xp vs windows 2000

[peterson65]

i have a mame arcade cabinet with an arcade vga card and i am running windows xp now, but i am thinking

of running 2000 instead because its a game machine only any problems with gameex or arcade vga with windows 2000? would i be better with 2000 (faster and lesscrap)

thanks

[Tom Speirs]

i have a mame arcade cabinet with an arcade vga card and i am running windows xp now, but i am thinking

of running 2000 instead because its a game machine only any problems with gameex or arcade vga with windows 2000? would i be better with 2000 (faster and lesscrap)

thanks

I have not tested GameEx on windows 2000 for a while, but it used to and should run fine. Although my advise would be to stick with XP, but optimise it heavily and remove/disable the extra crap you don't need.

[Ricci]

Hi-

I have run it on both platforms, and believe it runs smoother on Xp, personally, probably due to XP's media design. Just my two cents

[Michael]

i have a mame arcade cabinet with an arcade vga card and i am running windows xp now, but i am thinking

of running 2000 instead because its a game machine only any problems with gameex or arcade vga with windows 2000? would i be better with 2000 (faster and lesscrap)

thanks

win 2000 is more a workstation OS for office's etc, stick with XP just have the mimimal amount of stuff running as you can, programs and services

[peterson65]

thanks for the input. i might strip it down and remove everthing i dont need. or has anyone ever tried a program like xp lite to make a cleaned up install of xp?

[Ricci]

I have played with a lite version, but due to the needs for the media stuff, (MNG, Music, etc) for all the add on goodies, I would not recommend it. It is better to load full XP, and then start turning off all processess that you don't need to optimize it. Also, with a good video card, and memory, you really help yourself out quite a bit.

[Tom Speirs]

thanks for the input. i might strip it down and remove everthing i dont need. or has anyone ever tried a program like xp lite to make a cleaned up install of xp?

I havent tried XP Lite but the problem with it is that if you ever decide you need something you removed you have to start over. I would just look at look turning off the gui, disabling services, and make sure you have no other little helper (apparantly) applications running at startup. You could also inadvertably remove a service or library that GameEx or other programs need to run.

[Asure]

I run mine on 98SE with no problems. It's a vertical Mame machine only. I like 98 because of the small OS footprint. XP and 2000 take up around 200 mb doing 'nothing'..

[Michael]

thanks for the input. i might strip it down and remove everthing i dont need. or has anyone ever tried a program like xp lite to make a cleaned up install of xp?

i think XP lite is gone Microsoft are sueing i think could be wrong though

[Tom Speirs]

I run mine on 98SE with no problems. It's a vertical Mame machine only. I like 98 because of the small OS footprint. XP and 2000 take up around 200 mb doing 'nothing'..

Yeah with decent hardware and the right drivers I got GameEx flying on Win98SE too. Certainly OK for only playing MAME with GameEx, way too dated for anything else though.