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benefit to upgrading from 98E to w2k/XP?

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Lilwolf:

Also, XP has better directX support I hear  (I haven't compared them... but thats what I hear anyway).

btw, stick with 98 unless your using a development system or need it for something specific.  No real reason for games (in fact, reasons not to)

Howard_Casto:

Agreed for now 98's your best bet if it's a dedicated cab.

Jakobud:

I don't know what sort of under the hood problems exist with Windows ME as opposed to 98, but I have experienced ME and bit and the boot up time is WAY faster than 98's boot up time.  Probably boots up in about 1/4 of the time or less than it takes 98 to boot up.  So that's sort of a good thing for arcade cabinets.

Jakobud

Howard_Casto:

Windows Me is completely unstable on 95% of all pcs.... If you've got a machien that'll work on me then more power to ya, but it's a miracle that it works.  
;)

Blake:

I'm probably going to downgrade from Win2k to 98SE in the near future.  With 2k, I can't run Golden Tee Golf or Dragon's Lair, and everything I'm doing now, I can do in 98SE.  The only reason I went with 2k in the first place was stability, but since I won't be doing much, there really isn't much chance of crashing.

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