Windows ME?

#1 It runs on 98, so I assume it will run on ME.

#2 Running and Compiling TGE on Windows Me!

#3 Why take ME? Its the worst game and develloper platform you can think of.

#4 Im using ME because thats the only OS CD I had avaiable :P

#5 Hi, iam using windows ME, it works fine

#6 Yay it works! joy of joys!

#7 Actually, I think XP is a lot worse than ME for gaming. I use ME and I have had no problems with Torque, not to mention pretty much every other 3D game out there ;)

Mike

#8 I've tried the thing on win98SE, ME, 2000 and XP it worked fine!

#9 98SE is still the best OS for games. The next best choice would be Win2K. If I had to choose ANY other OS for games after Win2K, I'd pick Linux or the MacOSX. Win95 is rather limited, and WinXP is just pure crap, as is WinME. I'm sorry, I don't know about you, but I'd prefer keeping my 20% of system resources for better things than bugs turned into features.

#10 @Charles McKee, good point, although WinME has great memory management, windows 95/98 does not.

For exmaple, running 98 with 128mb ram. If you open up a file that requires 32mb of ram, it will use it, but once finished, it does not clear it from ram completly. It leaves about 2-3mb, but It thinks its free. Over time, opening, and closing programs, your ram will be full, but your system thinks its empty. Opening one more program, say a 12mb program, your computer will crash, and cause memory problems.

ME is great, I have had no problems whatsoever.

#11 Benchmarking has shown Windows ME to be the slowest of the the 98/SE line of OSes.

#12 OMG, your all nuts. Anything Windows pre-2000 is an accident waiting to happen. I have ran them all, win 3.1 windows 95,98 98SE, NT 4.0, ME, 2000, 2000 PRO, 2000 SERVER, 2000 Advanced Server, XP Home and XP Pro.

For development work there is no Win OS better than XP Pro. Dont be mislead.

2000 and up have features that just make living with a computer easier.

The files and Settings Import Wizard alone is reason to upgrade. With the click of a button transfer everything from your desktop, outlook, My Documents and settings to you new computer, or back it all up on a CD. If your had drive crashes pop in the cd and wa'lla.

try ctrl + alt + esc
this life saver cant help you if you are on a pre 2000 OS

"There are only 10 types of people in the world who understand binary"

#13 Thank you Mr. DiLoreto! NT based OSes are considerably more stable than anything built off of DOS (the entire 3.x/9x/ME line). On a more specific point, if you are running XP and haven't discovered the new Hibernate feature, you've been missing out. For me, this feature alone was worth the upgrade, I don't think I could live without it anymore. Plus, lets not foget how nice ClearType is either.

#14 I have to say personally I think XP windows is just pure bull crap! For development anyway, I have to use XP at work because they want me to and it is so unstable for development I have to reboot it 3 times a day and have already had to reformat it once after only 7 months of use. While I use Win2k at home and use to develop software on it most of the time and it has never failed me especially for gaming and programming.

About Windows ME, if you can get away from it do so. All WinME is is Win98SE with Win2k GUI like style implementation. WinME isn't that great, but then again if you cannot help it then I'm sure you users can find some way to keep it running with minimal problems. Good luck to ya. :P

About Linux, good server operating system that's all I have to say. :)

#15 @Nathan: You may have had bad luck with it, but I've never had a stability problem with XP. I've got an XP system that has been running for almost 4 months straight (4 months on May 1st) without a single reboot, and the only reason I had to reboot then was because we had a power outage.

#16 I just thought i'd add my vote to the XP camp. I've never had any problems with stability (that weren't self induced *cough* overclocking *cough*). It's got some niggles but it's heads above the 9x lines. However when i've seen this conversation on other sites (read flame war) it always eventually comes our that the pro-9x'ers are all running older software like half-life / counterstrike etc. and the pro XP are the more modern games.

IMHO 98 however is better than ME.

#17 I have had no problems either. I use XP at school and 2000 before that and my wife has XP on her laptop. I never have problems with stability. My 98SE machine crashes if I sneeze too hard. When I upgrade I'm probably going with XP.