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Hammerund Schlegel
Registered User
Join date: 26 Jul 2004
Posts: 17
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07-30-2004 23:15
Despite the claims on the SL page that the client will not work with W98SE, it works absolutely fine here and in a direct comparision with XP, there is absolutley no difference whatsoever (graphics, menues, performance, etc.) - in fact, task switching and such things perform even better. There are, though, probably some preconditions that need to be matched (eg. directx8+ installed, MSIE 6+ installed, etc.) - but with a fairly *actual* W98SE system, there should be no problems at all with SL.  |
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
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07-31-2004 22:38
It works fine with Win98SE and IE 5.
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Camille Serpentine
Eater of the Dead
Join date: 6 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,236
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07-31-2004 23:48
I only had trouble with SL on my win98se machine because the rest of the machine (graphics card, etc.) couldn't handle it.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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08-01-2004 03:03
I ran SL under win98se for a loong time. Worked great.
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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08-01-2004 03:11
98SE has the same device model as XP, 2k, & ME. 98SE was when they rolled it out. As long as your software isn't specificly designed for XP it should run fine on all 4 windows versions hardware being the limitation. MS doesn't like breaking compatability when they don't have to so the nasty changes they roll out all at once.
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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08-01-2004 16:52
The reason the Lindens don't say, "oh yeah, it works fine on 98, too" is because they don't have the resources to support it. Particularly not when you consider that, --generally speaking-- most people running Win98 are not likely to be running very new hardware.
So it'll PROBABLY work, but not necessarily.
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