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Originally Posted by Spielman
That's great. I'm glad that if I ran a fresh install of Win98 and didn't install anything else on the machine that it would probably run OOTP6 correctly.
However, you're selling games to real people who live in the real world, and in the real world, computers have more than one program installed on them.
Win98 is still listed as the RECOMMENDED operating system for OOTP6.
It doesn't appear that you've registered that point yet, since your only reply seems to be to point out that it's theoretically possible for a Win98 machine to run OOTP6 without trouble.
How on earth is it defensible to continue to list Win98 as the recommended level of OS under those circumstances?
-Spielman
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The listed "recommended" requirements state "Windows 98
or higher".
If you look at the advertised requirements for most games on the market today, they will include Windows 98 because there is no specific programming that calls for an ability that Win98 cannot provide.
Your also missing the major point I made. It's not a matter of not installing anything else, it's a matter that Windows 9x was simply not as good as "doing it's housework" in the way it handles memory, adding and removing programs, etc. As a result, and because of it's age - and the fact that many Win9x OS machines have probably NOT been rebuilt for a long time - this adds up to many unstable systems. The fact that's it's unstable, or even knowing if a customer has an unstable OS is not anything a supplier could guess or is required to address.
Software manufacturers, in this area, are asked to provide what systems the program (OOTP in this case) will run on. That is based on technical specifications and assumes a machine operating at peak efficiency. A Windows 95 machine with 64MB of RAM and a 1024x768 display will run the game. As a comparison, a Windows 95 machine with only 32MB of memory or without a 1024x768 display will not.
What "condition" the machine or its OS is in is not a variable that software manufacturers are required to speak to.
Granted, OOTP will run better with a Windows 98 machine, and better yet with a Windows 2000 OS, but again, this is the choice of the customer.
I'm sorry your experience hasn't been good, but I am sure that a
clean" Windows 9x machine with the minimum requirements and correct drivers will run OOTP without crashing, assuming there are no hardware issues.