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Gameing OS

Originally posted by: VinnyPel2ella
What is the best windows OS for gaming
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A combo of Windows 98SE and XP, yes you need both to be compatible with as many games as possible as not all games run on XP.
 
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: VinnyPel2ella
What is the best windows OS for gaming
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A combo of Windows 98SE and XP, yes you need both to be compatible with as many games as possible as not all games run on XP.
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There's a compatibility mode in XP that allows you to run 98 only games.
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: VinnyPel2ella
What is the best windows OS for gaming
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A combo of Windows 98SE and XP, yes you need both to be compatible with as many games as possible as not all games run on XP.
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There's a compatibility mode in XP that allows you to run 98 only games.
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doesnt work with games that use vesa graphics.
 
AOE3 does not work on W2K.

This is a MS game on a currently supported MS OS, nice huh? I'm not sure if any other new games have this limit, so YMMV.

XP is the obvious choice unless you alread own 2K.
 
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: VinnyPel2ella
What is the best windows OS for gaming
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A combo of Windows 98SE and XP, yes you need both to be compatible with as many games as possible as not all games run on XP.
Click to expand...

There's a compatibility mode in XP that allows you to run 98 only games.
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doesnt work with games that use vesa graphics.
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LOLOL vesa. Well get a dos emulator: dosbox.sourceforge.net
 
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: VinnyPel2ella
What is the best windows OS for gaming
Click to expand...

A combo of Windows 98SE and XP, yes you need both to be compatible with as many games as possible as not all games run on XP.
Click to expand...

There's a compatibility mode in XP that allows you to run 98 only games.
Click to expand...

doesnt work with games that use vesa graphics.
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Getting two OS's and going to the trouble of dual booting with them just to play games with vesa graphics is a waste of time.
 
Originally posted by: Malak
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: VinnyPel2ella
What is the best windows OS for gaming
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A combo of Windows 98SE and XP, yes you need both to be compatible with as many games as possible as not all games run on XP.
Click to expand...

There's a compatibility mode in XP that allows you to run 98 only games.
Click to expand...

doesnt work with games that use vesa graphics.
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Getting two OS's and going to the trouble of dual booting with them just to play games with vesa graphics is a waste of time.
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There are plenty of other games that won't work in XP and don't have VESA graphics, one example is NFS4...
 
There's a compatibility mode in XP that allows you to run 98 only games.
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And there's this fact that Bill Gates lied when he said WinXP would run everything Win9X does, because it clearly doesn't... Compatability mode or not, there are still a large number of games that do not run on WinXP no matter what you do.

That is why I dual-boot for WinME and WinXP, so I can play EVERY game, not just the ones that work with XP.
 
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