Thief III Goes Gold!

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Jamski
* Jamski is running win98 *

* Jamski cancels his "order" quickly *

Dammit

-Jam

Why Why WHY would anyone with a modicum of computer skill be running win98? Why?

Better to update your OS than remove your 'order'!

[General Ludd]

Are you sure it won't run on win98? Just because it is unsupported does not neccisarily mean it is unusable.

[Jamski]

I run win98 because I also run a lot of old games. I find its the best/most stable OS for my purposes anyway. My specs are at least twice* the minimum requirements for Thief 3, but since I'm running the "wrong" OS, they won't get my "money"

I can't play MoM, Colonisation, SMAC or the Gold Box games properly with XP - and that alone is my reason to stay with win98. Like I said, this is the first programm I've seen that won't work with my beautiful OS

My next box will have XP though, I'm sure of it.

-Jam

*Except I don't have 2 keyboards or two mice connected. That would be silly.

[pg]

pretty sure it won't run at all from what i've read.

skanky - care to elaborate on what the difference of opinion was?

[DrSpike]

The game might run in win98 though, so you shouldn't cancel your 'order' - they just don't guarantee it.

Plus most of those old games would probably run in Win2k, which I use. If I want to play a game that doesn't I have an old machine I can hook up in minutes.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Jamski

I can't play MoM, Colonisation, SMAC or the Gold Box games properly with XP

You can with an emulator like DosBox

[Skanky Burns]

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38701

Any relation, Jam?
It doesn't seem like the game will even run. A few have mentioned that the demo wouldn't work on 98.

pg: They are going out of their way to avoid commenting on the situation.

[DrSpike]

It's good. Scare the Sunday gamers with their aging P3's and old style Athlons away, so that the game can be played by, and focused upon, the gaming core.

[Skanky Burns]

Elitist.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Elitist.

Thanks.

[Jamski]

I'll have to get that crappy new OS one day then

Still, the crappy old one has served me well

And Doc - everyone knows that hardcore gamers run windows 3.1 Only FPS 1337 kids use newer OS's

-Jam

[DrSpike]

You can use what you like. The fact that win98 is slower, less stable, and uses many of the nice things that your machine undoubtedly has very very badly indeed should of course not sway you.

[Jamski]

Yeah, but installing XP will be such a pain... I always considered it... hell, I even have a legal copy downstairs I could install... but there's no way of "upgrading" '98 is there? I'd have to format and start over, and thats a PITA. Just backing up all my crap again... arrgh.

And then not being able to play SMAC, probably... *scared* - yes some people get it to work with the "XP patch" but others are screwed...

-Jam

[General Ludd]

You can upgrade from 98. I think it even backs up most of the files in case you want to revert, and carries over as many of the settings as possible.

[Jamski]

Really?

Tell me more... if I can just stick the CD in and press "upgrade from win98" that would be peachy.

-Jam