Well, as you can see from the post below I can now use my 3 DFX card with W2K, BUT, what games will play on this operating system?
AMD k6-2 450Mhz
128Mb SDRAM
2Gb H/D with O/S
15Gb H/d with data
Diamond Multi Media Monster 3D II PCI Card.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance for for your help! :confused:
PEZ_B0y
May 8th, 2001, 07:29 AM
GLquake1, quake2, unreal, unreal tournament might even work OK. you can techinically play almost everygame ever made but it will either look like crap or lag like hell
Lycia
May 8th, 2001, 11:55 AM
Originally posted by PEZ_B0y:
GLquake1, quake2, unreal, unreal tournament might even work OK. you can techinically play almost everygame ever made but it will either look like crap or lag like hell
That is not necessarily true. Games written for win9x code will technically not work with winNT/2K. However, win2K supports current versions of DirectX, which in turn will allow newer games to run. It is kind of a hit and miss. As stated above, most Quake based games will work with Win2K.
phoneblock
May 8th, 2001, 01:03 PM
Thanx,
Look like you were right again Lycia, tried to load Mechwarrior 2, but refused to go on an NT based o/s ;)
Any other options apart from quake?? :confused:
DaOnly123Kid
May 8th, 2001, 03:07 PM
sudden strike
Antimatter
May 8th, 2001, 03:21 PM
Starcraft, MW3, MW4, UT, Halflife all work in win2k.
CinderElmo
May 8th, 2001, 04:17 PM
Game "Zero Wing" good work into 2000?
;)
Darren Wilson
May 9th, 2001, 06:12 AM
The Sims, Red Alert 2, Total Anihiliation, Black & White, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Project IGI,
CobraTekMax
May 9th, 2001, 06:20 AM
To add to the list - Rogue Spear, just about all EA sports titles (post 99), Need for Speed 4 and 5 (with compatibility updates & patches from EA), Hitman: Codename 47, Metal Gear Solid, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (with a patch from Eidos) and Clive Barker's Undying.
If you really want a more ROBUST listing of games supported under 2K, check out www.ntcompatible.com. (http://www.ntcompatible.com.) In some cases, it will tell you what you must do to get a game to work properly in an 2K environment.
phoneblock
May 9th, 2001, 06:53 AM
Thanx all,
You have given me a great selection to choose from.
Now all I have to do is find more time to play em'. :D
WindBlowzXP Professional
May 9th, 2001, 07:01 AM
You could play good kwel games with that specifications! Hmm... i like playing counterstike especially in the network.
overallniceguy
May 9th, 2001, 02:26 PM
So far I haven't found any games that I thought were worth spending time on that don't work and work VERY well in my win2k system. Some Excellent examples: I found that Deus Ex, Unreal Tourny, Q3A, and American McGee's Alice ALL ran better on my system with Win2K than on 98. Anybody who says games run like crap on this OS are either setting things up wrong or trying to run the OS on too old of a machine. If your computer is half way up to date you won't have a problem.
P.S. Take note, Windows XP Home Edition IS based on the NT Kernel. MS wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot by putting out a home OS that is as incompatible as some people are making it out to be.
Lycia
May 9th, 2001, 09:43 PM
Originally posted by overallniceguy:
P.S. Take note, Windows XP Home Edition IS based on the NT Kernel. MS wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot by putting out a home OS that is as incompatible as some people are making it out to be.
Yes they would, I refer to Windows itself.
Judging from MS website, it looks like XPhome is still win9x based and WinXP Pro is based on WinNT/2K with major tweaking on the side of being compatible for win9x.
imd14u
May 10th, 2001, 08:58 AM
Originally posted by phoneblock:
Well, as you can see from the post below I can now use my 3 DFX card with W2K, BUT, what games will play on this operating system?
AMD k6-2 450Mhz
128Mb SDRAM
2Gb H/D with O/S
15Gb H/d with data
Diamond Multi Media Monster 3D II PCI Card.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance for for your help! :confused:
Your current hardware can't take full advantage of the engines these games have. Get yourself an Athlon & a decent AGP card. You're really missing out on how these games can really perform, if you run it on your platform, especially if your going to use Win2K.
cyberhh
May 10th, 2001, 02:13 PM
There is a NT/2k 95 emulator that will allow you to install games that check for Win95 and then tell you that it won't run - however they then may or may not run. I will look for the reference to it.
Originally posted by Lycia:
Yes they would, I refer to Windows itself.
Judging from MS website, it looks like XPhome is still win9x based and WinXP Pro is based on WinNT/2K with major tweaking on the side of being compatible for win9x.
Windows XP is NT based. end of story.
XP home edition will have more things for the dumb users, and will probably play games better than the pro version
ShadowKing
May 12th, 2001, 12:46 AM
To be specific, XP Home has a lot more compatibility for home users integrated. It also is a little less picky about allowing games to access the graphics card. BUT all versions of XP are based on the Win2k Kernel.
As a side note, when you right click on a shortcut to an exe in Win2k SP2 you get a "Compatibility Mode" tab that allows you to set different types of compatibility, though I havent had a chance to test/play with it yet...
Have anyone tried B&W with 2KPro. It runs fine, but some how it gave me a runtime error intermitenly.
Darren Wilson
May 13th, 2001, 02:21 PM
Originally posted by Malaysia_Sucks:
Have anyone tried B&W with 2KPro. It runs fine, but some how it gave me a runtime error intermitenly.
I haven't had any problems with it so far.
JungleMan1
May 13th, 2001, 07:29 PM
A friend of mine had a problem with Duke Nukem 3D...it wouldn't play any sound. However a good portion of games work with 2k.
From what I've heard, here's the basic breakdown of XP Home/Pro:
XP Home: ME + 2K Kernel + New Interface
XP Pro: 2k + a few ME features + New Interface
Both *should* run games just fine. XP Pro probably isn't loaded with some of the crap home is loaded with (movie maker, etc). I'd go with the Pro if I had the budget...
Auric
May 13th, 2001, 07:57 PM
I play just about everything on win2k, The sims, Star wars Xwing Alliance, Star wars battle for naboo, seroius sam, black and white..the list goes on. only a few games that needed patches or would not work in 2k that i have ever found.. even those that say they won't work do!
em-clown
May 13th, 2001, 08:30 PM
Nifty little secret..if a game wont work right try this:
1) Right click its shortcut, choose Properties
2) Go to compatibility tab
3) Choose Windows 98 or Windows 95 Layer.
Works on some games, not on others
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