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by **Eldre** » Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:17:35

>> Well, he *did* say "as long as everything runs perfectly under Win98SE"...
>In
>> other words, what's the "must have" feature of win2k or XP?
>> I haven't seen anything that makes me want to run out and plunk down my
>dollars
>> yet.

>> Eldred

>Then don't. No one is trying to twist your arm and make you use XP. There
>was no real good reason to upgrade from Dos6.0 to 6.22, but I did anyway.
>Did it make my games run better? Nope. And as for the guy ranting in the
>above post about bad memory mangement under Win2K and how unstable it is and
>none of his games run, etc. I just have to wonder what kind of equipment he
>is using and/or what kind(s) of drug(s) he is on. I installed XP on my
>machine and the only thing I had to provide a driver for was my Santa Cruz
>soundcard. Oh, and i ahd a spot of trouble with a joystick, but apart form
>that it has been rock solid for me. Every game I have tried so far has run
>fine.

I didn't say anyone WAS trying to twist my arm. I thought maybe there was some
enhancement or feature. I was just asking for info. But why would you invite
problems by changing to a new OS with no perceivable benefit? That's the
original question, which you didn't really answer...

Eldred
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by **STP** » Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:25:03

Did I invite problems? I invited stability, better memory mangement,
superior FAT with NTFS, better support for harware etc. Did you say the same
thing when we went from Dos/Win3.1 to Win95? There are lots of reasons to go
to XP, there are some things you won't like aobut it too. You weigh out the
good v bad and make your choices. For me there were compellling reasons.
You'll be using XP one day too, I just got a head start on you that's all.

by **Eldre** » Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:16:38

>> I didn't say anyone WAS trying to twist my arm. I thought maybe there was
>some
>> enhancement or feature. I was just asking for info. But why would you
>invite
>> problems by changing to a new OS with no perceivable benefit? That's the
>> original question, which you didn't really answer...

>Did I invite problems? I invited stability, better memory mangement,
>superior FAT with NTFS, better support for harware etc. Did you say the same
>thing when we went from Dos/Win3.1 to Win95? There are lots of reasons to go
>to XP, there are some things you won't like aobut it too. You weigh out the
>good v bad and make your choices. For me there were compellling reasons.
>You'll be using XP one day too, I just got a head start on you that's all.

Ok, I should have said *risk* problems by upgrading. Did you KNOW that XP was
going to be better(to you) in all those areas? Or did you HOPE it would be
better? I specified "to you" because there are people who ARE having problems
with an upgrade to XP currently. So, it's clearly not bett for EVERYONE. I've
always been one of the last to upgrade to any new OS. Basically, because I see
too many of the early adopters trash their systems - BADLY. I prefer not to
deal with losing all my data on a *promise* from MS. As for me using XP, you
don't know that I'll use it. *I* don't know if I'll use it. I may stay with
98se for YEARS. If you'd said the same thing last year about ME, I could now
say that you were wrong. Haven't used ME - don't plan to. Same with XP.
Don't like it, don't want it, don't see a need for it...

Eldred
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by **STP** » Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:11:57

Not all those areas, I was surpprised that the hardware support on my
computer was as good as it was. But, I bought XP on a whim to be honest with
you. I was an anti-XP person and said I would never buy it, and then one day
I just bought it because I felt like something new to tinker with. Now that
I have used it for a while I'm fairly happy with the switch over.

Fine, each to their own. I know some people have had problems, but it
depends on your hardware. There have been problems when people who have a
GF2/3 and a VIA northbridge chipset on XP I have an AMD 761 northbridge. Why
did I buy an AMD761 mb in the first place? Because I already knew the VIA
stuff is a bit on the flaky side and the AMD761 is rock solid. I didn't know
what to expect from XP, as I said it was just a whim that I did buy it. I
just see too many people giving it a bad rap and they don't even have XP.
From what I can see it's not justified.

by **Eldre** » Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:05:50

>> Ok, I should have said *risk* problems by upgrading. Did you KNOW that XP
>was
>> going to be better(to you) in all those areas?

>Not all those areas, I was surpprised that the hardware support on my
>computer was as good as it was. But, I bought XP on a whim to be honest with
>you. I was an anti-XP person and said I would never buy it, and then one day
>I just bought it because I felt like something new to tinker with. Now that
>I have used it for a while I'm fairly happy with the switch over.

[snip]

Ok, that's fair. I'd say that hearing so many people having problems tends to
scare people away. That's probably human nature - people tend to talk more
about something that screws up their system than something that makes it run
great...

Eldred
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Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001
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by **STP** » Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:10:04

That's true, but I've badly coded bad games***up my system more than any
version of Windows has. The only problem I have had with XP is that my MS PP
joystick can't load the Sidewinder 3.02 software and one game (Mig Alley)
didn't even see the stick. It showed it in the game menu slection for
controller, but no response in the game itself. I went out and bought a MS
FF2 stick to solve that problem. I was looking for a good reason the get a
FFB stick anyway.

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