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bobhegf

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Fellows, I am still running windows 98se and am planing to change to XP. Which XP runs CFS2 and FS2004 the best?I am thinking about getting an external harddrive and once I put 6yrs of CFS2 on it while running 98se can I redownload to my main harddrive once I have changed over to XP?
 
Just running regular XP with latest service pack and it runs FS9 great. Don't have CFS1 or 2 presently installed.
 
You should find that Windows XP should offer a trouble-free platform for your CFS2 installations. There are also several hidden benefits...your framerates will improve significantly, and you can have .dat and mission files that go over the 64KB limit.
 
Windows XP Home

I ran CFS2 on Windows Xp home for the longest time. When i got my new motherboard I was forced to move up to Windows Vista because XP didn't support the board, but I really loved XP for running CFS2.......IMO......you wont have a problem
 
Xp sp2

I play cfs2 with xp sp2. It runs almost fine, but I believe that it was running better with windows 98 or 2000. For example, it was far quicker to load. :engel016:
I read here that xp sp3 was not recommended at all.
 
I am running XP Home updated to Service Pack 3...and this system is as stable as can be. CFS2 runs like a champ!

XP comes in a few flavors: Home, Pro, Media Center. Pro, from what I understand, is the best version of XP, and contains some features that the others do not and is the most stable. Media Center has things in it geared toward using you computer for photos, movies, music. My sister-in-law has XP Media Center and I hate it...but then again, it could simply be her computer I hate.

There is nothing wrong with Service Pack 3....nothing at all. It makes XP more stable, more secure. The key to installing SP3 is to do it manually...that is do not allow Windows Auto Update to install it...actually, I never allow Windows Update to do anything automatically. My sister-in-law was one who becried SP3, saying that it would crash your system, that it would not install. And once I told her to stop being a lazy computer user and to install it manually, she quickly changed her tune.

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I also have XP Service pack 3, and CFS2 has never run better. :ernae:
 
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