Reply 40 of 46, by Rikintosh
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chinny22 wrote on 2023-06-09, 09:38:2 main reasons for me. No booting into dos mode. Yes work arounds exist but just like Windows 8 Start Menu, why do I have to do […]
2 main reasons for me.
No booting into dos mode. Yes work arounds exist but just like Windows 8 Start Menu, why do I have to do work arounds for issues that didn't exist on the previous version.
WinME was proven at the time of release to boot quicker but was actually slower at running things, not by much but again I'd rather a slower boot and have an extra fps in a game.
And really WinME didn't really offer me any benefits over 98 both of which was my gaming OS. For serious work I was using 2000.I think WinME can be a good choice today if your doing a pure Win9x gaming rig but it lacks any nostalgic feeling so still go with 98
What kind of delays did he have compared to the 98? I saw some benchmarks, and Me did better than the 98 in almost all games, with 2-4 fps more.
There is one thing that causes a slight loss of fps: WDM drivers versus VXD drivers. For some reason, WDM drivers, especially for the sound card, could cause you to lose up to 10% performance compared to VXD drivers. WinME used (mostly) WDM drivers. Could this be the reason?
I may have a controversial opinion, but I HATE all unofficial win98 packs, all I tested left my system full of bloatware and unstable as FE, in addition to considerably increasing the amount of ram memory used. I really like the official microsoft patches, I have them all saved on my hd, and MS offered some support until 2008 for win98.
There are some things that I prefer ME to 98 (and I didn't find out how to fix it in 98), for example, every time I change a hardware, 98 opens a "wizard" to install the driver, before starting windows explorer, and i hate it. I like how ME installs silently. Another thing I hate about the 98, is that if you put a network card, the initialization can take MINUTES, I always avoided adding network cards to my 98 machines because of that.
I may be thinking out loud, but I believe that if there was a way to improve the ME VDM to perfectly run games that rely on dos stuff, it would be a better system than the 98.
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