When will 2k be completely solid for games

[TuOni]

Does anyone have any Idea???

 

[Yzzim]

never

 

[ToBeMe]

I'll second that^^^^^^^!

 

[Davegod75]

it isn't now???? most games i know of work just fine under w2k

 

[AMD4ME2]

well after doing some fighting with ACPI all my games now work great! my soundblaster pci512 didn't like sharing irq's with 4 other devices! now I didn't have a problem in win98 cause you could disable and it would reallocate resources, but in win2k it wasn't the case... the ACPI implementation in win2k appears to have the BIG FU seal of quality from microsoft stamped on it. I think thats pretty shoddy, lets hope they make Whistler a bit more friendly for people with older hardware that might need to move their card out of the pack, and onto a free IRQ.

 

[AndyHui]

Or rather, the better question to ask is when will games be completely solid for Win2K?

 

[mylam]

AndyHui

u are right

 

I have not had a problem with games in win2k yet.
I just ditched ACPI and went to Standard PC.
No real problems yet.
down with dos based programs

 

[mylam]

i know on one stil play DOS game...

 

[Blayze]

I have no problems with Windows 2000 and my games.

They all work fine.

 

[MGRook]

How do you disable ACPI and go to standard PC???? I haven't seen that option in BIOS? Or do you do it in device manager somewhere?

 

[phlashphire]

MGRook, do a quick search for "ACPI" or "APM" you'll come up w/ plenty of threads regarding that topic.

 

A better question is, when will games run fast under Win2k?

 

[Maverick319]

I assume you have DirectX 8a installed. UT Tournament screams on my machine, and I played Delta Force on it last month (1998 Game) with no problems. Here is a direct link to Microsoft's DirectX 8a site.

This update was quietly introduced, and is for W2K only. It may resolve some of your lag problems, as well as some other video issues. Hope this helps somebody.

 

Maverick319: Really? I downloaded it an never installed it. I heard it was just a language update. I will have to install it.

 

[cool]

When will 2k be completely solid for games

If it's not already then what is it else?!

 

[SendTrash]

Yeah, its a better question to ask when are new games going to run stable in Win2k... If you are waiting for Win2k to run older dos or win95/even 98 games.. then you will be waiting forever.... BTW, will Whistler run DOS games?... I still have some old, fun games in DOS that I would like to dust off.

 

[rbV5]

I believe it already IS the most solid gaming platform on the PC.

 

[lsd]

<< I believe it already IS the most solid gaming platform on the PC. >>


Amen.