The ATi Catalyst 6.2 drivers are the last official ones for Windows 98. 512MB cards apparently do have problems, but I do not have any experience with this. 9800 XT's have 256MB of RAM, so having a 256MB card will not bother your Windows 98 system. The system you have built is quite similar in specs to a system I have under construction, and I have used ATi Radeon 9800 XT's in several of my systems for some time.

Oh yes, one of these X800/X850 cards would go up to 256MB compared to the current cards 128MB, would this have any effect on my Win98SE install I've finally managed to get working with 2GB, albeit letting the OS only use 512MB, which is ample for what I do with it. What about ATI Omega drivers, as I understand these stopped some time ago, but are there ones for the ATI X800/X850 cards? these would be ideal.Īny help on getting one of these cards working on this rig would be most welcome.

I've read about hacked drivers where you simply add an entry for the card driver somewhere? would this work OK or is it a clumsy not worthwhile workaround? However, having owned essentially this spec of computer when it was cutting edge years and years ago and using an ATI X800 replacing an ATI 9800 that made a big difference for what I do in XP, I'd like to do the same again but have the card work properly in my now well tuned and refined Win98SE install. Of course the 2GB will be useful when booting into XP, the current graphic card is an AGP ATI 9800 pro 128MB and this series of cards were the last from ATI with Win98 driver support. I've built a retro Win98 (with XP in dual boot) computer consisting of a Pentium 4 Northwood 3.4GHz, Asus P4P800 motherboard and 1GB of Corsair DDR400 ram )soon to be 2GB after reading posts here on 98's ram limit and successfully testing with a friends 2GB DDR.

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