WINDOWS XP or 98SE

[MarioF]

I'm thinking about upgrading to Windows XP from Windows 98SE which I currently have installed. The game seems to run pretty quick during combat resolution phases, but there seems to be quite the wait during the "training ship crews" phase. Can I assume it's because of the multitude of calculations for all those ships (Modded Scen 15). - approximately 35 seconds.

What I want to know is if the game will speed up significantly running under Win XP as opposed to Win 98SE

I Currently have a AMD 2500XP processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a Radeon 8500 graphics card.

Has anyone actually upgraded from Win98SE to XP and kept the same hardware configuation as before? Was there any noticable improvement?

[BlackVoid]

Training ship crews is the slowest phase on my computer as well with XP.
Really does not matter for WITP if its 98 or XP.

[testarossa]

ORIGINAL: MarioF

I'm thinking about upgrading to Windows XP from Windows 98SE which I currently have installed. The game seems to run pretty quick during combat resolution phases, but there seems to be quite the wait during the "training ship crews" phase. Can I assume it's because of the multitude of calculations for all those ships (Modded Scen 15). - approximately 35 seconds.

What I want to know is if the game will speed up significantly running under Win XP as opposed to Win 98SE.

I Currently have a AMD 2500XP processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a Radeon 8500 graphics card.

Has anyone actually upgraded from Win98SE to XP and kept the same hardware configuation as before? Was there any noticable improvement?

First of all Win98SE doesn't support more than 512 RAM. New drivers sometimes work worse on Win98 than on XP. XP is more demanding for resources and CPU as it runs a lot of hidden background services and essentially has NT core (read safer, more reliable but more hungry).

If you don't plan to upgrade your rig, don't bother switching to XP.

And you definately should get rid of R8500.[:'(]

Sorry forgot about training crews - it was around 1-2 sec on my Athlon 2000 XP wiht 1024 RAM. Something else is wrong with your setup i guess. After I bought AMD64-3500 it is still 1-2 secs.

[Mr.Frag]

Very dependant on your hardware and how much tuning you are willing to do.

XP by default has everything under the sun turned on to make it look pretty. All that comes at a memory and cpu price tag.

Windows 98 will run faster then XP simply because it does nothing. [:D]

Windows XP can be tuned to a level where it can outperform 98, but only with a fair bit of work.

If you are not up to the task, expect a net slowdown overall unless you have the ram to feed to XP.

[DrewMatrix]

If you get XP, get the professional edition, not the home edition.

I do recommend XP Pro.

[MarioF]

MarioF:
Can I assume it's because of the multitude of calculations for all those ships (Modded Scen 15). - approximately 35 seconds.


Sorry forgot about training crews - it was around 1-2 sec on my Athlon 2000 XP wiht 1024 RAM. Something else is wrong with your setup i guess. After I bought AMD64-3500 it is still 1-2 secs.


Wow something is Scewy on my system. It all seems to work okay for everything else. Are you sure that the 1-2 sec delay is on the big scenarios against the computer?

[dday]

Wow, I did have Win ME, now with new computer with Win XP (home) it great!!!!!!! Feels sorry for those still have ME, d a r n t o o s l o w !

[testarossa]

I've made 4 turns measurements. It was from 3 to 9 secs. may be depends on amount of ships from both sides at sea?

[testarossa]

No, read Frag's post. i have both Win98 and XP installed and W98 is a lot faster.

[steveh11Matrix]

Training crews: in my experience (750MHz P3, 384MB Ram, W2000 Pro) this takes >30s for a full-map scenario. I haven't measured it, it could be >>30s.

Steve.

[testarossa]

ORIGINAL: steveh11Matrix

Training crews: in my experience (750MHz P3, 384MB Ram, W2000 Pro) this takes >30s for a full-map scenario. I haven't measured it, it could be >>30s.

Steve.

Yea, I have AMD64-3500. So it could be CPU power factor here.