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Need help choosing an Operating system with certain limitations

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bullion416

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I have tried 3 different OS on my computer since I built it. I started with Win Me and it worked fine, except it had problems shutting down b/c it didn't like the fact that I had 5 pci cards plugged in (it would shut down when i removed the ata/100 card, which i was soely using to have every device on its own IDE). Then i switched to Win98 se and that seemed to work the best so far. It shut down, but it kinda lacked performance as far as utalizing new devices and games, etc. So then i switched to Win2k pro. That was in my opinion the best OS i had tried so far, but it ran Unreal tournament and half-life extremely choppy. Also to let you know I have an ATI Radeon 64mb DDR card. I was told by someone else with that same video card that win2k's ACPI does not work well with the card. I was then told to switch it to Standard Pc mode. The opion to switch to standard pc mode was supposed to be in the initial part of the install of win2k and you are supposed to push F6 to get that opion, but i never saw that option. Can you use standard pc mode while using the NTFS (nt file system)? Anyways, I am currently running windows ME again and it is giving me problems with unreal tournament. It just flat out will not install it. You can get to the install screen and when you hit the install button it just freezes up. THIS IS MY QUESTION, WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM SHOULD I USE? ALSO IF YOU KNOW WHAT ANY OF MY PROBLEMS DESCRIBED ABOVE PLEASE GIVE ME SOME ADVICE. THANKS
 
I'd say Win2k.

I've a radeon 32MB card and it works beautifully, I dont know why the 64 would all of a sudden not work.

9x based OS's PROBABLY do not like the fact that you have a PCI card in the first slot after your AGP card, which I'm guessing that you do have something there.

2k shouldn't have any problems with that, as you say, and I don't know why you'd be getting stuttering with Half Life and UT.

UT, make sure you get the latest patch and run it in OpenGL mode. As for Half life, do you have the latest service packs installed? Did you update HL to the latest patch? It MAY be the latest patch for HL since they managed to screw up Radeons for some reason.

Finally, which drivers are you using for the Radeon? ATI just released last week official drivers for win2k and XP, so I'd recommend picking them up.
 
You need to press F5, not F6, when it says to press F6. Then you will get the menu with "Standard PC" in it. BTW, this might actually fix the problem for you. I personally had problems with ACPI in Win2k, probably since it didn't like my BIOS or some expansion card. When I reinstalled it in Standard PC mode, it worked great. BTW, NTFS is not dependant on which HAL is installed, so yes, it will work in Standard PC mode.
 
If I do try out win2k again? should I use ACPI or switch it to Standard PC, are there any advantages or disadvantages? Also can you run standard pc mode and also use win2k with NTFS?
 
ACPI is only for some power management and IRQ routing, not using it won't lose you much if anything. Most ACPI implementations so far have been pretty bad anyway.
 
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