No Win98 DOOM 3 [Jul 27, 2004, 9:23 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
In today's (unusually late) DOOM 3 newsbit, a post on
PlanetDOOM confirms from
Activision that DOOM 3 will not run under Windows 98 or Win98SE, but that
Windows XP or Windows 2000 will be required.
I've worked in IT support and my heart sinks and fills with dread when a customer tells me they are using 98/ME. It's simple is a crap, unstable and outdated OS.
NT 4 was bad but moving in the right direction, NT 5(win2000) was a lot better but long boot times were a pain, NT 5.1(XP) is much better.
I wish we could stop having to support 98/ME but then I wish we could stop supporting SCO unix too ( god that's a bad OS, I used it for 8 years before being converted to Linux ) we support AIX(32/64bit), HPUX(32/64bit), SOLARIS(32/64) plus a few more nix's, SCO is the biggest cause of server support calls and 98/ME is the biggest cause of client calls even though the number sites using 98/ME is dropping all the time.
You want a small, low overhead OS for games?
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ just update the default video driver.
Also check out:
http://www.knoppix.net/
Someone recommended Suse 9.1 personnal, I've been having network problems ( very slow lan transfers ) after updating a machine from 8.1 to 9.1 so I won't recommend it.
Suse 8.2 has recently given network freeze up ( have to do /etc/rc.d/network restart ), but I spent a good hour or so play Quake3 against my daughter the other day without any problems from my laptop running Suse 8.2. Previously I had no problems Suse ( from 6.4 up ).
NT 4 was bad but moving in the right direction, NT 5(win2000) was a lot better but long boot times were a pain, NT 5.1(XP) is much better.
I wish we could stop having to support 98/ME but then I wish we could stop supporting SCO unix too ( god that's a bad OS, I used it for 8 years before being converted to Linux ) we support AIX(32/64bit), HPUX(32/64bit), SOLARIS(32/64) plus a few more nix's, SCO is the biggest cause of server support calls and 98/ME is the biggest cause of client calls even though the number sites using 98/ME is dropping all the time.
You want a small, low overhead OS for games?
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ just update the default video driver.
Also check out:
http://www.knoppix.net/
Someone recommended Suse 9.1 personnal, I've been having network problems ( very slow lan transfers ) after updating a machine from 8.1 to 9.1 so I won't recommend it.
Suse 8.2 has recently given network freeze up ( have to do /etc/rc.d/network restart ), but I spent a good hour or so play Quake3 against my daughter the other day without any problems from my laptop running Suse 8.2. Previously I had no problems Suse ( from 6.4 up ).
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