Device manager > HDD > DMA checkbox > OK > close > rebootQuote:
Originally Posted by sheath
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Device manager > HDD > DMA checkbox > OK > close > rebootQuote:
Originally Posted by sheath
Thanks! As soon as I repair Win98 for the third time today I'll give that a shot!Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
Okay, I repaired 98SE again and looked for the settings you mentioned. The actual Hard drives don't have a DMA setting and neither do the IDE or SCSI controllers. Is there an update I need to find that will enable that? The hard drives sound totally different when I boot from XP than when I boot from 98SE too, they're way louder and faster in XP right now.
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Nothing here ?
Nope, and nothing generic either:
http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...movies/HDD.jpg
I defragmented the Fat32 formatted drives first in the XP partition using Defraggler and then within the Windows 98 boot drive with Diskeeper lite and it stopped having so much trouble. I just can't get the audio to play even though the drivers say they are working with the same card that works with the same cables in XP. I also can't figure out why my USB Host driver shows an error but my mouse and keyboard work fine. I also need to figure out how to uninstall DirectX 9.0c so I can reinstall 6.1 for Matrox. :/
This seems to me like your drives are not connected to some IDE controller but "SCSI" instead (my SATA cards all show up as SCSI to windows and DOS). In such cases you will not have DMA in that manner, normally the performance is already at max level even if there is no driver, but sometimes you do need a driver.
What SCSI and/or HDD controller you got ? Or better, what is the mobo ?
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What does the Performance tab on My Computer show ?
And you cannot uninstall DirectX, it is there to stay.
I think I figured that out, but there is a Direct X Happy Uninstaller for Windows XP, I was hoping there would be one for 98SE. Matrox's software isn't working with 9.0c.Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
I have a Promise Ultra ATA / 66 PCI card that both hard drives are connected to. I think the performance lag was more to do with fragmentation than anything else, it still doesn't seem as fast as it does in XP though.
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You need good BIOS and stuff for that card to perform well. It is quite crappy low cost card, I had it in my server for a while and chucked it for being disappointing.
Turning the Ultra66 into FasTrack66 does give better performance.
The Mystique 4MB was my first graphics card, that's why I wanted it for this machine more than for the comparisons. I never got to sample all of the Mystique optimized games beyond the disks that it came with (Destruction Derby 2, Mech Warrior 2). It runs fine for games prior to 1999, which is also what I was aiming for. The Riva TNT 128 will handle the rest, I just need to switch between PCI and AGP in the bios at start up to use both without having to physically remove them.
As for bios, did you use an official Mystique bios to get more features or did somebody make a hack? I'd be worried to mess with that too much, I destroyed an Evil Kyro PVR-2 card putting in a recommended third party bios. I'll look into Fastrack66, thanks for the heads up.
Now I'll also need to find out why my Soundblaster Live! Value doesn't play audio in 98SE but does in XP, and why I can't get sound in Tomb Raider with the on board Sound Blaster 128D that does work in 98SE. All of these driver installs and uninstalls, plus rebooting every time, plus defragging every two reboots is reminding me why I never missed 98SE once XP came out. ;)
I have no experience with those GFX cards, and if I did they would go straight on the gutting bench and then trash. I don't value old GFX cards, only some of their components :P
Ultra66 can be turned into a Fastrack66 by adding a resistor on one pin and flashing FT66 BIOS, but that works only if you have not got the latest BIOS on the card.
Live! cards got plenty of drivers that do not work properly. There is a collection of them in here : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/1159...or-windows-9x/
The ones I got now mostly work but will BSOD if something attempts 192KHz. I have not tried a whole lot of them though.
Defragging has been useless from my experience, I do it once every 2 years and it gives no difference whatsoever...
As for breaking windows, back up the registry (USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT) before doing stuff, if something fails copy the backup over old... everything is as good as new. As for XP, the massive loss of performance is what keeps me from not using it :P
Thanks for that info, it seems like it is running appropriately now though. I will keep this bookmarked for future reference.Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
That worked! Finally, thank you. I tried every official driver and got no errors in device manager but no sound. Now the audio even works in Tomb Raider.Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
Defragging with windows' defragmenter is basically useless. I use Defraggler in XP and Diskeeper Lite in Windows 98SE. Both massively improve the performance in Windows and games when I make sure to keep the fragmentation at 0%. Windows defragmenter will never actually get the hard drive 0% fragmented.Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
I never use windows dufrag either, mainly because it is painfully slow :P
You really don't notice a difference when you get the hard drive(s) down to 0% though? It's a big deal on all of my PCs, and most of my clients come to me thinking their computer is toast but all it I have to do is install Spybot/Malwarebytes and run defraggler a few times.
Either way, I finished setting everything up yesterday and got some videos of Ultimate Race uploaded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlz9D077NRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrZC9Kd72cA
Now if I could just figure out why Tomb Raider Mystique is garbled at the title screen.
I rarely get a HDD down to 0%.
All it takes to maintain system performance at all times is to have 512MB+ RAM and disable of swapfile, or at least making swapfile size static. Swapfile is what kills your performance.
Creative is notorious for bad drivers and they haven't had a solid product since the AWE64.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
DOS games won't work right mostly due to expecting ISA soundcards which the PCI ones badly emulate. DirectX games should work if you have solid drivers, but Creative is not known for those. Even the proper drivers my sisters old Celeron used for their Live card, produced worse sound and a lot of clicks on games, that my AWE64 did not. Go figure.