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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Trivial Psychic on January 17, 2007, 03:04:36 am

Title: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: Trivial Psychic on January 17, 2007, 03:04:36 am: Presently, I have a dual-boot system, which allows me to boot into Windows98SE, or Windows XP. I've been using WinXP for more and more lately, but I still have a few legacy games (Red Baron 3D, mainly) which won't run properly under XP (don't run with full rez, and sound disappears after game restart and doesn't come back), but Win98SE runs it flawlessly. Now, some time from now, I'd like to upgrade my PC's core components, in the form of motherboard, CPU, RAM, and video card. The motherboard and video card will most decidedly be PCI-Express, but I'm concerned as to whether Windows98SE will even accept it. It may allow me to run under a generic PCI driver, but I'm not sure.

Anyone got a confirmed and non-speculative answer for me?

BTW, will an S-ATA-300 Hard drive will work on an S-ATA-150 controller? I'm guessing yes, but I figured I'd ask.
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: Davros on January 17, 2007, 03:09:27 am: there should be a jumper on the hdd to set it to sata 150
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: Kosh on January 17, 2007, 09:50:36 pm: Red Baron should work in XP with DOSBox.......
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: Taristin on January 17, 2007, 09:55:05 pm: Quote from: Davros on January 17, 2007, 03:09:27 am
there should be a jumper on the hdd to set it to sata 150

Ive never seen a SATA drive with a jumper, personally... but in any case, it should still be backwards compatable.
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: Trivial Psychic on January 17, 2007, 11:17:52 pm: Quote from: Kosh on January 17, 2007, 09:50:36 pm
Red Baron should work in XP with DOSBox.......
Are you thinking the Original Red Baron, or Red Baron II (3D)?
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: Fury on January 18, 2007, 12:21:55 am: Trivial Psychic, ATI and NVIDIA have not been updating their legacy Windows 9x/ME drivers since 2005, you won't get new PCI-Express cards to work in W9x, not with 3D-acceleration at least, I don't know if W9x will even boot properly with the very latest hardware.

SATA300 HDD's should have jumpers you can use to set it to SATA150 compatibility.

I suggest you keep your current computer for legacy W9x/DOS-games, much less trouble that way. Even emulators probably won't do much good if you want to get hardware 3D-acceleration to work in W9x games.
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: CmdKewin on January 19, 2007, 11:30:32 am: Quote from: Fury on January 18, 2007, 12:21:55 am
SATA300 HDD's should have jumpers you can use to set it to SATA150 compatibility.

You should even need to do that, actually. Last time I checked, "conversion" is done automatically. But it could depend on manufacturer, not really 100% sure.
Title: Re: I Can Already Guess the Answer, But I'll Ask Anyway: PCI-Express+Win98SE=?
Post by: castor on January 20, 2007, 03:24:21 pm: Running them through Wine (http://www.winehq.com/) might work :D