rec.autos.simulators

    I am going to wipe my hard drive soon and reinstall Win95B, and am
seriously thinking about trying FAT32 instead of FAT16 (there's alot of
wasted space on my hard drive).  My main concern is that as I understand
it, older operating systems like DOS (and suprisingly even Windows NT
4.0 I think) can't see FAT32.  Are DOS applications affected by this as
well?  It's kinda pointless if I can't run N2 on it, ya know?  Also, is
it true that you can only enable FAT32 by creating a partition?  I have
a 3.8GB drive and since FAT32 supports drives up to around 2 Terrabytes
I was just going to do away with my partition and have one big FAT32
drive.  If Windows NT 4.0 doesn't run on FAT32 (I run both operating
systems) then I would have to partition anyway and use NTFS for NT.  But
like I said, if Nascar 2 won't run on FAT32 then the whole idea is out
the window.  Please let me know if you are using it and how you like
it.  Thanks!

ER
Relativity

   People reported performance problems.  I hope someone who
knows what they are talking about will comment.  All I know
about WIN95 is what people tell me.  

   Win95 is on my systems only for games, I work in Solaris.  
So I'll give up disk usage for performance.  

   Of course, all contributions to this thread may praise
FAT32's performance, and I'll look like an idiot.  

                                                       Larry

How bout ICR2?  Anyone have success with this under FAT32?
               Chris

I've had no prob with ICR2 or Nascar2 using FAT 32.
                                                      Ken
The Game Pad
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Runs just fine as do all DOS games.

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Eric T. Busch

http://ebusch.akorn.net

The only real advantages of FAT32 are its ability to bypass the 2GB
partition limit and its use of smaller clusters on large partitions
(performance may go down slightly due to the increasing number of
clusters).  I use it for convenience, nothing more...

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Eric T. Busch

http://ebusch.akorn.net

DOS 7.0 (the version of DOS Win95 is built on top of) has no problems
with FAT32.  N2 and every DOS app I've tried run just fine in pure DOS
or in a Win95 DOS box on my FAT32 drive.

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Eric T. Busch

http://ebusch.akorn.net

I have had no problems whatsoever to run ICR2, N2 or GP2 using FAT32. With
FAT32 you waste less space due to the smaller clusters. I my case I gained
around 10% diskspace when I converted my 2.5GB disk to FAT32. Performance
wise I don't know since I installed a new motherboard at the same time.

Koran

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Ben Sides
#25 F1 Racing Sim Competiton 98

Any game that will run under Win95's DOS 7.0 (which should be every one
of them) will have no problems running with FAT32.  The only problem you
may have would be when the FAT32 drive has more than 2GB of free space,
as it can cause some programs to think there is not enough disk space to
install the game.

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Eric T. Busch

http://ebusch.akorn.net

Runs great!

DOS games shouldn't have a problem with FAT32.  The only problems that
you might encounter is when using disk utilities that were created prior
to FAT32.  For example if you used Win95A's Scandisk program on a FAT32
drive.  Win95 OSR2 has a new set of utilities that are FAT32 compatible.

regards

Andrew