Ì was just wondering is windows 2000 ok for running the new version of 3DGS??
Does it have to be winXP or is it ok to run it on win2k? it's jus I was having a few small problems and thought it might be down to that? Sorry if its a stupid question...

I'm running Win2K and 3DGS A6.31.4 Commercial and no problems here at all.

I was running Windows 98, which is nice and outdated for almost everything. It ran fine, but as soon as I upgraded to Windows XP Pro, there was a 50% speed increase. However, for all Windows releases before XP, you need to download and install the free Microsoft Accessibility Kit. This is found either on the CD 3DGS came on (not your key disk), or on the download page.

ok thanks for that..
but there's another problem now.Its taking ages to compile some of the tutorial stuff I'm doing. I had it on my home PC and it was compiling in 2 to three minutes but its taking hours to compile on the PC i need to demo a game on. I was thinking its because its not installed properly and I then saw that I couldnt view models so I fixed the .med. But its still just as slow....
Do I need to reinstall 3DGS again??

Well, the build speed depends on the CPU your computer has, and so it
is possible, that at your home pc the build was way faster then at your
office or work-pc.
Reinstalling wont help, just replacing the CPU maybe.
Which CPU is installed at this pc?

old_bill

am its an Intel Pentium 4 CPU with 1.80GHz and 523,256 KB RAM. Its actually better than my PC at home. The only thing that it has worse of is in memory. It only has a 10 gig while the computer at home has 20gigs. Would this cause the compiler to slow down as there is only 340MB free on the C drive??

It should be ok, maybe free a bit, but the most memory is taken from the RAM.
Check with the taskmanager how much RAM is used and if it's more then the 512MB,
the RAM will be expanded with space from your HDD; and this is definately slower.

old_bill

I have run 3dGS on win2kpro since I purchased (starting with a6.11) it with no problems. I have made no other special efforts/additions to the operating system other than the windows updates and have not installed the accessibility kit.

3dGS updates have run fine in all product update versions. This machine with win2kpro is my primary development machine. I have another (AMD64) with winxp pro and have more problems with 3dGS on it.

As for the difference in compile times it might just be that win2k's virtual memory is not optimised, given that win2k can read above 512meg RAM. Try freeing up some HD space and check your virtual memory settings. Most times it is best to allow windows to manage itself, but this is not always the best scenerio.

Hope that helps.