DosFreak

Backups are a MUST but they only go so far. I have 50GB of data that I backup monthly or after I make alot of changes. This 50GB must be stored on my HD because I re-organize it constantly. If I used FAT32 I would have to use 2 partitions because FAT32 does not support parititions of that size. Now, a constant worry with me is corruption of files. You see...I do ALOT of messing around with my machine because I like to learn. I have not had time to build my second machine yet (gonna be my file-server) so currently these files are on my main machine. Now occasionally when overclocking and reaching the limits of the PCI bus errors are introduced into NTFS...I've lost a couple of files this way. (Now that I'm using an Athlon, instead of a P3 I no longer have to go to extremes in overclocking so I do not experience this anymore). With FAT32 I can guarandamteea that I would have lost it all....and I have. My current backup solution is 2 100GB HD's. 1 HD for uncompressed files that I add to and reorganize. The second HD I backup to monthly (or after changes). The backup file is 50GB which cannot fit onto a FAT32 partition. FAT32 also cannot put security on my backup file...so let's say I'm connecting to my friend over the network and I'm using FAT32. Well if I didn't have a firewall he could just perform a simple \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\I$ (if the share is not turned off) and delete all of my files. With NTFS I can keep my shares, assign security to them and also to my files. Generally the higher the cluster size the greater the speed but also a greater waste of HD space. FAT32 has a higher cluster size than NTFS does by default. IIRC, FAT32 is 32kb and NTFS is 4kb. The speed decrease your noticing is probably because of that fact. You can use FAT on your NT OS partition but anyone who does is putting themselves and everyone else at risk. I absolutely hate it when people make decisions and then only think these decisions affect themselves. We are all connected people. Your machine is not your machine when it's being used as a way station to attack on MY machine. I really do not know why this thread was posted. If you cannot surf to microsoft.com/technet yourself and look up a couple of KB articles and decide which filesystem is better for you than perhaps you deserve what you will eventually get out of using an "inferior" filesystem. It's all right there in the KB. Quote: If you honestly ever suspect having a "hard disk meltdown", wouldn't you rather rely on a complete backup to CD or tape, anyway, to restore everything? I mean, you can do that in either FAT32 or NTFS. I can't see that, just because you formatted to NTFS, rather than FAT32, you're going to prevent a faulty hard disk from completely screwing up. Okay, for lesser problems, where it's not actually the HD that's at fault but, more, some aspect of the OS, I could perhaps believe that NTFS will recover the situation better. But, as I said earlier, I've been running Win2K on FAT32 to date and, on the very infrequent occasions when something HAS gone wrong, Windows has always recovered. Please, please. Someone, convince me that I'm not going to suffer a hikedown in speed if I go to NTFS.With obvious overheads, it certainly looks as though I am. (Incidentally, I notice that, under Win2K's Disk management, you can format in either FAT32 or NTFS, and cluster size anything from 512b to 8KB, but I think that, in practice, Windows prefers to use the default setting and adjusts things itself, according to the size of the partition).

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Since many of us have been using *nix machines on our corporate networks and at home. Also with this increasing usage of *nix in businesses's and at home (OSX), I think this forum is needed.

2K/XP support DirectX fine. The DirectX hack (there are 2) is for DX5/DX6 support in NT4. This will not enable D3D support for Half-Life. For NT4 you'll still have to use OGL. SP3 did add DX3 support into NT4 and Sp6 added DXplay 6 too. So if you load SP6a you'll have DX3 with Dxplay 6 loaded. It's recommended that you use OGL anyways because that's what the engine was designed under and for. I use this site to get all my patches...old skool game update site: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/ My slipstreamed NT4 pack will have the DX from Sp6a integrated into NT4 upon NT4 install. If I ever get time to finish it. So far I've been able to replace all of the old NT4 files but to add the new features of the SP I have to do some .SIF hacking....but the replaced files work fine and fix many NT4 install problems.

Update the game with the latest patch. When Half-Life was release Windows 2000 was still in very early beta. NT4 was still the king and Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5 was the latest Service Pack out. That message refers to NT4. The Unpatch version of Half-Life (original CD) is basically too "dumb" to recognize Windows 2000. Simply update your game with the HUGE patch from www.sierra.com ALWAYS PATCH YOUR GAMES IF YOU EXPECT TO PLAY GAME IN 2K/XP.

http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_center/press_rel/2002/opengl_arb.cfm OMG! Matrox may finally have decent OGL! They've barely been able to keep themselves at an ATI level as far as OGL is concerned. Go Matrox!

1. OSX is slower than OS9. FACT 2. OSX is not more stable than 2K/XP. FACT. 3. OSX is most likely buggier than 2K/XP. FACT. 4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. FACT. 5. How the heck can Apple represent the "perfect Unix Based Machine"? WTF? 6. This site is not a PRO MS site. It's a site about NT. It is PRO as in Professional. Well some of us anyway. 7. A** is probably censored by default. It's no an MS conpiracy. If it bother's you so much then email Phillip and ask him to remove it, instead of B*tching on the forums.

Mabye everyone should edit their posts and add either Norton Corp or Mcaffe Corp to the bottom......

ehhh, more like it if you do not play the latest and greatest. 2-2.5 years ago=2000. Imagine playing MOH:AA,Quake 3,SS,SS:SE,NOLF today on your TNT2. Bleh! (I remember the pain...the horror...*shuder*) No thank ye. I'll keep to my upgrade cycle. (Buy when it comes out...but only but if it offers me a significant increase in FPS/compatibilty,usefulness)

As stated by Hat Monster on www.arstechnica.com : Quote: You want to go from a modern, hard linking, journalling, secure and reliable file system to an FS that routinely loses data, is a clumsy extension of a fifteen year old dinosaur, has no security to speak of and performs directory operations like it's on a PIO-0 1,100RPM hard disk? Your choice of course.

*clears throat* Mmmmhmmmm. [rant] Any BSOD's that you received under NT4/2K and did not receive under XP were caused by driver problems not a "superior OS". [/rant] [rant] Crappy hardware (such as the SB Live!) does not a stable system make. This is not the OS's fault no matter how much you wish to blame it as such. [/rant] [rant] By the very fact of being around longer. Being developed for longer and being marketed for a specific market, it is foolish to declare Windows XP as more Stable/Less buggy than Windows 2000. Windows XP Pro is obviously simply the uncrippled Home version and the Home version is the crippled Pro version. Which means that the Pro version is not as "Pro" as 2000 Pro. This is a fact. This is not debatable. Yes, get over it. Windows 2000 Pro is currently and will likely forever be more "Pro" than XP Pro. YES. IT IS. [/rant]

[heston]THEY FINALLY DID IT! DAMN THEM...DAMN....THEM...ALL...TO...HELLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!![/heston]

sigh. Too busy too explain and I'm tired of explaining. Search the forums for ACT and Compatibility....you'll find all that ye wanna know.

There's a program that comes with the OEM Tools that will when run will format your FAT32 partition so that in the future if you decide to convert to NTFS then it will convert to the proper 4KB clustersize instead of the 512b Cluster size. It's pretty neat, also give's people an opportunity to test out both without having to repartition.

Hmmmm, TNT2 M64 I've heard of people with this card having problems with the Sims with some Detonators. I've never seen these problems myself though. Try some different Det's. Also....what kind of error message do you receive?

Okay, as for the slow XP benchmarks. It's a documented bug. It's supposedly going to be fixed in SP1. Basically it's ALOT slower than 2K in SCSI. As for the NT4 benchmarks it could very well be a driver problem. Dunno what the drivers are dated at but as the years progress expect less and less NT4 performance. Just the way it 'tis I'm afraid. It's ridiculous too because hardware is hardware. All a developer has to do is load up identical machines with different OS's and then develop the drivers. 98SE/ME/2K/XP? WDM. NT4 well..not WDM but the other 4 frickin' OS'S are and take 9x out of the question anyway for SCSI. So that leaves 2 OS's for WDM and 1 for not. Considering that NT4 is still HIGHLY used in corporate environments and that XP is not...well geesh. NT4 drivers should still be produced as well as their 2k counterparts...the only excuse is a terrible company. Check out www.storagereview.com about the XP bug and ask around about your card. *As for the Basic vs Dynamic: It's probably an MS Conspiracy. Every since they intro'd Dynamic in 2K people have still been using Basic for Compatibility and MS is probly doing as usual (making thing's bugging, slowing things down to push their new standard...even if it's not really needed)

1. Why did you upgrade 98 to XP? This is not necessary. 2. Have you installed ANY drivers for your hardware or are you using XP default drivers? You need to install any and all of the latest drivers that you can find. 3. Are you using the latest bios for all of your hardware? 4. What kind of hardware do you have? 5. Have you patched The Sims? 6. Have you tried a CD Crack for the Sims? (May be neccessary on some CDROMS)

Quote: How pi$$ed would you be if you spent weeks/months/years tweaking your system just so you can get that higher score, How pathetic would your life be if you really did? ;(

I was going to list my security .reg's but I haven't commented them yet so integrating them into your registry without knowing what they were would have some consequences...even more so than performance tweaks. Sadly I'm waaaayyy too busy currently to do this so I'm gonna bookmark this thread.

Recreation reading SPACE Stephen Baxter (Finished last week) (Good book) TIME Stephen Baxter (Finished last week) (Good book) The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice (Just Started today) (good book) Temple of the Winds Terry GoodKind (Still reading) (good book) Class reading CCNA BOOKS for CCNA CERT (Still reading) (Yawn) Cisco ATM (Finished this week) (WHOAH!) Cisco Multilayer Switching (Finished this week) (Meh) I need to implement QoS on my reading habits before my brain gets congested with all this Sci-Fi/Fantasy crap!

heh. Hope that computer doesn't run 24/7 because I according to the # of years you've listed I really don't think that HD will last that long.

Sigh. Double the speed? What speed? CPU/bus/video/modem/ISA/PCI/VLB/NIC/Floppy/CD/SCSI/IDE/SATA/sound/serial/USB/IEEE1394/ The only way to "double the speed & efficiency" is to ether make the USER more knowledgeable (thereby improving the speed and efficiency) or buy new hardware. There is no 'tweak' in all of the time that I have been using computers that has doubled the speed & efficiency of my computer. (Altering common settings is not a tweak..if the hardware is supposed to be at that speed and isn't then changing it to the proper setting does not qualify as a tweak)

It disappears from time to time on Windows update. Try using the search feature at Microsoft at look for the Java webpage.

?? Connect to machine over the network and fix it. Should be able to connect fine over MMC.

Very Old Games On New Systems http://vogons.zetafleet.com/ A forum dedicated to getting games to work. Be it old/new games on older/modern computers/consoles. The forum just started last week so check it out! Post any problem you have with getting a game to work. The forum will more than likely mostly involve getting OLD Dos games to work and emulating consoles/computers/Sound Cards/Video API's to get games to work. Trivia Question: What the heck is a Vogon?