Windows 2000 or Win98?
Since its release, Windows 2000 has had a reputation for being slower at running games, with a lot of hardware incompatibility issues. Win98 has really been the easiest option. Now, Eurogamer has put together a sensible comparison of the two operating systems, to work whether a switch to Windows 2000 is worth it for gamers…
Across the board the systems remain fairly equal, with Win2k climbing just a couple of steps higher in each case. At higher resolutions, those above 1024x768, the results favour Win98, but the differences on the whole are not large enough to get excited about, and possibly due to unresolved driver issues. The one thing we can take for granted from this showing is that both systems are solid when it comes to high-tech 3D games.
Having now played a lot of games on both systems, I have established that anything released after the implementation of DirectX 7 seems to be fine, but if you’ve got older games they may show themselves up a little.
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