[Rictor]

http://www.planetdoom.com/#PQN469982

Doom 3 will NOT run under Windows 98. You will need XP or 2000.

[Tiara]

Good...

*goes to collect her payment from Gates*

BWAHAHAHA!

*cough*

eh... Nevermind...

[Ford Prefect]

Doom can bite me.

[an0n]

To be fair, who runs a 98 machine powerful enough to run DOOM3?

[Rictor]

the OS has nothing to do with the hardware. They are not related. Xp does not magically overclock my videocard, nor does it make the game run faster. It takes up more resources, which actually makes the whole computer run slower.

[Thorn]

Which is why you should run 2000. It uses a fraction of the resources XP does.

[phreak]

i think they're releasing a linux port as well

[WMCoolmon]

*Uses 2000*

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by an0n
To be fair, who runs a 98 machine powerful enough to run DOOM3?

I do...

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Thorn
Which is why you should run 2000. It uses a fraction of the resources XP does.

True, but for games, XP is still better AFAIK - 2000 has te HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) that makes games run slower than on 98. I think thy worked around that to some extent in XP.

[Gloriano]

Well I did expect that, and i have XP pro

[castor]

Originally posted by Rictor
the OS has nothing to do with the hardware. They are not related. Xp does not magically overclock my videocard..

No, but you'll need drivers to run the HW

[Liberator]

That sucks.  Guess that's one game I won't be buying.  I refuse to pay $300 for the OS(I ain't buying Home, i don't care what anybody says) and then drop another $50 for the game.  Beg's the question though, aside from disk allocation(NTFS for XP, FAT32 for 98se), what's so special in Windows XP that makes it more desirable that 98se?  I'm cheap, so I probably be using 98 after Longhorn comes out.

[Bobboau]

it can handel more than 128mb of ram properly

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by Liberator
That sucks.  Guess that's one game I won't be buying.  I refuse to pay $300 for the OS(I ain't buying Home, i don't care what anybody says) and then drop another $50 for the game.  Beg's the question though, aside from disk allocation(NTFS for XP, FAT32 for 98se), what's so special in Windows XP that makes it more desirable that 98se?  I'm cheap, so I probably be using 98 after Longhorn comes out.

$200, not $300. And you're waiting for Longhorn? Good luck. Current estimates place it in 2006, at least.

[Liberator]

Umm, last I checked XP Pro was $299, sounds like $300 to me. :d

[01010]

Originally posted by Liberator
That sucks.  Guess that's one game I won't be buying.  I refuse to pay $300 for the OS(I ain't buying Home, i don't care what anybody says) and then drop another $50 for the game.  Beg's the question though, aside from disk allocation(NTFS for XP, FAT32 for 98se), what's so special in Windows XP that makes it more desirable that 98se?  I'm cheap, so I probably be using 98 after Longhorn comes out.

You people BUY your OS?

Weird.

[Cyker]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB

Originally posted by an0n
To be fair, who runs a 98 machine powerful enough to run DOOM3?

I do... [/B]

Woo, me too!
But it looks like I won't be touching Doom 3 until they release the Linux code. My Win2k installation is so freakin' slow and f'ed up compared to my '98 one that I have stopped using it for anything but testing!

It pisses me off - I have a GB of RAM and Win98 boots up in 3 seconds whereas 2k takes almost 3 minutes! Add to that the fact that 2k thrashes the hard disk when I do *ANYTHING* (right click on a text file... *thrash thrash thrash*)... kinda disappointing. Better cache management by arse!
To be fair this isn't a hugely common thing - Most of the 2k systems I've set up at work have been fine, but damned if I can figure out why it does it on mine. The only diff AFAIK is that at work we use Intel boxes and my machine is an AMD...

Say... err... on that note, anyone here got any experience with Gentoo? It's taken me 2 days just to get to stage3 - How long will it take me to install X and KDE...? *whimper*

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by 01010


You people BUY your OS?

Weird.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Bobboau
it can handel more than 128mb of ram properly

I've been brought up to believe that 256mb was 98's limit, not 128.