win2k - gaming ?

[excon]

Somebody?

I am about to install win2k but want to know if it is possible to game in it. Some friend told me that it sucked at games...is that true?

Can I run for example halflife and quake3 and getting the same fps that in win98SE ?

I got the matrox g400 max.

Thanx for helping!

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PIII-500MHz @ 574MHz with an Abit BE6 momma
128mb pc-100
Mill G400 MAX 32mb
Seagate 13.3 gb Uata66 hdd
Seagate 17.2 gb Uata66 hdd
Adaptec 1542 SCSI card
Plexwriter 4/2/20 CD Writer
SB Live!
Winblows 98 SE & DX7
3DMark Result 5623,51 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 8821,87 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2600,02 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 60,88 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 51,13 FPS
Fill Rate 248,78 MTexels/s

[Rags]

I have a similar system to yours, and dual-boot win2k/win98 on separate HDD's. I play HL/TFC and Q3A just fine, performance is not quite where Win98 is, and there are visual irregularities occasionally, but overall it's not too bad.

Rags

[Clemme]

I have a G400 32MB DH, I can easily play Q2, Q3, Half-life & UT. But i get 5-10 less FPS when i run benchmarks (timedemos) in Q2 + Q3.
I dont mind that performance loss (it doesn´t matter much if its 70 or 60 FPS *hehe*) Because Win2K is SO much more stable than Win98. Of course there´s errors in Win2K (what did you expect its from MS) but the stability is super.

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[Nuno]

With current drivers, performance is decent. Not good (not even comparable to win98 turboGL). Q3 perform better, close to win98 ICD levels. Half-life performs ok, but it will default the refresh rate to 60Hz no matter what you so. Q3 has a console command to set the refresh rate, not so in Q2 engine games.