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And I say it�s about goddamn time to force 95/98/ME users to upgrade:
"Well there have been rumours flying around lately that DOOM 3 would not be able to run on computers that have Windows 98 or Windows 98SE as their operating systems. Since we here at planetDOOM dislike rumours in all shapes and sizes, we went straight to the horses mouth so to speak and asked Activision themselves. The reply we got was that it is confirmed and indeed true that DOOM 3 will only run on Windows machines that have windows 2000 or XP and not lower. So there you have it, looks like some peoples upgrading woes just aren't quite over yet." http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/topic.asp?fid=4952&tid=1432033 bill Gates is gonna love ID now.
this seems unfair to me, also i wonder why it wouldnt work on win98 etc, all other recent games have. AFAIK, there have been some games that require win2k/winxp, but I can�t come up with any names right now. Besides, if you have a machine that is the minimum spec for Doom 3, there is absolutely no reason to stick to Win95/98 or the abomination that is WinME.
this seems unfair to me, also i wonder why it wouldnt work on win98 etc, all other recent games have.
My first guess would be that it is easier to implement an effective copy protection scheme with the XP/2000 root command structure. My first guess would be that it is easier to implement an effective copy protection scheme with the XP/2000 root command structure.
Ha ha! That's not funny. �_� When I built this PC, I'd installed 98, and some of the motherboard drivers wouldn't install - the setup program required Win2k or XP. So we upgraded to XP, and they installed. I wonder how many others have come across this.
Hasn't updated their Win9x drivers since 1999 or something. Consequently I've been unable to play NOLF2 because of sound issues. :(
won't install on win98 either and I think it's just the start of developers not supportin win9x anymore
Operating systems are a technological dead end, or pretty much near it. Connectivity, file management and sorting, media compatabilaty all of these things are not new. What can change are matters of stabilaty (for the good) and whatever copy protection schemes they can incorporate to avoid lawsuits from the likes of the recording industry, intellectual property fascist and Hollywood.
The future is looking to be one of less flexibilaty and freedom to use the medium for your own purposes. Even the open source nature of Linux is threatened as well as the validity of the Gnu license agreement. That is why I am weary of whatever changes are in store. I have a good idea of what is driving that change. What scampie said.
Also, copy protection is a joke, it takes about 30 seconds longer to copy a game that has CD protection (SafeDisk et al) than it does to copy one without it. (This is of course after some other poor bugger has done the 'real' cracking, but that happens within about 2 days of a new system and after that it's just outdated tech) also, btw. id wouldn't be the one adding copy protection to their game, further than cd keys. that would all lie on activision's hand. the 2k/xp thing is most likely a code desision made by id and irrelevant to copy protection.
Well, XP and 2000 are at least 10% faster than 98/95, same base speed as ME.
There's a CPU bit they can un-set in these OS-es that has something to do with memory paging, nets a smooth 10% increase in speed. But aside from that, I don't know why it requires XP/2k. A more unified OS base perhaps, since XP is just 2000 with attachments.
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