Windows 9x will automatically detect the new PCI card and request drivers . Once you follow the prompts and install the drivers, your new DVD drive will perform much like a CD-ROM, allowing you to read regular CD's as well as DVD's. To view DVD movies, one must install the player software that comes in the kit. For the most part, installing DVD in your system is pretty easy. One will, at times, run into inefficient documentation or other minor problems not so rare with such newer technologies.
Some kits are better than others.
Although PC Mechanic has only tested the Creative DVD Encore, sources say that it provides the best video performance, while many of the others provide mediocre to very poor quality. Common problems include choppy video, image ghosting, etc. While a Pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM is considered adequate for good movie playback, tests show this is not really the case. This is due to the high compression rate of DVD video. To decompress the audio and video and deliver it at 30 fps, a very fast processor is required.