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Windows Server 2003 - Gaming Experience!
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I game occasionally on a LEGIT copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Got it when the company I used to work for switched to RedHat. Anyone got some shit to say? Bring it! LOL. 
Kidding, all.
I've gotten some decent FPS with HL2, though. I did a pretty extensive amount of tweaking with XSetupPro. The only thing that I notice that is really cool is that when HL2 crashes during Garry's mod, it IMMEDIATELY crashes to the desktop without any hanging. When it crashed on me with XP Pro I usually had at least a full minute of hanging.
Kidding, all.I've gotten some decent FPS with HL2, though. I did a pretty extensive amount of tweaking with XSetupPro. The only thing that I notice that is really cool is that when HL2 crashes during Garry's mod, it IMMEDIATELY crashes to the desktop without any hanging. When it crashed on me with XP Pro I usually had at least a full minute of hanging.
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This isn't really all that new. And as previous posters pointed out, its really unnecessary. I have a pdf file I think with transferring a win2k3 server to a game rig. Its not all that intuitive, but it does kinda get you "under the hood" a bit as opposed to looking through a text book. But there isn't any security or performance benefit to doing any of the things mentioned. I got Win2k3 server running on my Shuttle and I can pop in Starwars Galaxies with my extra toon when I need to, but its a bit overkill IMO...
For those not in the know, go here:
http://microsoft.order-5.com/windowsserver2003evaldl2/
Get yourself a free (read that: FREE) evaluation copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. Fill out the appropriate forms, submit them. You'll get an email with a link for downloading the ISO and another email that has the installation key.
It's good for 180 days (that's 6 MONTHS) so that's plenty of time to stop the bickering and childish bitching in this thread and do some real testing. As for why to do this, let's just say "because we can."
One tip: to get past the issues of installing some software on 2K3 use Compatibility Mode (I used this to install some ATI drivers once because the driver installer was seeing 2K3 as XP 64 bit). It works.
Another tip is to use TweakNT to mad hax0r the OS into XP Professional 2003 - and yes, this works too.
As far as testing is concerned, I've installed 2K3 on many systems since its initial release, I've used that MSFN guide to hax0r 2K3 into becoming more XP-like and the results are simple: when 2K3 is installed and tweaked properly, it will outperform XP in most respects by about 5-10% across the board.
My Quake 3 framerates went up 17% and I can only attribute it to the improved memory and process handling of 2K3. I don't play newer games, sorry, so I can't speak for them. I'm a diehard Q3 man, and the boost in performance was noticeable in regular gameplay for me using 2K3 as a desktop OS after the aforementioned tweaking.
This is the kind of thread I was hoping to share information in to others who would love to try something new. It's amazing how people can talk about Linux distros and coding and all such things, but when someone says, "Hey, lemme try this server OS which is designed to multitask far more efficiently and see how it performs as a desktop OS" they get slammed for it.
I run 2K3 on a laptop now after having stripped out 400MB+ of useless code and features using nLite, the premiere tool for creating a small footprint Windows installer CD and it's wicked evil cool fast. I boot to the Desktop of my "XP Pro 2003" installation with 50MB of RAM usage.
Beat that. I did it "because I can," no other reason.
Have fun people...
br0adband
http://microsoft.order-5.com/windowsserver2003evaldl2/
Get yourself a free (read that: FREE) evaluation copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. Fill out the appropriate forms, submit them. You'll get an email with a link for downloading the ISO and another email that has the installation key.
It's good for 180 days (that's 6 MONTHS) so that's plenty of time to stop the bickering and childish bitching in this thread and do some real testing. As for why to do this, let's just say "because we can."
One tip: to get past the issues of installing some software on 2K3 use Compatibility Mode (I used this to install some ATI drivers once because the driver installer was seeing 2K3 as XP 64 bit). It works.
Another tip is to use TweakNT to mad hax0r the OS into XP Professional 2003 - and yes, this works too.
As far as testing is concerned, I've installed 2K3 on many systems since its initial release, I've used that MSFN guide to hax0r 2K3 into becoming more XP-like and the results are simple: when 2K3 is installed and tweaked properly, it will outperform XP in most respects by about 5-10% across the board.
My Quake 3 framerates went up 17% and I can only attribute it to the improved memory and process handling of 2K3. I don't play newer games, sorry, so I can't speak for them. I'm a diehard Q3 man, and the boost in performance was noticeable in regular gameplay for me using 2K3 as a desktop OS after the aforementioned tweaking.
This is the kind of thread I was hoping to share information in to others who would love to try something new. It's amazing how people can talk about Linux distros and coding and all such things, but when someone says, "Hey, lemme try this server OS which is designed to multitask far more efficiently and see how it performs as a desktop OS" they get slammed for it.
I run 2K3 on a laptop now after having stripped out 400MB+ of useless code and features using nLite, the premiere tool for creating a small footprint Windows installer CD and it's wicked evil cool fast. I boot to the Desktop of my "XP Pro 2003" installation with 50MB of RAM usage.
Beat that. I did it "because I can," no other reason.
Have fun people...
br0adband
kk, now the first problem comes up....
i have been trying to do that for a while, but for some odd and weird reason i cannot get my nvdia drivers installed. I downloaded the newest drivers, tried old ones, and also tried 64bit ones for 2k3.. but it just doesnt want to work.. without those.. no gaming
any suggestions?
i have been trying to do that for a while, but for some odd and weird reason i cannot get my nvdia drivers installed. I downloaded the newest drivers, tried old ones, and also tried 64bit ones for 2k3.. but it just doesnt want to work.. without those.. no gaming
any suggestions?
Mauli, read the first topic. I have explained there how to "take care" of some problems of the nVidia drivers. If you'll still encounter problems, feel free to send me an email, or to contact me via any messenger. I'll gladly help you.
* EDIT *
Btw, I have edited the first post.
Thanks,
Antonio.
* EDIT *
Btw, I have edited the first post.
Thanks,
Antonio.
OldPueblo said:
I had that problem with ATI drivers. They would load (if you ran them in XP compatibility mode), but when you'd reboot, you'd get an error that the control panel couldn't load. Once you bumped the hardware acceleration up to the max, and reboot, everything worked fine.
That is exactly what happened with me last night and it took me a little while to figure out what it was.
Without enabling hardware acceleration, there was a very noticable amount of choppiness when scrolling, opening menus, or basically doing anything that caused some type of fast movement on the screen. Once I upped the acceleration to the maximum, the problem was alleviated.
Without enabling hardware acceleration, there was a very noticable amount of choppiness when scrolling, opening menus, or basically doing anything that caused some type of fast movement on the screen. Once I upped the acceleration to the maximum, the problem was alleviated.
