Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:35:40 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need some advice Message-ID: <20050729083540.GA66756@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.61b.0507281559190.110296@dante68.u.washington.edu> References: <20050729002602.65ff60bb.dick@nagual.st> <Pine.A41.4.61b.0507281559190.110296@dante68.u.washington.edu>
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On 28 Jul Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >My options are: > > > >Athlon64-3000+ (Newcastle) on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR board (1Gb 3200 mem) > >Athlon64-3400+ (Clawhammer on the same board > >Intel Prescott 3.4Mhz on a Intel 915p board (1024 Mb DDRII pc4300 > >memory) > >I will run FreebSD on it (compile a lot of ports) and (windows-xp/98se) > >for gaming. > >Any advice is welcome. > Wha?!?! Win98?!?! are you insane? No, of course I'm not ;-) Win98se runs perfectly well on new machines and the fact is that a lot of games that I like very much *don't* run on XP. Period. The older command&conquer series i.e. and lots of point&click adventures that my wife is font of. Of course, the newer games do run on XP, but most of them also run very smooth (even smoother) on W98. Windows just for gaming to me means w98se. It's faster, smoother and smaller. I'll bring it up to modern standards though by installing the unofficial SP2 for windows98se. This gives hundreds of changes under the hood. It's programmed by very well skilled programmers (a bit like the ones of tweakui, which is not bad either). W98se systems w/ SP2 are very stable and have the looks of windows2000. Not bad at all for a couple of years more. I agree, if you want more (other) things like audio/movie etc.. go for windows2000 or XP. That's why I have all three of them. FreeBSD (to me is my main system); w98 is the gaming engine; XP is for multimedia which is still a bit difficult in the *nix world. > The only thing I could see justifying that would be playing PSX games > with bleem (since it was only supported on 98), and that's it. Doing that, that is what I'd call slow. With today's prices you should play PSX games on a psx1 (modified). Not > only that, 98 wasn't built with today's hardware, so all in all it > will be EXCEPTIONALLY slow performance wise. Heh. I remember running > win98 on a faster P3 and the fact that it was so horribly slow. Finding support for modern hardware is sometimes a little difficult, but up to now I always managed to find the right drivers. I always use kind of standard hardware (like nvidia, creativ, etc). Up and running I ghost the machine and all games run fast and smooth. Like I said earlier, smoother than under XP. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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