Author Topic: Pitfalls of Windoze "ME"? (Read 545 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** October 18, 2000, 09:06:00 AM »

Post them please.

indian · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2000, 11:08:00 AM »

Crashes. It hates Netscape.
Got blue screen of death when puter just sat there and I was watching TV.
Got my first ever Explorer commited a fatal error and I dont mean IE plane windows explorer.

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Lephturn · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2000, 12:45:00 PM »

Worst of all... it's slower.

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Staga · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2000, 06:17:00 PM »

Works just fine here.

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2000, 06:47:00 PM »

It's slower, crashes more, has no native DOS support, dial up connections slower, no major improvements over 98, and puts even more money into M$ coffers.

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DrSoya · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2000, 05:17:00 PM »

Tried it. Lots of dumps to desktop within AH.

Figured it was my TNT2 M64 driver (WinME installed by itself some reference driver). The latest ref driver from NVidia at the time (6.18) didn't improve things. Creative Labs doesn't have a driver for WinME. And my Win98-stable driver (Detonator 2 v5.22) dates before the release of WinME.

I decided to come back to Win98.

Besides, I got one blue screen of death and one freeze in less than 5 hours.

I'd wait for the unavoidable Service Pack.

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Staga · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2000, 06:08:00 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Staga:
Works just fine here.

Nope. Not anymore... I Lost 3-d yesterday

and some of my hardware were having problems with "M-Edit."

I just kicked "M-edition" out of my pc and installed back W2k.
If you got 98 stay in it or if you dont use USB flight-stuff a W2k could be nice.

-towd_ · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2000, 11:34:00 AM »

have had it on this system for bout a month it killed my frame rate by anout 20 to 25%
with a voodoo 3 2000 pci 128 meg and 550 with 100 mhz buss its still ok but goin back to 98 today

minus · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2000, 09:46:00 AM »

Win ME hate TNT cards and the swap disk sux big time 90% of lock up come from virtual memory the other 10% around DX svitches when diferent games use diferent color deep seting

all other problems like IE or netscape are linked to the Swapdisk problem , browsers use intense swap

Daniko · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2000, 03:44:00 PM »

It crashed, it was slower, it runs this thing in task scheduler called PChealth monitor for gathering "information" which it stores in a temp folder. You can temporarily disable this EVERY time you start the computer, but to permanently get rid of it i had to regedit which is ridiculous. Not to mention i don't trust what "information" they are gathering and how it is used. Every time my girlfriend got near the computer it crashed. went back to win98 SE and all is well. Ah works without crashes again etc. so my advice is don't use it.

daniko

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