Win98 don't supported?

[Lashu]

Why Win98 is not supported by Regnum Online? Only NT systems, but why ?

[arlick]

Why Win98 is not supported by Regnum Online? Only NT systems, but why ?

i suposed because is really out of date, please, update your OS.

[Athens101]

Why is OS/2, windows 3.11, NEXT, and DOS not supported? Thank about it :)

[surak]

One good reason is: not even Microsoft support Win98 anymore.

If you have a machine with enough capabilities to run Regnum (or similar games) and you run Win98 on it, it's a waste of resources, don't you think?

[ArcticWolf]

I doubt you can run Regnum on a Win98 because you would be running something more up-to-date with that hardware. In other words, I suppose you don't have the hardware needed to run Regnum if you're still using win98.

Try switching to Linux, maybe Debian, Ubuntu or Slackware. Think about it, Win98 is almost 8~9 years old if my memory serves me well (remember that Microsoft never delivers software on time).

[G40st]

One good point though, at least he is using a OS from Windows that is better than Vista :lol: :tonguey:

[Lashu]

1. Win98 is faster than any newer.
2. Win98 is up to date, i know but for newest Xorg Ati don't have drivers.
3. If Win98 is up to date, buy me new os ^-^ i will be happy. :P


Surak it's not wasting resources if you don't have newest PC. Games and other things run faster on it, because NT/XP is slower 2x. Just check for minimal requirements.


Example:

Windows 98
-----------
66mhz 80486DX Processor
16MB of RAM
HDD SPACE 120MB - 355MB
Typical installation requires 170MB - 225MB of disk space.
MUST BE EQUIPPED with a 16 color VGA compatible monitor.

WindowsXP
----------
233MHZ processor
64MB of RAM (on support microsoft it write 128MB of RAM, strange)
HDD with 1.5GB of freespace
SVGA Monitor with 800x600 resolution.


When you have winXP you are wasting your resources, you are wrong surak. WinXP doubling PC requirements.

[arlick]

1. Win98 is faster than any newer.
2. Win98 is up to date, i know but for newest Xorg Ati don't have drivers.
3. If Win98 is up to date, buy me new os ^-^ i will be happy. :P


Surak it's not wasting resources if you don't have newest PC. Games and other things run faster on it, because NT/XP is slower 2x. Just check for minimal requirements.


Example:

Windows 98
-----------
66mhz 80486DX Processor
16MB of RAM
HDD SPACE 120MB - 355MB
Typical installation requires 170MB - 225MB of disk space.
MUST BE EQUIPPED with a 16 color VGA compatible monitor.

WindowsXP
----------
233MHZ processor
64MB of RAM (on support microsoft it write 128MB of RAM, strange)
HDD with 1.5GB of freespace
SVGA Monitor with 800x600 resolution.


When you have winXP you are wasting your resources, you are wrong surak. WinXP doubling PC requirements.

is more faster because is more "light" for the system. the windows vista need more than the windows xp, and whats better? win98 or vista?

try with a linux distribution, is already more faster than all windows.

[niclam]

The gritty details of why we don't support win98 are outdated drivers, unicode support out-of-the-box (in some cases, you have to get a couple of dll's) and some other compatibility issues.

Honestly, with some things taken care of, Regnum could potentially work on Win98, but we don't have the resources to support most platforms out there.
Not only win98 has been asked for, but Apple Macintosh, FreeBSD and some others.

Regards

[ArcticWolf]

Regnum OnLine runs on most of the linux distros out there, it's fully supported, crashes less times, (I doubt it will run on a coyotelinux), and most of the distros are easier to learn that windows xp or the others.

You can try linux without installing it, just running a "live-cd", without even using the hard drives... So it's safe for you.

Here you have a list of some good distros (like "versions"):

http://www.ubuntu.com/ <--- One of the most used distros (I'm using it right now)
http://www.opensuse.org/ <--- Personally, I don't like it, but's that's just matter of being used to debian-based distros
http://fedoraproject.org/ <--- Former RedHat sourcecode...
http://www.debian.org/ <--- Debian! :D
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ <--- Runs on a 486 66MHz with 6mb ram, I tested it.
http://www.slackware.com/ <--- One of the most important distros out there, if not the most.
http://www.gentoo.org/ <--- Use this one if you think you can learn fast...

[NightTwix]

The gritty details of why we don't support win98 are outdated drivers, unicode support out-of-the-box (in some cases, you have to get a couple of dll's) and some other compatibility issues.

Honestly, with some things taken care of, Regnum could potentially work on Win98, but we don't have the resources to support most platforms out there.
Not only win98 has been asked for, but Apple Macintosh, FreeBSD and some others.

Regards

thats a very very good reason to open the client source code (actually the only good i can think of).
then the community could port it to other platforms

[Stefan1200]

1. Win98 is faster than any newer.
2. Win98 is up to date, i know but for newest Xorg Ati don't have drivers.
3. If Win98 is up to date, buy me new os ^-^ i will be happy. :P

4. Win98 is one of the Windows OS with the most bugs, only Windows ME has more :P ;).

Many games and programs don't runs with Windows 98 anymore. Even Windows 2000 has now problems with some current commercial games, thats why I switched from Windows 2000 to Windows XP 4 month ago.

So its senseless to add support for Windows 98, 99,999% of the Windows Gamers don't use this OS anymore.