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dilli-theclaw
10-09-2003, 22:33
What would you say is the fastest WINDOWS OS for playing games on my pc?

The choices I have are :-

Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP

My system is a Athlon XP 2600 with 512mb 333Mhz memory
The gfx Card is an FX5200

Any opinions would be appreciated.
ic14
10-09-2003, 22:36
Win 2000, i would say no too straghit away. Its good for dedicated servers though.

Out of win 98/xp, for your PC i would say XP, better support for the latest tech and such
Steve H
10-09-2003, 22:42
Go For XP.. any patches etc, for games will be built for XP mainly.. Considering its the latest OS. (Of the microsoft series)
ZrByte
10-09-2003, 23:21
98 is fastest In my opinion but due to your conifguration I would say you would be better with 2k.
Only use Win 2k though if you are willing to patch to sp4, win 2k is only slow (As stated above) if it is unpatched i.e. SP1 or original release, the sp's make it much faster and due to it hogging much less system resources than XP your machine should run much faster.


Off Topic: I typed this in my living room from my NEW laptop on the wireless network, this is my first of mny posts from it :D
smicer07
11-09-2003, 08:47
XP
Ramrod
11-09-2003, 15:58
Originally posted by ZrByte
98 is fastest In my opinion but due to your conifguration I would say you would be better with 2k.
Only use Win 2k though if you are willing to patch to sp4, win 2k is only slow (As stated above) if it is unpatched i.e. SP1 or original release, the sp's make it much faster and due to it hogging much less system resources than XP your machine should run much faster.


Off Topic: I typed this in my living room from my NEW laptop on the wireless network, this is my first of mny posts from it :D I have a new wireless network thats too flaky for words:cry:
MadGamer
11-09-2003, 18:09
Yeah go for XP i play games most of the time when not doing school work and it is brilliant for games in 3D.
dilli-theclaw
11-09-2003, 18:46
I guess I'll leave XP on then :)

I was just unsure if it was worth putting an earlier version of windows on for my games.

I mainly use windows for games and Mandrake for internet and most other things.
bob_a_builder
12-09-2003, 08:33
May be this would suit your needs better - never be stuck for an OS again

Link (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/evaluation/overview.asp)
Defiant
12-09-2003, 17:36
I'd say windows 2000. Windows XP is just full of crap and made to look like some fisher price toy.

Window 98 used to be the fastest but its not supported anymore and so I'd imagine by now games developers are now focusing more on the Windows 2000/xp engine
Defiant
12-09-2003, 17:38
Originally posted by Steve_NTL
Go For XP.. any patches etc, for games will be built for XP mainly.. Considering its the latest OS. (Of the microsoft series)

Based on the Windows 2000 kernal ;)
Bifta
12-09-2003, 22:03
Originally posted by Defiant
Based on the Windows 2000 kernal ;)

Based on the NT kernel even.
Defiant
12-09-2003, 22:08
Originally posted by Bifta
Based on the NT kernel even.

Changed a little since windows nt4 (1996)
Lord Nikon
13-09-2003, 01:31
Originally posted by Defiant
Changed a little since windows nt4 (1996)

only a little... hence the same RPC / DCOM vulnerabilities on NT4, 2K, XP, Server 2003......
Bifta
13-09-2003, 11:58
Originally posted by Defiant
Changed a little since windows nt4 (1996)

Who said NT4?