Running games on Windows 2000 Professional

[ripper]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if there would be any problem on running games on Win2k, particularly on Win2k with NTFS.

Would it be a better idea to run the games on Win2k with FAT32, since so far, games run well on FAT32?

I do understand that NTFS is far more superior to FAT32, but in case games don't work for them, I might as well have FAT32.

Anyone out there could help me out in clearing my doubts here? I'm planning to have Win2k professional, and wondering if games work well on them, particularly on Win2k with NTFS.

Cheers!

[muchmark]

It shouldn't make any difference. File System handled by the OS rather than the application, so everything should continue to work fine.


Mark

[cyclone2]

I use 2000 to play many games just fine and have used NTFS and Fat 32 with no difference. The only time you really need NTFS is for security reasons as its mainly a business app :)

[Amd4ever]

I read on somewhere that all games except a few should run fine on Win2k using NTFS.

The few that had problems (I don't remember which exactly) were games which loaded huge files on startup from the HD to RAM which caused some corruption which causes the game to crash. There may be patches for these games released by their respective companies.

If you want to be on the safe side you should probably use FAT32. I have Win2k on FAT32 and every game I've played so far runs fine (Unreal Tournament, Halflife, Star Wars Pod Racer, etc.).

One of the few advantages of using NTFS is that it has better security because it is somewhat encrypted and FAT32 is not.

[the xenon]

All games that i have tryed to run on Win 2k pro with NTFS ran fine without any problems. I didnt find a single game yet that would not run under win 2k, but i heard that there r some ...

[SporkEntusiast]

NTFS and running games will be fine. One of the reason's I opted for NTFS instead of FAT32 was that when I was using FAT32 I had outrageously huge amounts of lost clusters, like 10 or so GB, **** win98!:mad: . But all is well now :D

[jethro]

NTFS also has performance values because of the way it indexes files on the drive, much faster than FAT does it.