Win98SE and WinXP | Forums

[flashovr1]

I would never believe what I am about to say unless I didn't see it myself.

I was running Far Cry on medium settings with Win98. I bought WinXP yesterday and installed it. I update my drivers...blah, blah.

Now, I run Far Cry on Very High detail smoothly! Very good frame rates. I am stunned, shocked, dismayed.

Now the words I never thought I would say to fellow gamers: Dump Win98 and get WinXP. It was the best $99 dollars I have spent.

[flashovr1]

I would never believe what I am about to say unless I didn't see it myself.

I was running Far Cry on medium settings with Win98. I bought WinXP yesterday and installed it. I update my drivers...blah, blah.

Now, I run Far Cry on Very High detail smoothly! Very good frame rates. I am stunned, shocked, dismayed.

Now the words I never thought I would say to fellow gamers: Dump Win98 and get WinXP. It was the best $99 dollars I have spent.

[Killer_Waffle]

a bit late on upgrading your os, wouldn't you say ?



NI!

[ZantenX]

A lot of people, especially gamers, have stuck with win98 because it runs most games much faster than winXP. At least if you have an older machine.

[NRG-753]

Windows XP and Tweak XP put together makes good use of your hardware!

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[spazzmattic]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ZantenX:
A lot of people, especially gamers, have stuck with win98 because it runs most games much faster than winXP. At least if you have an older machine.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I agree!! Win98SE is the gamers choice OS, at over the bloated and overweight XP.

[spazzmattic]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spazzmattic:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ZantenX:
A lot of people, especially gamers, have stuck with win98 because it runs most games much faster than winXP. At least if you have an older machine.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I agree!! Win98SE is the gamers choice OS, at least over the bloated and overweight XP.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[This message was edited by spazzmattic on Thu May 27 2004 at 07:55 AM.]

[|bah|SaltyDog]

I agree about win98SE being most suitable for some of the older games. I'm not sure if it's soley due to DirectX 8 being better for them or not. However, the latest games seem to prefer/require winXP + DirectX9.

Two solutions worth considering ....

1/. A dual boot 98SE / XP C: drive

2/. More expensive (but less troublesome in setting up), a removable HDD caddy system.
This is what I use, I can swap OS's in about 3 .. 4 minutes this way. Not the most speedy way, but it seems to work fine for me.

[Ru.]

I would never go back to 98SE, but I used to run dual-boot.

If you have at least two partitions or drives then setting up dual boot is so easy, as long as you install 98 first. You then instal XP on another driver letter and it sorts the boot menu out for you.

[Supr]

I always thought win 98se was great. Untill I got XP, and realized what I was missing. I think unless you have a specific application that needs 98 for some reason or another, xp is the way to go. 98 really doesn't hold a candle to xp when you come right down to it. After all, win98 is 7 years old now. How much stuff do you have on your computer that is 7 years old? Not much I bet.