rec.autos.simulators

by **James Hallo** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

>I want to thank everybody who responded. I don't really have
>two days to dedicate to getting WIN 98 working, WIN 95 OSR2 is
>close enough.

> Maybe you can save me from re-building WIN 95 from scratch.
>This should go to one of the WIN 95 newsgroups, but we're
>friends here, so I'll run it by you first.

> My problem is that I have two SCSI drives as C: and D:. My
>CD is E:. The WIN 95 partitions for these drives, which are
>shared with Solaris, are 1 and 2 GIG. C: is my "System" drive,
>and D: is my "Sim" drive. As you know, 2 GIGs ain't what it
>used to be, and I'm already removing this sim to add that sim.

> Solaris likes to have multiple drives working at the same
>time, so I added a third drive. This is one of those 9 GIG
>monsters, so I have some spare room for sims. When I try to
>use this, I thought my CD would be bumped to F:, and my new
>drive would assume the name E:. No such luck. It just
>doesn't seem to work.

> So I'm planning to rebuild WIN 95, from scratch, with the
>new drive all set up. I wouldn't need to do this if I could
>re-name my CD "F:".

> Does anybody know how to do this?

> Thanks
> Larry

I guess you can either remove the device from Control Panel and then let Windows find it and assign the proper drive
letter to it.

Or you can force it in your autoexec.bat and config.sys files which has the advantage in that they're then recognisable
for DOS software. This is what I have:

In my Autoexec.bat file (this line Windows likes to Rem out)

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /l:j
Rem The 'j' is my drive letter

And in my Config.sys file:

device=c:\teac_cdi.sys /d:mscd001

where teac_cdi.sys is the sys file for my CD ROM

This will work.

Cheers

James
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by **Shaun Klo** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

>>WIN 98 has been out for a week. I need to re-build my system.
>>I race with F1RS and fly LB2 and others.

>> Is WIN 98 ready for prime time? Or should I stick with WIN 95?

>> Larry

>Well as much as I like Win98, in all honesty it screwed up LB2 so that I can
>no longer use the hat switch on my Thrustmaster Stick. If you have a Stick
>with a Hat Switch and you like to use it in LB2 then be prepared to loose
>that feature if you upgrade to Win98. I am hoping that Janes will include a
>fix for this in the LB2 patch (If ever). Good luck. At least other games
>are not affected AFAIK.

>Games that do seem to work ok with Win98 that I own and have tested are as
>follows: LB Gold, FA18 Korea, Jedi Knight, FS98, MOTS, AWIII, Janes FA,
>Moto Racer, Red Alert & add on's, Quake 2, MTM2, F15, Descent II, Outlaws,
>Unreal and a few more.

>The default drivers that Win98 installed for my Monster3D and Viper 330 seem
>to work ok but AW3 doesn't want to display map text with the Riva drivers.
>My 3Dfx has no problem with that. Things just keep getting more and more
>complicated. Oh well, maybe if I get a new USB Joystick, my LB2/Hat Switch
>problem will disappear. Who knows.

Maybe you'll have to buy a MICRO$OFT USB joystick and a MICROSOFT 3D card? ;-)

by **Shaun Klo** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

I still liked the title of an article i read someplace, probably in PC
Magazine, entitle "Some times you just have to Nuke Windows".

I was having network problems, odd crashes, missing files, corrupt registry,
etc. until i fixed it. How? I formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95.
SUre, i could have installed WinNT (i probably SHOULD have) but i need the PC
for games too. :-)

Guess when i upgrade i'll have to get a dual-boot (or maybe get a linux
partition going too) system with WInNT 5.0/ Win98.

>> >Rule #1 - If you don't need it, don't buy it.

>> >Rule #2 - It will always be there when you do need it.

>> Rule #3 - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

> A couple of weeks ago I saw Mr. Bill pushing WIN 98.
>He was standing in front of a list of the four or five
>best reasons to get WIN 98. One was that WIN 95 has
>3000 bugs.

> WIN 95 was broken when it hit the CD. I guess the
>question is, how broken is WIN 98?

> My programs are running in about 20 Solaris and
>SCO boxes around the world, I've heard of one or
>two crashes in four years. And these are critical
>tasks, I would have heard.

> How many times has your WIN 95 crashed this week?
>I've lost count. I have OSR2, the new USB version.

> This isn't THAT big a deal, it's not like I'm
>betting my business on WIN95. After a fresh recovery
>from tape, I can run for a day, then one crash, might
>be F1RS blue screen, or Netscape freeze, and a hard
>reboot with Scandisk, then it starts to get more
>frequent. Each crash/hard reboot/Scandisk seems to
>weaken the flimsy foundation until I can't get through
>a race or a flight. Then it's time for a recovery
>from tape.

> Larry

by **Perry Warre** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Try this:
1) Go to Control Panel
2) System
3) Device Manager (make sure you're viewing devices by type)
4) Highlight your CDROM and choose properties
5) Go to settings
6) Choose F; under Reserved drive letters

Perry

> I want to thank everybody who responded. I don't really have
> two days to dedicate to getting WIN 98 working, WIN 95 OSR2 is
> close enough.

> Maybe you can save me from re-building WIN 95 from scratch.
> This should go to one of the WIN 95 newsgroups, but we're
> friends here, so I'll run it by you first.

> My problem is that I have two SCSI drives as C: and D:. My
> CD is E:. The WIN 95 partitions for these drives, which are
> shared with Solaris, are 1 and 2 GIG. C: is my "System" drive,
> and D: is my "Sim" drive. As you know, 2 GIGs ain't what it
> used to be, and I'm already removing this sim to add that sim.

> Solaris likes to have multiple drives working at the same
> time, so I added a third drive. This is one of those 9 GIG
> monsters, so I have some spare room for sims. When I try to
> use this, I thought my CD would be bumped to F:, and my new
> drive would assume the name E:. No such luck. It just
> doesn't seem to work.

> So I'm planning to rebuild WIN 95, from scratch, with the
> new drive all set up. I wouldn't need to do this if I could
> re-name my CD "F:".

> Does anybody know how to do this?

> Thanks
> Larry

by **N?ta** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

>>WIN 98 has been out for a week. I need to re-build my system.
>>I race with F1RS and fly LB2 and others.

>> Is WIN 98 ready for prime time? Or should I stick with WIN 95?

>My Win95 installation dated back to the beta of the original version,
>and I'd never done a clean reinstallation. So I desperately needed a
>clean new OS, and I couldn't see reinstalling the original OSR1.

>I did a clean install of Win98, and it took me a weekend to get
>everything sorted out. I couldn't get my Zoom 56kflex internal modem
>to work (I solved this by shuffling Com ports between the modem and my
>mouse). Direct3D games kept crashing on my Righteous3D (I solved this
>by using Orchid's drivers, not the Win98 drivers). And of course I
>had to reinstall most of my software.

>Now everything works, including my Saitek X36/PC-Dash controllers.
>F-15, Longbow 2, iF-16, M1TP2, SM's Gettysburg, CivII, Battlezone,
>Descent Freespace, and Links98 are the games I've played (or at least
>tested since re-installing), and they all run fine, as do all of my
>productivity applications.

>Win98 is performing much better than my old Win95 installation did.
>Converting to Fat32 increased my available disk space by about 25%.
>The OS starts up and shuts down considerably faster. There are a few
>minor features that are handy, and one major one -- multiple monitor
>support -- that I wish I could use (but my system has no more IRQ's to
>devote to another video card).

>The improvements are generally minor, though, and the performance
>benefits are as compared to an old Win95 installation on a jalopy of a
>P200MMX. My family's system -- also a P200MMX, but in a much newer
>chassis and with Win95 OSR2 installed -- performs just as well (or
>better), and has most of the same functionality. I will definitely
>*not* do a Win98 update on that system unless something forces me to.

>Win98 is not a major upgrade. If you have Win95 OSR1, though, I think
>it's worthwhile. If you have OSR2, then probably not.

>I'd recommend a clean install. And plan to spend some time on it.

>RichC
>Remove SPAMTRAP from return address when replying.

win98,,running fine,,but I would opt to do w/o the FAT32
conversion,,really slows your system down

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by **Gordon Sadle** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Device Manager, Properties for your CDROM, Reserve letter for your CDROM.
May have to do it with the new drive disconnected, then reconnect new HD.
Works for me.

<<SNIP>>

by **Laurence Lindstro** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

> >WIN 98 has been out for a week. I need to re-build my system.
> >I race with F1RS and fly LB2 and others.

> > Is WIN 98 ready for prime time? Or should I stick with WIN 95?

> > Larry

> Well as much as I like Win98, in all honesty it screwed up LB2 so that I can
> no longer use the hat switch on my Thrustmaster Stick. If you have a Stick
> with a Hat Switch and you like to use it in LB2 then be prepared to loose
> that feature if you upgrade to Win98.

< Snip >

What stick do you have? My stick's hats are keystrokes, as
far as WIN9x knows.

Larry

by **Laurence Lindstro** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

> No.....sorry, I didn't mean to imply any type of fishing at all!
> What I meant was that you've most likely made your mind up which way you
> are going to move, irregardless of the feedback.

Honest Bruce, I'm enough of a propeller head to lean toward
WIN 98, after all, I was expecting to rebuild my OS, why not
go with the new stuff. Now, probably not.

Larry

by **Brett I. Holcom** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

I went to Win98 (clean install) and my TM F-22 hat works great in LB2 and
others. I prefer Win98 over 95.

>>WIN 98 has been out for a week. I need to re-build my system.
>>I race with F1RS and fly LB2 and others.

>> Is WIN 98 ready for prime time? Or should I stick with WIN 95?

>> Larry

>Well as much as I like Win98, in all honesty it screwed up LB2 so that I
can
>no longer use the hat switch on my Thrustmaster Stick. If you have a Stick
>with a Hat Switch and you like to use it in LB2 then be prepared to loose
>that feature if you upgrade to Win98. I am hoping that Janes will include
a
>fix for this in the LB2 patch (If ever). Good luck. At least other games
>are not affected AFAIK.

>Games that do seem to work ok with Win98 that I own and have tested are as
>follows: LB Gold, FA18 Korea, Jedi Knight, FS98, MOTS, AWIII, Janes FA,
>Moto Racer, Red Alert & add on's, Quake 2, MTM2, F15, Descent II, Outlaws,
>Unreal and a few more.

>The default drivers that Win98 installed for my Monster3D and Viper 330
seem
>to work ok but AW3 doesn't want to display map text with the Riva drivers.
>My 3Dfx has no problem with that. Things just keep getting more and more
>complicated. Oh well, maybe if I get a new USB Joystick, my LB2/Hat
Switch
>problem will disappear. Who knows.

by **Udie** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

I got the win98 upgrade last weekend, and love it! Everything seems to run
a bit faster, and one cool feature is that it moves the most used programs
to the outer portion of the HD so those programs load faster.

hehe i am also about to unistall all Netscape products.... oooooohhh billy
boy has a monopoly on my system :)

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by **Chris McDermot** » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Personally I would wait about 2 or so months until they work all the bugs
that haven't been found yet. Also I've been playing with it on the
computers at work and find that with 64mb of ram it is a little slow so
I'd suggest doubling that so that it won't slow down your games any.

At work we are running a 200mhz system.

I also don't subscribe to the internet (make you wonder how I'm here,
explian it in a bit.), so I won't be able to download any patches that
come out and figure that it MS is anything like the canadian Government
when it comes to doing things their way, I would have to wait about a
month for them to mail me the patch.

This is just my opinion, not an attack at MicroSoft or the Canadian
government.

There are those people who make things happen.
There are those people who make things happen.
There are those people who wonder what happened?
Unknown Tiberius.

http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~wl770

> WIN 98 has been out for a week. I need to re-build my system.
> I race with F1RS and fly LB2 and others.

> Is WIN 98 ready for prime time? Or should I stick with WIN 95?

> Larry

by **Bruce Kennewel** » Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:00:00

No.....sorry, I didn't mean to imply any type of fishing at all!
What I meant was that you've most likely made your mind up which way you
are going to move, irregardless of the feedback.

> What do you think this is, a troll? : )

> I know you're coming from RAS, in the flight sim group,
> we KNOW how to start a REAL fight.

> Larry

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by **Corsai** » Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:00:00

I would suggest you stick with with Win95 simply because I don't believe
that there are enough advances to make it worthwhile (just an opinion).
Unless you have been having great difficulties with Win95, you probably
won't get much benefit.

BTW, how do you like F1RS. I haven't heard of Ubisoft and it looks
increadible. Can you just give me a quick rundown via email? I'd
appreciate it very much (you'll have to take out the spam-prevention
text on my return email line).

Thank you very much in advance,

> WIN 98 has been out for a week. I need to re-build my system.
> I race with F1RS and fly LB2 and others.

> Is WIN 98 ready for prime time? Or should I stick with WIN 95?

> Larry

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by **Shaun Klo** » Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:00:00

>>>Rule #1 - If you don't need it, don't buy it.

>>>Rule #2 - It will always be there when you do need it.

>>Rule #3 - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>>--

>Rule #3 subsection (i) : - unless you're an engineer......

Rule #3 sub-subsection : -unless you're a M$ engineer......

(reverse double-negative...get it?)

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