673920457% performance increase! OMG!

[TheDave]

ok, small exageration.

i'm on P4 1600 mhz
384 something ram
sapphire radeon 9600 pro
XP pro

i bought rollercoaster tycoon 3 last week and i was getting a steady frame rate of 10-15 fps on low settings but when i got 300+ visitors it was just intolerable. my brother said try on 'ME' you might get a slight improvement. so i put a fat32 partition on my second hard drive. now i can run it smooth on medium to high settings (with full reflections) depending on park size at a good frame rate (couldnt be bothered to check framerates with fraps but there isnt really any slowdown till 500 and it isnt bad until about 800 guests.)

so the secret is use windows ME for your games. BF vietnam can handle twice as many bots now but CoD wont play.

[silent h3ro]

POS, resouce killing XP, I hate u! I won't switch to ME anytime soon.

[TheDave]

POS, resouce killing XP, I hate u! I won't switch to ME anytime soon.


jus put it on an old hard-drive. or back up your smallest hdd and reformat iit with a 20gb fat32 partition.

p.s anyone know what to type in XP's c:/boot.ini to get the boot menu to allow me to boot ME from the secondary master EIDE. i'm sick of unplugging primary mster

[orcutt989]

Note: ME has the most errors even after service packs/updates out of any operating system. I think that the only reason why it did this for you is because ME takes up less RAM then XP. If you were to get Windows 2000, or even 98 Plus, then you would see the same improvement, but without destroying your computer with ME.

[TheDave]

Note: ME has the most errors even after service packs/updates out of any operating system. I think that the only reason why it did this for you is because ME takes up less RAM then XP. If you were to get Windows 2000, or even 98 Plus, then you would see the same improvement, but without destroying your computer with ME.

true. ive started up about 30 times and shut down once

[orcutt989]

Well then might i suggest windows 2000?

[Peerzy]

Well then might i suggest windows 2000?
Thats still running the NT core that XP is also built around. It the game is compatible 98 would be your best choice.

[twister]

yah 2000 is really stable

[orcutt989]

Thats still running the NT core that XP is also built around. It the game is compatible 98 would be your best choice.
What does Windows NT have to do with anything? Windows ME is just 98 with different Icons, and more errors.

[muchspl2]

me, are you serious :lol:
wtf

[numba1xclusive]

How bout Win 2000. Its a bit cleaner than XP, and although it has about the same bugs, its still pretty good..

[Wolfmight]

Note: ME has the most errors even after service packs/updates out of any operating system. I think that the only reason why it did this for you is because ME takes up less RAM then XP. If you were to get Windows 2000, or even 98 Plus, then you would see the same improvement, but without destroying your computer with ME.

I used both 98 and 98 SE for awhile. Both equally evil with the Illigal Opperation! That error is even useing complicated computer terminology that caused some people to fear of they're piracy acts commited on 98 back then. Hahaha, crazy. Later Kazaa came out, but everyone was past 98 by then..i would suppose.

[BawA]

a example why not to use WinMe

http://www.e7.pl/~casha/swf/windows_rg.swf