On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A last thought which is only vaguely > relevant to the list is: what Windows OS should I run for gaming? I have > always run 98SE but have heard XPPro runs better. If I get eaten alive for > even asking a Windows question I won't blame you, just curious what your > experiences have been. Thanks again! >
the only thing i could input to that would be based on the amount of RAM you want to run while gaming, as win98 just won't work with over 512mb of ram, however XP doesn't care. games kill resources (as i'm sure you already know) so the more the better for gaming. i'm using win98 and when i bumped the system from 320mb to 768mb of ram, i had to go into msconfig and tell it to not use more than 512mb of ram. i actually went and knocked that down later to 448, because it just still didn't seem happy at 512mb. before i knocked it down, however, i was having problem after problem after problem just trying to do basic stuff. has microsoft addressed this problem? yes...their answer if you want to use more than 512mb of ram.....go buy one of their "better" OS versions. at least they were human enough to put a patch out there to allow larger than 30gb hard drives, as when i installed my 100gb hard drive, it took forever before i got the patch from them. fdisk would only show a 30gb capacity on a brand new never used 100gb hard drive. i guess they're willing to "help" resolve some issues and unwilling to resolve others w/out making you buy a better version. Mike
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