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<b>Message ID:</b> 25038 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Wed Jun 13 15:45:49 BST 2001 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Tieben, David P <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: OT - Equipment question <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1376093318">I have to agree with Atonal. Stay as far away from ME as you can.  A friend<br/>
convinced me to install it on my machine and not 3 weeks later, I was<br/>
getting weird dll errors and it would not shut down properly.  My friend had<br/>
the same problems on his machine.  I have heard that a service pack is<br/>
required if you install ME and I didn&#39;t do that since I didn&#39;t know at the<br/>
time.  So I am back to W98 and running fine.  I am interested in anyone&#39;s<br/>
opinion of Win2K and gaming.<br/>
<br/>
For the record I am running:<br/>
PIII 450<br/>
256 Meg Ram<br/>
10 Gig HD<br/>
Viper770 Video card w/16M of memory (wouldn&#39;t mind upgrading this eventually<br/>
but it runs great)<br/>
ABIT BX6 Motherboard<br/>
<br/>
Regular Lurker,<br/>
Rylos Darkmadrigal<br/>
40th Level Bard on E&#39;ci<br/>
<br/>
ATONAL Wrote:<br/>
Message: 22<br/>
   Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:01:32 -0400<br/>
   From: Christopher Sanders &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:christopher.sanders@...">christopher.sanders@...</a>&gt;<br/>
Subject: RE: OT - Equipment question<br/>
<br/>
I would recommend that, under no circumstance, &quot;upgrade&quot; to ME!!  I have<br/>
heard more bad than good about it.  Your best bet, for a gaming machine, is<br/>
Windows98 Second Edition.<br/>
<br/>
A friend of mine bought a new machine with ME on it.  It was plagued with<br/>
random, unexplained blue screens and other crashes.  He reformatted with<br/>
Win98SE over a month ago, and has not had one single blue screen or random<br/>
crash since then.<br/>
<br/>
Atonal</div>