XP PRO... or WIN98 SE???

[holdenskickfords]

I run a system with a 2.40Bghz P4, 512mb pc2700,128mb GeForce 4 Ti 4600, on a Gigabyte GA-8IEX.

I play a lot of games like Max Payne 2, BF1942, Medal of Honour etc.... and i was wondering... what would bring me the best performance? windows xp pro?... or windows 98 se?

i currently am running windows 98 se and am having problems i have neer had with xp. i think it is just stability problems. so what do you think... win xp or 98se???

[thekingofpain]

Try dual booting it---experience it yourself with all the features you personally want to implement and decide---

[HeadBand]

xp is much more stable than 98 but xp uses more resources but with that system xp won't bog it down too much

[thekingofpain]

ooops---
:-)

[holdenskickfords]

ok.. ill look into dual booting it.. i'm not sure how though so looks like a bit more reading for me lol.

[elmers]

Dual boot. In my experience games run better under win98se. WinXP pro is very demanding and has the refresh rate issue in games.

On the other hand XP is a tad more stable but this is not noticable under normal computing conditions.

[Atomic Rooster]

I've been running XP Pro since it came out and have not experianced any performance problems running any games nor have I seen any "refresh rate issues" either.

[ragtop]

I have a system that has pretty similar specs to yours. I initially set it up on WIN 98SE, then Dual booted with WIN XP (actually I set them up on different hard drives, not really a dual boot configuration). I never had a problem with either operating system, but now that I'm somewhat used to XP I really have no desire to boot 98SE.

I don't do that much gaming, (although I have played quite a bit of UT 2003 and a little Max Payne and haven't noticed any difference in performance).

Mostly, XP just has a more modern "look and feel" to me. I guess thats what other people refer to as "eye candy".

[elmers]

Atomic Rooster: Check the monitor refresh rate in cs? Is it at 60Hz?

[Atomic Rooster]

How do I do that? I know while playing CS, the game runs at 100fps.