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actually, i use if for gaming too... most games/programs will install just fine... the others require a little work...

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1. The majority of drivers from XP work with 2K3, since 2K3 is based off XP.
2. They do infact work, I have seen them work myself
3. Like I said, most XP drivers work with 2K3

Chipp

Yeah. I've been using it as my only OS for almost 6 months now, I love it for gaming.

I had some issues with DirectX and BF:1942, but running the installer for 9.0c (with all the files from 9.0b) seemed to fix it.

Yep, I've never had any issues getting drivers to work.

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thenk83

Has anyone compiled a Server 2003 compatibility list for Games for Windows or something? Like Battlefield? Gears of War? Counter Strike? etc?

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Holy back from the dead revival...!
My take is this...if benchmarks work...so will games.
I play FEAR combat on it

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There isn't any sort of formal list but I have tried to compile one from my experience and what i've read here. All of those games will work fine though

Unfortunately i've been without server 2003 for almost a year now I just had the need to play some classics that for some ungodly reason server 2003 didn't support!

I'm itching to get back on server, probably once I grab a new hdd.


Edit: Fixed a crapload of grammar mistakes and misspellings on post #1

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-iceblade^

wow... Hey man... I've just downloaded the OS via Dreamspark and am definitely going to give it a spin later tonight.. funny thing is, i saw it availabvle earlier but thought to myself: darn, i can't use his... and now i can, mwahahahaha!!!
the link at the top for the xp conversion pack is dead, though. here's a working one

http://www.windowsxlive.net/download/xpconv.zip

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Thanks, I forgot to check the links if they were still working. +rep

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I know I am a bit late on this, but it most certainly does. Been running it fine for years and I actually get a little better framerates in 2003 than XP too, not that I need it...

Sometimes you need to find a workaround to get stuff to intstall on 2003 server, but it always works perfectly fine once you get it installed.

The ONLY thing that works in XP that does not work in 2003 is... well nothing, but I can't get SLI in 2003 to work due to an OS check Nvidia put in their drivers after 91.47, however before that when I ran older cards, it worked perfectly too.

However, if you use TweakNT to convert your copy of 2003 to a XP workstation, SLI will work, and you can bypass the OS checks while still running the newer, faster and more stable 2003 kernel (might have to get an activation crack for this to work). Some of the server features may not work, but I assume you want to use this as a workstation anyway. Crossfire users can do the same thing.

Basically if you do the following, any game or application that runs in XP will run just as good or better in 2003.

If you have an ATI video card, ATI included a "dummied down" version of the driver. Use Omega Drivers and they work fine, plus Omega Drivers are more stable, faster and have sharper image quality, can't go wrong there.

After installing your video driver, you need to right click your desktop, go to the settings tab then advanced, go to hardware and slide the slider bar for hardware acceleration all the way up. Hit okay.

Now go start > run and type "dxdiag" and hit ok. Go to the display tab and enable all of your DirectX features.

Stream and all games supported under Steam will work in their entirety if you've done this right. If not then your video card does not support 3D or is too old to

bashy

installed 2k3 few days ago, works like a charm, only few problems, I got call of duty: united offensive summercup coming and it doesn't work on 2k3 :/ anyone got any idea how to trick the installer? I mod few lines in adobe photoshop installer and it works nicely but I don't have any idea with this one