Disable AGP in Windows 98?

[fighterpilot]

I have a Shuttle small form factor PC, the SN41G2 V2. I have a dual boot configuration for Win98SE and WinXP SP2. That works all fine and dandy.

Except that in Windows 98 SE I want to only use my PCI Voodoo 4 card to play older Glide-only games that are fickle with Windows XP.

In Windows XP I have no issues cofiguring or disabling my Voodoo 4 PCI card, and using my GeForce 6600GT AGP card. But in Windows 98 it keeps defaulting to my AGP card and can't disable it.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[keeleysam]

why dont you use vmware?

 

[Rubycon]

I don't think VM/VPC will make a diff here. You *may* get better results by switching your BIOS to INIT PCI display adapter first. It's been a while since I messed with dos/16/32 extenders and win32 stuff.

I always wondered though - is there a reliable glide wrapper that works in XP today? I miss NFSIISE in 3dfx mode.

 

[fighterpilot]

Originally posted by: C6FT7
I don't think VM/VPC will make a diff here. You *may* get better results by switching your BIOS to INIT PCI display adapter first. It's been a while since I messed with dos/16/32 extenders and win32 stuff.

I always wondered though - is there a reliable glide wrapper that works in XP today? I miss NFSIISE in 3dfx mode.

Tried setting "Display First: PCI" in BIOS to no avail. It always reverts to my AGP slot. I've tried installing one card, then another, with the same result.

I basically just want to disable my AGP slot if that is at all possible.

 

[fighterpilot]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
why dont you use vmware?

What is vmware and where to get it? Thanks!

 

[mchammer]

Can't you run dual displays, one on each card?

 

[fighterpilot]

Originally posted by: mchammer
Can't you run dual displays, one on each card?

If I select "PCI" as the card to display in BIOS, I can see the PC POST on bootup, and even the Windows98 splash screen, but when it gets to the desktop my Voodoo 4 card displays a blank screen while the AGP card puts a message "If you can see this message then your display can be configured for an extended desktop" or something like that. If I boot with AGP card, the my PCI card (Voodoo) doesn't even register in Display properties.

 

[Bozo Galora]

turn hardware acceleration all the way down to off in the performance display tab settings

 

[CZroe]

VMWARE, disable hardware acceleration, what the hell kind of suggestions are these? In case you people didn't realize, the Win98 installation and the Voodoo4 card are specifically for older, accellerated games and this is technically a "compatability system". There is no way VMWARE could use the real Voodoo4.

The program "Powerstrip" can change which card DirectX, Glide and OpenGL are assigned to on the fly and can probably fix this issue while it's at it.

 

[fighterpilot]

Originally posted by: CZroe
VMWARE, disable hardware acceleration, what the hell kind of suggestions are these? In case you people didn't realize, the Win98 installation and the Voodoo4 card are specifically for older, accellerated games and this is technically a "compatability system". There is no way VMWARE could use the real Voodoo4.

The program "Powerstrip" can change which card DirectX, Glide and OpenGL are assigned to on the fly and can probably fix this issue while it's at it.

Thanks. I installed powerstrip, but when booting with AGP it doesn't seem to recognize My voodoo 4 unless I go into Device Manager, remove the GeForce card, reboot, then it redetects the GeForce card, reinstalls its drivers. It asks to reboot after it does that, even though I don't I can see both cards. As soon as I reboot it defaults back to the AGP card.

How do I tell it which one to switch to?

THanks!

 

[Topweasel]

You could try this Glide Wrappers.

Edit: Or this wrapper.

 

[fighterpilot]

Originally posted by: CZroe
VMWARE, disable hardware acceleration, what the hell kind of suggestions are these? In case you people didn't realize, the Win98 installation and the Voodoo4 card are specifically for older, accellerated games and this is technically a "compatability system". There is no way VMWARE could use the real Voodoo4.

The program "Powerstrip" can change which card DirectX, Glide and OpenGL are assigned to on the fly and can probably fix this issue while it's at it.

Well, I somehow managed to get it to work. All I have to do is change from AGP to PCI video in the BIOS and boot into my Win98 partition and Voodoo 4500 becauses default adapter. I ended up uninstalling both drivers, installed the nVidia drivers first, then the Voodoo drivers second. Maybe it was installing the Voodoo drivers last that "tricked" Windows 98 into using the Voodoo card. Either way works fine so far.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions here too.