WindowsXP & Gaming

by Steve Gibson, Jun 12, 2001 6:19am PDT

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i heard a rumour they wrote a custom "dos emulator" driver for sound so games like duke 3d and wolf will work in XP

if they clean the os up, it sounds good (in many ways) but activation and spying on us / mp3 issues means i believe i'll stay away from it (hell even if i DIDNT pirate the fucking os, looks like MS might report me (somehow) about my mp3 collection, or make it hard to work with)

i dont like MANY of the new features in this os

Jun 12, 2001 4:52pm PDT

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i heard a rumour they wrote a custom "dos emulator" driver for sound so games like duke 3d and wolf will ... : abrasion
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- There is no spyware in Windows XP. Any claims of that is total and complete bullshit. They removed... : LOD-Glock

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"Many game titles will either not run or run sluggishly on NT and 2000"
huh? thats a bit misleading.. maybe NT has this problem but including win2k in that statement doesnt make sense.

Jun 12, 2001 1:17pm PDT

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"Many game titles will either not run or run sluggishly on NT and 2000" huh? thats a bit misleading.. ma... : foof
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- theres alot of older stuff that 2k cant do, they are working on fixing that : abrasion

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Cus I say so! That's about the best reason I've heard in a long,long time.

Jun 12, 2001 4:28pm PDT

Cus I say so! That's about the best reason I've heard in a long,long time. : brutal

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It seems that nVidia users are in luck... we get all the benefits of Win2k without the massive performance hit. Good job nVidia.

Jun 12, 2001 8:22am PDT

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It seems that nVidia users are in luck... we get all the benefits of Win2k without the massive performanc... : UnnDunn
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  Direct3d/DirectDraw under W2K = performance hit. OpenGL is fine though. : johnny rotten

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Windows Media doesn't support ripping to mp3 format, only WMA. Its free, unlike all mp3 rippers out there.

MS is trying to push wma on us all. Thank god mp3 rippers, erm, circumvent the need to pay for their ripping software..

Jun 12, 2001 6:41am PDT

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Windows Media doesn't support ripping to mp3 format, only WMA. Its free, unlike all mp3 rippers out ther... : Raziel
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And few gaming peripherals got the separate driver support necessary for them to operate on an OS that wasn't designed to appeal to the consumer market anyway. Microsoft vows that Windows XP will not burden gamers with these kinds of compatibility and performance woes. While Windows XP is based on the same kernel and structure as Windows 2000's, it has been made to accommodate many more consumer software packages and hardware, including games and peripherals.

=Ok...

Windows XP worked much better with a "clean install" on its own FAT32 or NTFS hard-drive partition or on a hard drive without a previous version of Windows

=You'd better know how to format your HD...

Multitasking... improved... In fact, we formatted a floppy in the background while playing Quake III and never experienced even a single video burp or lost frame

=if you do this while playing Q3A, you'll be ok. Maybe people who download prOn while playing Q3A and UT at the same time will have even better stories.

The latest Nvidia drivers incorporate Windows XP support, and they perform about equally on Windows 98 and XP. On a GeForce3, we achieved 3D WinMark 2000 scores of 8,911 in Windows 98, but that dropped to 8,267 in XP. Quake 3 scores were closer: 153fps in Windows 98 (640x480) and 150 in XP. Even at 1600x1200, Windows 98 gave us 88fps, and XP dropped only to 81.8. Unfortunately, Black & White performance worsened under the new drivers, crashing the system repeatedly.

=lots of new drivers and game patches will be available shortly

It's still a few months away, maybe they'll fix it.

Jun 12, 2001 2:48pm PDT

And few gaming peripherals got the separate driver support necessary for them to operate on an OS that wa : el-kaboom

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from the screenshots it appears that Windows XP unlocks the full potential of wolf3d. HOORJ!!!

Jun 12, 2001 2:32pm PDT

from the screenshots it appears that Windows XP unlocks the full potential of wolf3d. HOORJ!!! : kill9

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Yeah i think the gist of this article is "Keep win2k installed and don't bother upgrading"

I mean really. Replace XP with 2K throughout the whole article and it means the same thing.

Except the fluffy stuff that comes with XP, which we'll turn off anyway.

Jun 12, 2001 10:00am PDT

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Yeah i think the gist of this article is "Keep win2k installed and don't bother upgrading" I mean real... : Polish Sausage
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- I like the fluffy stuff! : UnnDunn
- yeah the article kept talking about stuff new to XP .. failing to mention that all of it was in win2k al... : foof

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Hmm - it seems lately that most of my games will run in Linux nowdays anyways. Every day a new one gets added.
So why switch?

Jun 12, 2001 9:35am PDT

Hmm - it seems lately that most of my games will run in Linux nowdays anyways. Every day a new one gets ... : parker

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They are definitely focusing on users who are still using Win9x and not the very intelligent (and handsome I might add) people who use w2k. I might upgrade to the wXP Pro variety but there is going to have to be a very good reason for me to punt w2k. Everything I have works in w2k, games, 'normal' applications, all my hardware including a scanner... why would I want to reinstall my OS if I'm already in 7th heaven.

omfg. M$ really has put out a quality product in w2k haven't they???

Jun 12, 2001 7:04am PDT

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They are definitely focusing on users who are still using Win9x and not the very intelligent (and handsom : KinetiK
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- hey = gamespot : KinetiK

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Here's a great reason for gamers to upgrade to XP: "Most of the changes seem cosmetic at first--the softer, cozier visual style of Windows XP gives the mouse and hourglass cursors cute little shadows that add a sense of depth to the desktop. This comfort principle extends to the rounded, gradient-shaded buttons and the soothing pastel menus that now fade rather than pop in and out. In short, Windows has undergone a designer redecoration. "

Who the hell cares????

Jun 12, 2001 6:29am PDT

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Here's a great reason for gamers to upgrade to XP: "Most of the changes seem cosmetic at first--the softe... : Former_HPB
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    doesn't WindowBlinds do that too? : the archvile
    - Stardock are the company that writes Windowblinds (but he is talking more about one of their other progr... : Carnivac

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Compatibility modes.

Jun 12, 2001 6:32am PDT

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- Service Pack 2 for Win2K has this. : jasonepowell

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anti-alaised fonts!!!

Jun 12, 2001 6:20am PDT

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anti-alaised fonts!!! : ILF
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  5 - We already have antialised fonts. Have since Win95 and the Plus Pack. Cleartype is the new form of ... : Carnivac
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    I say everything goes 3d and made into a Q3 level. Having the Doom 3 engine built into the OS would be ... : Adrenaline
    - Thats dumb you dumbass : hotel96
    - omebody is already doing this...almost. http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolos/ It all sounds like a ... : sur3sh0t
- bah, that can be done with a service pack. : the archvile

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Well at the end of the article they sound like everybody would want to switch to XP. But well, i don't want to. I'm fine with Win98 mybe i give 2k a look but i doubt this. It will take like another year or maybe more til MS stops supor 4 98...

Jun 12, 2001 6:53am PDT

Well at the end of the article they sound like everybody would want to switch to XP. But well, i don't wa... : rookieone

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In our case, Windows XP rejected a current Canon laser printer driver, the Phillips Acoustics Edge sound card drivers, the game Alice (which worked nonetheless), and other peripherals and software--even our current MS Intellimouse drivers.

It seems that Rogue never gets a break anywhere.

Jun 12, 2001 6:34am PDT

In our case, Windows XP rejected a current Canon laser printer driver, the Phillips Acoustics Edge sound : the archvile

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morning steve!

Jun 12, 2001 6:24am PDT

morning steve! : disembodied potato

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hello!

Jun 12, 2001 6:19am PDT

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good god..........

Jun 12, 2001 6:20am PDT

good god.......... : handle455

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Why does it alway rain on me??

Jun 12, 2001 6:20am PDT

Why does it alway rain on me?? : rookieone

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2nd

Jun 12, 2001 6:20am PDT

2nd : Adrenaline

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