Older nVidia Win98SE setup question

[Jeff H]

Guys,

I've put together a basic Win98SE box for a friend's daughter to do MS Works, Office97 and email/internet surfing. System is comprised of the following: Abit BH6 (SS BIOS), iPIII-650 on Abit SlotketIII, 256MB PC133 (2-64MB, 1-128MB), Hercules Prophet GeForce2 440MX 32MB vid card, USR 0484 ISA modem, Yamaha IDE 24x burner.

For best stability what nVidia driver package would you install? I'm thinking DirectX 8 will be the best underpinning, but what vid driver version would you use? 23.11, 30.82, or latest from nVidia (53.04)?

TIA,

Jeff

 

[Pilsnerpete]

I wouldn't go for anything too new for the drivers. I get the best performance [highest 3dmark01se] on a gf3 with the 45.23's. Anything newer and the score plummets. But, of course, that's a synthetic bench; haven't tested with real-world benchmarks. I can't imagine any of the recent drivers being unstable.

Oh! And I would go with dx9, not 8 (I heard somebody left debugging on in dx8)--at least in XP. Are there issues with dx9 in win98?

 

[THUGSROOK]

use dx9 and the latest drivers v53.04

 

[Jeff H]

OK guys, I'll go w/ DX9 and 53.04. I'm thinking I'll ghost over the initial install, then do the DX9 and driver install. That way if there's any issue I can nuke it and try alternatives.