[RESOLVED] Games to play on Win 2000

[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!

[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

[Lycia]

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]

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??

[DaOnly123Kid]

sudden strike

[Antimatter]

Starcraft, MW3, MW4, UT, Halflife all work in win2k.

[CinderElmo]

Game "Zero Wing" good work into 2000?

[Darren Wilson]

The Sims, Red Alert 2, Total Anihiliation, Black & White, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Project IGI,

[CobraTekMax]

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. In some cases, it will tell you what you must do to get a game to work properly in an 2K environment.

[phoneblock]

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'.

[WindBlowzXP Professional]

You could play good kwel games with that specifications! Hmm... i like playing counterstike especially in the network.

[overallniceguy]

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]

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]

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!

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]

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.

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