To be frank Im kinda sick of using windows xp, and its look and the recent amount of problems ive had. I managed to fix the problem with battlefield,and was able to play online for a solid hour without a hitch. So im thinking of switching my OS to either windows 98 SE or windows ME as both can do DX 9 and run faster with games and have better compatibility than xp does.
So what would you recommend? I tried Windows ME instead of XP a while back, but i noticed that video placback using the DIVX player was serverly performance cut under the ME OS. It appeared the frame rate of the video and the overall reaction speed of the player application had slowed down... perhaps this is the old windows version taking its toll on newer apps? Or perhaps i didnt have the latest drivers for windows ME?
Anyway i found ME to be Sh*t (scuze my language) it was really bad and leads up to the bad reviews ive seen on the net. However i have used windows 98 on my old pc and it was neat, also i can play my old games like Populous the Beginning, plus the windows install will take less HD space. The only thing im unsure of, is poor performance on video playback with DIVX, so im wondering if to dual boot with xp, so i can use that for tv capping etc, but if windows 98 SE will do all this fine, then do let me know..
I was remotely thinking of windows 2000, but when i tried to format using the setup engine, it was taking ages so i gave up and rolled back to xp from ME.
I am hoping to make the switch tonight, but i would like your views on this.
Finally, if windows 98se is my ticket, does anyone know anything useful i can get for it? Eg: an msconfig type utility and a system restore type utility>