Windows 98 SE vs Windows Millennium Edition - Which is faster and better in games?

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[eliubfj]

So comprehensive! Thank you for taking your time to test these ancient things for us old timers!

[a]

Just discovered your channel. Really interesting and nostalgic content for an old school nerd like me.

[astrxarthur]

Windows ME. That’s always been my fave OS. 💻

[beanovskydurst]

So performance-wise they're practically the same. Compatibility and DOS support seems to be the difference then. Thanks for tackling this!

[MarkHyde]

I'm really not surprised here. Thanks for tackling this anyway. Looking forward to future content and builds .

[BreakingBrick]

I was using ME until 2003, where I got a copy of XP - before I tried 2k, but unfortunately most of my games told me back then, that NT wasn't supported.
I liked ME and 2k both a lot, but I sticked to ME until XP.

Nevertheless, because I played a lot dos-games, ME was my first choice.

So, I never understood people why they were so mad and angry about ME, in my case 98SE gifted me quite more with bluescreens as ME.

I got two years ago an old Dell P3-Laptop and last week I installed ME on it, thanks to Phil.

I regret nothing!

[MrEduedu]

Long time waiting for a video like this one.
Thanks!

[turbo]

I have a retro PC with Athlon XP, 768MB of RAM and MX440 running Millenium Edition :D Works well for playing Medal of Honor :D

[Zizzily]

I had Me when it was current, and honestly, I never really had any more issues than in 98, really. I mean, once I started using Windows 2000, I didn't look back, but that's mostly just because the NT kernel has always been so much better.

[Francisco-je]

My firsl real computer was an amd athlon 1700+ with 256 mb ram 32mb onboard graphics. I'll remember it forever. I played aoe 2, viper racing, midtown madness 1&2 and many more on it. Those games still fresh to me everytime!

[ThiagoPerroni]

Good video, short, and effective, like deserved.

[FaSMaN]

Nothing wrong with ME, you can allways dual boot ME and Dos 6.11 using plop and you will have the best of both worlds.

I think I mentioned it in chat to you but what would be interesting to see is if all the unofficial service packs performance tweaks actually make a difference or are they all "SnakeOil" I have a feeling they actually slow things down in terms of startup times and general in windows tasks...

[drumphil]

Well, I'm glad we sorted that out so I can get on with building my new PC!

[smutkovski]

i prefer win98SE for DOS, so i can play 386/486 and win95/98 games on one machine without dosbox

[lordmmx]

so glad to see re-volt in phil's videos. run it with voodoo card ;)

[edison]

you should compare Windows 98 with an unofficial Service Pack and windows Millennium Edition with unofficial Service Pack. I know for 98 I usually install those to give more modern networking support for example. I would like to know if installing some unofficial packs actually hurts game performance or doesn't really matter

[dmnsonic]

Phil, please, put the WinXP on the fight to compare. Recently I upgraded my main rig and decided to upgrade the OS from Win7 to Win10 and even on a 5-year-old machine I almost boost 10fos on some games. I want to know if this can cause the same on old hardware. Great video, now I'm gonna consider using WinME for my builds.

[unclerubo]

The main problem with ME was basically RAM usage. If you had tested this with a PC with 64 or 128MB of SDRAM 133 like back in the day, the performance difference would have been noticeable.

[YesterPlay]

And that's why I chose ME for my retro PCs, it offers the same performance but is sold for much less on ebay.

[GiSWiG]

Can you do a video on updating Windows ME with the unofficial service pack (especially on which one) and how to enable running real DOS from either a boot floppy and the patch?