OT: Notebook OS

[Suicide Junkie]

Arakiel said:The OS isn't going to matter with that machine. Your problem is going to be the video card. 256 shared on a 1ghz machine is likely to be slow as hell for modern games no matter what OS you have on it. I'm in serious doubt if you could even play Doom 3 at all. Evil Genium i'm not familiar with but I believe it is 3d, yes? The shared video memory is gong to slow you down with any 3d game.

That sounds a lot like my system. Reasonable games run fine for me.
The Evil Genious demo at least runs nice and only slows down when a multiple blocks of C4 or landmines go off in my base.
Doom 3 is brutal even on newer machines.

SE4, meanwhile runs fine on my 166Mhz laptop with 48 megs of ram or so, and is much more entertaining that Doom3 from what I've seen.

PS: 98 all the way!

[Makinus]

Just so you know the results of my notebook problem, i installed both Win98se and Winxp in my notebbok, and i´m using Win98 for games...

While i still don´t get playable speed with games like Evil Genius (probably because the video cad) i can play a lot of games i like with very good speeds in the notebook (Dungeon Keeper, SEIV, Xcom3)...

And, best of all, a lot of games that don´t work under XP are now available for me to play under Win98 (Xcom3 just to point an example)

About WinXP i found a very helpful site that was pointed in another thread in this board abou windows optimization that helped me to speed up my XP (mainly turning off some bells-and-wistles that are not really useful in XP except for cosmetic reasons), but i´ll keep Win98 so i can play games that don´t work under XP.

In resume i´m now with a notebook that is dual-booting with Win98 and WinXP and i divided my 30GB hd in 3 partitions: a Fat32 2gb partition for Win98, a NTFS 3gb partition for WinXP and a 25GB FAT32 partition where i put all my games/videos/etc to be acessed by both OS.

Thanks for all your help people!

[Karibu]

I miss Win 98 for one thing. MOO2 is unstable with W2K. Perhpas I install 98 some day again.