Why is Win2000 bad for gaming?

[Pack'nHeat]

Any problems that made you go back to Win98? What about gaming and over clocking. Thanks

[Dave2]

Fly!, one of my favorite games ran too slow in Windows 2K and ran great in Windows 98 and that's I went back to Windows 98.

[marcusbateman]

Win 2000 uses too many system resources. Stay with 98!!!!

[Gene C.]

this is only my outlook on this. I run them all. and feel like 2k is for my business like all the other nt versions, ntws/server. and all the rest of the windows versions are for playing or just home use ect.

and how many business's do you know that run 2k "which is what it was made for" run or play games. so if the games are slow or not workable to use on 2k. it's not it's fault. it was made for other things ect.

this is only my outlook on this. I only use my systems to make money with and to learn.
nt's rule the o/s worlds

[Joel Kleppinger]

Actually, I've had no problems with Fly! on Win2k at all. The frame rate is great and very smooth.

My complaint is that game developers SHOULD develop with Win2k in mind, but often ignore it. It's not that Win2k is bad at gaming, but rather that it isn't considered by developers when coding. Games like Unreal Tournament and Quake3 that have been developed for cross-platform actually run faster in Win2k vs. Win98. Serious users (even home users) are forced to use Win2k because of the better resource handling (that's actually the only reason I'm using it on my desktop).

The comfort comes from knowing that WinMe is the last 9x Windows. The X-box will be using a Win2k kernel at its core as well. Because of these 2 developments, I think that within a year all new games will support Win2k out of the box.