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modenaf1

07-19-03, 05:00 PM

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/welcometotheforums.JPG both of you!!

And yes, i agree either XP home or Pro is EXCELLENT!! so is win 2K. the only problem is that some of the older games dont like it because some of them think its "NT" but that was only fa18 that didnt work. everything else has been awsome ;)

Oni

07-19-03, 10:47 PM

Win2k is about the best, imo. Faster than XP, and will play all of the latest and greatest, and even most of the older-but-still-great :D

Audioaficionado

07-20-03, 02:25 AM

[i]Originally posted by modenaf1
And yes, i agree either XP home or Pro is EXCELLENT!! so is win 2K. the only problem is that some of the older games dont like it because some of them think its "NT" but that was only fa18 that didnt work. everything else has been awsome ;) [/B]

w2k sp3 & sp4 have the compatibility mode right click properties for shortcuts just like XP does. So there shuldn't be any gaming advantage to either w2k or XP. As for 98se, it's great for DOS or really old win9x games. But any decent modern games that need advanced hardware support to play will thrive on the much more stable NT5 or NT5.1 OS codes.

Movax

07-20-03, 03:11 AM

98se will give you a slight improvement in performance, but it wouldn't be worth it unless your hardware couldn't quite keep up in XP.

stan03

07-20-03, 02:37 PM

Originally posted by szhot
I use win2000 professional / +dx 8.1 .

i heard win2000 didn't do games very well

Oni

07-20-03, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by stan03
i heard win2000 didn't do games very well

You heard wrong, my friend. Very wrong. :)

Win2k will play every game released today, and many older games. The only things it won't play are real-mode DOS games.

Audioaficionado

07-20-03, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by Oni

You heard wrong, my friend. Very wrong. :)

Win2k will play every game released today, and many older games. The only things it won't play are real-mode DOS games.

And XP won't nor will ME as they don't have true DOS modes either.
You'll need 98se or older for that.

A lot of older games my son likes to play like QII, play even better under w2k than they ever did with 98se.

verbatim

07-21-03, 12:07 AM

When I've looked on the side of games for the specs (not that I need too lol) I have seen a few games that say "NOT supported for windows 2000". I'm not kidding.
I use xp pro and as long as youve got heaps of ram (256kmin) youll be fine.

Remove

07-21-03, 09:06 PM

Originally posted by Oni

You heard wrong, my friend. Very wrong. :)

Win2k will play every game released today, and many older games. The only things it won't play are real-mode DOS games.

There are many games which either will not run or will experience massive crashes with w2k. Counterstrike in particular is not fond of w2k. w2k is designed for a workstation environment and was never really intended to be used on a home pc.

Oni

07-21-03, 09:30 PM

Originally posted by Remove
There are many games which either will not run or will experience massive crashes with w2k. Counterstrike in particular is not fond of w2k. w2k is designed for a workstation environment and was never really intended to be used on a home pc.

Been using Win2k since it was released. Played plenty of games. No problems at all :)

Counterstrike has never given me problems, either.

CaptnBackfire87

07-22-03, 01:17 AM

Originally posted by Oni

Been using Win2k since it was released. Played plenty of games. No problems at all :)

Counterstrike has never given me problems, either.

its just scared of you Oni, it thinks that you will kill it if it crashes on you. but yeah i have heard some of those things about win2k, about not being good for gaming... not sure if they are true though

ThePerfectCore

07-22-03, 01:24 AM

WIN98SE All the bugs were worked out years ago and EVERYTHING works with it.

Right, exact for the fact that it isn't. UT2003 has some trouble with 98SE... as does the editing software that is provided with it.

1-Man-Army

07-22-03, 06:19 AM

win2k is the best for gaming :D i dont like using xp with games its abit slower then 2k just a little

Cyberwiz01

07-22-03, 02:36 PM

I use XP pro, its the most stable in my opinion and all the cool games run well with it

Cowboy Shane

07-22-03, 03:19 PM

European Air War is a nightmare for me to get running under Win2k no matter what compatability settings I try. I also have found Need For Speed High Stakes rather hit or miss. Both of those install pretty much problem free with XP. I have no problems with newer games with Win2k, but there are some older ones that just have fits with it. Of course, YMMV and all that.

AGampher

07-22-03, 03:39 PM

Originally posted by Oni

Been using Win2k since it was released. Played plenty of games. No problems at all :)

Counterstrike has never given me problems, either.

I, too, have never had a problem with Win2k. The only game I have ever tried that I had a problem with was System Shock 1. It was fixable, but took major hackage.

Audioaficionado

07-22-03, 04:10 PM

Are you guys running w2k with sp3 or sp4? The compatibility mode needs to be enabled as it's off by default.

What DirectX are you running?

Cowboy Shane

07-22-03, 06:03 PM

I had the compatibility mode turned on, but no amount of tinkering with the compatibility settings would get EAW to run properly for me with Win2K. IBM ViaVoice 8 also never would run under Win2K for me, but it runs fine with XP. I ran Win2K from the time it was released, and even submitted several reports to ntcompatible.com so I was extremely surprised when XP ran some applications that would not run under Win2K on my system. Service pack 3 was the last service pack I tried before switching to XP so things may have improved with SP4. Of course, I am just giving my anecdotal experience and YMMV.

I liked Win2K until XP was released, and I like XP with all the eye candy turned off and everything switched to classic mode.

Audioaficionado

07-23-03, 05:02 AM

I dunno either. I'm in the same boat now as I just switche to XP pro sp1. I have w2k sp4 on the D:\ partition but haven't really played with it much since I've installed XP.

Doc_Skurlock

07-23-03, 07:31 AM

I play CS quite frequently, and I play Battlefield:1942 DC Mod as well. They run absolutely fine. I also play a little game called EVE Online. This also runs fine, except the net code. I run Win2k with all service packs and updates. For XP machines (which I have one), I did not install sp1. It lags video to the point of not being playable. I play cs on the xp machine and have not noticed a difference. Also, 2000 wasn't designed as a workstation. It's just a better version of Me (LOL). Seriously, if you update and run everything correctly (service packs and updates) then you should be fine with it.
Doc

*update* I also have played Medieval:Total War, Warcraft III, and various other games on the win2k machine and have not noticed any problems whatsoever.
Doc

Afmo

07-23-03, 12:59 PM

ill be out of the ordinary and says 95 :O!or longhorn

Doc_Skurlock

07-23-03, 10:43 PM

LOL

Movax

07-24-03, 12:19 PM

Originally posted by Doc_Skurlock
Also, 2000 wasn't designed as a workstation. It's just a better version of Me (LOL).

Does the (LOL) mean you are joking? It was originally designed for corporate use (could be interpreted as workstation), not home use. It's not a version of me, it is a version of NT. NT 5.0 to be exact. XP is 5.1.

Audioaficionado

07-24-03, 01:00 PM

Yeah I'm sure he was joking :p

Doc_Skurlock

07-24-03, 03:12 PM

Dude, never would I equate Me and 2000 together. They are nowhere close to being the same. Yes I was joking. I know 2000 is based on the NT kernel. I was responding to what was said about it not being good for anything but as a corporate deal. 2000 has great networking abilities, and with service pack 4 is pretty secure. Granted 2000 pre-service pack 1 had glaring holes and glitches and everyone hated it because it didn't work with anything. Now, however, I dare you to find a driver for something that doesn't work with 2000. It may be based on NT, but NT it ain't.
Doc

Movax

07-24-03, 07:07 PM

Cool. I thought you must have been j/k, just making sure. Win2k is basically a combination of many good features of NT with the few from 9x.

Doc_Skurlock

07-24-03, 10:53 PM

The very few. By the way did you know you have no msconfig in win2k? That's a handy utility to configure startup. Just a reminder for those that didn't know. I'll stick with win2k for awhile.
Doc

Audioaficionado

07-25-03, 04:59 AM

I just put the msconfig from XP in w2k and it works great.

Doc_Skurlock

07-25-03, 06:22 PM

Yeah, I did that too. It's not really a problem unless you get some startup errors.
Doc

AKULA

07-25-03, 09:10 PM

Dual Boot between 98se and XP....Got all my bases covered that way. Although 90% of my software runs just fine under XP so I only used a small 15 GB partition for 98SE and even that was massive overkill I learned.

Doc_Skurlock

07-25-03, 09:12 PM

Yeah, 98 don't require much. I must say, if they made it more specific, saying I need a gaming OS for a 200mhz or 450mhz P2 or P3, I'd say 98 would work better. Especially if ram was an issue.
Doc

rdy2rave

07-25-03, 11:26 PM

For old games I'd say Windows ME or 98 (however, expect stability issues). For anything newer, I'd go with XP or 2000.

petery83

07-25-03, 11:41 PM

Originally posted by rdy2rave
For old games I'd say Windows ME or 98 (however, expect stability issues).

i'm sure that's especially the case with ME...

lazerin

07-25-03, 11:51 PM

Without having read the other posts, I'd recommend Win98SE for a hardcore gaming OS. I'm running xp pro at the moment and some games are incompatible with xp as well as some gaming hardware being incompatible.

Audioaficionado

07-26-03, 03:47 AM

I've got 98se/98lite on 3Gb and that's still overkill. Next time I'll put it on half that much. W2k and XP each are on 10Gb.

I only use 98 for true DOS apps anymore. I like formatting floppies in 98 as it will show if you have any surface errors. If they've got any errors at all, I just toss 'em. w2k and xp can format but they don't show you the errors like 98 will TTBOMK.

BmanG17

07-28-03, 01:00 AM

WIN98SE All the bugs were worked out years ago and EVERYTHING works with it.

No bugs in win98se?! Thats why I only got about 6000 Blue Screen errors a day running the most basic of apps.

Norm day of win98 Useage
"Lets go on AIM"
EERRRROOORRR DIE!!!
*restarts*
"Lets try IE"
EEERRRRROOORR EAT BSD!!!!!!!
*restarts*
EERRRROORRRR...die!!!

Not to mention worst mem management ever

Considering With XP I can easily leave my computer on for 2+ weeks with no restarts and will run seemingly perfect[only 256megs of ram too] and on 98se I ran it for like 12 hours and it lagged to death, with over 512meg ram...GG XP 0wns 98se. So does w2k.

Had my XP system for over 6 months, not one blue screen[they even excist anymore, lol] and have had it only freeze to the point of it completely stopped respnoding and had to hit restart button..only once in 6 months[CNTRL ALT DELETE actually works 99.99999% of the time in XP(meaning it will kill the app thats having any sort of problem, effiently) ]. I would get like 5 freezes a day on 98se whenever I had a problem with an application or game. Cntrl alt delete always seemed to either work or 40% of the time it would freeze my comp..

Audioaficionado

07-28-03, 01:30 AM

Hmmm...

Come to think about it, I don't recall ever getting a BSOD in either w2k or XP.

BmanG17

07-28-03, 11:48 PM

Originally posted by Audioaficionado
Hmmm...

Come to think about it, I don't recall ever getting a BSOD in either w2k or XP.

I know, isnt it great :). XP and 2k are by the far the most stable, and run games as fast as they did on 98. minus the blue screens, and many other random errors that would occur on 98se.

Audioaficionado

07-29-03, 05:01 AM

For what it is, 98se is a pretty good OS if you get some helper apps and tweaks to shore up its weaknesses. Cacheman did wonders cleaning up memory leak buildups and the 512 limit. I could run it 24/7 for over a week and not reboot. Did the network tweaks so I'd get max LAN/Broadband speed. However now when I'm in it for more than a few minutes, I start to get annoyed at the feel of it and can't wait until I boot back into an NT5x OS. It just isn't fun anymore as I've been spoiled and only use it for those occasional DOS tasks I have to do.