rec.autos.simulators

by **DrEvi** » Sat, 19 Apr 2003 05:44:42

My choices are: XPHome/WinME/Win98

The sims I play are Nascar2003/F12002/GPL with a Logitech Formula Force
wheel.

Thanks for your input.

by **Biz** » Sat, 19 Apr 2003 05:53:01

Equipment specs will be a large determining factor. If you have a relatively fast cpu, lots of
memory, and all your hardware is XP compatible, XP is the the best to use.
--
Biz

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alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

> My choices are: XPHome/WinME/Win98

> The sims I play are Nascar2003/F12002/GPL with a Logitech Formula Force
> wheel.

> Thanks for your input.

by **DrEvi** » Sat, 19 Apr 2003 06:06:20

Thanks BIZ, my specs are:
A7V333-AMD 1.8 (1.533), GeForce4 4600

by **Haqsa** » Sat, 19 Apr 2003 07:08:46

On my system NR2003 and F1 2002 run better in XP than they ever did in
Win9x, but GPL has a sound bug. I worked around it by resampling the sounds
but I still have to restart the game occasionally due to sound errors. This
is with an SB Live and has been reported by many other people too. IIRC it
works fine with Audigy.

> > Equipment specs will be a large determining factor. If you have a
> > relatively fast cpu, lots of memory, and all your hardware is XP
> > compatible, XP is the the best to use. --
> > Biz

> >> The sims I play are Nascar2003/F12002/GPL with a Logitech Formula
> >> Force wheel.

> >> Thanks for your input.

> Thanks BIZ, my specs are:
> A7V333-AMD 1.8 (1.533), GeForce4 4600

by **Doug Hoo** » Sat, 19 Apr 2003 08:31:35

XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP

Definetly XP. You won't regret it. You won't believe how much better and
more stable it is than 98. I have been running XP Pro for a year and have
not experienced even 1 BSOD.

XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP

by **Larr** » Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:42:06

Windows XP. No question.

Assuming you have enough computer for it. You didn't specify...

Larry

by **Milhous** » Sun, 20 Apr 2003 03:22:23

XP. IIRC, either Tom's Hardware or Anandtech even did a benchmark test, and
I believe XP was near the top most of the times.

Regardless, it's so much better than 9x; I personally attribute all of those
VIA-chipset problems back in the day to the fact that Win98 was a *** to
set up with the proper drivers. XP is a dream...

Milhouse

by **Larr** » Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:49:42

I have my complaints about XP (mostly political or philosophical), but it
certainly is the most trouble-free version of Windows yet. Have to give it
that.

The way I beat up an OS install, in the days of Windows 98 I used to have
to re-image monthly. It would suffer from "Windows Rot" so bad after 30
days I would need to start over.

Now, the only images I bother to create are a base install with the device
manager at a green-board state. I usually build a new machine before I ever
have to re-image.

Larry

> XP. IIRC, either Tom's Hardware or Anandtech even did a benchmark test,
and
> I believe XP was near the top most of the times.

> Regardless, it's so much better than 9x; I personally attribute all of
those
> VIA-chipset problems back in the day to the fact that Win98 was a *** to
> set up with the proper drivers. XP is a dream...

> Milhouse

> > My choices are: XPHome/WinME/Win98

> > The sims I play are Nascar2003/F12002/GPL with a Logitech Formula Force
> > wheel.

> > Thanks for your input.

by **Uwe hoover Schuerkam** » Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:39:54

> My choices are: XPHome/WinME/Win98

> The sims I play are Nascar2003/F12002/GPL with a Logitech Formula Force
> wheel.

Win98SE does it all on my *** box. You probably already own
a license from paying "M$ Tax" with an old computer, so you
invest the price of XP into better HW.

Regards,

uwe

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