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Win 98 and video editing
After getting tired from one irritating problem with my win 95 setup (playback of clips with video for windows wouldn't stop until the clip finishes playing), I decided to install Win 98.
I did it all according to the book, or, more precisely, all the tips posted on this forum (order of diver installation, vcache settings, checking DMA for the drives, disabling the caches, etc.) Well, this is what I got:
a) The clip playback problem persisted. So, most likely it has something to do with hardware.
b) My disks benchmarks went significantly down! I use Fujitsu MPD 17,3 Gb for video. With Win 95 it benchmarked ~10400 with SiSoft Sandra 99. Now, it was ~6500, and fluctuated after every restart (once I've got 10000, but after a simple restart it was down to 6500 again). I double-checked all the settings, IRQ's, potential conflicts - everything was right. So, this must be a feature of Win 98. Naturally, I switched back to Win 95 (I had wisely saved my entire setup in a Ghost image file, so it took only 10 minutes to have it completely back again).
This is my hardware:
K-6 2 300 on Asus TX-97L, 64 SDRAM, UDMA Fujitsu 4.3 as system on primary, 24-x Samsung CD-Rom (DMA-capable) on primary slave, UDMA Fujitsu 17,3 as video on secondary master. Myst220/RR-S combo. SB 16 on ISA. USR Courier V.Everything on ISA. No special bus mastering drivers installed.
Now, this was Win 98 4.10, not SE. Could things be better with 98 SE?
Any tips or opinions welcome.
Best regards,
Alexei
I did it all according to the book, or, more precisely, all the tips posted on this forum (order of diver installation, vcache settings, checking DMA for the drives, disabling the caches, etc.) Well, this is what I got:
a) The clip playback problem persisted. So, most likely it has something to do with hardware.
b) My disks benchmarks went significantly down! I use Fujitsu MPD 17,3 Gb for video. With Win 95 it benchmarked ~10400 with SiSoft Sandra 99. Now, it was ~6500, and fluctuated after every restart (once I've got 10000, but after a simple restart it was down to 6500 again). I double-checked all the settings, IRQ's, potential conflicts - everything was right. So, this must be a feature of Win 98. Naturally, I switched back to Win 95 (I had wisely saved my entire setup in a Ghost image file, so it took only 10 minutes to have it completely back again).
This is my hardware:
K-6 2 300 on Asus TX-97L, 64 SDRAM, UDMA Fujitsu 4.3 as system on primary, 24-x Samsung CD-Rom (DMA-capable) on primary slave, UDMA Fujitsu 17,3 as video on secondary master. Myst220/RR-S combo. SB 16 on ISA. USR Courier V.Everything on ISA. No special bus mastering drivers installed.
Now, this was Win 98 4.10, not SE. Could things be better with 98 SE?
Any tips or opinions welcome.
Best regards,
Alexei
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