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I have Windows XP Pro x64 and it runs great. Compatibility is fine with almost all my 32-bit Windows applications, including games. Although some games are a bit tricky to install. I have 4GB and it all works correctly, no driver issues either. Need more 64-bit software. Eg. MS Office, Nero, etc.

31, this does not include Firefox or the task manager itself.

Yeah I have been using DOSBox for the old DOS applications, its just 16-bit Windows games that don't work like Ski Free or Chip's Challenge...basically that 16-bit Entertainment Pack that came out for Windows 3.1. I can use the emulation layer with Virtual PC....I just don't see why the need, is there anyway to get 16-bit emulation working on x64? Or getting the NTVDM working somehow and then getting the program working on top it? If somebody ever did, that would be quite awesome, even some of those 16-bit installers annoy me because the actual program is 32-bit. Eg. Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (requires manual install)

I post alot over at the Sharky Extreme forums, and APK was over there too.....he went there after being banned here....eventually he got on people's nerves, and he was banished there as well.

I seriously do not like reviving old threads, but it has been a year or so since I last posted. I too miss the way these forums were, during the NT4/2000 days these forums were buzzing about getting things to work. With the emergence of XP2 and its maturity as the best OS even with Vista's release, the need for compatibility has just dived. I tried Vista, and I don't like it, I just find it a memory pig, and the new effects are nice, but not needed right now. I will wait for SP1 but even then, I will probably only switch when a MUST HAVE DX10 game comes. I have been putting my focus on Windows XP x64, and trying to figure out how to get stuff working on that. I think XP x64 is underrated. I mean its XP in a 64-bit shell, and it can use all 4 gigs of my RAM. Now....how to get 16-bit applications to work!

I have 4 hard drives all hooked up on my Asus P5W DH. They are as follows: Intel SATA AHCI Controller: Port 1: Seagate 320GB (NTFS, Drive C, WinXP / apps installed) Port 2: Seagate 320GB (NTFS, Drive F, Empty) Port 3: Western Digital 120 GB (NTFS, Drive D, storage /apps) JMicron IDE/SATA Controller: IDE Port: Western Digital 80GB (NTFS, Drive E, storage, temp drive) SATA Port: Empty Onboard Intel IDE Controller: 2 DVD Drives. I had Windows Vista installed on the F drive above, but I removed it, as I would like to install my copy of Windows 2000 SP4 (made a slipstream CD from my original disk) Now I know that W2K will overwrite my XP bootloader, but I know how to restore it. The only problem is, I can't get Windows 2000 to install correctly. I started the setup, and used F6 for both the Intel/Jmicron controllers, and installed W2K to the E drive (IDE). It completed but on the restart it failed complaining it could not find (Windows 2000 Root)\System32\name file here. Of course XP didn't work either, so I reinserted my XP CD, repaired it, and removed the 2K Failed installation. I then tried to only install the OS to the IDE drive by not specifying the Intel SATA controller on startup, just the JMicron, so it installed, added a boot loader to that drive, and then in the BIOS I set that drive to startup, but then I got a message on startup saying it could not find the hard disk. What can I do to get Windows 2000 installed on that E drive, without wiping out my XP installation? Btw, can I create a slipstream CD that has a copy of XP's NTLDR and NTDETECT on it? As to avoid having to repair afterward?

Anyone here use paypal service? I wish to start using it but want some feedback on its performance, reliability, etc. I would like to start using ebay.

Use a source port for the game like Quake 2 Max www.quake2max.com or EGL www.echon.org or Quake 2 Evolved, www.quake2evolved.com. These ports work better than the original Quake 2 EXE and offer much improved graphics and compatibility with newer hardware. EGL has problems with mission packs, but I recently played both missions packs, The Reckoning and Ground Zero with Quake2Max and recommend it. Evolved is kinda slow, and the graphical effects are better with Quake2Max. but evolved does have more features.

Originally posted by packman: Quote: Thanks pmistry, but I always make an Emergency Repair Disk. I also install Win2K's Repair Console. However, these are not designed for curing specific bugs in Win2K, they're primarily for enabling you to boot into Windows in the situation where the problem has prevented that. From the looks of it, you already know the answer to your problem. Which is a format, I think the answer you were looking for probably doesn't exist. Just get it over with and start fresh again, that is what us experts do anyways, we wouldn't be satisfied with a "repaired" install anyways.

Ok, I have been checking around forums everywhere, and I saw a tip at viaarena.com, apparently a lot of people have been having this delay of a 1/2 second or so in Q3 or CS or whatever. Where it was really hard to play a game. Disabling mouse precision doesn't help, and the -noforceparm doesn't work with everything. A guy at the forum suggested that your AGP Aperture level must be at least half of your system memory for the mouse not to freeze every now and then. I don't know if this works as I do not have XP installed right now. So give it a try and post results here, alot of VIA motherboard users have been successful with this tip, the guy who posted it was using a board on the VIA KX133 chipset, just like mine.

When I used Windows 2000, I used to make Emergency Repair Disks using the "Backup Tool" simply click on the "Create Emergency Repair Disk" button and it would work. I am not sure if that is helpful or not, but worth looking into the next install, in case you have to format.

Ah yeah nostalgic PC hardware: Intel 486 DX2-66MHz on an ALI Green Motherboard 8 MB 72-pin RAM 512 MB Fujitsu Hard Disk, no DMA support I believe. Vesa Bus I/O Controller, with 2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game, 1 floppy and 2 IDE. 2x "Genoa Systems" CD ROM drive, hooked up via a proprietary CD-ROM controller running on the ISA bus, Windows 95 could never detect the damn thing and was stuck running in MS DOS Drive compatability mode. ATI VGA Stereo F/X, this long ass ISA card was so long that Voodoo5 cards are small compared to it. This was a combined 8-bit Soundblaster compatible and 1 MB VGA card. It also had a bus port for my mouse. Zoltrix (remmber Zoltrix?) 14.4k modem. A couple of 5 watt speakers. Honeywell 101-key keyboard, this thing was so tough and well built, it was a dream to use. TTX 14" Monitor. Ran MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, never got Windows 95 running that well on it, same for OS/2 Warp 3.0.

This might seem like a dumb question, but I am new to this kind of stuff. I have a 9800 PRO 128MB , ATI retail brand video card, that comes with a DVI-I port. I want to buy this Samsung LCD that has a DVI-D port, how do I plug the two together? and could someone give me a link to the product so I can see it? Also what is the different between single link and dual link? Thanks in advance

I remember back just before Windows 95 was released, OS/2 was quite intriguing at the time. My uncle and I went out and bought OS/2 Warp version 3.0, and I was just blown away. Awesome shell interface, it could run DOS games with full sound, tons of program options, it could run Windows 3.1 applications. It was a great OS. The HPFS file system at the time was efficient too, I believe NTFS is just a derivation of HPFS. But alas, installing the thing was a hassle. I had real fun installing all 13 floppy disks 3 straight times, and of course driver support was weak. But the OS was powerful, and awesome at multitasking. I could easily multitask on my old 486 DX2/8MB RAM with OS/2, something I couldn't do with Windows 95. It even ran faster on a 386 with 4MB RAM, something that Windows 95 would balk at. So, if OS/2 were still mainstream today, I think it could have been something pretty good. Alot of companies were using OS/2 Warp Server, but most of them have ditched it for NT. What are your thoughts on OS/2? I for one always thought it was a promising OS.

Never saw this coming, and with that Adobe now has a huge market share in web publishing, desktop design, and graphics. Adding products like Dreamweaver, Flash, and ColdFusion, to a list that includes PhotoShop, Acrobat and Premiere, wow.

It should work just fine, try this right click the setup.exeon the CD and choose the compatibility tab and select Windows 95. This should get the game to install. Do this for both Hexen 2 and the Mission Pack. If it still refuses to work, simply copy the directory "Hexen2" inside the "Install" folder and just run if from the hard disk, this won't work for Portals of Praevus for the expansion copy the FILES and "portals" directory in the "Data" folder inside the "Install" folder and dump it into the Hexen2 directory. If you are running OpenGL delete the glide dll file.

Just out of curiousity, if you have more than 1 optical drive, put the disc in the drive you installed it from. You can also try running it in a compatibility layer or something.

So basically all you have to do is fire up the registry editor, modify the appropriate values, and you are all set? Right?

I think maybe for Metal Gear Solid you will need to run the setup.exe or install.exe in Windows 98 compatibility mode. Give that a try. Basically create a shortcut on the desktop to the setup.exe or install.exe or whatever file that starts the install of the game. Then right click the shortcut, select properties, and select the compatability tab and select run under [Win98/Me] mode. Hopefully that will get it going.

DGVoodoo is nice, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Originally posted by athfemory: Quote: Hi. I found this site searching for a GL port for Blood. I have Transfusion, but that's not what I was looking for.. I've been using Transfusion for a while, but I want to do something with the single player part of the game, not botmatch. If anyone has a link to anything, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. Same here, I hope someone creates a port for the original Blood. I do remember back trying to get the Glide version of Blood working on my Rage 128 with a Glide Wrapper, I haven't experimented for a while and that was several years ago. Might be worth trying for someone up to the task, and with a new glide wrapper.

Originally posted by Mauler: Quote: ...is anyone planning to update HeXen2? Last I heard the NewHexen port was still going but progress is really slow, and I mean really slow. Of course information can be found here, http://newhexen.raven-games.com/ and the v1.17 should be coming along eventually, there was a news post on the main site that the release is coming.

Hey thanks for contributing that information, and those examples do look great. I have stumbled on those pages before, great stuff, and please post updates here whenever you get the chance.

By mainstream you mean packaged computers like Dell, Compaq, HP, and IBM. If yes, then what can you expect, thats just the way it is with them, you buy the machine and use it. Its tough to configure those things, and you can't review a motherboard for those machines, cuz you can only buy them inside a new PC, so either you review the whole machine or nothing. Mainstream users usually don't care or worry too much about SATA or IDE is, they just say I have 80 gigs of space and thats all they care...speeds, buzzwords, RPMs, all that stuff doesn't really matter to them. If you are the owner of a mainstream PC, and do care about that stuff, then shouldn't you have bought more enthusiast geared parts? As for if you are getting SATA, in the above posts it seems to be not the case, a patch or tech support workaround could alleviate the issue.

Logitech Z5300s, very nice speakers and won't break the damn bank.