Should I upgrade to Win2k?

[shiznut123]

I have bee getting a lot of crashes lately in UT, especially when refreshing a server. I have an overclocked system but I'm sure that is not the problem because I put it to default speed and it still crashes sometimes in UT. I have a celeron 566@1054, 128mb Mushkin pc133 rev3 ram, 2 Seagate 15.3gb hdrives in raid0, and a BX133-RAID. Is it because i am using 1 cable to connect two of the hard drives?

 

[bigshooter]

you should make both your hard drives masters on seperate cables, then slave a cdrom to the least used hard drive. it will increase copy speed between the drives, but refreshing servers has nothing to do with that. When you do this, then you can put your swap file on the least used drive and it will boost your performance a bit. You should go to win2k, but get another 128 megs of ram if you do. UT runs just as fast if not faster for me in win2k as opposed to 98. Plus its more stable in other things, and you don't have to reboot every single time you make a change.

 

[bigshooter]

you should make both your hard drives masters on seperate cables, then slave a cdrom to the least used hard drive. it will increase copy speed between the drives, but refreshing servers has nothing to do with that. When you do this, then you can put your swap file on the least used drive and it will boost your performance a bit. You should go to win2k, but get another 128 megs of ram if you do. UT runs just as fast if not faster for me in win2k as opposed to 98. Plus its more stable in other things, and you don't have to reboot every single time you make a change.

 

[bigshooter]

you should make both your hard drives masters on seperate cables, then slave a cdrom to the least used hard drive. it will increase copy speed between the drives, but refreshing servers has nothing to do with that. When you do this, then you can put your swap file on the least used drive and it will boost your performance a bit. You should go to win2k, but get another 128 megs of ram if you do. UT runs just as fast if not faster for me in win2k as opposed to 98. Plus its more stable in other things, and you don't have to reboot every single time you make a change.

 

[bigshooter]

you should make both your hard drives masters on seperate cables, then slave a cdrom to the least used hard drive. it will increase copy speed between the drives, but refreshing servers has nothing to do with that. When you do this, then you can put your swap file on the least used drive and it will boost your performance a bit. You should go to win2k, but get another 128 megs of ram if you do. UT runs just as fast if not faster for me in win2k as opposed to 98. Plus its more stable in other things, and you don't have to reboot every single time you make a change.

 

[borealiss]

wow, quadruple post. i think you should move to win2k anyways, regardless of this problem. as far as this problem is concerned, are you network settings correct? or can you do something similar in say quake 3 without crashing. win2k's networking is much easier to set up than win9x and doesn't require a reboot when applying changes. you should also get more ram like bigshooter said. and this is just my opinion, but striping your hard drives is just asking for trouble. are you running in d3d or openGL btw?

 

[shiznut123]

Quake 3 runs fine and doesn't crash. The network settings are correct. Do I have to get another 128mb of ram?

 

[FordLorider]

Well it appears that you play some games, if you are the like the average users in this forum, you need raw power and want maximum available resources for your games and therefore don't want win2k.

 

[shiznut123]

So 128mb is enough for a lot of gaming?

 

[borealiss]

you don't have to get another 128 megs of ram in win2k, but i would HIGHLY recommend it. considering they're about 30 bucks, it's not that bad of an investment.

 

[shiznut123]

But I want it at 124mhz cas2 though. I might get some ram later.

 

[Cherrypez]

I have a few systems that run Win2K and I would recommend more ram. My win2k systems seems to run best when they have at least 256mb of ram.

I have several systems, and whatever systems aren't running Win98SE/Win2k dual-boot run Win2k exclusively. If I had to pick only one O/S to run it would be Win2k hands down, no decision.

I recommend a dual-boot setup to anyone who is interested in upgrading to Win2k. That way if you don't like it you can go back to whatever you were using before.

 

[Nickyct]

I love Win 2k but it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack for the driver. I got one video card here that I can't use because of no driver available.

Just Built one a month ago and run with no problem at all.