Win 98SE vs Win ME (Gamers OS)

[Makaveli]

I'm currently running Windows ME right now. But am soon gonna partition my HD and put win2k on!
So what I want to know is what OS should I keep for my game playing? Win Me or Win 98SE?

share your experiences, and or which do u think is better?

My system specs
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[Toejam31]

Why not just get a second hard drive for the new OS, and run two operating systems? It's really easy to do, and gives you more options. You might like having more than one bootable OS, while you learn the differences between the two.

Then you can run WinME or Win98SE for OpenGL games, and DirectX games in Win2k. Best of both worlds. Win2k can do both, but Win9x appears to still be somewhat faster for OpenGL.

WinME may be a slightly faster for gaming (when stripped for performance), but if you have older games, Win98SE has the edge. And it's an over-all more stable OS than WinME, with better non-Plug-n-Play support.

You <i>could</i> put both operating systems on one hard drive, but two is much better.

That's my two cents, for what it's worth. Opinions may vary. But that's my current setup, and nothing has <i>ever</i> run better.

Toejam31

P.S. I didn't look at your system specs before running my mouth. Since you already have two hard drives, you are all set, if my idea appeals to you. Last suggestion ... with Win2k, how about more RAM? Another 128MB stick would be much appreciated by your system, and prices may never be lower than they are right now.

Are you really getting that good a download speed with @Home cable? Whew! No one in my area gets better than a megabit with the same service, which is why I'm on ADSL.

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[ejsmith2]

Depends on how much space you want to use up. Win98, completely stripped down for nothing but gaming, only pulls about 140meg. Add a 200meg swap space on that, and you're under 350 meg. I've only seen a couple of computers on Winme. It seemed like it was a little more stable, kept loading an 'auto-update' program into the tray, and lost a few frames per second/cpu power.

Ms-dos 7.0 or Ms-dos 8.0?

Always a tough question......

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[Makaveli]

Thanks for the reply. I believe I will stick with Windows ME. I don't play any old dos games. And yes some more ram is on the way! As for the @home it's much better in canada than in the US from what I've seen. Upload cap is 128kpbs in the states! 400kpbs here in canada. And DSL bites here in Canada also 128kpbs up and not sure about the download but everyone I've seen with DSL can barely break 100kb/sec download. While I do like 300-600kb/sec downloads

 

[Ganache]

if you dont play old DOS games, i really dont know why you have to keep win9x sh!t.

I only have win2k and play a LOT of games. Never had any problems. Fast as hell, and at least it never crash. If you got plenty of RAM ( at least 256 megs ) stick with win2k.

i'll never put win9x on my system again..... never !

 

[AMD_Man]

I agree, I have Rogers@Home in Canada and I ususally reach the 3mbps top speed while downloading. It's amazingly fast when downloading at 350KB+/s!!!!!

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