> > > Why do people keep calling XP an upgrade?
> > > dave henrie
> > Eh? Mebbe because things just *work* better? (The essence of an
> > upgrade). Not that it's a real hard accomplishment in the M$ realm.
> > :-P
> > Fester
> ahhh things work better in XP...Thats good to know...find the guy in the
> 'Going over to win2k' thread whose serial port wheel won't work in XP. Tell
> the guy with the Asus vidcard why N4 locks up under XP. Ask owners of the
> the Saitek Wheels how much better they work under XP. Check out the updated
> Software for MS wheels and XP. :)
> Great upgrade if you ask me...
> dave henrie
I believe that once people figure out how to work around certain stuff,
like with some game titles not working properly, and I'm pretty sure
there will be workarounds for it if we give it a bit of time, most
people will have very few real complaints about XP
I'll admit up front that my experience with XP is strictly 2nd hand as
of yet, but we installed XP on my brother's Athlon 1.4/512/GF2PRO (I
know, embarassing)/yadda yadda yadda, and he hasn't had any complaints
yet
An avid NHL (EA Sports) player, he uses an old Gravis Gamepad PRO,
doesn't even need the the SW from Gravis to get all 10 (?) buttons
working, faster frame rates in 3DMarke 2001 than he got in W98SE with
same driver revisions etc, and no crashes, he has no complaints so far
Another customer had to enable "Win98 compatibility" or something to get
Viper Racing to run properly, but no complaints there either
Not saying that there are no issues, but just as with Win9x, we need
time to get familiar with the OS and it's quirks, once I see a post
about people getting V5-5500's to work properly with XP, I'm converting
from Win98, I'll still use Win2000 on my office PC though as it has
everything I need and is working properly right now, but the first time
I need to reinstall it, I'll go with XP
You'd almost think I was e***d about a MS OS......:-)
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