A question to WinME!

Hi guys,
I got it almost 3 months ago. 1st time:
althing ok. Baldur's Gate 2 without problems.

but one day, I installed a wrong driver, and had to reinstall it. Sayed, done.

2nd time:
After intalled the OS 2nd time, BG 2 doesn't work. There's a error, which say me that a *.ddl or something like that doesn't exists. I checked it, BUT...that file exists. So what now??

In the 3rd time thissame.

In the 4th time the error dissapera.

What's the matter with my OS???

PS: It canot depend on my hardware, because all other components works fine.!

First, take some time to clean up the English in your post

Secondly, you could always format your hard drive and reinstall everything. This is a huge pain of course, but since you've said you've reinstalled the OS multiple times (at least that's what I gather from the broken English) and it hasn't worked, that is what I would do. Of course, I could be wrong, and in fact, I wouldn't doubt it

[FlyingPenguin]

SPECIFICALLY what DLL is not found. Need more info. List your hardware specs.

Make sure you have the latest driver installed for your video and sound cards.

I don't recommend WinME if you're a power user or a serious gamer. Benchmarks show it's slower than 98SE.

Forget what Microsoft says about it - WinME is NOT an upgrade like 98 was, it's a consumer OS targetted for people who are computer novices and who need to be protected from damaging their own systems. WinME makes it a LOT harder to accidently delete critical system files, and has a lot more self-repair ability if you should somehow manage to delete critial files despite all that.

The price you pay for this is performance and code bloat. WinME has a MUCH larger hard drive footprint than Win98SE, and as I said before all benchmarks show it runs slower.

As far as stability, I think it's a joke. ME is no more or less stable than 98 - maybe less because, despite what Microsoft says, 98 drivers are usually NOT compatible with ME and hardware manufacturers have been slow to make their drivers fully ME compliant. ME is STILL a DOS-based OS and as long as it is, it can never be the paragon of stability that an NT-based OS is (like Win2K). In ME, just like in 95 & 98, one misbehaved app can still over-write the memory space of other apps, which renders the stability claims pointless. If stability is a real issue for you, consider Win2K Pro.

MS would LOVE you to think that ME is an upgrade to Win98 so it can sell you the thing for a rediculous price, but it's not. Most of the improvements are available for Win98 in updates or service packs, and the few that aren't are nothing to get THAT excited about.

If you do a re-install anyway my advise is go back to Win98SE and take WinME back to the store for a refund or sell it.
Because Win2K still has issues with some D3D games (OpenGL games are no problem, though) I would still recommend 98 for serious gaming.

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The Flying Penguin
http://TheFlyingPenguin.com

[hAlFaLiFe]

Hmmmm?

WinME trashes Win98se and it's much more stable, looks better and feels like Win2k.

I've had no problems with WinME and it's just as fast on my system.

Win98se looks and is outdated, WinME new install was as smooth as silk.

Sorry if you cannot get WinME to run like clockwork then your a newbee, no offence.

[FlyingPenguin]

HalfaLife: That kind of post doesn't help anyone.

If you feel like banging the drum about ME go right ahead, but the man has a problem and posting "ME is great, you must be a newbie" doesn't help solve his issues.


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The Flying Penguin
http://TheFlyingPenguin.com

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[hAlFaLiFe]

My post does help because it shows how many people can'nt setup a simple OS right, baring hardware incompatablitys.

I.E Installed the wrong driver.

If everyone setup WinME right that would benifit all of us because then people would agree with what i've said.

Maybe they should show people in OS reviews how to set it up right rather that slag it off, WinME has had bad press and it's not justified.

[rgray11]

i never had any real problems that i couldnt figure out with any of the os from microsoft.. i think since i installed ME i had one blue screen thats was because i pulled a disk out while it was reading from it...never had a problem with w2k or se when i had it on here ....and no im not sayin microsoft is great but it works for me ....