1/25    Do most games now support Win2k/NT or do you still need 95/98/ME?
        Is the first clause equiv to asking if most games now use DirectX?
           \_ No, they're not equiv because NT won't run recent DirectX games.
                \_ NT4.0 does up to directx3 which is all old stuff.
        \_ I've been using my Apple IIc to play "Montazuma's Revenge" for
           months and it's worked dandy.  Never crashed once.
           \_ No, they're not equiv because NT won't run recent DirectX games.
                \_ NT4.0 does up to directx3 which is all old stuff.
        \_ Running w2k with nvidea gforce 2mx card, pentium 3, direct 8.
           So far all games work fine but I don't play FPS games so YMMV if
           that's your thing.
        \_ Well, there's minesweeper for w2k (don't believe there was a nt
           Starcraft.
           version), so i'm happy.
           \_ Pinball is kinda cool too.
        \_ My friend didn't listen to me and he installed ME instead of w2k.
           His computer crashed 6 times in a night while trying to play
           Starcraft.  "ME is a piece of crap and bill gates is a con man!"
           was his conclusion.  "ME even crashes just sitting there after
           boot up!" was his latest observation.
           \_ i play starcraft and/or RA2 all the time on ME and never crash
              -shac
           \_ I just installed ME on my system, and it hasn't crashed yet.
              I think it depends a lot on how you treat the system.
                \_ Totally.  Have you ever tried speaking nicely while
                   watering your plants?
                   \_ I don't water my plants.  Who has time for that?
           \_ If your computer crashes randomly after boot up you
              really need to look at whether your motherboard is
              messed up.  Overclocking, overheating CPU, bad mobo, bad
              memory.  Then again if it worked fine in Win98/95 then
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              it's probably not your hardware.
              \_ I did suggest to my friend that maybe it was a
                 hardware problem, but he said that linux ran just fine.
                 \_ linux != windows.
                 \_ linSUX has a higher toleration for some types
                    of PC shit like OC'ing, bad ram, etc.
                 \_ Random crashes while the box is doing nothing are almost
                    guaranteed to be hardware problems.  And by nothing, I
                    do mean nothing.  You don't have any random toys running
                    in the background doing god knows what while talking to
                    Real's servers.