Opinions wanted from people using Win2K for gaming....

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Sat May 10, 2003 11:08 am

yep same dice for me win2k bx to via= hosed up os big time

theoretically you should be able to boot from the CD, do a "Repair" install and your setup should be intact.

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sat May 10, 2003 11:31 am

jim thats what i do in xp, have about 4 times now, only tried it once in win2k it went horribly wrong

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat May 10, 2003 11:52 am

Is it something to do with the chipset or the hard drive? I know when I setup my wife's pc with Win2k, I installed using the onboard IDE controller. I then installed a Promise card with drivers and turned off the pc. I then switched over the ribbon to the Promise card and had no problem with Win2k.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat May 10, 2003 12:39 pm

There's no doubt that XP handles mobo changes MUCH better than 2K. I've had mixed results with 2K, but XP has never failed even when going between radically different chipsets.

That's a nice plus, but since I only upgrade my mobo once a year (if that) and a clean install is really only one full day's work the way I have it organized now, it's not an attractive enough selling point.

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Sat May 10, 2003 9:11 pm

Is it something to do with the chipset or the hard drive? I know when I setup my wife's pc with Win2k, I installed using the onboard IDE controller. I then installed a Promise card with drivers and turned off the pc. I then switched over the ribbon to the Promise card and had no problem with Win2k.

that was because you installed the Promise drivers before you switched the drive over.

grumpy 1 · Post by **grumpy 1** » Mon May 12, 2003 7:34 pm

just one thing that concerns me fp is that i have crackling on my asus a7n8x dlx and i have been hearing stories that nvidia are going to stop writing drivers for win2k and only support xp how true that is i dont know

dont know if you ve seen this site
http://www.nforcershq.com/
cheers

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Tue May 13, 2003 7:49 am

just one thing that concerns me fp is that i have crackling on my asus a7n8x dlx and i have been hearing stories that nvidia are going to stop writing drivers for win2k and only support xp how true that is i dont know

Doesn't make sense. From what I've been able to gather, if you write a driver for XP it's trivially easy to make sure it works on 2k. Most hardware drivers that I've used recently are usually labeled "For Windows 2000 and XP".

Now, I can see them dropping support for Win9x/ME. Matter of fact, I think nvidia's and ATi's latest products are no longer supported under 95/98/98SE already. Dropping ME support isn't that far off.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Tue May 13, 2003 10:41 am

So it sounds like from what you gents have been saying if it's a new game or relatively new (not DOS), it should work with no problems on Win2k right?

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:39 am

That is correct. You can always check right here if your games are comptible.