My 80gig Maxtor made its last spin after about a week of grinding. I'm happy that i got most important stuff copied to another hd before it died, other things are lost forever.
Anyway, i've been a die hard win98se user for years now so why not try winxp?
- I installed catalyst 3.10 because they were pretty much ok on win98se. But now everytime i start infiltration i have to set brightness again. It's not that i have to turn it up, it's already up, but somehow it's dark until i 'touch' the slider. Now i know this is an ati driver bug but on Chris' site he states that the bug didnt happen before 4.* something. But i may be wrong about that.
- My benchmarks so far using fieldmedics demo are exactly the same as in win98se. Give or take a frame. Darn. I really hoped xp would help inf a bit more. I'm sure if i slap in my old gf2 that he'll outperform the 9800pro still even in xp. ( but i won't get into that again )
- Refreshrates. WTH is going on in xp with it? Normally (in 98se) i would set the refreshrate in the 'Adapter' tab for every resolution both for 16- and 32 bit. They would never change from that setting unless i made the change myself.
XP seems to do what it feels like for every game and every resolution regardless what i set it to.
Example: I set 1024x768x32 to 100hz. Then i switch the resolution to 1280x1024x32 and set the refresh to 85hz. Then when i switch back to 1024 the rate is suddenly 85?? Also if a game changes resolution to something else than my desktop resolution (1024x768x32) then there's no telling what xp will do with the rates.
(Don't tell me i have to use some other utility to keep winxp in check.. isn't this supposed to be 'better'?)