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by **Eldre** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:27:18

writes:

I'm still running 98se, and I'd suggest that. However, other people HAVE had
success with win2k. I wouldn't suggest ME or XP at all - strictly a personal
bias here...<g>

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by **Joe6** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:53:25

Windows 98. Last time I checked, Win2000 doesn't support my Microsoft
(!!!) FF steering wheel. Not sure about XP.

by **Darf** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:50:26

I made the big mistake of upgrading from 98Se to Me.
I agree with most that it is one of the flakiest OS's Bill has ever made.
I stayed with ME ( gritting my teeth ) waiting for the release of XP.
I though that if XP was a dud, I would just go back to 98Se.
Well it has been a few months now, and I am still with XP.
It is definately a lot more stable than 98Se, and 350 times more Stable than
ME.
Although XP rarely locks up ( requiring a Reboot ), I have managed to do it
with F12002.
This was partially my fault, I chose the wrong Connection type in
Multiplayer.
XP is VERY resource hungry. I would suggest using 98Se to anyone with other
than a Grunter of a System with Minimum 256K Ram.
My Gut feeling is that you would get a few more frames out of 98Se.
I am sticking with XP mainly for the feel of the OS, and the fact that all
the latest Hardware & Games are well supported within XP.
My recommendations:
For a not so potent P.C. ....Go with 98 Se
If you have got the latest and greatest P.C. ...Go with XP
I do feel that the best *** compromise as far as XP goes, would be to
have a dual boot or dual hard drive setup. The *** boot up should have a
bare bones OS, with just the bare minimum loaded in the background, to
maximise *** resources.
And in my case it would only have GPL, F12002, ICR3 ( I wish), Kingpin, and
the soon to be released ( yeah right ) Duke Nukem Forever loaded up.
I would also load up GP4 if I had a Pentium 6 - 8.4 GHZ with about 3 Gig of
ram. :-)
Editors note: Microprose design them like that to give the product a longer
shelf life :-)

by **Uncle Feste** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:04:32

>>driver compatibility ... what would
>>you select? I am thinking it is between Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

> Windows 98. Last time I checked, Win2000 doesn't support my Microsoft
> (!!!) FF steering wheel. Not sure about XP.

XP will as long as it's not the gameport version.

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by **Goy Larse** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:00:15

> I am currently running Windows ME. I've heard some say this is the worst
> version of Windows to use for racing sims. I've been doing fairly well with
> it, you just have to kill allot of the background junk.

> Anyway, if you were putting together a system today and wanted racing sim
> (on and offline) performance/stability/driver compatibility ...), what would
> you select? I am thinking it is between Windows 2000 or Windows XP. I have
> Windows 2000 on my work PC and it is way more stable that my ME systems. On
> the other hand, XP is the latest, but I'm not keen on some of stuff MS is
> pushing down our throats with XP (maybe I've just heard wrong.)

I like WinXP a lot and use it on several of my systems, but my dedicated
*** box is running Win98Lite, the scratched version without IE and
stuff

I've done a bit of benchmarking and testing and haven't found a
noticeable difference in performance between the various OS's, XP is
incredibly stable though, and aside from the things that MS is trying to
force upon us, I happen to think it's a ***y good OS

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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by **jon** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:57:53

It may not be "supported", but it does work. Only glitch I see with it is
you can't keep it from showing up twice in the hardware manager. But it
works fine. I went from 98se to 2000, and not having a crash every other day
(sometimes more) is nice.

> >driver compatibility ... what would
> >you select? I am thinking it is between Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

> Windows 98. Last time I checked, Win2000 doesn't support my Microsoft
> (!!!) FF steering wheel. Not sure about XP.

by **Don Burnett** » Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:37:23

> says...
> > If you're building a system for playing games, you're going to be
> > rebooting constantly since XP isn't fully immune to resource leaks,

> This is not my experience with XP at all. It has been, by far, the most
> stable platform I've ever used for ***. I play all sorts of games
> because I review and beta test them and XP has been a breath of fresh
> air. I can honestly say that I've never rebooted a game in XP. Some
> have crashed, but I haven't had to reboot the OS.

> Chris

Ditto here as well Chris, I have found XP Home to be a very stable os, which
runs my games very well. And I typically leave my machine on 24/7.
Course, that cost me a network card and router couple weeks ago during a
severe thunderstorm, so now when it rains hard I shut em off :).

Don Burnette

by **Eldre** » Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:54:04

>It may not be "supported", but it does work. Only glitch I see with it is
>you can't keep it from showing up twice in the hardware manager. But it
>works fine. I went from 98se to 2000, and not having a crash every other day
>(sometimes more) is nice.

Your system crashed every other day in 98se?!? I guess I've gotten lucky - I
haven't had NEARLY that much problem with mine...<shrug>

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by **Joe6** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:07:24

It is gameport. I think Win98 should therefore be the default
recommendation for all but the most sophisticated users. Win98 will
work with all games, all devices. None of the other systems will. Easy
choice.

by **jon** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:41:21

Yes but i was doing a lot of stuff on it. Started using a program called
memturbo, and got it to where it would only crash about every three days.

> >It may not be "supported", but it does work. Only glitch I see with it is
> >you can't keep it from showing up twice in the hardware manager. But it
> >works fine. I went from 98se to 2000, and not having a crash every other
day
> >(sometimes more) is nice.

> Your system crashed every other day in 98se?!? I guess I've gotten
lucky - I
> haven't had NEARLY that much problem with mine...<shrug>

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by **Larr** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:17:57

The USB version works just fine.

-Larry

> >driver compatibility ... what would
> >you select? I am thinking it is between Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

> Windows 98. Last time I checked, Win2000 doesn't support my Microsoft
> (!!!) FF steering wheel. Not sure about XP.

by **Larr** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:19:57

Windows ME is the worst operating system ever released by Microsoft. It was
barely beta quality, and generated more Blue-Screens than you'd think
possible.

Horrible, horrible stuff.

-Larry

by **Eldre** » Sun, 14 Jul 2002 05:22:48

>Windows ME is the worst operating system ever released by Microsoft.

Ever see DOS 4.0? :-)

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by **Joachim Trens** » Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:22:56

Has been running flawlessly and perfectly here for years :-)

Achim

by **Goy Larse** » Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:31:24

> Has been running flawlessly and perfectly here for years :-)

In that case, MS would like know how you did it :-)

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