does it work on win98 ?

Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:02 pm by Benja

does it ?

Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:47 pm by Sapient6

Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:48 pm by Magraev

sure does.

Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:47 pm by DVX Being Funny

Flawlessly --- so far --- 93 hours.

Tue Apr 08, 2003 4:18 pm by Lev Arris

Don't fall for the XP hype. Win98 is the ONLY OS so far that is perfect for gaming and doesn't have any incompatibility issues with certain games.

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Tue Apr 08, 2003 4:33 pm by Benja

Wed Apr 09, 2003 11:38 am by Dorsai

No problems on XP either

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Wed Apr 09, 2003 2:30 pm by mrfg

i´m running FL under Win98SE, never saw a problem... I had WinME instaled a few months ago, but it was too slow for everything... it seemed too heavy. So I went back to Win98SE and I have no regrets!

Wed Apr 09, 2003 2:32 pm by mattxr

98SE is the best runs every game i've tried and not a prob, although its not quite as good as MSDos v3.3

Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:16 pm by The Elf

Windows 2000 Pro is actually fairly strong for games, now days. It wasn't when it first came out, but I've never had a problem.

XP's kernel is leaner that W2k, but that's about the only thing that makes XP better.

Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:58 am by Unpro

Works like magic in win98. Just get the latest driver, direct x and stuff like that.

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Hit your enemy when they surrender
Hit your enemy when they can't fight no more

Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:11 pm by Volpone

The problem I have with Win 2k is that many older programs (i.e., made in 2000 or earlier) erroneously identify it as Win NT 4.0 and refuse to run.

I'm sticking to Win 98 SE until M$ stops supporting it. I have yet to come across new software that won't run on 98 SE, while my XP-using friends have problems running all sorts of games.

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Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:15 pm by NOMADS-VS.SHADOWS

I've got it running on both XP and 98se. Personally I like 98se cause It's the only OS I can run Thief 1 on w/out flaws. By the way,(getting off topic) has anyone tried out the myjemm program for Privateer 1? Success? Failures? I've had both.

Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:24 pm by Chandrasekhar Limit

Running Win2K here. FL is solid, no CTDs, no nothing.

I've never had a compatibility problem with Win2K either for games written before 2000. Some gamers forget to do this and perhaps this is why, but there is a compatibility update one must download from Microsoft for Win2K if one wants to run games written for Win95/98.

Heck, with an MS-DOS boot disk I can still play DOS-based games like Privateer 1 (as long as I have a partition on my HD formatted in FAT).

Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:42 pm by sp00n

hehe, i recently installed win98 on my 2nd harddrive (additionally to winXP), and about 10 minutes after the installation i encountered my first bluescreen

yet for games, win98 has no flaws.
i only installed it again so that i could use my old gravis firebird joystick, which isnt supported by winXP anymore.
(hell, 7 years old and still works like a charm!!)

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