What games don't run on xp

[madmickey]

What games do not run on Window XP, Iam debating buying window XP or 98 se for my computer. I am close on decision between Georforce III TI 500 and Radeon 8500 for video card but Radeon is $200 C less in Canada and offers the same performance in Windows 98 SE but in windows XPthe TI 500 has the lead.

 

[AMD_Man]

What games do not run on Window XP

I have yet to find any games that don't run on WinXP.

I am close on decision between Georforce III TI 500 and Radeon 8500 for video card but Radeon is $200 C less in Canada and offers the same performance in Windows 98 SE but in windows XPthe TI 500 has the lead.

That's definitely temporary. ATI just needs more work on their drivers. By mid-december, that problem should be fixed.



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[jiffy]

What are you going to do with you computer? Do you want no problems or a lot of problems? If you want games, all games, fast games, no doubt 98. If you want problems go with XP, where you could have them as soon as you install XP. To installing hardware and software. Sure down the road XP will be better suited, or will it, and that's not now.
I'd say go with GForc3, less likely to have no problems. Stay here in Win98se, where it's save. Buy the way if you go XP, don't forget to get 98se also, because after you pull your hair out you can put 98 in and go about your normal life again. You been WARNED. hehehe

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[Toejam31]

<font color=green>"That's definitely temporary. ATI just needs more work on their drivers. By mid-december, that problem should be fixed."</font color=green>

I hope you'll consider posting some benchmarking results after those drivers are released. I've owned several ATI cards, and I've never been really been impressed with the drivers. The last time I ran an ATI card, it took almost a year before a set of drivers was released that ran without problems, (i.e. DVD jitter, low FPS in games, etc) and <i>that</i> was an "experimental" use-at-your-own-risk release that was only posted on the website for two weeks before being yanked. for some inexplicable reason. And that was for Win98.

I don't think that I have ever seen a set of drivers from ATI that lived up to the promise of the hardware. But it would be nice if they finally got it right, for once. I'm a patient man, but not that patient, if you know what I mean.

Any information that you post after installing the new drivers would be appreciated ... at least, by me. I'd love to see some definitive, unbiased before-and-after results.

<font color=green>"I have yet to find any games that don't run on WinXP."</font color=green>

The same, here ... but that's wasn't the case, not until recently. I had some initial problems with running OpenGL-based games in XP, but newer drivers have apparently fixed the majority of the problems. However, I still see about a 20% decrease in frame rates with those same games, compared to Win2K and Win98SE. In other words, I wouldn't install XP on anything less than a fairly hot machine; certainly nowhere near the minimum requirements listed by MS.

I saw no particular advantage with running DirectX-based games in XP, in comparison to the other OS's already mentioned. Win98 was still the fastest ... with the other two OS's neck-and neck with virtually the same results.

I'm not trolling, here ... just stating my observations.

Comments?

Toejam31

P.S. May I ask what kind of results you are getting in OpenGL games with your Radeon, and the current driver set?

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[AMD_Man]

ATI promise they'd work harder on drivers now to support the Radeon 8500. They don't want to lose people on drivers issues this time. They've managed to fix many problems in their lastest drivers and I'll continue to fix more problems in future drivers.

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