Win98SE or Win2kPro? [Archive] - Overclockers Forums

Arkaine23

11-18-01, 08:20 PM

Building:

Athlon XP 1600+
Shuttle AK31a
256 MB PC2700 DDR
40 Gig
Leadtek Geforce2 Ti 64 MB AGP
etc,etc,etc

I have a choice between Win 98 SE or Win 2000 Pro... Will primarily use the computer for gaming... Anyone have experience with these two operating systems that can tell me which one might be better? Any specific info or problems will be most helpful.

Yodums

11-18-01, 08:46 PM

Go for Win2k.. Win 98 won't use the 100% of your chip not as much as XP or 2k.

Monaco

11-18-01, 10:01 PM

I just made the switch on my main machine from Win98SE to a Win98SE/Win2000 Pro dual boot. The only time I've booted in 98 was to install some drivers and stuff and hook up the internet connection. Win2000 is just so much better in every way, IMHO.

I'd do a dual boot just in case you ever need 98, I just installed it to a 2 gig partition and there still half free. There is a tiny speed hit I noticed with Win2000, maybe -5% but then again my system is pretty lame- I'm sure that your XP would have no problems at all:D

Yodums

11-18-01, 10:34 PM

Originally posted by Monster of Rock
I just made the switch on my main machine from Win98SE to a Win98SE/Win2000 Pro dual boot. The only time I've booted in 98 was to install some drivers and stuff and hook up the internet connection. Win2000 is just so much better in every way, IMHO.

I'd do a dual boot just in case you ever need 98, I just installed it to a 2 gig partition and there still half free. There is a tiny speed hit I noticed with Win2000, maybe -5% but then again my system is pretty lame- I'm sure that your XP would have no problems at all:D

After awhile you'll find the dual booting useless like me.. When you got that precious OS!

RedDeathDrinker

11-18-01, 11:01 PM

I'm dual booting 98SE and 2000pro.

I use 2000pro, with the NTFS file system on an 18-gig partition, and my wife and brother (when he's round) use 98SE on the 2 gig partition (all they do is MSN or Yahoo chat).

Keeps all my stuff safe, and I find 2000 far more user-friendly than 98SE ever was.........

Arkaine23

11-18-01, 11:21 PM

Thanx ya'll. I've been using Win98SE for too long, but I've never had problems. I'd read in the forums that Win 98 doesn't utilize tons of RAM if you happen to have it. I just wanted to be sure that Win 2000 Pro didn't have the same limitation. Not that I'll have much RAM to start with...

I'll put some thought into a dual boot, but right now I don't see any reason to do it.

System to be:
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4Ghz
Shuttle Ak31a
256MB PC2700 DDR (OCZ)
40 Gig Maxtor 7200rpm
Leadtek Nvidia GeForce2 Ti
8 fans of varying size
hoping to put it together and OC it to about 1600-1650 MHz

RedDeathDrinker

11-18-01, 11:50 PM

Win2000 will support up to 4 gigs of RAM (motherboard-dependant)

512Megs should be enough.......:)

xCarne_Asada

11-19-01, 12:06 AM

Win2k all the way. I have 98se good os, but win2k by far is better.

lennytiger

11-19-01, 01:36 AM

I would try Windows 98 or Win XP, win2k has no gaming support.

13oots2

11-19-01, 02:36 AM

Originally posted by lennytiger
I would try Windows 98 or Win XP, win2k has no gaming support.
Quake III, Unreal Tournament and most other Non-DOS games goes like the blazes with my Win2K set-up. I would think that anything that runs on XP will run on 2K, they both use the NT Kernel.

Violator

11-19-01, 04:06 AM

Originally posted by lennytiger
I would try Windows 98 or Win XP, win2k has no gaming support.

What on earth are you basing that statement on? Win2K (with SP2) is a fine gaming environment, equal and often better than XP. All my games run the same or better than under 98 with the exception of a few older titles. 2000 is a far more robust and stable OS than 98 also, which actually makes efficient use of all your memory too.

bdf24

11-19-01, 04:42 AM

There's only a few older games that I've tried that won't play on Win 2K PRO so far. One being NFS4 HS. But that's not a big deal to me. Almost all newer games will play fine. Win 2K is not slower then 98se at all in gaming in my opinion. I will never go back to Win 98se. I can actually run my system for days and do whatever I want and It wont crash on me. And if a program has an error I can close out without it taking the whole system down.

Yodums

11-19-01, 06:54 AM

Yes mostly all games run on it and people tell me that once SP3 comes out there will be no bugs and it'll be compatible with all games :)

So I'm looking forward to that.

lennytiger

11-19-01, 07:04 AM

Originally posted by Violator

What on earth are you basing that statement on? Win2K (with SP2) is a fine gaming environment, equal and often better than XP. All my games run the same or better than under 98 with the exception of a few older titles. 2000 is a far more robust and stable OS than 98 also, which actually makes efficient use of all your memory too.

I think I remeber the earlier Service Pack not liking any games, I haven't tried Win2k on games for a while, i mainly use win2k on my servers...

lennytiger

11-19-01, 07:20 AM

Anyone fancy posting me a sealed/unused copy of win2k??

I haven't got another license to install it on my laptop, do you know where I can get one??

Krome

11-19-01, 10:45 AM

I went from Windows 95 to Windows 98SE to Windows 200 Pro within 2 months, Win 2000 is my favorite so far...

wizardloader

11-21-01, 03:22 PM

Can you install Win2k CD on more than one PC......I mean one copy:cool:

Yodums

11-21-01, 06:05 PM

Windows 2000 can be installed on as many computers as they want that is if Microsoft adds some weird activation stuff in SP3 which I don't think they won't..

bdf24

11-21-01, 11:56 PM

That's what the rumours say. That MS will put an activation in SP3. But I believe that's all they are. RUMOUR'S. That would be a very stupid move on there part. But then again the average user will not know enough to be able to do anything about it. So who know's it could be true. But I still doubt it.

lennytiger

11-25-01, 11:41 AM

Isn't that illegal? To install windows on more than 1 pc if you only have 1 lisence?? (Sorry For My Spelling Mistakes Today)

Oni

11-25-01, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by Yodums
Windows 2000 can be installed on as many computers as they want that is if Microsoft adds some weird activation stuff in SP3 which I don't think they won't..

That would require kernel modification, which means they'd be including an entirely new kernel in sp3, which would make it entirely too large to download. I'm not too worried.

Bmxpunk86pl

11-25-01, 03:49 PM

You can always uninstall SP3 if you dont like it

whooping_a_panda

11-25-01, 09:17 PM

I've recently switched to win2k from 98se and I still cant get over the fact my system hasnt crashed in over 2 WHOLE WEEKS! prior to the switch it was abnormal to crash less than once an hour :) Lousy win 98. As far as gaming goes im a gamer and didnt want to switch to 2k because i thought it would degrade performance and id have compatibility issues. Well the opposite was true. I gained 10 fps in unreal tournament and its taken every game ive thrown at it so far Go wiht 2k :)

Jon Austin