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by **dcsawye** » Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:33:44

Anyone out there with XP?
How is it handling N4 and other games?
Just the facts, man

by **Steve Levet** » Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:24:46

Yup, its very stable and it handles N4 very well, much better than win2000.
NHL2002 also works fine on it. The only problems you should get are with dos
based games.
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by **George Lewi** » Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:20:21

I changed drivers from the XP nvidia drivers (I have a VisionTek
GeForce2 Ultra) to the Nvidia ones for XP. Much better IMHO. Porsche
Need for Speed was slower than in ME, but N4 works great - in fact
just as fast as in ME, if not faster. The only problems I'm having
with N4 will have to be fixed with patches from Papyrus :) (AI,
scoring cars during cautions, stupid AI drivers pitting on lap 99 of a
100 lap race when they are leading, stuff like that)

by **Damien Smit** » Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:20:13

Seems a bit hit 'n' miss for me - no real improvement in games compatibility
over Win2K. I can't honestly think of a reason why a sim gamer would need
to use XP over ME atm. GP3 and GPL don't run very well on my AMD 256MB ,
GF2 system under XP. GP3 in particular is about 300% faster in Win ME!

by **Biz** » Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:50:29

XP is fine for most games as long as you have good driver support for your
hardware, especially video and game controllers. 3dfx, while not an issue
for N4, is poorly supported under XP for games that can use it. As long as
you have the cpu power and ram XP works great. But in some cases driver
support, and hardware requirements make it somewhat prohibitve for many.

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by **Larr** » Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:55:39

N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever.

-Larry

by **Larr** » Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:56:23

Yeah, but ME sucks. Bad...

-Larry

by **George Lewi** » Sat, 13 Oct 2001 07:57:15

I know it's not a "sim" game but Frogger3D won't run in W2K Pro, but I
can put it in Win95 compatibility and it runs great in XP. And unlike
ME, XP RARELY crashes or locks up, which was a regular occurance in ME
for me.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:20:13 +1000, "Damien Smith"

>Seems a bit hit 'n' miss for me - no real improvement in games compatibility
>over Win2K. I can't honestly think of a reason why a sim gamer would need
>to use XP over ME atm. GP3 and GPL don't run very well on my AMD 256MB ,
>GF2 system under XP. GP3 in particular is about 300% faster in Win ME!

by **Damien Smit** » Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:07:30

ME *does* crash occasionally - even taking that into account, I find the
W2K/XP kernal more annoying overall with all of it's compatibility problems.
I've got about 10 games installed on my HD and 5 of them don't work properly
under XP (even after enabling compatibility mode)

FWIW, they are:

GPL
GP3 2000
Toca 2
Tony Hawk 2
Rogue Spear

Give it another year or so and hopefully XP will be better than ME from a
gamer's point of view.

by **Hoops** » Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:09:52

> N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever.

> -Larry

> > Anyone out there with XP?
> > How is it handling N4 and other games?
> > Just the facts, man

Those that have replied to this thread are you using the Home or
Business version of the XP OS??

TIA

PH

by **Biz** » Sun, 14 Oct 2001 03:17:50

R U at home? Don't use the business version of XP at Home, thats like
running 2000 advanced server as your workstation, its just a bad idea and
totally unecessary....

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"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

> > N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever.

> > -Larry

> > > Anyone out there with XP?
> > > How is it handling N4 and other games?
> > > Just the facts, man

> Those that have replied to this thread are you using the Home or
> Business version of the XP OS??

> TIA

> PH

by **George Lewi** » Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:29:15

I haven't tried GPL yet (amazing as that sounds), I was a big F1GP
user on the Amiga but haven't liked it on the PC at all.

thanks for the info...

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:07:30 +1000, "Damien Smith"

>> I know it's not a "sim" game but Frogger3D won't run in W2K Pro, but I
>> can put it in Win95 compatibility and it runs great in XP. And unlike
>> ME, XP RARELY crashes or locks up, which was a regular occurance in ME
>> for me.

>ME *does* crash occasionally - even taking that into account, I find the
>W2K/XP kernal more annoying overall with all of it's compatibility problems.
>I've got about 10 games installed on my HD and 5 of them don't work properly
>under XP (even after enabling compatibility mode)

>FWIW, they are:

>GPL
>GP3 2000
>Toca 2
>Tony Hawk 2
>Rogue Spear

>Give it another year or so and hopefully XP will be better than ME from a
>gamer's point of view.

by **George Lewi** » Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:30:12

Pro version. I won't use something that won't "network"...

>> N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever.

>> -Larry

>> > Anyone out there with XP?
>> > How is it handling N4 and other games?
>> > Just the facts, man

>Those that have replied to this thread are you using the Home or
>Business version of the XP OS??

>TIA

>PH

by **George Lewi** » Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:30:36

Why is it a bad idea? sorry, I know this is OT

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