win 98 > XP
 

ok, im considering getting xp with my new upgrade. i have one question, if i upgrade to xp will all my games i have now still work?

yea they should the only game i havent been able to play on xp was deadly dozen

you shouldnt have a problem

xp is teh suckzor its for computer illiterate nearsighted people
hitler says
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Upgrading isn't the best idea.

A fresh install is highly recommended otherwise things might screw up later on

I just upgraded to XP, the only problem I had was that I had to reinstall a few things, but not MOHAA.

Oh that and my Adaptec CD Creator said launching it would make "Windows unstable" so I can't use that anymore because it's not compatible with XP, and I'm too lazy to get a new version.

But yeah, the upgrade went well for me, but you have a different machine so I'm not sure about what will happen after you upgrade

Why don't you get the latest patch for CD Creator that is compatible w/ XP?

And Scrot, make sure you have some decent system specs because XP is a hog.

Especially if you are coming from 98. Win 98 does bad things to a computer and needs a fresh install periodically.

think this can handel it? its the upgrade im getting within a week, just trying to shop around for the cheapist price now. i dont think il get xp right away though, the program itself is 150 then the cost to install it is $100
BOARD: ASUS A7N 8X - DELUXE
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
MEMORY: 512 MB DDR 2700 RAM (one piece, Crucial preferred, but Kingston is OK)
CASE: Antec Mid Tower Case w/ 300W Power Supply

I have a Celeron 1.1GHz with 256MB of PC-133 RAM and XP runs fine.

I don't know about XP but some of my older games didn't work with 2000

(like Wing Commander Prophecy which is old (1998), but decent by today's standards)

You might have some problems with DOS-based games, but most of todays games, even 1 - 2 years old, will work fine. If Half-Life will work on XP, which it does, then most games will work on XP.

Just be sure you have AT LEAST 64MB of system memory, and a 300mhz processor, preferably a PIII.

PS: Like Blood said, don't upgrade, totally reinstall the OS.

i dont have to format the drive do i?

To totally reinstall, yes.

if your computer has 98, i would think it might be a bit too old for XP, even my 1.6 ghz has problems with xp, i just got a corrupted file which made me reinstall xp and reformat my drive, wiped the whole drive out.

does anyone bother to read threads anymore before posting? i said im cionsidering getting it installed with my upgrade! i just dont want to loose all the games i have on my hard drive! christ people!

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":4ef4b]does anyone bother to read threads anymore before posting? i said im cionsidering getting it installed with my upgrade! i just dont want to loose all the games i have on my hard drive! christ people![/quote:4ef4b]

That's not what you said.

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":4ef4b]ok, im considering getting xp with my new upgrade. i have one question, if i upgrade to xp will all my games i have now still work?[/quote:4ef4b]

That's what you said. You asked if your games would work on XP, not if you could keep them. Besides, I don't think you can upgrade from Win98 to XP, only Win2K or ME, but I may be wrong.

You don't want to upgrade anyway, you want to format and install.

I understood what you meant, but my advice stands - you want a crispy, fresh windows install. The couple of days it takes to get everything back to normal and installed is well worth it. If you upgrade an old win98 install *shudders* to XP, the quality of your xp will only be as good as *shudders* your old 98.

Exactly. I don't believe you can convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS one the OS is already installed, not to mention the location of all of you registry keys and system files (System to System32) will be different, so your programs will not regonize that change.

Just because the disk says it's able to upgrade does not mean it will do it properly.

[quote="Bazooka_Joe":ee583]Exactly. I don't believe you can convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS one the OS is already installed, not to mention the location of all of you registry keys and system files (System to System32) will be different, so your programs will not regonize that change.

Just because the disk says it's able to upgrade does not mean it will do it properly.[/quote:ee583]

I totally agree with Pest and Joe here.

I was just about to comment on changing from FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32 Bit) to NTFS (New Tech. File System) , because when you do this your computer will run a bit more smooth and you won't have to defragment so often (i haven't done that in like 3 months and everything still works very smooth).

Also to comment on the older DOS games, they do work with XP but you sometimes need to tweek/untweek to get things running (I got Monkey Island to work nicely biggrin: )

i havent ever defraged since i formated in december. no problems here. I guess il do a fresh install, il just have to rent/ re download all my games again.

BTW my little rant was directed towards Jotun who posted this even after i stated twice i was getting an upgrade:
[quote:2e214]if your computer has 98, i would think it might be a bit too old for XP, even my 1.6 ghz has problems with xp, i just got a corrupted file which made me reinstall xp and reformat my drive, wiped the whole drive out.[/quote:2e214]

sorry if i accedently offended anyone. my apologies. freak:

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":4830d]i havent ever defraged since i formated in december. no problems here. I guess il do a fresh install, il just have to rent/ re download all my games again.

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Well there are lots of other good things about NTFS, the one i like most is that when/if your computer crashes, everything up to the point of the crash has been saved (this would not have happend on the FAT32 system). Also there are numerous of security perks the NTFS provides happy: