Win2k slow with games?

[Spooner]

i recently installed Win2k.

When I had Win98se with 192mb of RAM, CivIII ran pretty fine. Seemed to run at normal speed.

Now that I have Win2k with 640mb of RAM, CivIII is running very choppy. When units move, it stalls between steps... when scrolling to view landscape, it takes forever to move the screen.

What the hell gives? I know win2k is supposed to be slower when running games, but this is ridiculous!!!

Any fixes?

 

[Imaginer]

Did you install the latest direct x software / drivers?

 

[Spix]

I recently went from 98 to 2000 and I notice no drop in fps in any game whatsoever. In fact som games run better now. A few games might have compatibility issues witn win2k, but if they run on it, then they run just as good as in any other version of windows.

 

[EglsFly]

With Windows 2000, I found that installing DirectX 8 along with the latest nVidia drivers boosted the performance very close to what it was in Windows 98.
Before that it was noticably slower.

If you haven't already, give that a try.

 

[Spooner]

That's good to know, Spix, but doesn't exactly help with my problem.

I have all the latest drivers that I know of -- dirext x 8.1, nvidia, via 4in1

Has anyone else run into this?

 

[TheDebater]

Maybe its just Civ3 isn't meant for 2k, all my games run wonderfully with 2k. good luck

 

[Haircut]

Bought Civ3 the other day, and it does seem very choppy using Win2K, if anyone can shed some light on this it would be much appreciated.

 

[duragezic]

I don't know if my Civ3 is choppy... I never played it in 98 and it seems fine to me (too damn addictive though) but I'll look to see if it feels choppy when I play it.

 

[Spix]

Sorry for being a wiseass. The only contructive advise I have is to look for win2k updates, like service packs, but you probably already thought of that anyway.