Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 00:24:37 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 01:01:29, Jason Williamson wrote: >I use it as my operating system, but I don't recommend you using it UNLESS you >need it. Ie you have 2 cpus, you need a strong networking OS, you need solid >security and stability at the expense of capabiltiy and multimedia applications. > >basicly its ok for chess software (No true dos mode btw) but if you do anything >involving multimedia, such as gaming....then I don't recommend it. > >JW Windows2000 is fine for multimedia and gaming. It supports the directX technologies perfectly, and I have experienced to performance loss whatsoever in these kinds of applications. The only thing that can be significantly slower is disk access, and only of you're using NTFS. Even then it isn't a problem. I play all sorts of games on a slow Celeron 450 MHz with an old ASUS3400 TNT video card, and everything is smooth. Unlike Windows NT 4.0, Windows2000 works fine in these cases, IMO. And for chess, I certainly don't see a problem.
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