9x from "seeing" more than 1.5 gb of system ram (I
> believe that if you have 1.5 gb or less of actual ram, then you don't
> need to use himemX).
Actually, after playing around a bit with HIMEMX. It now recognizes 2GB
after adding /NUMHANDLES=128 to it's config.sys line. WinSE is capped to
1GB via "MaxPhysPage=3FFFF" in system.ini.
I'm not sure why HIMEMX isn't mapping more memory. I have another machine
where HIMEMX doesn't work correctly. It only recognizes 64MB out of 256MB
... So, there are some bugs with it, I think, that Japheth hasn't found
yet.
> I've played around with various vcache settings
> and have gotten win-98 to see and make use of 1.2 gb ram on
> a 2 gb system. Windows ME can see and make use of almost
> 2 gb (this ability apparently can't be transplanted into win-98).
1GB is working well for me. Of course, the SSD kicks in for the swap file
when browsing an exceptionally large number of websites, like 200+. I
wanted to use MGDX's 98SE2ME conversion, especially for the faster neworking
DLLs, but couldn't locate a copy of WinME.
Rod Pemberton