phil stanbridge Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 That is the question... I've got my hands on a second drive and I will be reinstalling one of these operating systems purely for CM's use. Which O/S in your opinion, is the best for CM? I'm going to be using it with a 1ghz Thunderbird and half a gig of ram I love XP, but I have some issues with the graphics card drivers. Until they sort that out the build will become redundant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarb Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 I've run CMBO sucessfully on both as well as on plain Win98. With all of the Win9x series you will be using the same video, sound and other drivers so the experience should be the same or very similar. I'm kind of a minimalist when it comes to my gaming machine so if it were me I'd go for Win98 SE simply because it has less bells/whistles/junk in it than ME, but the two are pretty similar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted October 10, 2001 Author Share Posted October 10, 2001 My thoughts exactly. I'm going to go for 98SE. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 98se is the better choice, but by far superior if you do not get too hung up on the GUI is win95 OSR2. Still the most stable of the series, and is a bit faster to boot. WWB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 Not ME...way too many people have done clean installs to get back to SE. SE is the most stable of the 9x series. You should be just fine with it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 I second wwb_99's suggestions. If you opt for Win95 OSR2 (also known as 'Win95B' or 'Win95C'), be aware that it doesn't properly support USB and that a USB patch is actually necessary (along with a minimum install of DirectX 5.0) for AGP video card drivers to function properly. If you attempt to install the video drivers before installing the USB patch and DirectX 'whatever' your drivers may not install properly. For most people Win 98SE is probably one of the best choices since it supports most of the hardware and it doesn't have too much 'gunk' slowin' down the system compared to WinME. [ 10-10-2001: Message edited by: Schrullenhaft ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted October 11, 2001 Author Share Posted October 11, 2001 Guys, thanks for the advice. 95OSR2 is just too painful. I don't think I've even got the cd anymore.. I went with 98SE in the end, and thankfully, using a ghosted image, got the build on my machine in under five minutes. Now, this is the interesting bit. My KyroII. I do believe it isn't fully supported by CM. Is there anyway I can find this out for sure? Look at the readme that installs with the game. Depending on the drivers I use, I either have to put up with garbled text on the screen, or transparent vehicles. Even worse is when I go to play against a colleague via TCP. For some reason, the lower half of the screen corrupts graphically and I'm left with a very stable, but highly unusual game of CM.. All the buttons disappear and I'm left with guessing what button is where. Quite amusing actually, even if it is gutting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted October 13, 2001 Share Posted October 13, 2001 Did your Ghost image include your vid drivers and CM ? If so, I'd try uninstalling the vid drivers, and reinstalling first. Then/and uninstall CM and reinstall, if you haven't already Let us know if you get your problem resolved, and what you did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted October 14, 2001 Author Share Posted October 14, 2001 Yes, all was complete in the build. It just doesn't like it. I reinstalled my Geforce2MX and that particular problem went away. I now get problems with odd crashes. Seems to be since I reinstalled CMMOS. Very odd indeed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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