What OS to get

[Wicked Klown]

I'm looking at getting a new OS and was wondering. Should I get Windows XP, Windows 2000 Pro or the 2000, Windows ME or should I just stick with Windows 98 S.E. I play games like Ghost Recon, Delta Force2 and LW, and The Sims. I know The Sims will not work with XP and they have no plans right now of making a patch. I'm looking for something that will not hog my ram so to speak.

[Oni]

Go w/ Windows 2000 Pro. Its incredibly stable, fast, secure, and all of those games that you listed there work w/ it. The only games that I've had problems w/ in Win2k are ones that require Real Mode DOS.

[nil_esh]

One of my friends is running The Sims under Win2k with no problems. She also has a laptop with XP on it, but I don't know if she's tried Sims with it.

I say run Win2k, its the best of the Windoze. Wait at least a year before you consider WinXP. I always wait a year or so for service patches and stuff to come out for every MSFT OS. Stay away from 95/98/ME.

Looking at your hardware its kinda getting wasted with 98SE. I really notice the difference between 98SE and Win2k, 2k is simply faster. The memory management is so much better. NTFS is good too, I don't get errors like with FAT. The kernel allows things that 95/98/ME just can't do (e.g. light-weight threads i think). You don't have to tweak the registry for performance like 98SE, the OS is already tweaked. People say its a resource hog, but with 256meg mem you've got plenty.

I've been running 2k for a year now and it hasn't screwed me yet.

Look at thread for more of my arguments:
http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52288

Considering you are a gamer, you might want to consider a dual-boot if necessary though.

[Wicked Klown]

Ok cool thats kinda what I was leaning towards. I think I'll stay away from XP til all the bugs are worked out of it. So far Windows 98S.E. has been really nice to me well til I got the Dragon+. The whole thing with the dual boot is I don't know how to do that yet. But if everything I have will work with W2K Pro them I'm cool with it.

[rUfUnKy]

I duel boot WinXP and Win98 se.. I Put all my games on the 98 partition although I have never had any problems running any games, or running any thing for that matter on XP ..But I like to reformat a lot so it saves me from installing all my games again..IMO XP is a better OS then 2000 mostly for compatibility reasons.SP3 might address these other compatibility problems...

[Bmxpunk86pl]

Win2kpro all the way!!!!

[el]

another thread like this! xp

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by el
another thread like this! xp Hey el Thanks ,I was starting to be out numbered ...;)

[Wicked Klown]

Ok but with XP I can't play The Sims.

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by Klownin79
Ok but with XP I can't play The Sims. I just installed The sims on XP to see if it works for ya ,and it runs flawless.........:)

[Wicked Klown]

Really :eh?: At TheSims web site it says it won't work and they have no plan of making a patch. Will XP work with MusicMatch 7.0? I already know if I do the upgrade I have to get a new Norton`s Anti-Virus cause 2001 will not work with it.

[outhouse]

Klownin79 where do play LW? same name? i'm a big fan of the game, theres about 7 or 8 of us here that play i think the best is AKdude but i have not seen him in a while.

[Wicked Klown]

It`s been awhile since I played on line but yea I go by Klownin or Klownin79.

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by Klownin79
Really :eh?: At TheSims web site it says it won't work and they have no plan of making a patch. Will XP work with MusicMatch 7.0? I already know if I do the upgrade I have to get a new Norton`s Anti-Virus cause 2001 will not work with it. I'm not sure about music match 7.0 as I don't have it but The Sims seemed to run with no problems as far as I could see...what problems is the sims supposed to have?? Maybe I can try and duplicate it

[Wicked Klown]

Only thing I can say is go to www.thesims.com and look under FAQ.

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by Klownin79
Only thing I can say is go to www.thesims.com and look under FAQ. is this what you are talking about??? http://thesims.ea.com/us/support/hotdateXP.html because this is for the hot date add on to The Sims not the actual game...

[Yodums]

Defintely go with Windows 2000 with SP2(soon sp3) its currently the most stable os for most of us. Windows XP is basically windows 2000 with gui.

[Wicked Klown]

Originally posted by rUfUnKy
is this what you are talking about??? http://thesims.ea.com/us/support/hotdateXP.html because this is for the hot date add on to The Sims not the actual game...



Yea soon I will have all The Sims. Right now I have The Sims, Livin Large and House Party soon to have Hot Date.

[earthdick]

Step away from WinME, it can only hurt you badly. I tried WinXP but I had way too many problems with my CD-RW and the buggy Roxio software. Stayed with Win2k Pro, I recommend it highly.

[David]

I like XP pro, but i came from the land of win9x, so I don't know anything about 2k. IMHO I think you should go with XP and run the sims in win2k compatability mode.