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best o.s. for gaming?
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05-02-2003 9:36pm#1
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hrm, I don't have a problem running any games on win2k, I don't play many older games, but they seem to work fine. ( like rally championship which runs under dos 4gw, doom, f1gp 1 (1991 ), etc. Quake3 runs faster for me under win2k than on win98se, but then it runs faster on freebsd than it does on win2k
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I was going to vote for '98 considering the fact that I've got some older classics that don't like XP and refuse to run... but having your game crash out to the desktop or BSOD is no picnic either, so XP gets my vote for solid uninterrupted gaming.
As Quigs said, it all depends on what era of games you want to play, I've never had any problems with XP and newer games... oh wait - I have... GTA3 drove me mad with that garbled GUI bug, but that's been patched, so all is forgiven
Great game that, I picked it up in HMV on grafton st. for under a tenner, worked first time in XP, right out of the box... but it was a re-released version which was probably patched ;p(eg: Even Colin McCrae 2 won't run unpatched on XP...no good for the casual user)
Funny that this topic should pop-up actually, I only came online tonight to patch-hunt for some of my older games.0 -
i cant see why "classics" wouldnt work (depends what you define as a classic though, some games are just old ). Have you tried the compatibility feature of XP?
Tests show that there's no reason today to use Windows 98/ME in a new system. In many of the benchmarks, XP and 2000 are ahead - albeit only by a small margin. The biggest advantage of 2000 and XP, however, is in the more modern architecture, which, thanks to the increased stability and safety from crashes, allows for a much more relaxed work environment - and, of course, increased demands on the hardware as well.
98/ME users might ask if it is worth spending the money on XP and the additional RAM required for 2000/XP. This depends, above all, on how you plan to use the system. If you're only going to play games on it, then you can continue to use ME or 98SE. Most of the manufacturers no longer offer driver support for 98, but support for ME should still continue for a long time. All ME drivers work on 98 without a hitch (the naughty ones say that ME is only the retail version of a service pack for 98 SE...).
For those who use their PCs for other purposes as well should turn to XP or 2000 - with regard to performance, there's no difference between them. Games now run on both systems with optimal performance, and they mostly run faster than on the older operating systems. Only the 60 Hz problem (http://xp-refresh.net/) puts a considerable damper on the gaming experience. (Help in the article below)
There is a 6 page article about it here from toms hardware
Or you can glance at the below based on the following system:
Processor Intel Pentium 4 2,2 GHz (100 MHz)
Memory 2 x 256 MB, PC 266, CL2
Graphic Cards ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti Ti 4600
Mainboard ASUS P4T-E
Drivers & Software
Graphics Driver NVIDIA - v. 30.82
ATI - v. 02.3
DirectX Version 8.1
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