Why the serious gamer should upgrade to Windows 2000

#1 Preacher

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Posted 18 April 2000 - 07:15 PM

#2 Dragon-Lord

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Posted 18 April 2000 - 07:05 PM

Why serious gamers shouldn't...yet...

SBLive drivers are crap.

Otherwise, I agree with everything you say.

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#3 ledzeppel

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Posted 18 April 2000 - 07:09 PM

Is the DVD software on the Win 2000 CD? When I put a DVD in the drive it says I don't have any software installed. I guess I'll have to go look on that Win 2K cd tonight. I just always boot into Win 98 to play DVD's. Any help would be appreciated.

#4 Indestructible

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Posted 18 April 2000 - 07:47 PM

The best thing to do to watch the matrix in Win2000 is to install the latest PowerDvd, then install PCFriendly off the matrix dvd. Then watch the movie through PCFriendly(which will use the PowerDVD decoder software) and it works great, with no slow down in the action scences. PCFriendly crashes occasionally but at least the movie works fine.

#5 Preacher

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Posted 18 April 2000 - 11:32 PM

Dragon-Lord :
did you try the DELL Liveware drivers?

ledzeppel :
go to the \WINNT\SYSTEM32 subdirectory and look for dvdplay.exe

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Celeron 300A @ 450
256 MB SD-RAM
40 GB HD
SB-Live! Value
3Com 905 TX
AVM Fritz! Classic
GeForce 256 DDR (Annihilator Pro)
Adaptec 2940 SCSI-2
Pioneer DVD-303 SCSI

#6 Dragon-Lord

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Posted 19 April 2000 - 12:44 AM

Yes, some time ago, but I assume that since their source was creative to begin with, there seemed little point in keeping them.

BTW, I just pulled the SBLive! (with Digital I/O card) from my system and replaced it with a CL Blaster 16, and my machine has been working flawlessly ever since. I made the assumption that this card had been around long enough that NT/SMP issues in the drivers were resolved some time ago. Seems as though I was correct.

I'll try the SBLive! again when the new drivers come out *and* a hundred people on this group say they rock... :}

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Posted 19 April 2000 - 11:18 AM

#8 Volitaire

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Posted 19 April 2000 - 09:14 PM

Armada runs flawless on my comp =).. runs fast at 1024x768. I have no probs with my old SB AWE32.. still works fine.. i'm not gonna upgrade that ever!!!..

#9 Ryanrk

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Posted 20 April 2000 - 01:10 AM

i have a sblive card and the latest drivers work like charm on my system, playing counter-strike and rogue spear, it's sounds sooo awesome. especially compared to my roommates awe64 card. I haven't had any problems with the sound or anything. Overall i think win2k is a better gaming system then win98