Migrating from Win98SE to Win2K

[Rotax]

I'm thinking about getting Win2K and I'm coming from Win98SE. I'm a heavy gamer. Half Life, Q3A, UT, Ever Quest, etc. Does Win2K support all/most of these games? Win2K now supports DirectX, right??? I'd rather go w/ 2K over ME also since I like the 'based on NT' idea. And to me ME sounds like its mostly a few visual enhancements and some extra networking options.

What do you think? Is Win2K ready for gamers???

My system:

K7 500 (soon to be oc'd)
128MB PC133
9.1GB 7200 IBM Deskstar
Matrox G400 32MB (currently at default clock)
Asus K7M Rev. 1.04
SB Live! Value

 

[Shudder]

It's nice when you get things running because it's stable as hell.

UT works fine, and Half life works for me. Quake is supposed to work and Everquest I don't know about.

WHat I like is, from what I understand, you won't have any of those lame a$$ "system resource" problems like you do in 9x. Meaning, you have 128MB of Ram, you have that much Ram.. not 78% resources free blah blah blah unless you use up 22% of your RAM.

Don't get rid of 98, but you'll love having 2k and find yourself using 9x less and less.

 

[Rotax]

Yeah, I'm actually on 2k now, pretty nice. Always there when you need it. Hasn't crashed/locked up on me yet. Been up for about a week now.

Thanks for the info. Now I just have to find it for a decent price. I've seen $250 for the full vers. (not upgrade). Will the upgrade vers. upraged Win 98 SE or just NT???