sick of running out of memory - should I go W2K???

[AMD4ME2]

Ok.. I get tired of my memory leaking out all over the floor.. I mostly use this box for gaming and light web developement work. I have the upgrade CD to win2k.. How
will this effect my gaming? and what is the likelyhood of major problems with the following setup.

Abit KT7A-Raid
Geforce 256 SDR
SB Live!
Netgear FA310TX 10/100 NIC
20.5gig WD 7200 ata66 harddrive(on highpoint controller)
256meg Mushkin Rev2 Cas2 Memory (I like stepping in the expensive memory that forms around the floor by my desk)

I was hoping that my new system would help to combat the memory leak problem but apparently not..


Thanks,

 

[Wik]

I can't say that all games work fine in Win2K but so far it is the case for me, but I usually only play CS and a little UT and Q3. Nascar and Mid Town I have tested also.

Go to Win2K though. Your system is crying for it. But do not upgrade. Install fresh using the upgrade disk. If you have questions about this ask.

 

[AMD4ME2]

well I tried an upgrade a few minutes ago.. and it couldn't find the drivers for the highpoint controller.. even though I supplied the floppy and CDrom that came with my abit board. Why exactly should I not do an upgrade? I cancelled out to do a bit more research on the situation.

 

[travisio]

I am using win2k on 3 boxes (1 adv. server). I have ran most games fine on all these machines : c&c - tiberian sun, CS, project IGI, vietnam, sims, rogue spear, etc. I would upgrade to win2k because it never locks up (once you solve vid card issues like I had to do). It is a secure os that has security also supporting directx 8+ You can get good frame rates with the right tweaks. I have had about 3 GPFs running win2k. I have never had a program totally lock up win2k. Also more and more hardware manufacturers are coming out with win2k drivers. I also like being able to have more control over devices and their drivers as opposed to NT 4. I would recommend win2k personally, but thats just me...

 

[AMD4ME2]

well im big into games.. but I would give up a small amount of performance so that I could get up and set down at the computer and open IE without getting "not enough memory to run this application, shut down some programs and try again" :disgust:

 

[ammarrafiq]

why dont you use a program like maxmem or rambooster..? yesterday i noticed some slack and ran maxmem.. found out i had only 2(!) megs free.. one aggressive scrub.. 91 megs free...

 

[AMD4ME2]

yeah ive done the memturbo2 thing before.. I may do that till whistler is released