WIN ME vs. WIN2K--HELP ME OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phat3800]

I recently purchased a new Dell 8100 w/1.3 ghz P4 and 128 meg of pc800 RDRAM. It came w/WinMe installed, but from the get go I started having problems. Lockups, games momentarily freezing, etc. Anyway, last night I got fed up and decided to reinstall EVERYTHING. I formatted the drive and ran FDISK. Set C: as my active partition and had it carry 70% of the volume. D: is the extended logical drive and contains the rest. BTW, I have a 40 gig 7200 rpm, UDMA 100 Maxtor drive. Anyway, I formatted each partition after fdisking and began the install. After I was through, everything booted up ok, but the computer was SLOW! I began getting kernel32.dll errors which crashed my system a few times. AAARGGHH!! As we speak, I'm running a full scandisk to check things out. I'm a relatively heavy gamer who likes a good balance of speed vs. stability. I've got a GEForce 2 Ultra card w/64mb of video ram, so w/all this power under the hood, would Win2K be a worthwhile upgrade? I'll take a slight frame-rate drop for a little stability here. WinME is a POS, in my opinion. My old machine w/Win98SE was a helluva lot more stable than this... HELP!!

 

[Phat3800]

Come on you guys--at least one reply other than myself...

 

[Peridium]

I'm like the exact opposite of you. I've had great experiences with Windows Millennium while on the other hand I've been having these random lockups in Windows 2000. I've had people tell me that Win2K is a more demanding OS than WinME so if your having troubles in WinME, they may be worse in Win2K. But if your able to get Win2K running smoothly then that would be great. Most of the newer games available today run on it without any problems.

 

[RiceDiGiZ]

I had no problem with both os... however winme messed up one of my IBM 45GiG Deskstar 7200rpm. call dell and complain!

 

[twong82]

go with win2k for stability and it works with most games

 

[potz]

win2k works with every game i have tried except nba live 2001. ea has this problem that they don't think windows 2000 is a consumer os. so if you like to play ea games then i suggest you dual boot.

 

[Mustanggt]

Stick with ME Win 2k is very bad for any kind of gaming system if your using a Radeon even if your not. nothing but trouble win 2k dosent run the MX300 sound card either wont even run halflife or the ark demo without some kind of mess up. framerates are alot more choppy in win 2k much smother on x9. I cant really speak for ME never tried it went from 98 to win 2k 98 is not as stable as 2k but alot faster for games.