• S3 Trio64v2/dx Driver

397/398 extreme, S3 Savage 2000 64 mg AGP card, S3 Trio64V+ (86c765). S3-SAVAGE4-WIN98/95, 4.-1.00.31 ver, trio 3d-2x.

See this old article:It depends a bit on what you do. Soviet conscript wrote:If it's a 2d gaming rig the trio is more compatible with games. The matrox isn't a bad choice and as said it probibly has better image quality but I believe it has issues with fog tables in games where the trio is basically the standard for compatiblity.Fog tables are a 3d acceleration issue.The S3 Trio64V+ does not have any 3d acceleration at all. The Matrox Millennium has some 3d acceleration, but nothing that is compatible with Direct3D or OpenGL, so you won't be able to play many games with it (just a few that Matrox has specifically patched, such as Nascar).Neither card supports fog tables.

S3 Trio64v2/dx Driver

Tempest wrote:So what would be a good (but affordable) card for this time period then? Like I said, this system is only a Pentium 200 so I'm not going to be playing a lot of heavy 3D games anyway. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think I had a similar system from 96-2000.For a Pentium 200 you don't want to go overboard with a GPU since the CPU will bottleneck it anyhow. I think something like a TNT2 would offer both excellent DOS speed/compatibility AND good 3D acceleration for Win98. They are pretty easy to find and inexpensive too. If you have the budget, you could also pair it with a Voodoo.

Soviet conscript wrote:If it's a 2d gaming rig the trio is more compatible with games. The matrox isn't a bad choice and as said it probibly has better image quality but I believe it has issues with fog tables in games where the trio is basically the standard for compatiblity.Fog tables are a 3d acceleration issue.The S3 Trio64V+ does not have any 3d acceleration at all. The Matrox Millennium has some 3d acceleration, but nothing that is compatible with Direct3D or OpenGL, so you won't be able to play many games with it (just a few that Matrox has specifically patched, such as Nascar).Neither card supports fog tables.Ok, you right. Got confused.

The trio is still more compatible across the board though a little boring.Oldbie Posts: 868 Joined: 2010-3-13 @ 08:02. I had posted this in another thread recently, but it may be pertinent to this subject, so I'll repost it:Just wanted to mention, there is one game I found that doesn't like S3 Virge cards. The game works, but has strange shimmering pixel artifacts on most screens in the game. I tried this with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Virge DX and an STB Velocity 3D Virge VX, both had the same problem.

Installing a Matrox Millennium surprisingly made the problem vanish.If anyone else could test this game with a similar card, play it for a bit and let us know if you see these glitches.Not sure if this applies to the Trio64V as well.

Our driver will not work on ICH6 and ICH7 as Intel did not license for those platforms.But the difference between ICH5 and ICH6 seems not to be big, maybe some easy trick can enable the USB2.0 functionality, I don't know.Regarding SciTech, I almost forgot that they exist. I have used their driver 15 years ago very often.Unfortunately they support VEN8086&DEV2582 = 'Intel® 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family' only and not VEN8086&DEV2592 'Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family'.Bad luck.Petr. Hello!It seems that the latest beta (3.1.3) of Scitech SNAP supportsi915GM chipset.I'm still figuring out how to unpack the installer and install this thing manually, since I have a system with a 945GM but they only want to support 945G. I want to force the 945G drivers on it, I think it should work fine since the two are very similar.

(It says 'unsupported chipset' when run). There already is a that supports the Intel 910G(ML), 915G, 945G, among other video chipsets, around the net, it seems. I tried Nvidia 6200 Turbo Cache PCI-E board but it even does not work as Standard PCI VGA, it works as standard VGA only (again 640x480x4). Then I tried some old S3 Trio64V+ PCI board and it works fine in 1024x768x16bit.

I plan to try other PCI-E boards.I have tried Geforce 6200 PCI-E and its driver was very unstable under Win98. NVidia's tech support (after complaining a bit that they do not make video boards) told me to stop using this obsolete operating system. However, two different models of ATI X550 do work properly. They have limited DOS memory to maybe a megabyte or smth, but it is OK.The driver for Realtek ALC codec (integrated) is not stable, but I don't care as I have a good sound card (Yamaha YMF724).

Yay, DOS games!VIA VT6410 SATA/RAID controller works properly. I have tried only P-ATA devices (three 250 GB hard drives are connected). Operating of RAID-ed drives in DOS mode is possible, but if writing is attempted it may corrupt the entire disk.Marvell network interface works properly (except, read below).This Windows 98 machine can not operate for more than 4 or 5 days because of some timer problem I have not been able to resolve so far. The system clock slows down, then there appear timing problems in MIDI hardware, then network card (Marvell) wouldn't accept incoming connections, regular digital audio wouldn't play (PCI board). I suspect it's because system timer shares IRQ 0 with an IDE controller, but I'm not sure. There are no observable problems running Win98 for shorter periods of time, like one day. Edited December 19, 2006 by j7n.

Change the value of the registry key: 'HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionDetect ACPIOption' into ' 2'To enter registry go to Run Execute type in 'regedit'. Clicking on + HKEYLOCALMACHINE (HKLM) will open that tree and so on.If this entry is not in your registry, go to '.Detect' and create new DWORD-value 'ACPIOption' by clickingEdit-New-DWORD-value and typing in 'ACPIOption' with value 2 (no matter if dec or hex)After that - start hardware detect (Control Panel).I guess this disables ACPI and enables APM instead.BTW, in Windows 2k/XP, APM is enabled by using 'Standard PC' HAL:Regards, Roman. From what I can tell, motherboards based on the Intel 915P chipset are probably the most desirable for Windows-98se at this point.

That particular chipset does not have integrated video, and it does have DDR-2 support. The next best would be 915PL, followed by the 875.According to the mobot on motherboard.org, Soyo has this board:Soyo SY-P4I915 DRAGON 3Which I can't find on Soyo's web site nor can I find much about it doing a general web search. Seems that it would make a great win-98 platform. It seems to have ATA-133, which very few boards have.One problem could be finding a PCI-express video card with win-98 drivers. I guess you can always use a PCI video card.There is also the Gigabyte GA-8I915P-D adnd the Microstar MSI 915P Neo2. Asus doesn't seem to make a board based on the 915P.All of the 915-based boards that I've looked at all claim that they don't support Win-98, yet in their driver download section there is always support for win-98 for the various components (audio, chipset, ethernet).Can anyone else post their experiences with Win-98 and motherboards based on the i915?