WGR

Does anyone know if the Santa Cruz works solidly in EverQuest.. I know it's an old game, doesn't mean I don't want to play it.. I'm about 98% ready to dump Win2k altogether. The two issues that always held me back were graphics drivers and sound drivers... Well, I've discovered that if you run the Radeon's latest drivers in NON-ACPI mode (ie. "Standard PC") it runs about on par with Win98 (maybe 5-10% behind). I'm not sure if hardware T&L is working, but with a 1.2ghz Athlon it really doesn't matter. That leaves sound.. My SBLive has always been a pain in the butt in Win2k.. Switching from a P3 to an Athlon (and Via chipset) has made it slightly more so, but not as bad as one would think (it's main problem seems to be crackling while accessing storage (hd/cd) over it's normal IDE bus.. But I use Raid which uses it's own bus and pretty much stops the problem.. Almost every game I've installed in Win2k has been working great.. Here's the list: Black and White - flawless Tribes 2 - fine Quake 3 - fine UT - 3d sound distances seemed off, so went back to "No 3dsound" and works fine. MDK2 - Fine AFAIK (even fixed a win98 graphics glitch with my Radeon). Serious Sam - fine Ultima 9 - fine System Shock 2 - fine (except videos won't play in game.. Gotta work on that one) That leaves EQ.. EQ runs.. But the sound has problems. 1) distances are off kilter (close sounds far & vice versa) 2) If you hold still sound has a tendency to cut out til you move again. I would absolutely love to chuck my SBLive out the window (or into one of my other computers) and I'd even be willing to reinstall Win2k if I had to to get a clean driver install for the Santa Cruz.. The thing I have to know is.... WILL IT WORK BETTER THAN THE LIVE IN THESE GAMES???? Thanks in advance, WGR

Sorry for the dumb question, but is there any way in Win2k or, for that matter, Win98 to force filenames in all upper or lower case? The reason I ask is I update a webpage that is case specific, and I often transfer the files from one computer another (work to home) and often in transfering the files the case of the filenames gets changed (have yet to figure out the exact reason why).. The web server itself is case sensitive so I end up with all sorts of duplicate filenames.. If I could force upper or lower case I'd be safe from this pain in the butt problem.. Thanks in advance, WGR

Hmm.. This adds to my list of questions.. As for FreeAmp, I'm not worried about it too much. Where it freezes is the act of searching the drive for MP3 files (the drive being the shared folder on my W2K computer..) For some reason it freezes when I try to do this.. Here's the question though.. I will cut IPX as it's not really needed (got added when I was trying to figure out why I couldn't connect computers..) Will my local lan continue to function with JUST TCP/IP or do I need to keep NetBEUI in there.. Also, and this is important.. I'm of the opinion that W2K is relatively secure compared to W98.. Both computers are on a cable modem, and I'm afraid that setting FILE and PRINT SHARING on in TCP/IP on the Win98 computer will open up her computer to attack from outside users.. Any advice? Thanks again for all the prompt responses.. I'm going to go remove IPX and see how things function.. WGR

Did a little more research, and I think it's actually a program problem and not the network itself. The two computers only run a 10mbit network (to stay compatible with the cable modem..) IPX is in there for legacy reasons and could probably be removed (but who knows.. Somesay another game may come along that actually gets played).. As for the network problem. It seems to be FreeAmp (the MP3 Player I have installed on her computer) that doesn't like the setup.. I can copy files at full speed using explorer.. For some reason FreeAmp just doesn't want to let me import a track list.. Oh well.. It wouldn't work properly for me on Win2000 (had to go back to RealJukebox).. I'll try another one on hers.. Thanks again.. WGR

First off, thanks. Having seen NT in action, your solution makes obvious sense, but I would have NEVER thought of it, and couldn't find anything in the manuals or online help that goes into that much depth. Needless to say, my wife now has access to my printer.. Next question: Same setup, but I want to give my wife access to one folder on my system (my MP3 collection which is too large to hold on her machine).. I already have her set up, gave sharing access to her, and the folder shows up just fine.. Problem.. For reasons unknown it's insanely slow. Getting a single MP3 to play on her machine takes like a minute or more to load. The MP3 player times out trying to download the list of tracks from my computer. Now when both machines were Win98 this worked fine.. Now I have no clue. I have the three following protocols on each machine: TCP/IP NetBEUI IPX/SPX Like I say the folder does show up on her machine. But accessing the files is VERY slow.. Accessing her files from my machine works at normal speed.. Any ideas? Anyone?

Can anyone help a relatively inexperienced Win2000 user with a problem? Here's my setup. Windows 2000 on one PC Windoes 98SE on second PC Both connected by LAN.. LAN connected to cable modem. Now I can access all available resoucrs on the Win98 machine from the Win2k machine, but I can access none ofthe W2K resoucrs on the Win98 machine.. Both systems have TCP/IP and NetBEUI installed. Both can see each other, but when I try to access the W2K machine it asks for a password I do not know. I have only entered one password on the system (my login/admin password), and that does not seem to work. I need to let the W98 machine access my printer on the W2K machine. As far as I can tell, all is properly set up, but I can not figure out this security issue. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, WGR ps. I also want to be careful to avoid opening my system up to attacks over the internet (at least any more than they may or may not be able to now)..