Mr B 0 Posted May 5, 2003 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (toadlife @ 05 May 2003,07:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mr B @ 03 May 2003,07:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">WinXP seems like too much eyecandy to me. 98SE is pretty stable (if managed correctly), and best of all, it's cheap and runs on my 500mhz system.<span id='postcolor'> For a 500mhz system, you wouldnt want to run winxp, but Win2k pro would run quite well.<span id='postcolor'> Yeah, I thought of that, but some of my games other than OFP (it's been awhile since I acknowledged I had other games ) have compatibility problems, and I wanted something easy to use. Oh, and when you convert the Amazon prices to AUD, they still come out expensive . Cheers Mr B Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
troop 0 Posted May 5, 2003 XP SP1, latest drivers for everything and with 1GB RAM (@200MHz) swapfile DISabled...good, stable, finally *smooth*, no crashes. (That is: non-stop plays for night;..task-switching..even loads of other tasks working in backround. Of course it's best to have nothing in parallel while gaming, but you know..) OFP_RES:1.91 with Dynamic Range soundaddon and sh**loads of other addons. '98 before crapped out with too many addons;..but that is by far not the only reason to GO for something *but* '98/ME swapfile enabled=brief stutter. annoying really. just 2 cent.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RMATICH 0 Posted May 7, 2003 I'm running Me and like it. XP scares me. Its so "heavy" and loaded down. It takes so much RAM. I wish MS would get an os right for once. I'm happy. My sister had Win98se and it was good also. I'm getting a Radeon98, around 512mb to 700mb more RAM, and dsl sometime in the Fall [i hope]. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
easyfrag 0 Posted May 7, 2003 xp is great for ofp on a same computer with 98 i had crashes when playin' ofp and on xp it was running perfect with better performance Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eisa01 0 Posted May 7, 2003 DO you guys think win2k will work fine on my p3 733mhz 512mb ram gf2mx 32mb system. currently using win98 and getting pissed of every time i get memory map errors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralphwiggum 6 Posted May 7, 2003 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (eisa01 @ 07 May 2003,19:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">DO you guys think win2k will work fine on my p3 733mhz 512mb ram gf2mx 32mb system. currently using win98 and getting pissed of every time i get memory map errors.<span id='postcolor'> yes. i have similar system and OFP worls fine with W2K. for memory map errors, try erasing some addons. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eisa01 0 Posted May 7, 2003 thx! i know about that erasing addons fix but if ive just turned the computer on it works fine. But if ive been doing lots of stuff on it before beginning to play i usually get memory map errors. Cant wait to play with win2k Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toadlife 3 Posted May 7, 2003 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RMATICH @ 07 May 2003,00:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I wish MS would get an os right for once. <span id='postcolor'> They got it right with Windows 2000...aside from the bloat you are afraid of, XP is good too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crashdome 3 Posted May 14, 2003 Here's what I did for OFP... (I'd like to hear what some others have done strictly in the name of OFP) Purchased second Hard-Drive (40gb cuz they are cheap) for my: p4 1.6 ghz 512mb system w/ Geforce 4 proceeded to disconnect previous hard drive (necessary in this process) then Boot XP Pro on new HD (I love being a college student: cost for license=$35 US)... remove any erraneous garbage and unused services(damn MSN crap  ) install all necessary drivers and required progs (such as TS or other voice prog) all the while keeping to ABSOLUTE minimum. disconnect new drive and reconnect BOTH drives according to speed considerations... whenever I wish to play OFP: I utilize my Mainboards boot device selection screen on boot up and choose the OFP drive (most mainboards now allow a key to be pressed on bootup and you can scroll your preferred boot device or something similar) all this=NOTHING BUT OFP, BABY! and to return, I just boot to old drive (set as default drive) it's nice too, because the new drive boots up in 10-15secs!! WHOO HOO! Edit: Of course this can be done with ANY OS so now I realize that my post was perhaps...um... irrelevent? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
