magura4224 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 windows 98 mucked up so i took the easy root and installed win 2k to sort it out but now none of my games work is there any patches i can use or do i have to do summin else. plz plz sumone help me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Ranger 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 I am using 2kPRO and everything runs sweetly...even GR. When you installed 2k, did you "Upgrade" or reformat the HD and install 2k? I would recommend reformatting your hard drive for best performance. Consider this: You owned Windows 98. All your hardware(sound card, video card, etc.) had drivers for Win98. Perhaps some of your programs only ran on 95/98. Then you Upgraded to Win2000. All your file system settings and structures were upgraded to the Win2K architecture. | However, your drivers remained, along with all the other Win98 stuff. THIS WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS ACROSS THE OPERATING SYSTEM! So, before I continue, I need you to confirm that you did indeed "Upgrade". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magura4224 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Author Share Posted April 10, 2003 no i didnt upgrade, i have tried to format my hd but it said i need to make a file which i cant think of rite now. my op isnt running fat-fat32 but the other one lol. sorry i dont know much about computers but i will try and get my dad to format my computer. thanx for the help ne way Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Ranger 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 Hey no problem magura4224. We are here to assist new members of GR.NET. You came to the right place. It is good that you didn't upgrade, as you will have the issues that I stated. The file system you are talking about is "NTFS". You need to completely format the hard drive in NTFS, then go about installing 2k as the manual says. Shouldn't need a specific file to make it work...it's all contained on the disk. As for GR | There are Patches for the games called :1.3.5 and the 1.4 Patch. Also, be sure you install drivers for your video card etc that are Windows 2000 compatable too. See what your dad can help you out with, as far as the OS, then we'll go from there. Welcome to GR.NET. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magura4224 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Author Share Posted April 10, 2003 thanx youve been a great help i will post back when i have spoken to my dad i will prob go back to 98 because i prefer it unless you think 2k would imrove the performence of my system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Ranger 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 I used to have 98 on my 'puter, and I must say 2k is MUCH better: More powerful and easier to use. I could go into detail, but if you have 2K available, I'd go with that. Very stable OS. Love it. Talk to you later bro...hope to see you in Multi-Player sometime too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magura4224 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Author Share Posted April 10, 2003 ok man thnx yer hopefuly will c u in mp my you will know if im there cos my tag will be mag4224 or magura4224. i will c what i can do with 2k Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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