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Bruce Tyler <top@bottom.au> wrote in
news:opev2v8dbdalnv...@4ax.com: 


> Here's the BIGGEST software trick which may improve or degrade your
> gaming performance. I am going through it right now... It's called
> "Having the correct Operating System"...
> 
> I have gone on about the virtues of Win98SE over XP for games, in the
> past and in the present, and even this very evening, I still verify
> the fact (at least in my small computer world) that Win98 SE pisses
> all over XP for game performance. 

I have had pretty much the same experinces myself. However, I find that I 
prefer either 98 (original flavor) or ME to be better than SE. I just find 
SE to be really buggy, but that could have just been the system it was on 
(Compaq AMD K6-II 533 ATX-compatible Presario - it had an Asus ATX board in 
it, not proporietary). It's the only system I ever ran SE on and 98-1 was 
far more stable, but then I've always ran 98-1 or ME on my own systems. 

I build a lot of computer systems (entry level gaming mostly) and which OS 
I install depends on the computer aptitude of the end user. If someone 
knows a bit more about computers, I install 98; If they're a total noob, I 
install ME (I like the system restore function).

Windows 9x of *any* flavor requires some major tweaking though. I happen to 
like the TweakAll utility myself (by "Abston's Shed" or something like 
that). It lets me clean up the boot sequence, bypass the windows splash 
screen, tweak the file system caches, tweak the network and modem (RWIN & 
MTU) and add additional stack pages. Not too shabby for a freeware. 

I tried XP and I just don't like it. IMO, the kernel is *great* but the 
interface is "odd" and I have serious doubts about it's security in an 
online environment. Also, there's just some things about it, like being a 
PITA to run older games on and it's unfriendliness toward many multimedia 
apps, that irritate me. And there's something that seems "sinister" about 
it that I can't quite put my finger on.