Internet not working after installing SciTech Display Doctor

[cavveman]

Hi. I tried to search for this in the forums but could not find any good answer for it.
I installed Windows ME recently, since the generic VGA driver in my ME cd is not that good I installed SciTech Display Doctor to get better resolution etc.
As long as I do not activate the graphic adapter from SciTech my connection works.
If I activate the adapter it wont allow me to connect to internet, so somehow it interferes with my driver for the network card.

Anybody that has a solution?

[gro8os]

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Same experience here... Any hints?

[mpack]

You could try installing the BearWindows universal VESA driver instead. IMHO it's the better option anyway.

[gro8os]

Thanks for the reply mpack.
I started with SDD because it is the driver suggested in this thread.
I also gave BearWindows universal VESA driver a try but it always results in the "green screen" with the garbled graphics.


Is there some specific version of the driver that I should use and/or some specific settings I should apply?
Currently I'm using the latest version from the BearWindows website with 128MB RAM/8MB video RAM/no accelleration.

Thanks!

[stefan.becker]

Better try installing the games under XP. Dos based Windoze is not well supported by Vbox.

For DOS Games better use DosBox. Or for Windows games use WINE under Linux.

[gro8os]

Thanks for the tip Stefan.
The idea behind using WinME is that they are much less memory-hungry. So, with a 128MB RAM VM you should be able to play quite a lot of old games.

Do you know if Win98SE are any more stable than WinME when using vbox?

Could you suggest how mych RAM should I allocate to XP for playing late-90's games? (Fallout 1/2 and Jagged Alliance 2 are the first to come in mind.)

I will also give wine another try. I tried WineBottler (OSX) but it didn't work out very well for me.

Thanks!

[stefan.becker]

All Versions (9x, ME) are crappy. Many old games work with XP in a VM, that is the best solution, if you want to use VBOX. Sorry, but it is as it is.

[michaln]

Do you know if Win98SE are any more stable than WinME when using vbox?

They're not unstable, just unsupported. And without a sensible graphics driver, Windows 9x is unusable.