Windows 2003

12 posts · 2005-10-21 04:38:31 to 2005-10-23 23:16:38

#12400005863 10/21/2005 04:38:31 Windows 2003
Anyone play this OK on Windows 2003?



I'm wiping my hard drives today and thinking of wapping 2003 Server on instead to have a play about with instead of XP Pro.

#12400005864 10/21/2005 05:20:24 Re: Windows 2003
it's a lot faster I hear, but hard to configure.
#12400005865 10/21/2005 05:43:18 Re: Windows 2003
Im not worried about 2003 itself, just whether MxO will play OK on it

#12400005866 10/21/2005 05:48:35 Re: Windows 2003
I think it's more of a matter of what graphics card you're running.
#12400005867 10/21/2005 06:17:14 Re: Windows 2003
i think  MxO will.

The rest of your system checks out so go for it I say.
#12400005868 10/21/2005 06:28:34 Re: Windows 2003
Never heard of Windows 2003, tell me how it runs:smileyhappy:
#12400005869 10/21/2005 06:46:00 Re: Windows 2003
Windows Server 2003 = Windows XP with more networking and hosting tools, same goes for Windows 2005 Media Center.


I heard Windows Vista will have a lot of new features.
#12400005870 10/21/2005 06:54:16 Re: Windows 2003
I heard that with Vista, Microsoft will be trying to make sure that games run way better on it so that everyone uses it for games.
#12400005871 10/21/2005 08:45:01 Re: Windows 2003

MXO plays great on win xp pro 64 for me.  Biggest problem seems to be 64bit drivers.
#12400005872 10/21/2005 09:03:06 Re: Windows 2003

Any particular reason why you would want to run server for games? 


Back to topic, you should have now issues running it.  If you do have issues please post

#12400005890 10/22/2005 03:56:03 Re: Windows 2003
I planned to install 2003 so that I could play around with the server tools and utilities.

However in the interests of time and simplicity I reformatted with XP
Pro - reading about the Radeon drivers on 2003 and how many changes
needed to be made to get  certain cards to run correctly put me
off.

I'm not adverse to a little tinkering, but my priority was getting the system up and running ASAP

#12400005927 10/23/2005 23:16:38 Re: Windows 2003
Good luck with that.  And tell us what happens.  SMILEY