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Windows 98 Compatibility, is it there in MTA VC 0.2?


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Windows XP will take care of a lot things. It will autodetect your hardware and configure most of the stuff for you. The software you have installed now should still work. Just use the upgrade function :-/

You make it sound like you are going to format the hard drive.

come on by now u should know its not wise to use the upgrade method

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totally wrong. Kurox. They started development on Win98 in 95 and released it in 97. That OS is more than 6 years old. Now most people don't have hardware that old and certainly not if they are running GTA:VC.

New hardware needs new software. Windows 98 is stable but old. Win Me sucks. 2000 and XP are the best versions currently available for home user PC. I never used 2K but i have been using XP for more than a year now and it hardly crashes. The only thin XP and 2K have problems with is DOS software but that isn't used much anymore.

Ad don't say thing you heard about. I hear a lot. Apperantly to someone MTA:VC0.2 is the best thing ever build. Someone else told me it sucks.

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Win Me sucks.

i have used windows Me from 1999 until 2001 and i have never had problems with it! But i also know that that os worked good on some ps's and crashed on others... anyway windows xp is the best operating system for the moment. On my second pc, a PIII 450, it is rather slower van 98/Me, but games running better...

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Win XP needs a beefy-er system in order to run at optimum performance. If you're running with less than 512MB RAM (although many other people say 768MB is their minimum), then forget about running XP. I haven't known PIII systems to run bad with it since it runs fine on my PIII laptop, but you certainly are better off running it on a P4. I mean come on people, obviously when you get a new OS, it's going to need a better system to run on. It's just like anything else. So please don't talk about 98 running better or more stable because that's just your excuse not to get a new comp. And as far as the whole Spyware thing...that's the STUPIDEST thing I have ever heard. If it were true, then I know a WHOLE lot of people that would be totally screwed by now. :P

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I have never heard of any spyware in xp, I do know that if you get an error and it says "send error report" people say it send personal details as well, which is why i click don't send. I know someone who has a win98 computer. He told me that there is no difference at all between 98 and xp, it just looks nicer! :shock: I have never heard something as untrue as that...

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Tried and get a developer that has win 98 to try and compile it and see if it shows any errors? I'm sure there's another way of doing the winsock thing on win98 which was also implemented into win XP, perhaps your using win XP only functions or something, If you catch my drift.. I dunno :?

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Perhaps using such win XP winsock functions explained below:

Winsock

Although Winsock (Windows Sockets) didn't undergo any significant change with the release of Windows 2000, Windows XP introduces a handful of new APIs. For example, getaddrinfo and getnameinfo provide enhanced host name-to-address translations, making gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr obsolete.

The most interesting of the new APIs, ConnectEx, DisconnectEx, and TransmitPackets, provide a benefit for high-performance network servers. ConnectEx enables an application to establish a connection on a socket and optionally send an initial message, and DisconnectEx both disconnects a socket and prepares it for reuse. Both of these calls execute multiple operations in a single system call. TransmitPackets is an extension of the Winsock TransmitFile function that existed before Windows XP. Like TransmitFile, applications use TransmitPackets to send file data directly from the file system cache over the network, thus avoiding memory copy operations. Unlike TransmitFile, TransmitPackets can send any number of buffers in a single invocation, and each can either be a memory buffer or a portion of a file, which makes TransmitPackets much more flexible and gives it scatter/gather characteristics.

The Microsoft Winsock-extensions DLL, \Windows\System32\Mswsock.dll, exposes the new performance-related APIs while the rest are in the Winsock 2 DLL, \Windows\System32\Ws2_32.dll. The Winsock helper driver, \Windows\System32\Drivers\Afd.sys, implements support for the new APIs in kernel-mode. All of the APIs are documented in the latest releases of the Platform SDK.

Another network-related Windows XP feature is that the TCP/IP stack supports IPv6 (in addition to IPv4), making Windows XP ready for changes as the Internet moves from 4-byte to 6-byte addresses. In fact, besides providing an improved translation interface, part of the purpose of the new getaddrinfo is to provide IPv6 support, since the legacy gethostbyname function doesn't support IPv6 addresses.

If Dev's are using TransmitPackets() you can check for OS compatibility issues/differences.

If I were in the Dev's position I wouldn't give up searching for a solution if it means contacting Microsoft ;) Cos there are a lot of whining ppl like me :)

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