Windows2000: Gamers & Bugs

Microsoft claims Win2k is faster - than what? NT4 or Win9x or both? Intel says you need a faster CPU for Win2k than NT4 but Intel has demonstrated they will say anything whether it\'s truthfull or not to sell you a high-profit CPU (\"Don\'t just get on the Web, get into it\"). ZDNet says Win2k runs their little benchmarks 15% faster than NT4 but I trust Ziff Davis to make buying decisions about as far as I can throw them. The few gaming sites that have done Q3 benchmarks have consistantly shown Q3 runs slower on Win2k than on 98. Consistant results from several well known gaming sites I do trust.

So, is Q3 running slower on Win2k than 98 just early drivers and will it get faster as better drivers come out? Or will Win2k always be slower than 98 and the claim of \"better performance\" just another Microsoft lie?

Speaking of lies, there are three kind: Lies, damn lies and benchmarks. Thank God we have Quake to use as a honest benchmark.

#33 That was infact my point. ICQ hoses my shit all the time.

Thnx freshview,and offcourse Steve,These drivers will have to do for now
untill ASUS drops thiers on me..I dropped some fps,and no cool display
window for me too tinker around with,the ASUS drivers out the box are a no go for NT5
no getting around that one sheesh...

#41

The flip side is, we might get some good versions of Windows, minus the problems.

MS Windows open-source to competitors? Does anyone else think this is a bad idea? Or at least potentially a very dangerous idea?

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1553128.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.1003-200-1553128

Just what we need, a dozen different flavors of Windows, all with their own set of proprietary features, conflicts, bugs, and propoganda.

- Holesinswiss

check the mainpage of the shack, Deucy, sCary just posted it.

Freshview,nvidia has? I didn\'t see them on thier website,

#35 they like JUST released win2k drivers.

OMG, does Brutal\'s clock work on Win2k????

Hey, win2k installed like a champ! I didn\'t even have to configure my network settings for dsl
voila online! offcourse I\'m using NT4 drivers for my asus geforce card though...damn
hopefully they will come out with some win2k drivers soon,unless they are allready out.
does anyone have any suggestion?

29, yeah its me ;)
when i first got a nick, \'tomservo\' was taken...... a month ago i decided to try it again and it let me so i took it ;)


-TomServo-
formerly tservo

I meant #16

#19 - icq can make an os crash faster than u can say \"oh fuck!\" I wont believe that that was the fault of win2k. I have had to reformat because of icq b4.

EVIL is a friend of mine yes I know him well and evil is a he and quite ugly I may add. Sort of , probably, kinda think he resembles Lex lethal,lethel, thanks ,of course I don\'t know what Lex -looks like / but I imagine that he most likely looks like EVIL,or it could really just be that Lex is ugly.

#27 - THANK-YOU - I had been looking all over

hey tomservo
what happend to tservo ??
is that the same person as u?

i cant believe that screenshot of icq2000, what the fuck is all that extra shit?? just stuff we dont need, please...

at least give us a \'minimal install\' option.

i bet the file is 7+ megs too... i remember when it was 1.5 megs

#19 http://fileforum.efront.com/detail.php3?fid=929851377
icq 2000

#19 i had the link the other day.
let me see if i can find it

#23..

indeed.. It must be said again, I think...

EVIL OWNS

The funniest thing is the article over at ZDNet News by the reporter whining about how Microsoft wouldn\'t answer her requests for context and clarification on a leaked memo.

Hmmm... Let\'s see. This is lanuch week of Windows 2000... Maybe they are a little fucking busy? LOL

Just another ZDNet hack report having a pitty party because they couldn\'t get what they \"deserved\" and it made them look bad in the end. While ZDNet LOVES to run Microsoft ads, I\'ve yet to see them publish an article that wasn\'t biased against MS. Since they started moderating their talkback, I\'ve noticed that they censor any replies that point out obvious problems with their reasoning in their anti-microsoft articles.

windows 2000 ownz and so does EVIL , EVIL of course would win in a fight with windows 2000 ,but that is just my view on the matter.

bob = Bill Gates doing ANYTHING for pussy.

#17, if you ever forget your password for b0b, just enter the wrong one three times and it will ask you for a new one.

#17 - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

that\'s the funniest thing I\'ve read all day.

anyhow, anyone know where I can find the icq2000 beta that works under win2k?

#17 HELL YEAH

B[I[R{EVIL OWNS

Nothing will never make me stop running BoB!!!


[revolver]

I hate to get on topic here but a friend of mine uses Win2k exclusively and he is the biggest gamer I know. I asked him if he has been having problems or ran into any of the 63k bugs. He said one night he had to hard boot because ICQ flaked out on him and brought the whole thing down. Other than that it had been up for over 2 weeks straight before that. Still not as reliable as a swank Linux box but hey that\'s a different story.

oh well, it\'s back now.

http://www.slashdot.org <--- example of what happens to you when you try to upgrade to W2K.

atleast for now until they fix it hehe..


[revolver]

#12.. hell yeah.

Fucking Linux Zealots bemoaning the fact that they can\'t play certain games, or run certain software (due to it being Windows Only)

I dunno.. I\'m just won of those people who thinks it\'s ok to pay someone for their hard work.

/. down? Am I the only one who finds humor in that? Damn Technocrats

i know, i linked them from my site and they just dropped.

:)
-TomServo-
http://www.spatulas.org



just kiddin\'

Maybe they were trying to migrate to Win2K...

HOLEEE SHIT

SLASHDOT IS DOWN

* B U G G E D *

Heh, M$ made their developers remove the Easter Eggs, but glossed over the fact that they left in some bugs, eh?