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From my NT Game Compatibility List: Windows INSTALL Upon execution of setup you will receive this error message:"Windows 5.0 is currently running. This version of Red Alert is a Windows 95 only product." To fix:Create a shortcut to setup.exe on the CD, go to properties on the shortcut, then the compatibility tab. Check the box and choose Windows 95. Now install the game! GAME Upon execution of the game you will receive this error message:"The procedure entry point SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" To fix: Install the 1.08 patch. IF YOU PLAN ON INSTALLING ANY EXPANSION PACK FOR RED ALERT THEN INSTALL THEM BEFORE INSTALLING THE PATCH! Now go to the Red Alert directory, create a shortcut for RA95.exe, go to properties, then the compatibility tab, Check the box and choose Windows 95. Now play the game!

heh. Without VPC MAC addicts would be MAC addicts no mo'! You should have seen 'em whine when VPC 4 came out for the PC! It was great.

Depends on the game: Win 3.1 Plays all Win 3.1 games perfectly. Install Win32 and play even more games! (Simple 2D games) Windows 9x DOS Since Windows 9x comes with DOS you can simply drop to DOS and play your old DOS games. Unfortunately most older DOS games cannot handle newer computer hardware. Windows 9x. Depends on the game. Most 9x games nowadays do not support Windows 95 any more and only support 98 and ME. But Windows 9x games should work with Windows 9x. Windows NT4 Plays DOS games but may be more difficult to get them working than in DOS. No VESA support (although some modes do work). No Sound support. Must use 3rd party programs for DOS Sound support. Windows 9x NT4 only "officialy" supports DX 3 games. DX5/6 can be hacked in to get other games to work. But pretty much forgedabout any D3D accelerated DirectX game for NT4. OpenGL games work just fine under NT4 Windows 2000/XP DOS Games Plays DOS games but may be more difficult to get them working than in DOS. No VESA support(although some modes do work). No Sound support. Must use 3rd party programs for DOS Sound support. XP does emulate sound for DOS games but it's so terrible that you may as well use VDMSound anyway. XP also has a few more VESA modes haxored in so it supports a few more games than 2000. XP Edge's out 2000 in DOS compatibilty barely. The extra VESA modes really give it the edge...although not much of one. Windows 9X Windows 2000/XP support the latest DX so theoretically they can play all Windows 9x games. Unfortunately 9x games were built for 9x so they do have problems. Basically 2000 and XP are the same as far as being able to run the games. Unfortunately Microsoft updates the Application Compatibility Database in XP more than it does in 2000 so in this case XP wins for the common user who can't be bothered with a few extra steps to get their games to run. XP still has problems tho. Sooo the best OS for people who JUST want to game: Windows 98 For those who do more than just game, which basically means everyone today: Windows XP

Lay off the ol' grannies who play Solitaire. You see I do not know how to play Solitaire so therefore I shall not diss the grannies out there who could most assuredly layeth the smack down on my ***.

Buy Warcraft 2 Battle.net Works in 9x/NT4/2000/XP. Only bad thing about it is no CD soundtrack like the DOS version. For those times I play War2 I just stick in my ol' DOS WAR2 CD and listen to the soundtrack. Getting back to your problem... Are you sure that the CD is good? My WAR2 CD was so crappily manufactured that I can no longer copy the biggest files off of the CD. Verify that you can access all files by simply copying 'em off the CD to your HD.

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Also for better emulation for old games try Connectix Virtual PC. www.connectix.com Download the trial and give it a whirl. It's definetly worth buying.

Went from Live! to Game Theater to Audigy. The Audigy is better than the Game Theater but I upgraded so long ago I really cannot remember why....

The SP includes all of the CRITICAL/SECURITY/Application Compatibility updates from Windowsupdate. BUT the featureset was frozen long long ago in a galaxy far far away. So as soon as you update to the latest SP you'll need to go to Windows update to download the latest updates. The reason why SP's are better is that theoretically they have been beta tested longer since it's common practice in corporate environments to push out SP's to the workstations and only deploy specific windows update fixes to those workstations that need them. Now that SUS is out this practicle will change a little.

Compatibility is not in Vmware for games You want Connectix Virtual PC for that. Vmware is better for emulation in Linux, for networking, and for speed server-wise.

Pfft, Army. America's Air Force or Marines. Now THAT would be a game.

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For Hardware/Games add ratings from different magazines? I say magazines instead of internet sites because they have been around the longest and have a rep. Computer Gaming World/PC Gamer/Maximum PC/Computer Games. Mabye each mag could send their Hardware/Game ratings to this site....it would benefit them and NT Compatible.

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http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/01/04-google.html It makes Google speak like the Swedish chef from the Muppets (not like the failed US Supreme Court nominee, Robert H. Bork).

Updated my 'puter: (Note, In the past 4 months I've only had time with my once lovely computer for 1 month total. In my brief visit back I upgraded some parts before I left...again) Monitor =Sony E500 21" Speakers =Creative Soundworks DTT3500 Digital Mouse =Microsoft Intellimouse Optical SE (PS2) Joystick =Microsoft Precision Pro (USB) Gamepad =Logitech Wingman Rumplepad (USB) Keyboard =Generic 104k Keyboard (PS2) Case =Coolermaster ATCS-110 w/Enermax EG651P 550W PSU Motherboard=Abit KX7-333R Bios 9K Processor =AMD Athlon XP 2000 @1666mhz 133X12.5 Cooling =Alpha PAL8045 Memory =Corsair 512MB C3000 DDR CAS2 (2 DIMMS=1GB) Video =Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra (GF4 Ti4600 128mb DDR) C=300Mhz M=650Mhz Floppy =3.5" MOBO CONTROLLER DMA/100 PMIDE1/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-106S DMA/66 1.22 Bios PSIDE1/Plextor 16X CDR SMIDE2/LiteOn 40x12x48x CDRW SSIDE2/IBM 120GXP 123.5GB DMA/100 HPT372 CONTROLLER DMA/133 Bios v2.31 PMIDE3/Maxtor L080J4 80GB DMA/133 (OS) SSIDE3/Maxtor L080J4 80GB DMA/133 (GAMES) SMIDE4/IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (BACKUP2) SSIDE4/IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (BACKUP1) PCI SLOTS PCI1/EMPTY PCI2/Soundblaster Audigy Ex PCI3/EMPTY PCI4/NetGear FA310TX NIC PCI5/EMPTY PCI6/Hauppauge WINTV Theatre Windows 98SE/NT4 Workstation/2000 Server slipstreamed SP2/XP Pro (2000 Main OS) Nvidia 29.42 Reference Drivers DirectX 8.1 Build 881 /Windows 2000 Directx 8.1 Build 810 /Windows XP Via 4.39 4-in-1 beta 2 Benchmarks taken under Windows 2000 Server Quake 3 v1.31 2048X1536=90.5 1600x1200=131.7 1280X1024=164.2 1024X768 =181.8 800x600 =183.5 640X480 =184.4 320X240 =205.0 (lowest video quality settings) XP Bench v1.03 1280x1024x16 Layered Window Tests: Black as transparent: 116.29 47% visibility: 98.241 50% visibility: 98.157 100& visibility: 118.21 Overall Layered Windows Score: 430 Overall Benchmark Score: 430 SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro CPU Arithmetic Benchmark Dhrystone ALU: 4572MIPS Whetstone FPU: 2310MFLOPS CPU Multi-Media Benchmark Integer aEMMX/aSSE: 9058it/s Floating-Point aSSE: 10597it/s Memory Bandwidth Benchmark RAM Bandwidth Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE:2043MB/s RAM Bandwidth Float Buffered aEMMX/aS:1964MB/s PCMARK 2002 CPU Score 5031 Memory Score 3404 HDD Score 462 N-Bench N-Bench Score 9358 Marks FPS Average 292.46 FPS N-Bench 2 N-Bench Score 2255 Marks FPS Average 50.65 FPS Evolva v1.2 Build 944 NORMAL Average FPS: 187.6 Min FPS: 65 Max FPS: 364 DOTBUMP Average FPS: 109.9 Min FPS: 48 Max FPS: 199 Cinebench 2000 V1.0 Performance **************************************************** Tester : <fill this out> Processor : <fill this out> Number of CPUs : 1 Physical Memory : <fill this out> Operating System : <fill this out> Graphic Card : <fill this out> Resolution : <fill this out> Color Depth : <fill this out> **************************************************** Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 17.66 CB Shading (OpenGL) : 30.93 CB Raytracing (Single CPU): 22.98 CB Raytracing (Multiple CPU): --- CB OpenGL Shading is 1.75 times faster than CINEMA 4D Shading! **************************************************** Codecreatures Benchmark Pro (version 1.0.0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Official Score: 2085 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DETAILS: average number of frames per second 1600x1200 -> 19.1 1280x1024 -> 21.0 1024x768 -> 22.6 max. number of frames per second 1600x1200 -> 27 1280x1024 -> 30 1024x768 -> 37 average number of polys per second 1600x1200 -> 6.6 mio. 1280x1024 -> 7.1 mio. 1024x768 -> 7.7 mio. max. number of polys per second 1600x1200 -> 10.3 mio. 1280x1024 -> 10.4 mio. 1024x768 -> 10.9 mio. total amount of frames 1600x1200 -> 2501 1280x1024 -> 2762 1024x768 -> 2969 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3DMARK2001 SE 3DMark Score 10979 3DMARK 2000 v1.1 3DMark Result: 13205 Ars Technica CPU Benchmark [Ver: 1.6] Clock Precision: < 1 us 1: 470% [FP ] 1.12s NTSC YIQ -> PAL RGB 2: 215% [FP ] 1.11s NTSC YIQ -> PAL RGB (Double) 3: 376% [FP ] 1.96s FP Divide 4: 85% [MEM] 2.36s Fast Fourier Transform 64k 5: 316% [FP ] 0.47s Fast Fourier Transform 16k 6: 331% [iNT] 1.77s LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv) Data Compression 7: 380% [iNT] 0.47s LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv) Data Decompression 8: 395% [iNT] 0.87s RGB to CMYK with Color Correction 9: 344% [iNT] 0.91s Blowfish Block Cipher Encryption (448 bit key) 10: 213% [iNT] 1.25s File Allocation Table Manipulation 11: 365% [iNT] 0.84s Encode G.723-40 Audio 100k 12: 268% [iNT] 0.89s Complex Bitfield Operations 13: 167% [FP ] 1.66s Spherical Harmonics Legendre Polynomial 14: 318% [iNT] 1.86s Dhrystone 2.1 (500k Iterations) 15: 374% [FP ] 0.78s Whetstone 1.2 (1000k Operations) 16: 235% [MEM] 1.20s LinPack (500x500) 17: 314% [iNT] 4.80s TSCP 1.71 (Chess Benchmark) 18: 177% [MEM] 5.82s Sieve of Eratosthenes (Prime Generator) 19: 214% [iNT] 2.59s Towers of Hanoi 20: 361% [iNT] 0.89s Queens Puzzle Solver --------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL SCORE: INT: 318 FP: 319 CACHE: 166 SIMD: 0 PEAK SCORE: INT: 320 FP: 322 CACHE: 170 SIMD: 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Hmmm, Some people think VPC is faster and from the benchmarks that I have run it seems to be...slighly faster. The last benchmarking I performed between the 2 was between VPC 4.3 and Vmware 3.1 so things could have sped up alot by then. Basically the consensus is that vPC=Compatibility+ease of use. Vmware=Network+Technical+Linux. "The emulation is perfect and all the guest OS are rock solid stable... however they are SLOWWwwwwwwwww!" It's pretty much the same under Vmware. I've had blue-screens in Vmware where I never did in VPC. Also if you do not install the additions/drivers for Vmware you will notice MANY oddities. Simply because Vmware compromises it's emulation (It's less emulation). That being so supposedly it's faster and it may be for you. It's not fast enough for me to switch however....I NEED STABILITY! "I've tried everything in the manual to make them run quick and to no effect... they can barely play sound files without stuttering and networking them has been a nightmare (still no luck under Redhat)." What kind of sound files? And why are you playing them in emulation? Also what kind of PC are you using? What kinds of networking trouble? The only trouble that I can think of that you may experience is guest-host networking without a NIC. Vmware installs it's own loopback adapter upon install but with VPC you have to install it manually. Also you'll be happy to know that VPC 4.4 included MANY changes to the emulation. Fortunately you'll never get to use this version because Connectix has ramped the version up to 5.0! Yep, and you'll supposedly be able to upgrade to this version for free! This new ver will definetly make things interesting for VMware.

Windows XP works fine with "pirate copies". So far updates are not blocked for those copies. The only update so far that is affected is SP1 for XP which will not install and will actually tell you that you are using a pirated copy. Finally the "pirate copies" are actually the Corp versions of XP that are exactly like every other copy of XP except that they do not have Product Activation and they all use key #'s starting with FCKGW.

Nah, it's your sig man and your pretty much right. NT4 did surpass Novell as the OS of choice for business and still is and will be for some time to come. It just sounded from your sig like NT popped into being after 95.

What's the connectivity to your DNS/Gateway Ip's like? Any timeout's?

The same processors are loaded no matter who you log-in as. UNLESS you have a service thats starts with a profile. ALL of the services that come with Windows 2000 or any program create by Microsoft do not start services with a profile. They do not "interact" with the desktop. They are totally seperate. They are SYSTEM level processes that are not affected by such a trivial event as a user logon. Also if you do not protect your ports then renaming the Admin account is a very minor security change but should be done nevertheless. (If you don't block the ports then it's a very simply matter to discover the admin account even if you do rename it). Using a profile with Admin rights is just the same as using the primary Admin account. Your still gonna FUBAR your system if a program wanted to. Even if your not using the Primary Admin account but an account with Admin privelages then your Primary Admin account is still at risk. This is why in a perfect world you would ONLY use the Admin account for Administrator tasks (fixing stuff). Unfortunately most of us do not do this because we perform these tasks ALL the time, taking breaks, researching, trying stuff out, etc etc. So basically ANY time you use an Admin account on an NT box and you are doing ANYTHING other than an Administrator task then you are puting your box at risk.

1. Make a folder on your C: drive. Name it the same as that of your CDROM. Ex: W2PSEL_EN 2. Copy the Windows 2000 CD to the folder. 3. Download Service Pack 1 from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/SP/SP1/NT5/EN-US/sp1network.exe 3. When download is done copy sp1network.exe to your C: drive. 4. Do a Start/run/C:\sp1network.exe -X:C:\SP1 Click OK at the screen where it displays "C:\SP1" When it's done extracting click OK. Do a Start/Run/C:\SP1\i386\update\update.exe -s:C:\W2PSEL_EN When it's done it will say "Integrated install has completed successfully". Click OK. If it does not say this then you have done something wrong. 5. Download CDRWIN from www.goldenhawk.com. Install CDRWIN. 6. Get the CD-ROM boot sector and CD Marker files from here: http://www.angelfire.com/de2/w2kcd/neededfiles.zip 7. Place the appropriate files from neededfiles.zip into the root directory of W2PSEL_EN. Place CDROM_NT.5 into the root of the CD. Place: CDROM_IP.5 - If you are doing 2000 PRO then place this into the root. CDROM_IS.5 - If you are doing 2000 SERVER then place this into the root. CDROM_IA.5 - If you are doing 2000 ADVANCED SERVER then place this into the root. 8. The root of the directory should now contain only these files: Autorun.inf cdrom_iX.5 cdrom_nt.5 cdrom_sp.tst read1st.txt readme.doc setup.exe 9. Open CDRWIN and choose the File Backup and Tools option 10. In the BACKUP/TOOL Operation Choose the Build an ISO9660 Image File 11. in FILE BACKUP List click the DIRECTORY button and choose the directory where you copied the Windows 2000 CD. Click OK. Then click the ADD button. You should see the directory in the big box now. 12. Check the INCLUDE HIDDEN FILES,LONG FILENAMES(JOLIET),INCLUDE SYSTEM FILES,RECURSE SUBDIRECTORIES. Uncheck PRESERVE FULL FILE NAMES. boxes. 13. For IMAGE FILENAME click the three dots at the right and choose a directory and a filename. Then click Save. You should see the pathname and the filename of your .ISO in the box. 14. Check the DISABLE VERSION NUMBERS box. 15. Click the ADVANCED OPTIONS button. 16. For Volume Label use the name of the original Windows 2000 CD. Ex: W2PSEL_EN For Volume Set Name use the bame of the original Windows 2000 CD Publisher Name: MICROSOFT CORPORATION PREPARER NAME: MICROSOFT CORPORATION, ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA 98052, (206) 882-8080 17. Choose the BOOTABLE DISC tab. 18. Check the MAKE BOOTABLE DISC box. 19. For MEDIA EMULATION CHOOSE Custom 20. For Image File name use the boot.bin from the neededfiles.zip. 21. For DEVELOPER NAME use MICROSOFT CORPORATION 22. For Load Sector Count use the number 4. 23. Click OK and then START. 24. When it's done open up any CDR burning program that supports .ISO's to burn your IMAGE to CD.

It's in the guide. Just copy the text in-between the lines to a .cmd file and run it.

Dameware is ssssssssssslllllllllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Compared to TS but it's useful on NT4 machines, the utilities are great and it does what TS cannot do. Use the current desktop.

Umm, Immortal....You may want to change that to NT4. NT 3.51 kicked @$$....and still did for many years to come over 9x.