Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 06:50:51 08/03/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 20:54:22, Matthew Friend 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? > > >Hi Roy: >I have used windows 2000 pro for more than a year now. To put it simply I love >it. For a while I had a dual boot system (very easy to do) so that I could play >Mechwarrior 3 (it had problems installing on win2000). Other than a very old >dos game and mech3 I never had any problems with games. Most of the newer games >are compatible with win2000. If you apply the sp2 patch to windows 2000 there >is now the option to run the game in "compatibility" mode: either windows 95 or >windows 98. > >I use a Geforce2 400mx 64meg video card and it runs beautiful. I would download >the latest video drivers from: www.nvidia.com and I would also apply all the >patches/sp2/directx 8a from microsoft. > >I have used chessbase 8, fritz 6, and chessmaster 8000 on windows 2000 (the only >one that had a problem was with chessmaster 8000 but they have fixed the problem >in a patch). I love the crash free life... get windows 2000! Matt OK, I'm definitely psyched to make the move. Two questions remain: 1. Where can I get a (legit, of course) copy for a low price? E-Bay? 2. What can/will go wrong during installation? (I.e., I hope I won't have to reinstall all 500 apps I use now under Win98se -- I hope the install carries them over, registry-wise!) Thanks to you and everybody who has helped me in this decision!!
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