SLI bug

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: BouZouki

Originally posted by: crazySOB297
Calm down rollo, LOTS of people run older OS's especially 2000, as it was a pretty nice and stable operating system without all the bullsh!t.

Very true. I run 2000 on 1 of my rigs and I dont feel any advantage from XP.

i have xp pro, made to look like 2000, all the cheap n cheerful colours and themes suck, seems to be a bit nippier navigating round windows too

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Despite popular belief on these forums, Windows 2000 still has a huge installed userbase

This may be so, however, the Valve survey shows that almost 90% of 1,430,707 steam users surveyed (gamers) are running Windows XP.

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

Stop confusing us with these crazy facts Nitromullet!
Don't you know that many people building computers on motherboards that have been around a whole four months are retrofitting them with five year old operating systems, because everyone knows Windows 2000 has always had the best game and gaming hardware support?!??!?!

<remembers days when a few people actually used Win2000 and there would be benchmarks showing it was slower for gaming, the incompatibilities, and how people would set up dual boot with 98 to game on>

Bouzouki got his wish, he posted some flamebait and got the flames.

LOL- yeah, horrors! No Windows 2000!

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: BouZouki

Like I said, "Where's my DOS drivers for ATI?"

Please shut the hell up with your DOS, stop trying to be a smartass you fanboy.

I'll concede the point that people using antique operating systems are just plain out of luck with SLI.

I would consider a 3 and a 5 year old OS both to be old. If Nvidia continued to use this "out of luck" approch, good luck with that.

The fanboys on this forum piss me off.

Get over yourself. You know why you posted this flamebait, don't be sad when people point out that no one really cares about Windows 2000 anymore. (including Microsoft themselves)

People that have $200 for a motherboard, $100+ for a PSU, and $400-$1100 for a couple video cards generally don't balk at having to spend $100 on an upgrade of Windows.

Like Nitro's stats show, only 4% of the people playing HL2, the biggest game out there, are using Windows 2000. You'll just have to forgive nVidia for not wasting their time with 4% of the market who are on some strange "Windows 2000 4 evah" biodome sleepover.

90% of gamers updated their Windows years ago.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: BouZouki

Like I said, "Where's my DOS drivers for ATI?"

Please shut the hell up with your DOS, stop trying to be a smartass you fanboy.

I'll concede the point that people using antique operating systems are just plain out of luck with SLI.

I would consider a 3 and a 5 year old OS both to be old. If Nvidia continued to use this "out of luck" approch, good luck with that.

The fanboys on this forum piss me off.

Get over yourself. You know why you posted this flamebait, don't be sad when people point out that no one really cares about Windows 2000 anymore. (including Microsoft themselves)

People that have $200 for a motherboard, $100+ for a PSU, and $400-$1100 for a couple video cards generally don't balk at having to spend $100 on an upgrade of Windows.

Like Nitro's stats show, only 4% of the people playing HL2, the biggest game out there, are using Windows 2000. You'll just have to forgive nVidia for not wasting their time with 4% of the market who are on some strange "Windows 2000 4 evah" biodome sleepover.

90% of gamers updated their Windows years ago.

Get a grip, Rollo. The title "Yet another SLI bug" can only considered flamebait by somebody like you. He was simply pointing out that SLI doesn't work well with W2K and YOU were the one who turned on the flaming. If he likes Win2K and wants to run SLI on it, what business is it of yours to say "nobody really cares about Windows 2000 anymore"?

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: BouZouki

Like I said, "Where's my DOS drivers for ATI?"

Please shut the hell up with your DOS, stop trying to be a smartass you fanboy.

I'll concede the point that people using antique operating systems are just plain out of luck with SLI.

I would consider a 3 and a 5 year old OS both to be old. If Nvidia continued to use this "out of luck" approch, good luck with that.

The fanboys on this forum piss me off.

Get over yourself. You know why you posted this flamebait, don't be sad when people point out that no one really cares about Windows 2000 anymore. (including Microsoft themselves)

People that have $200 for a motherboard, $100+ for a PSU, and $400-$1100 for a couple video cards generally don't balk at having to spend $100 on an upgrade of Windows.

Like Nitro's stats show, only 4% of the people playing HL2, the biggest game out there, are using Windows 2000. You'll just have to forgive nVidia for not wasting their time with 4% of the market who are on some strange "Windows 2000 4 evah" biodome sleepover.

90% of gamers updated their Windows years ago.

Didnt you get banned before? I hope it happans again. I never intended this to be a flame, you made it one.

 

[Cat]

Your title clearly indicates your intention to flame. Including "Yet another," and then using the misnomer "bug." I won't comment on everyone's previous posting histories, but your title makes you the loser here.

Edit: you edited your title.

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: Cat
Your title clearly indicates your intention to flame. Including "Yet another," and then using the misnomer "bug." I won't comment on everyone's previous posting histories, but your title makes you the loser here.

Edit: you edited your title.

:disgust: Right, since when does Yet another and the word bug make people loosers.:disgust:

I never wanted to flame, simply pointing something out. Its not my problem people like you take it the wrong way.

 

[Munky]

Of course you will get flamed by rollo for saying anything neagative about sli - that's like saying something negative about the war in Iraq to GWB.

PS: and dont start the whole politics thing with me, that was just an example.

 

[nRollo]

Creig:

Get a grip, Rollo. The title "Yet another SLI bug" can only considered flamebait by somebody like you.

Really Creig? So if I start a thread "Yet another ATI bug- no decent Linux support" or "Yet another ATI bug- no DOS drivers" you won't consider it flame bait? Good to know.

He was simply pointing out that SLI doesn't work well with W2K and YOU were the one who turned on the flaming. If he likes Win2K and wants to run SLI on it, what business is it of yours to say "nobody really cares about Windows 2000 anymore"?

Bouzouki doesn't have SLI, and if you read his many negative posts about it, its pretty clear he never will.
He posted this to flame SLI, not because he has it and is inconvenienced.

What he has done here is no different than me posting "ATI Linux support sucks" when I have neither Linux nor an ATI card.

I'm treating this thread exactly the way you would treat it if I posted it, except anti ATI.

 

[nRollo]

Didnt you get banned before? I hope it happans again. I never intended this to be a flame, you made it one.

You got what you asked for: flamed and to be called a flamer, by me and others.

You have no SLI rig, whether it works with Windows 2000 is irrelevant to you.

You must have not found enough threads to jump into and flame SLI, so you had to start creating your own.

 

[Keysplayr]

I would like to add here that all those Intel users with HT CPU's cannot use windows 2000 if they want proper HT operations. Windows 2000 does not fully support HT. XP does.

But, don't take my word for it. Here it is from Intel. Here

There was a rumour long ago about a Service Pack 4 "rollup" that would enable HT support for W2K. But that hasn't happened.

So, If you want proper HT support, Use XP. If you want proper SLI support, Use XP.
I loved Windows 2000. As far as I am concerned, I have never seen a more stable OS from Microsoft since DOS. XP was just short of a nightmare until SP1 came out. But now SP2 is here and a whole slew of new nightmares came with it. So now, I use XP SP1 and will stay there until I have need for anything else. I find it pretty stable since SP1.
I still use Window 2000 server SP4 for my personal server.

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Didnt you get banned before? I hope it happans again. I never intended this to be a flame, you made it one.

You got what you asked for: flamed and to be called a flamer, by me and others.

You have no SLI rig, whether it works with Windows 2000 is irrelevant to you.

You must have not found enough threads to jump into and flame SLI, so you had to start creating your own.

Of course you will get flamed by rollo for saying anything neagative about sli - that's like saying something negative about the war in Iraq to GWB.

Yes fanboys like Rollo are annoying.

I think rollo is obsessed with SLI and SM3 and will flame anyone who says anything bad about them. Go away troll. Your the only one trying to flame, of course your to stupid to realize that. I guess rollo cant handle a coment like that.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Despite popular belief on these forums, Windows 2000 still has a huge installed userbase

This may be so, however, the Valve survey shows that almost 90% of 1,430,707 steam users surveyed (gamers) are running Windows XP.

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

This is really the only relevant thing in this thread:

You have a sample of 1.5 million gamers and 4% of them are running Windows 2000.

So the question becomes is it worth nVidia's time to try and accomodate 4% of the market?

Apparently they have decided not to. For the 4% that want SLI, you'll just have to spend that $100 on the XP upgrade disk and get with the times.

 

[Cat]

Originally posted by: BouZouki

Originally posted by: Cat
Your title clearly indicates your intention to flame. Including "Yet another," and then using the misnomer "bug." I won't comment on everyone's previous posting histories, but your title makes you the loser here.

Edit: you edited your title.

:disgust: Right, since when does Yet another and the word bug make people loosers.:disgust:

I never wanted to flame, simply pointing something out. Its not my problem people like you take it the wrong way.

It is your responsiblity to make your posts clear, not ours to interpret them. I never called you A loser, I called you THE loser in this argument defending your title.

You edited Yet out of your title.

It'd be nice if Windows 2000 had support, I agree with you here.

BUT

It's not a bug. It's not a defect.

 

[ohnnyj]

Simple answer to all your SLI problems:

You don't like it, don't want it, or are determined to bring up every problem about it --> then don't buy it.

All of those who have or will; will continue to have fun at insane resolutions and eye candy.

 

[Keysplayr]

Lets get real here. This thread is flamebait. Nothing more. BouZouki was bored. Needed some excitement. There are many things Windows XP users have that Windows 2000 users do not. SLI and HT are just two small examples. You will have to visit MS yourself to do your own reading.

 

[ohnnyj]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Despite popular belief on these forums, Windows 2000 still has a huge installed userbase

This may be so, however, the Valve survey shows that almost 90% of 1,430,707 steam users surveyed (gamers) are running Windows XP.

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

This is really the only relevant thing in this thread:

You have a sample of 1.5 million gamers and 4% of them are running Windows 2000.

So the question becomes is it worth nVidia's time to try and accomodate 4% of the market?

Apparently they have decided not to. For the 4% that want SLI, you'll just have to spend that $100 on the XP upgrade disk and get with the times.

And how many of that 4% have SLI? Maybe a fourth at most. So now we are looking at 1% of the market.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: BouZouki

Originally posted by: Rollo

Didnt you get banned before? I hope it happans again. I never intended this to be a flame, you made it one.

You got what you asked for: flamed and to be called a flamer, by me and others.

You have no SLI rig, whether it works with Windows 2000 is irrelevant to you.

You must have not found enough threads to jump into and flame SLI, so you had to start creating your own.

Of course you will get flamed by rollo for saying anything neagative about sli - that's like saying something negative about the war in Iraq to GWB.

Yes fanboys like Rollo are annoying.

I think rollo is obsessed with SLI and SM3 and will flame anyone who says anything bad about them. Go away troll.

I'd say the troll is the guy who could care less about some hardware and starts a thread titled "Yet another bug".

If the bridge fits, jump under it and start gnawing on a bone Bouzouki.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Bouzouki doesn't have SLI, and if you read his many negative posts about it, its pretty clear he never will.
He posted this to flame SLI, not because he has it and is inconvenienced.

What he has done here is no different than me posting "ATI Linux support sucks" when I have neither Linux nor an ATI card.

I'm treating this thread exactly the way you would treat it if I posted it, except anti ATI.

I didn't realize that somebody pointing out a product bug is then required to be subjected to personal attacks by forum members.

But by all means please continue with your, what did the Mods call it? Oh yes...

seemingly endless, pointless, useless flaming

The more you keep flaming people the sooner we can be rid of you for good. Keep up the good work.

 

[fstime]

It'd be nice if Windows 2000 had support, I agree with you here.

Thats all im saying, it would be nice if windows 2000 had support, of course you cant make a statement like that and not be flammed by rollo.

It's not a bug. It's not a defect.

Alright :thumbsup:

 

[Creig]

What exactly is keeping SLI from working with Win2K?

 

[fstime]

Dunno, I heard it over at xtremesystems.org

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Lets get real here. This thread is flamebait. Nothing more. BouZouki was bored. Needed some excitement. There are many things Windows XP users have that Windows 2000 users do not. SLI and HT are just two small examples. You will have to visit MS yourself to do your own reading.

But...but...Keys! Windows 2000 is a "modern" OS! Good for another "3 years"!

Shouldn't everything work the same on on Windows 2000 as it does on XP? Then the same as Longhorn?

Why the heck should a guy have to buy a new OS every decade when the old one is perfectly fine?!?!?

Lets face it:
SLI should work perfectly with every game and every OS.
Expect future breaking news from Bouzouki like:

"SLI not compatible with "Return to Krondor" game from 1985"

and

"OS2 Warp users shunned by nVidia! No SLI for OS2!"

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Creig

Originally posted by: Rollo
Bouzouki doesn't have SLI, and if you read his many negative posts about it, its pretty clear he never will.
He posted this to flame SLI, not because he has it and is inconvenienced.

What he has done here is no different than me posting "ATI Linux support sucks" when I have neither Linux nor an ATI card.

I'm treating this thread exactly the way you would treat it if I posted it, except anti ATI.

I didn't realize that somebody pointing out a product bug is then required to be subjected to personal attacks by forum members.

But by all means please continue with your, what did the Mods call it? Oh yes...

seemingly endless, pointless, useless flaming

The more you keep flaming people the sooner we can be rid of you for good. Keep up the good work.

You be sure to tattle to them like a good little school boy Creig.

FYI- I live in a metro area with dozens of ISPs and have enough money to switch them on a whim. Do you honestly think someone can keep me off an open website?

Why don't you look at who's doing the real flaming in this thread and tattle on them, ever vigilant Creig?

Thanks for being an ass.

Yet another childish post by rollo

The fanboys on this forum piss me off.

Didnt you get banned before? I hope it happans again

Go away troll

I call "Shenanigans" on your pointless attempts to mod. I guess since you long ago gave up on trying new gaming hardware you fill in the void by arguing with those who do.

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Lets get real here. This thread is flamebait. Nothing more. BouZouki was bored. Needed some excitement. There are many things Windows XP users have that Windows 2000 users do not. SLI and HT are just two small examples. You will have to visit MS yourself to do your own reading.

But...but...Keys! Windows 2000 is a "modern" OS! Good for another "3 years"!

Shouldn't everything work the same on on Windows 2000 as it does on XP? Then the same as Longhorn?

Why the heck should a guy have to buy a new OS every decade when the old one is perfectly fine?!?!?

Lets face it:
SLI should work perfectly with every game and every OS.
Expect future breaking news from Bouzouki like:

"SLI not compatible with "Return to Krondor" game from 1985"

and

"OS2 Warp users shunned by nVidia! No SLI for OS2!"

Whatever you say rollo, dont you still realize your flamming and not me. If I intended this to be flamebait I wouldnt change the title. God, cant somone post a bug or defect or whatever without all this garbage. I guess not. Seems little babys like rollo cant handle it.

A mod can lock this thread now.