Which Windows; 98, ME, or XP is best able to handle FS2002pro / CFS2 including all types of FS / CFS add-ons & utilities in a new state of the art computer?
Thanks,
RBH

• RE: Which Windows 98 ME XP?,Madape, 02:27z, 11-26-01
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      • RE: Which Windows 98 ME XP?,Ben Chiu, 04:46z, 11-27-01
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• RE: Which Windows 98 ME XP?,Grunt, 03:40z, 11-26-01

Hi RBH

Aslong as its Windows 98 or above (and not NT4), any Windows operating system will run FS2K2 well (ofcourse depending on your computers speed/specification). If I had to pick a best one I would go for Win98.

You must make sure you have the latest upto date drivers for your Graphic, Sound, and DirectX, these are more likely to have affect upon the performance in FS2K2

Hope that helps

Sam

>If I had to pick a best one I would go for Win98.

My choice would be Win98SE. For me it still seems to be the most stable of the bunch.

Ben

Hey Ben,

>>My choice would be Win98SE. For me it still seems to be the most stable of the bunch.<<

Have you actually tried XP? As far as stability goes it blows 98, 98se, and Me out of the water. Win2k would be a close second, but it's a lousy gaming platform.

The machine I'm on has been up for 62 days now, and I believe it was a power failure that forced that reboot . I have read though, that 98SE shows slightly better performance for some games (FS2000 included), but I'll take the slight performance hit in favor of this awesome stability any day

Just my .02

--Greenie
**6 miles SSE KSJC**

Hi Greenie

>> Have you actually tried XP? As far as stability goes it blows 98, 98se, and Me out of the water. <<

That's as maybe but as I understand it there aren't any drivers available for my CH USB yoke and pedals as of this moment

That being the case I'll be staying with 98SE for a while yet ...

Paul Croft
10 miles south east of LHR

>>>My choice would be Win98SE. For me it still seems to be the most stable of the bunch.<<

I was referring to Win98. My apologies if it seemed like I was referring to the others as well.

>Have you actually tried XP? As far as stability goes it
>blows 98, 98se, and Me out of the water. Win2k would be a
>close second, but it's a lousy gaming platform.

The last OS change I *attempted* was ME and I'll spare you the gory details.

Needless to say I've gone back to 98SE and it works very well, thank you! The lessons learned from that "experience" is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." You'll get more sleep.

Ben

>>The last OS change I *attempted* was ME and I'll spare you the gory details.

Needless to say I've gone back to 98SE and it works very well, thank you! The lessons learned from that "experience" is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." You'll get more sleep.<<

Ok, maybe I was lucky with Me, but I *do* believe that there was no luck at all involved with XP. The OS coders at MS have truly done an outstanding job with this one.

Try this...if you have a partition with at least 2gig free, install XP on it and dual boot. Just boot from the XP cd and tell it where you want to install the OS. I did that for months in the beginning of the beta test, and it worked great. After Beta 2 it XP all the time, and I've never looked back. If for some reason, you don't like XP, you can simply delete it from the other partition (delete these directories: windows, documents and settings, and program files), and edit boot.ini to remove any reference to it, and you're back to '98.

Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

--Greenie
**6 miles SSE KSJC**

>Ok, maybe I was lucky with Me, but I *do* believe that
>there was no luck at all involved with XP. The OS coders
>at MS have truly done an outstanding job with this one.

Could be. (I'm not doubting your opinion.) Perhaps I've grown impatient in my old age (I've run quite a lot of beta products over the years, so that probably has a lot to do with it too), but I need a little more compelling reason to upgrade my "stable-enough, does everything I need it to with minimal hassle" OS than to just have the latest and greatest because every OS upgrade I've ever done has always required many hours/days/weeks of tinkering to get it "the way I like it." I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about. (Besides, I don't think that Bill Gates deserves any more of my hard-earned money just yet!)

When I get my next system, I'm sure XP will be on it (whether I like it or not probably!) , but until then I'm happy clunking around with Win98SE.

Ben

Considering XP is heavily based on the NT5 Kernel, I would say both are equally stable, and as far as games go I agree NT5 is very lousy for older games, but is great for newer games. Although does NT5 lack the user friendliness of XP.

Sam

Win98 or Win2K are my Choices. I'm running FS2002 Pro, CFS2 and CFS 1 on Win2K. I'd skip WinME.