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Subject: Re: (Seems off-topic, but I'm doing it for computer chess purposes!)

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 11:46:06 08/02/01

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On August 02, 2001 at 14:40:38, Ed Panek wrote:

>On August 02, 2001 at 14:17:26, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On August 02, 2001 at 14:16:53, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>Thinking of upgrading.  Worried about losing some functionality.
>>>
>>>Will Win2000 support the GeForce2 MX card?  Any 3D-type games?  FireWire cards?
>>>
>>>A;so, how easy/difficult/painful will the "upgrade" be?
>
>
>   I cant tell you what the problem will be but there will be one..nothing ever
>goes smoothly in life...hehe just kidding
>
>Seriously, I know that WIn2K probably lacks in the video support area, the other
>thing is WIN NT and 2K dont use DOS directly, so if the video card or sound card
>is accessed in DOS in a game it might not work.
>
>
>good luck,
>
>Ed


Also companies pay Microsoft money to test their hardware with the different
os's. It took forever for 3dfx to test their product and make it compatible with
NT. The reason is that the large consumer base of NT users were mainly business
users and they didnt play games...so why test a hi end gaming video card with
the product?


Ed



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