Dual booting w2k + ???? for games

#1 mad2moons

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Posted 21 March 2001 - 08:10 PM

Lo, I want to dual boot my pc with w2k (work) and either 98se or me(games) which os should I go 4 out of 98se and me. I'm only going to be playing games on that os. thx

#2 Brian Frank

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Posted 21 March 2001 - 09:13 PM

8) Stay away from ME; go with 98se hands down. ME is more trouble than its worth, especially if you have any dos games you'd like to run.

#3 mad2moons

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Posted 21 March 2001 - 10:11 PM

k thx m8

#4 rgodart

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Posted 21 March 2001 - 10:36 PM

I agree, for games 98 of 98se is the best choice. You don't want all the bells and wistles Me has to offer.

#5 Spuds

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Posted 21 March 2001 - 10:55 PM

Yes, if you're going to do it at all, Win98 is the better choice. I recently was running Win98SE and W2K in a dual boot configuration (using the 98 partition for games). But I got soooo fed up with maintaining both OS's and having Win98 tank on me that I blew it away and now only use W2K. I know there are a lot of mitigating factors such as this and this game won't work and frame rates, blah, blah, blah, but the gaming experience itself is so much better under W2K that I decided this was the better course of action (your sanity SHOULD play a role in these decisions). Yes, there are some games that won't run under W2K, screw'em. I only buy games now that I know run under W2K (thanks to this site). I haven't been sent to the sanitarium as yet.

#6 ancker

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Posted 23 March 2001 - 05:20 AM

If you want no trouble...Play games in 2k...I run 2k Server, and play games perfect.
I have better frame rates than my friends on 98se. All i have is a TNT2 Ultra. Default Creative drivers..works great.
Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena...Falcon 4.0

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Abit BE6 (ata/66)
P3 750 FCPGA
512 MB SDRAM
Riva TNT2 Ultra
hd1: 6GB(win2kserver)ntfs
hd2: 30GB(mp3's 5000+)ntfs
hd3: 13GB(storage/backup)fat32
hd4: 20GB(storage)ntfs
Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW SCSI card
Plextor 12x10x32x EIDE
LG 8x DVD-ROM EIDE
Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card
Iomega Zip 100 EIDE
Sound Blaster Live! Full
Intel Pro 10/100 Ethercard
19" Monitor
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer

[This message has been edited by ancker (edited 23 March 2001).]