Chanke4252 Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 Hi everyone, just wanted to see what everyone thinks of XP when dealing with games. I personally have yet to see a problem. I can run games on XP that I havent been able to run since I had 95 (Interstate 76 being one of them). It starts them quickly, doesnt take up excessive system resources when playing them, and shuts them down without problems. I have yet to encounter an error with any of the games in my MASSIVE library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broode Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 How about dos games? I love my old collection and apparently XP emulates dos REALLY poorly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowen Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 Originally posted by Broode How about dos games? I love my old collection and apparently XP emulates dos REALLY poorly. Some DOS games will not work with WinXP as MS does state but listen to this. I still have the original Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM and they run perfectly! Out of all the programs that I have and I have many and many games as well, I've yet to find a game that WinXP does not like! I'm sure there are some out there but I've found it to be extremely stable and performs as good if not better than WinME which I had very little problems with. WinXP really let's you have the best of both worlds....oh incidentally...I run XP in NTFS and not FAT32! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N0V4 Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 How DO you change it to NTFS....and....my mghz went from 1400 to 1050....hoe di I unchange THAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
error Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 Hehe, I got XP Pro from a dads friend and I have to tell, its stable and fast as hell, AND supports SMP (dual processors). Reason Im using it is b/c pretty soon Im making a dual athlon system and going to run JO with both of them, since it is built on the Q3 engine, and the Q3 engine has SMP hard coded into it, albeit its a bit tricky to get working the first time. And yes, just about all my old dos RPG's work beautifully, and if they dont, I make a boot disk with a mem manager, and msdos 6.1, and everything works great. Only Ultima Underworld has problems with XP, but I beat it long time ago.<==I sense a Monty Pythonish with this, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanke4252 Posted March 2, 2002 Author Share Posted March 2, 2002 Woah, your Mhz dropped that much? When did it happen, what did you do etc. Sounds kind of freaky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 Originally posted by N0V4 How DO you change it to NTFS Type at the command prompt. convert c: /fs:ntfs /v remember, it's a one way street. if you ever want to go back to FAT32, you must fdisk and reformat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackass46 Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 (edit-Gonk- Last chance jackass.... this is it....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digl Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 what of your only two posts is more useless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanke4252 Posted March 2, 2002 Author Share Posted March 2, 2002 what are the advantages and disadvantages of using FAT32 or using NTFS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonkH8er Posted March 4, 2002 Share Posted March 4, 2002 "<i>one advantage of ntfs over fat32 is that the "default allocation size", the smallest that a sector can be, can be set to 512k. for fat32 i think it is twice that, 1024k. as a result, files smaller than the default size still take up the 1024k. so, ntfs makes more efficient use of the disk space. it's like being able to round up to the nearest half instead of up to the nearest whole number</i>" In fat32 you can boot to dos though.... which is good for those old dos games ntfs is pretty much better for file security though... and thats about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoowl Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 Win XP is pretty good for gaiming. However, i can't seem to get it to run tiberian sun at all and when i run indy and the fate of atlantis the sound doesn't work preperly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P129 Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 Some games work better, some games work worse, some games won't run at all (dos games in mind). Personally I'm now back to Win98 after doing a cleansweep and just awaiting JK2 with my almost fresh comp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyt-Pon Dai'el Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 The only problem I've had is that Dark Forces (original) woundn't run. I might have been able to get it working, but I just used another computer with WIN-ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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