rec.autos.simulators

   I make my living on my PC, running Solaris.  

   I have WIN 98 SE on the first partition for racing and
flight sims.  

   I've been thinking about going with XP, in order to
move into some Windows development.  

   I see people are using XP Home for sims.  

   Is XP Pro suitable for sims?  

   I have two 600 MHz P3s in my 2 year old box, are there
any sims that can take advantage of dual processors?  

   Is there any multi-processing of system level services
that single threaded sims can take advantage of with no
programming?  

   I have a V5/5500 video card.  I see people are using
Win 2000 drivers for XP.  What version of DX is supported
by this setup?  

   The one thing I can't do is loose Need for Speed Porsche.  
My friends would kill me.  I'm planning on starting on-line
NFS-PU, so I'd like to be compatible.  

                                                   Thanks
                                                   Larry

I am not sure about the above questions, but you would have to get
WinXP Pro to take advantage of your dual cpu setup, home is single cpu
only.

I am running NFS:PU happily on my system under XP pro, and I love it!
Great game flawed only by a slightly limited choice of tracks and cars
(I want more racing Porsches!)

Tsunami

Oh, and thanks to Spadge Fromley for a solution to the SB Live problem: Turn
down Accelerated Sound to DirectX Only and it goes away. :-)

--
   Jared Earle - Nightfall Games - http://www.racesimcentral.net/
                    "There is no SPORK"

Charles
--
Head Papershuffler
Paper Airplane Division
(currently assigned to the *** Band Flight Dynamics project)

I'd say so, I've been playing GPL on my 928MHz Celeron box (gotta love
overclocking ;) with WinXP Pro and absolutely no problems with all of the
current patches (except the CPU one, which I didn't bother applying since
I'm still well under that limit, heh).  In fact, since I got 'back in' to
GPL, I just now set a new PB at Monza, even over where I was a little over a
year ago when I stopped for some reason (school, prolly =)

I think someone already mentioned it, but you should be able to assign
programs to specific processors.  Can't say I've tried it myself, as my box
is still single-CPU...

XP ships with DX8.1; and I have heard some issues with 3dFX boards and XP,
but not sure exactly what/how severe they are.

Milhouse

   Which video card are you using?

                             Larry

   Hopefully my TB Santa Cruz sound card will have good
drivers when I'm ready to take the  plunge.  

                                                   Larry

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Thanks Charles:

         Larry

Thanks Milhouse:

   What video card are you running?  

                              Larry

Obviously you would have to use the beta drivers for the V5 in Win XP,
but they are 3rd party hacks only and aren't guaranteed to run in XP.
Glide is also dead in XP apparently as well. Harware acceleration is
going to be your biggest issue. I'd sugget you'd be better off with a
dual boot to ensure that your V5 works properly. Or get a newer video
card :)

Rafe Mc

TBSC already has good XP drivers.

I have NFS:PU and will try it on XP later for you. The 3DFX drivers that
come with XP don't support Glide, but you can get hacked drivers that do I
believe. D3D games should be fine.

I can't get GPL running on XP Home. It's the *only* game I haven't been able
to get running on XP yet. Are you using NTFS? I think GPL might have a
problem with NTFS partitions. I get the GPL splash screen then a dump to the
desktop.