🚀 go-pugleaf

pop wrote:

> OK - here's the story so far: Installed the game on my winXP system and didn't
> know that the fan on the video card was bad. The screen went white as soon as
> the game was loaded - shortly afterward the power supply went! bummer... didn't
> have time to fool with repairs so I went back to my win98se system and continued
> with doom1 & doom2 using jdoom. Found the patch to allow doom3 on win98se,
> installed it on '98 and patched the exe and wadda ya know, it runs and I finally
> got my doom3 fix. It's fairly smooth at 800X600, medium graphics for single
> player game - probably won't be good enough for online play with my system, but
> I didn't plan on doing that anyway.
> AMD Athlon @1.2ghz
> NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 64MB
> Windows 98se
> Hey - nothing to brag about, but it's playable. I was using my winXP system as a
> work computer but I am retired now and was planning to upgrade anyway. I'll
> continue to use my win98 machine for gaming.
> 

People have missed the really brilliant bit here... he's got it working 
on a system FAR below spec. Goes to show how badly each successive 
version of Windows just pummels the true system performance 
capabilities... downgrade to Win98 and get about 50% more performance 
from the equivalent system on WinXP.

And if it is so easy to patch D3 for W98, you have to wonder why id 
didn't make it W98 compatible straight out of the box. Are they taking 
backhanders from MS to help push the upgrade trail?