Thanks for your comments,
uwe
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I gave it up as a bad job and bought a different (USB) wheel, a
Thrustmaster Enzo Ferrari. I couldn't get used to its pedals, though -
they seemed very uncomfortable compared to the MS FF pedals. But
luckily I read something in R.A.S suggesting that you could combine the
pedals of one wheel with the steering from another. And now I am a very
happy user of MS FF pedals (going into the gameport) and the Enzo
Ferrari wheel (going into the USB). It seems that Windows XP can handle
the MS FF pedals going into the gameport - it's only the wheel itself
that causes problems.
WinXP Pro with this combination has been absolutely rock solid for me,
so my desire for Win98 has disappeared.
Thanks for your replies. It really looks like I'm bound for XP Pro or
whatever unless GTR patch 1.2 fixes those damn online hangs. I have
the rockfire usb on order, also ZZ was kind enough to order some
250kOhm spec pots and send them to me so hopefully I'll be able to get
my "all-gameport" tsw2mod working with XP.
cheers,
uwe
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> cheers,
> uwe
If you want to go XP, check out the Media Edition (or whatever it's
called). It costs less than XP Pro but offers almost the same
functionality. It seems to have most of the goodies MS denied the Home
version (see latest c't) and according to that article has SP2
integrated in the original installation CD!
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Achim
http://users.skynet.be/AchimT
I don't really want to, but I can get a legal home office xp pro
license from work which apparently has sp2 integrated, too (the first
thing that got kicked when I started that job was xp on my desktop, I
need to get work done! ;-).
The w2ksp4 bit sounds interesting though, I'll give it a go
first.
All the best & thanks for your comments,
uwe
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The only possible advantage Win2K SP4 has over XP SP2 is the lack of an
activation scheme. XP is far snappier than Win2K (or even 98) once you've
tweaked it.....
A common misconception among the users of XP :)
Achim
There are drawbacks as compared to XP as well. Some fancy stuff may require the
installation of a driver whereas XP has support built-in.
Overall, though, W2k is a lot easier to get to work well than XP ;)
Achim
Nope, proven in A-B comparisons on identical hardware. Some people think
because old OSes are smaller that they must be faster but it's just not the
case any more.
The driver initialisation routines in particular in WinXP are dramatically
faster than in Win2K resulting in almost half the bootup time. Win2K does
have a slightly smaller memory footprint but that's about it. Even Windows
Server 2003 is faster than Win2K. The only other possible way in which
Win2K could be perceived as being faster then WinXP is if 'system restore'
is enabled. Disabling that is as simple as ticking a box if you prefer
speed over safety.
Yep, a lot of incorrect information has been published about that topic.
Achim
They were my own comparisons on my own hardware. Are you calling me a liar
or am I incompetant? Feel free to point out in what ways Win2K is faster.
Mitch
I am not calling you anything, that's not my style, and not the purpose of my
postings.
Have a look at the games tests this review:
http://www.firingsquad.com/games/winxpperf/page3.asp
Achim
A DX7 performance comparison might slightly favour older OSs and 3DMark also
favours the most efficient graphics driver rather than the most efficient
OS.
My personal experience is that XP, even without performance modifications,
certainly isn't any slower than Win98se on this machine.
Jan.
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