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Worked fine here too! Never had the beta version installed. To all thee who are having problems - Ooooh it is lovely :-P ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

No I'm not trying to start a 'my graphics card is better than yours' argument, but.... Please look at the connection here. Everybody running an NVidia card of any description is having problems. 3DFX users aren't, but that's because Glide is supported. Other cards (OK, I know there not as 'good' as the NVidia cards) aren't having problems. NVidia posted something in an FAQ about turning off FSAA when running Diablo2. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Personally, I love ACPI. OK so you gotta have a whole lot of devices that support it correctly. A lot of motherboard BIOS's said they supported it and then updates were released that read 'Updated ACPI so it works' :-) As one of the other posts said, excellent if it works, terrible if it doesn't. Thankfully ABit seem to have their ACPI support well sorted. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

....and then, a month after both the new ATI card & Matrox G800 are released NVidia will then release a faster card. And so we go on, every few months another company will produce a slightly faster card. Personally, I'm waiting for the G800. Very happy with my G400MAX and for a card over a year old it still performs just fine in anything I throw at it. I too tried ATI once, will never go back even if their card is going to be the 'top dog' I simply wont touch it. I'll leave ATI in the Viglen PC's we buy here at work. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I'm with you DosFreak. I made the full move over to Win2000 from a dual boot configuration about two months ago and haven't looked back. If the game doesn't run under Win2k (And most do I should add) then it was a game I wasn't worried about. If that user is having so many problems then maybe he should consider Windows ME, it's designed to be a 'little easier to use' than 'big boys Windows' :-P ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I've posted a few messages about this under other threads that have gone 'off topic' The NVidia cards are the cards to own. Their specs and speed make them un-touchable by other card manufacturers. When these cards work, they are amazing. However..... As far as I can see, NVidia can't write drivers to save their lives. It seems we have about 4 'current' drivers available and depending on what games you want to play you need to download the relivant driver. I'm a Matrox G400MAX owner. I know that my card is nowehere near as fast as the NVidia's. But, I have no issues what so ever with games. If the game is Win2k compatible then I know that I will be able to run it. No downloading an older driver just to get things working. Just my opinion, but until I see a 90% stable NVidia driver that runs 99% of the games it should, then my next purchase will definately be a G800. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

Do we remember Dungeon Keeper II I'm sure it will happen, but we waited how long for the patch for DK2. The 1.7 patch for DK2 was first supposed to fix Bump Mapping, so it's been about 8 months waiting for this, then they announced it would then support Win2k, so we have been waiting 5 months for that. I guess we should be happy that Team17 are even considering a Win2k compt. file ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

Ummmmm, Call me Mr. Picky, but isn't this forum for aplications and their use under WinNT & Win2000 and not for some revised revision of a 1995 OS? ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

I'm the proud owner of a Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD ROM drive. A friend of mine is looking for a similar drive, he too likes the slot-loading variety. A quick check on Pioneer's web site shows that my model has been replaced twice, first with a unit running at 10x DVD and now the latest version running at 16x DVD. Are either of these drives available as SCSI units? No. Atapi only. So what gives, is it the end of the line for SCSI? I run my HD's on IDE ATA-66 controllers, but my internal ZIP, CD-RW & DVD drive are all SCSI. I plan on keeping them that way. Does anybody else know of a slot-loading SCSI DVD drive similar in spec to the latest offerings from Pioneer? ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

I can't seem to find a way to contact pioneer They don't list any e-mail addresses at all on their web site. They don't have an office here in the UK. When the 10x DVD drive was announced I just assumed the SCSI version would follow. Then when the 16x was shown, once again I just assumed..... I just love SCSI DVD/CD - CD-RW, it's almost impossible to burn coasters this way. Ah well, I'll just have to give the US office a call some time I guess.

Matrox released good stable beta drivers for the G400 under Win2000 about a month before Win2k was released to the public. As ME isn't due for release until September 14th at the earliest, you can expect to wait at least another month before such drivers are available. How many other companies have you seen releasing WinME drivers? What makes Matrox loosers? Just because Matrox are not releasing drivers yet for what still is a beta OS, that hardly makes them loosers. Why don't you invest in a proper OS rather than waiting for an OS based on Windows code from 1995 which in turn is still based on old DOS routines? Quit ya bashing, at least Matrox have stable drivers under Win2k, something a lot of video card manufacturers simply can't do.

Agreed. I can in no way support Matrox for what they did in the past. The G200 was a nightmare, thankfully I never purchased one, I stayed with my Matrox Mystique 220/VooDoo2 combo. However..... Matrox are excellent now. They had stable beta drivers for the G400 pre Windows 2000 release time. They have updated the drivers about three times since Win2k was released. Each driver has been that little faster and that little more stable than the previous. I see lists of games listed as 'incompatible' with Win2k, as soon as I try and play them on my system they fire up fine. GTA2 is a good example of this. D2 is too, although it runs ok with NVidia chipsets, there are lists of problems. These simply don't exist with the drivers for my G400MAX. By the end of the year my G400MAX will be two years old. At this time I will purchase a G800, I'm very pleased with Matrox I'm also very pleased with their drivers. OK, so I loose a few fps by going Matrox over NVidia, but I'll take the loss for better compatibility any day.

Yup, I'm not going to deny that the NVidia based cards have amazing specs. There is nothing else on the market that can compete, but...... Until some reliable drivers come out, people are always going to have problems. I've seen postings where the solution is to install an old driver, or the last but one driver. There seem to be so many different versions that nobody seems to know what they should be using. Now my G400MAX might not be the fastest card on the market. It might be now almost two years old, but at least I have reliable drivers that don't seem to have half the problems NVidia drivers have with lots of games.

These problems with D2 final etc are totally NVidia related, so it's highly unlikely Blizzard will be releasing a patch. Running a Matrox G400MAX here in D3D mode and have none of the issues. Can open and close the games in one session as often as I like etc etc

Ack, From the RC's of ME I've seen it's no more stable than the rest of the 9x platforms. ME still gives appliactions/games etc direct access to hardware, for this reason it's never going to be that stable. Also remember that ME is the last of the OS's to use the old Win95 code. Come next year your going to be moved over to the Win2000 code anyway, so you might just as well go for it now. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

Hi, Just plug it in and away you go. SideWinder joysticks & Game Pads are directly supported by WIn2k. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

*Shrugs* I've got a BE6-II motherboard here. I installed the 120-day trial version of Win2k Server before I took it off and installed my copy of Win2k Pro. Never had any problems what so ever with the AGP controller. As the guy before me said, are you over-clocking ya CPU? ------------------ ************************* PIII 650, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM, Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB, Pioneer 32/6 SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip SCSI Internal *************************

TDR Alpha, Carmageddon The Death Race 2000 Alpha Demo. Was available as a download a few weeks ago. They say it was rather early code, but it certainly seemed quite crisp. I can't report any faults with it here, it ran fine. PIII 650, Matrox G400MAX Windows2000

Hi, I'm the reviewer in question We have installed McAfee VirusScan 4.5 onto 10 Windows 2000 PC's. They aren't all the same specification, but similar. Every single one of these PC's has taken a big performance hit and I'm talking big. If we switch e-mail scanning off then the performance hit isn't as bad, but still noticable. The only thing in common between all of the machines is the fact they all sit on our Novell network, so I guess it 'could' be an issue with Clinet32. We have spoken to Novell about this and they say no it's nothing to do with them. Machines in question range from PII 350's to PIII 650's. When we spoke to Network Associates they confirmed with us that there was an issue but no they didn't have an estimated time to fix. Do you have the e-mail scanning enabled on your system? If you do then obviously I'm interested as we may be pointing at thewrong thing causing us problems. All of the machines have a standard set of software installed, Microsoft Office etc but we are pretty sure non of these applications are causing issues. We also find it very difficult to believe it's a hardware issue, but I guess it could be. Most of the machine we are using are based on the Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard. When we spoke to this European Technical Support person he too confirmed with us that it was an issue they were addressing. Paul

On the ACPI argument. I'm using an ABit BE6-II (BIOS certainly appears to be 100% ACPI complient) I have my Win2k machine setup as ACPI not as 'standard machine' All of my devices 'appear' as sharing a single IRQ. I have had NO lock-up problems at all. All of my 3D games (that run under Win2k anyway) run without any issues what so ever. ACPI doe not automatically mean you will have problems. I love the fact that I don't have to sit there and attempt to assign IRQ's to video/sound/SCSI/IDE/ATA-66 controller/USB ports etc manually. In my eyes ACPI is one major ste forward in resource management. Before ACPI I wouldn't have dared add in any further devices due to all my IRQ's already being in use, now I don't have any issues with this. Personally I think that those PC's having problems with ACPI, the majority of the time it's a Motherboard BIOS issue, just not quite complient. Just my opinions and observations, I'm happy with ACPI - Life is now so much easier. Paul

Woah, chill man. At any stage did I start 'spewing anti-piracy crap'? No, so calm yourself down eh? All my post syas is that my legit copy of Office 2000 has accepted the SP1a. As it looks like the original poster doesn't have a legit copy, and the fact that MS said it would have problems on non-legit software that was my assumption.

Well all installed fine on my copy of Office 2000 prem. It wanted to 'see' the original CD's during installation (or was it just after) Had no problems since.

Hi, I can't help you fix this problem because I feel you have a very un-common problem. UO runs so excellent under Win2k I couldn't believe it. UO's bad memory leaks are handled very well by Win2000, I can play UO for 4-5 hours (If I want/need to) without the need to re-boot. I have only had one issue with Win2000 & UO, when the last patch came out I simply couldn't install it (however people report this problem under all platforms) Do the usuall check for updated drivers yada yada yada ********************************************* ABit BE6-II, Pentium III 550, 384MB PC100 RAM, Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, IBM ATA-66 7200rpm 22GB, IBM ATA-66 7200rpm 20.5GB, Adaptec 2940UW, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416s SCSI CD-RW, Intel Pro 10/100 NIC, Internal SCSI ZIP Drive *********************************************

It's not an issue if you own a legit copy of Office 2000

G400MAX & SB Live! here too. Excellent combo, Matrox have done a good job so far with their Win2k drivers, very stable.