Win XP

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

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. -- Steve Levett European Racing League. http://www.europeanracingleague.com ERL is proudly sponsored by Thomas Enterprises. http://www.thomas-superwheel.com Co-founder of 502 Racing. http://www.502racing.com ------------------ "dcsawyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:sV4x7.42$[email hidden]... > Anyone out there with XP? > How is it handling N4 and other games? > Just the facts, man > >

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) On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:33:44 GMT, "dcsawyer" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Anyone out there with XP? >How is it handling N4 and other games? >Just the facts, man >

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!

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. -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash dcsawyer <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:sV4x7.42$[email hidden]... > Anyone out there with XP? > How is it handling N4 and other games? > Just the facts, man > >

N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever. -Larry "dcsawyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:sV4x7.42$[email hidden]... > Anyone out there with XP? > How is it handling N4 and other games? > Just the facts, man > >

Yeah, but ME sucks. Bad... -Larry "Damien Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9q332r$lmnt4$[email hidden]... > Seems a bit hit 'n' miss for me - no real improvement in gamescompatibility > 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! > >

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" <[email hidden]> wrote: >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! >

> 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.

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> N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever. > > -Larry > > "dcsawyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:sV4x7.42$[email hidden]... > > 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

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.... -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Hoops74 <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<LWlx7.3699$[email hidden]>... > > N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever. > > > > -Larry > > > > "dcsawyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:sV4x7.42$[email hidden]... > > > 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

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" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>> 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. >

Pro version. I won't use something that won't "network"... On 12 Oct 2001 05:09:52 -0700, [email hidden] (Hoops74) wrote:

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>"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<LWlx7.3699$[email hidden]>... >> N4 is just fine. No issues whatsoever. >> >> -Larry >> >> "dcsawyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> news:sV4x7.42$[email hidden]... >> > 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

Why is it a bad idea? sorry, I know this is OT On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:17:50 GMT, "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote: >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....