Halo + Win98SE + Catalyst 3.10 + RADEON 9600


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Well. I'm running catalyst ati drivers 3.10 (shouldn't it be 4? 3.9 then they go to 3.1?? weird, as 3.10 is equiv to 3.1 ;)). RADEON 9600 and Halo Combat Evolved. I have all the latest Halo updates.

Now, no matter what the Halo settings (pretty much), it will, in multiplayer only (yep only), go beserk after about 5 minutes. By that, I mean take a lot of pixels, scramble them up, and make most blue. Put them in random vertical columns. That's about what I get. I have tried it with vsync on or off, it doesn't matter. I have DirectX 9.0b and Win98SE. Please help, I'm fed up with it. More games to Linux.........

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ATi driver names are screwed... you would expect them to go 4.0 rather than 3.10 which just seems the same as 3.1

Still... I suppose its a slightly better system than the one nvidia use for the dets/forceware/whatevers...

As for your problem, I have nothing helpful to say whatsoever, sorry :/

If this is only online you might need to look at your networking hardware too. If its USB then check stuff like chipset and filter drivers.

Though your the one who runs gentoo which I couldnt even install so you already know these things :) Newer version of Windows may help too...

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Sorry, cannot do a newer Win version. Reasons being XP is not good for games with my 256MB RAM. 2K pro is not avaliable to me, just my dad for work. ME sucks (IMO they all do but ME is especially bad) and doesn't do well with the 9600 and color cursors. XP hates color cursors too. I have 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, 2K pro, XP home. 98SE suits my games best.

Also, the other hardware is irrelevant, but I will say anyways.

(note I'm getting a new motherboard and 2.8GHz HT P4 :))

Dell motherboard supporting 4x AGP

256MB RAM (don't ask what speed, I don't know it's irrelevant)

40GB Maxtor Fireball (unknown speed here again, I am using DMA, 98SE doesn't mention ultra DMA which I use on Linux)

13GB other drive we bought off ebay

SOHOware Fast NDC 10/100 F/E Adapter ethernet card (right off the driver floppy label) driver version 2.11

we have a Linksys BEFSR41 (wow, what a surprise ;))

I am DMZ.

monitor is a Dell E770S

2 CD drives, both 32x, one is a burner, one a DVD player, stats are irrelevant

floppy drive

joystick

speakers

If my english is bad, sorry, I'm a bit tired.

turtle beach santa cruz card.

Edit: Anyways, who cares what they name the drivers. 3.10 is what I'm using. I've tried MS support, but I am sure I won't get an answer.

Edit2: Also, I get the last played sound looping, indicating that the computer crashed as well.

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XP is better for gaming than 98, i know you said its not but it is, turn off all running background applications you may have and then try. If i were you i would go back to XP, newest and fastest.

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wgat is your specs besides a 9600? and this is the last release in the cat. 3.** and you dont go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1 do you?

this wont be the last catalyst 3 release, they are only gonna do 4 when their next card comes out or when they introduce something next generation

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XP is better for gaming than 98, i know you said its not but it is, turn off all running background applications you may have and then try. If i were you i would go back to XP, newest and fastest.

It is if I have the RAM. 98 is extremely unstable and bug-ridden. Same for XP. Except, XP hogs more RAM and runs my games slower, yet it proves to be more stable.

Now, I had all my processes closed and I only left the ones open that the system ran. I will not go to XP because of the color cursor support for the 9600. (It crashes when using a color cursor, 98SE is fine with them)

Now, I will need answers to the problem, not moving to XP or whatnot.

Also, I tried the file and it complained about a missing DLL and something about the registry.

EDIT: No, looks like I need the VB runtimes and it said access to some file is denied.

Edited by [Linux]Clete2
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Ok, I found some 'OMEGA' unofficial drivers. They fix the color cursor problem. Hence, I am now running XP. It works great (I think, I might not have played long enough). The slowness of games was fixed in the OMEGA drivers. Thanks all.

Now, one last thing. It took my win98se install and copied /dev/hda* to /dev/hdb1. (C:\ to D:\). It then added a new boot option. Is it safe to just reformat D:\ and how do I remove the boot loader option? Well, the boot loader is easy, I just put grub back on. is it safe to format D:\?

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XP hogs more RAM and runs my games slower,

not so true if your good at balancing your applications correctly, i ran xp fine on a PII350mhz 256mb and a geforce4 ran games fine... all i did was run the game with no background appls

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who cares? 98 is jsut as good at XP for games it is just that 98 has to be restarted more often so it doest give a BSOD in the middle of a game. in fact, if SP1 hadnt been released, Xp would be worse at games than 98.

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Xp is a great OS. You just have to learn your way around and tune it a bit. I think it wants to hold you hand too much sometimes and they need to be a little more liberal about letting you uninstall built in crap. I do look forward to service pack 2 very much.

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Hate to say it but, I TOLD YOU SO! :p :p

Yeah haha. Well, I listened, didn't I? I still would prefer something else..... ;)

The OMEGA drivers are amazing vs. the others. Too bad they don't have Linux OMEGA drivers, that would be awesome for the games I play in it. (Enemy Territory, America's Army, Legends, and a few others).

Yes, my problem with XP was the drivers that made it slow, not the RAM.

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