I have a Gainward GF2 Pro/450 on an Epox 8K7A, 1.4 tbird, 512mb DDR, TB Santa Cruz, burner, DVD, Intel NIC, Antec SX1040B, and Sony 19". I have been running Win ME and UT runs incredible (I run it at 1024X768X32) with all the goodies on. I recently went to Win 2k (the reason I switched from a Radeon to a GF2 Pro) and UT is somewhat choppy - but only in the mouse movements. If I'm moving with the keyboard it's smooth, but the mouse is choppy. I loaded the mouse drivers ( I have a MS intellimouse optical) and tried it on the PS2 and USB ports (the drivers helped out somewhat) but it's still choppy. I finally had to make a 10 gig partition and load Win ME to get back the really smooth gameplay. I have all the mb drivers and SP2 for 2K and the rest of my games (Q3, Max Payne, NFSPU, Colin McRae 2, Serious Sam) run as well or even better under 2K.
Please help me out here because I see on the forums and in published benchmarks that most of you are getting good play in UT under Win 2K. I really don't want a dual boot system, but there is a real difference the way UT plays in Win ME and Win 2k.
Please help me out here because I see on the forums and in published benchmarks that most of you are getting good play in UT under Win 2K. I really don't want a dual boot system, but there is a real difference the way UT plays in Win ME and Win 2k.