Thanks in advance for your replies,
Ed
For a DDR board, I've heard great things about the K7S6A, (which does have
overclockability!) or just about any KT266A board. KT133A boards rock for
SDRAM.
Milhouse
> Thanks in advance for your replies,
> Ed
> Thanks in advance for your replies,
> Ed
>For a DDR board, I've heard great things about the K7S6A, (which does have
>overclockability!) or just about any KT266A board. KT133A boards rock for
>SDRAM.
>Milhouse
For Soundcards, I'd recommend a cheap Audigy. Sounds just as good as
an expensive Audigy, and there's less hardware for Creative Labs to
completely fail to support, or write working drivers for, on it.
For Graphics, any 2nd Generation GPU card is going to be ok. IE,
Radeon, GeForce2, etc. These can be picked up quite cheaply. Spend
more on a killer GeF4-TI (don't bother with the MX) or GeF3, or a
Radeon8500, if you want more future-proofing, and whistles&bells.
Windows XP is the best MS OS to date (not very stiff competition
there). So long as you shy away from NTFS for *** systems, it
should (in theory) run any game that ever worked in a previous Windows
OS.
I hope this helps you. If you need any further information, I'm
available for comment.
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Can you tell me what's wrong with NTFS for *** systems?
> >Windows XP is the best MS OS to date (not very stiff competition
> >there). So long as you shy away from NTFS for *** systems, it
> >should (in theory) run any game that ever worked in a previous Windows
> >OS.
> Can you tell me what's wrong with NTFS for *** systems?
People here have reported GPL not running when installed on an NTFS
partition, yet running without problem on the same partition converted
to FAT32, not sure how widespread this problem is though, could be
isolated to GPL, but since the guy is building a new system for amongst
others GPL....
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
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One of the issues with NTFS is security. I am not sure if GPL need to
write to the HD while running but, if you don't have admin rights to the
system then there is a posibility that GPL can not access the HD the way
it was designed to.
Macc
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The main difference isn't between the two XP platforms but in understanding where, what and how XP differs from the Win9x line. Windows XP is from the NT line. If you're running XP Home, the security is much different between the Limited User and Administrator-authorized accounts. Either you give the Limited User full access rights to all programs and files by taking them into the Administrator group, or deny them from using the program. Under XP Pro, you can authorize individual programs (like GPL) to be available to specific users, a user group or anyone individually you want - without giving them full access to all the files on the computer. Both these situations arise whether FAT32 or NTFS is used, and only varies whether the operating system is Home or Pro. If a program is installed under an Admin account, and if that program isn't smart enough to ask whether the program is for just that user or all users, then no one else will be able to use it. Fortunately, the newer games coming out now have more "intelligence" about XP and will ask. The just-released Dungeon Siege is a good example of a smarter install system. They'll get better as games are developed which know about XP.
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So basically yeah, it's all about disk permissions, which is exactly
why you want NTFS in NT.
Lazy programmers of the recent past have just put a 'check whether the
OS is NT' into the install code. Like NFS did. They obviously
thought that this was easier than checking direct-x versions. So NFS
flat refused to install in Win2k, even though you could run the game
in 2k fine.
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I've had problems running GPL on Win2k with NTFS... It was installed under an
Admin account, and it's being RUN from an Admin account. No joy.
It really seems to be random why some people can get it to work, and others
can't... :(
Eldred
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> >Let's dispel what seems to be the start of a myth here. Sure, some much =
> >older games won't "just run" on Windows XP, but that's why compatibility =
> >mode is included. NTFS and FAT32 platforms are the same in XP the way =
> >games are played, whether they use compatibility mode or not. I'm =
> >running GPL, F1 2001, etc., just fine on XP Pro in a clean install on =
> >NTFS. =20
> If a program is installed under an Admin account, and if that =
> >program isn't smart enough to ask whether the program is for just that =
> >user or all users, then no one else will be able to use it.
> I've had problems running GPL on Win2k with NTFS... It was installed under an
> Admin account, and it's being RUN from an Admin account. No joy.
> It really seems to be random why some people can get it to work, and others
> can't... :(
> Eldred
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> GPLRank - under construction...
> Can the Detroit Tigers match the Detroit Lions' blazing 2001 start of 0-12???
> Currently at 0-10 as of April13th...stay tuned...
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Athlon 1.4 (new XP would be slightly better)
Soltek DRV4 (KT266A boards are generally fast and stable, this one is
more foolproof than most)
Geforce 2 Pro (to be replaced by GeF4 Ti 4200 when available)
Win 2K (much more stable than 9x, I have no problem with GPL on an
NTFS partition, Win2K can also use FAT32)
I play GPL, N2002, F12001.
