Windows (FAT)
system with regards to racing sims (compatibility, speed, ... other?).
Thanks,
Russell
Thanks,
Russell
"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash
> Thanks,
> Russell
It is also much more resistant to virus since they can not become memory
resident. Use your XP with Fat32 unless you want to hide sensitive files.
current should work fine, GPL
requires you to rename
NTFS, there aren't alot of
> "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
> alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
> the....." - Ash
I have even dug up a link from microsoft if you want to get further advices
;-)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/pr...
ol/winntas/tips/techrep/filesyst.asp
/Carl
> It is also much more resistant to virus since they can not become memory
> resident. Use your XP with Fat32 unless you want to hide sensitive files.
> > A few sims may not run, but most will run perfectly fine. ANything
> current should work fine, GPL
> > requires disk indexing to be turned on for at least the GPL folder, VROC
> requires you to rename
> > riched20.dll or it errors. Truthfully IMHO, if you're not going to use
> NTFS, there aren't alot of
> > good reasons to even bother with an NT based OS in the first place since
> you lose most of OS
> > security without it.
> > --
> > Biz
> > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
> > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular
structures,....and
> > the....." - Ash
> > > Any reasons for or against using the NT file system in XP over the
> regular
> > > Windows (FAT)
> > > system with regards to racing sims (compatibility, speed, ... other?).
> > > Thanks,
> > > Russell
/Carl
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/pr...
> /Carl
> > The reason to use an NT based OS can be stability. It works very well
with
> > FAT 32 and most home users do not need to encrypt and protect individual
> > folders.
> > It is also much more resistant to virus since they can not become memory
> > resident. Use your XP with Fat32 unless you want to hide sensitive
files.
> > > A few sims may not run, but most will run perfectly fine. ANything
> > current should work fine, GPL
> > > requires disk indexing to be turned on for at least the GPL folder,
VROC
> > requires you to rename
> > > riched20.dll or it errors. Truthfully IMHO, if you're not going to
use
> > NTFS, there aren't alot of
> > > good reasons to even bother with an NT based OS in the first place
since
> > you lose most of OS
> > > security without it.
> > > --
> > > Biz
> > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
> > > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular
> structures,....and
> > > the....." - Ash
> > > > Any reasons for or against using the NT file system in XP over the
> > regular
> > > > Windows (FAT)
> > > > system with regards to racing sims (compatibility, speed, ...
other?).
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Russell
NTFS made me a lot of money once when a client's MBR became corrupted. All
of his emails and digital photos... none of it backed up. NTFS stores a
backup copy that can be recovered with a disk editor (and I believe there's
a MS tool to do this as well) in just a few miuntes. I think I made about
$500 for that hour :)
Also NTFS is a journaled filesystem making it quite unusual to lose data if
you have a system crash. I had a problem with a bad driver that was
crashing my system about 5 times a day for a week. I never lost a single
file in nearly 25 crashes. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had a
corrupted file following a crash.
That's a good enough reason for me to run NTFS on all my systems.
Dale.
Jacques
-Larry
NTFS is your friend...
-Larry
> >NTFS made me a lot of money once when a client's MBR became corrupted.
All
> >of his emails and digital photos... none of it backed up. NTFS stores a
> >backup copy that can be recovered with a disk editor (and I believe
there's
> >a MS tool to do this as well) in just a few miuntes. I think I made
about
> >$500 for that hour :)
> >Also NTFS is a journaled filesystem making it quite unusual to lose data
if
> >you have a system crash. I had a problem with a bad driver that was
> >crashing my system about 5 times a day for a week. I never lost a single
> >file in nearly 25 crashes. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had
a
> >corrupted file following a crash.
> >That's a good enough reason for me to run NTFS on all my systems.
> >Dale.
> Yea, but the question was NTFS and *sims*, not NTFS and file
> protection. For a gamer I say stick with FAT32, more compatibility and
> is slightly faster according to articles I have read. Once you go NTFS
> it is more of a pain to reformat back to FAT32 if you should ever
> want/need to go back to Win9x. You need to destroy the NTFS partition
> before you can go back to FAT32. With FAT32 no such malarky is needed.
> One can easily get 3rd party encryption utilities for free if you want
> to secure files and folders under FAT32.
NTFS has worked fine for me too. Every game and sim works as well as
on FAT32. Maybe there is a noticeable performance difference between
FAT32 and NTFS on slow machines that can't run games properly
880MHz machine. I recently reinstalled WinXP on my machine, and I
installed it on FAT32 just to see if it would give some sort of
performance boost. It didn't, so I converted the disk to NTFS. I've
had some troubles with corrupted allocation tables on FAT partitions
before, so I try to stay away from it :)
NTFS is somewhat faster than FAT32 in reading/writing large files
'cause it reads the data in larger portions. With lots of small files
FAT32 is a little faster...
BTW, NTFS partitions can be converted to FAT32 eg. with Partition
Magic.
--
- Igor -
>>NTFS has worked fine for me too. Every game and sim works as well as
>>on FAT32.
>How many games do you own? Not every sim/game will work on XP even
>with FAT32 so why lower your odds with NTFS?
What sims do you own that run on WinXP with FAT32, but won't run with
NTFS?
I just stated the fact that it can be done if necessary.
--
- Igor -
> >NTFS is your friend...
> >-Larry
> Sure Larry, that's why I spent frustrating time trying to get GPL to
> run on NTFS. I know what the issue was now but back then no one knew
> why I couldn't get it to run. If Iwas using FAT32 I would have had no
> such problem.
What game will not install on NTFS?
/Carl
-Larry
> >NTFS has worked fine for me too. Every game and sim works as well as
> >on FAT32.
> How many games do you own? Not every sim/game will work on XP even
> with FAT32 so why lower your odds with NTFS?
> >BTW, NTFS partitions can be converted to FAT32 eg. with Partition
> >Magic.
> I don't want or need to pay big bucks for a partitioning utility. I
> used to own PM but that version became obsolete and I'm not spending
> another $100.00 CAD for it.