Bob Bedford said:
Hi both,
Thanks for your answer.
Intel PIV 2.0Ghz on a P4S533, 256MB ram PC2700 (planning to have 512, if XP
really use them), Geforce3 TI8200.
Yeah, XP will "really" use the extra memory, believe me. Buy it ASAP...
it's also (IIRC) the limit on what you can use with 98 effectively.
Example - I play a good bit of Diablo II. It would take about 30 sec or so
from the time I exited the game 'til I could use the system again. I heard
the hard drive going like mad, so I knew it was swapping things in and out
of memory. 512 Mb? Closes and ready to go immediately. Overall performance
and such are much improved as well.
Mainly playing last games: Combat flight simulator 3, flight simulator 2002
pro, hot pursuit 2, colin 3...only games taking the maximum of the
machine....
Eh, not familiar with most of them. If you head to Google Groups
(
http://groups.google.com) and search this newsgroup, you'll probably find a
list of games that give folks trouble - Lin's biggest beef, it seemed, were
Tex Murphy games for a while. Games that needed DOS in one way or another.
I've got one or two DOS games XP won't play, as well, but I played them so
infrequently it didn't really bother me.
If you're playing very recent games, they should both do well.
*Personal* experience gives XP the edge, for me. It's just generally more
stable for everyday use, and handles the games pretty well - though it has
some interface quirks I find annoying (quit hiding things from me!)
FWIW, here's the sort of thing I've been playing of late:
Diablo 1 and 2/Expansion, Myth I and II, Warcraft III, Mechwarrior IV,
European Air War, IL-2 Sturmovik, NHL 2002, Missionforce:Cyberstorm, Red
Alert 1 and 2. If I could find my Syndicate disks, they'd be on, too (old
DOS game.)
-Eric