What is you AGP aperture set at? Did you defrag you drive in Windows 2000? Did you install Half-Life in Windows 2000? Are you using the newest drivers? I have no problem at all in Half-Life Counter Strike. Runs better in Windows 2000 than it did in Windows 98SE
 
 
 
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Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard
Dual Intel Pentium III 850
512 MEGS of ECC RAM
Sound Blaster Live!
Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card
GeForce 2 GTS 64MB
IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive
Western Digital 20.5GB Hard Drive
Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB)
Roland Sound Canvis SC-55
3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card
Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32
Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM
Sony GDM-F500R Monitor

I'm also running 128 megs with a TNT2 and have no problems with slow loading.
There is a little sidenote to memory on Win2k, though. According to many sites the memory usage in Win2k, while MUCH more efficient than 98, deals with games in a much more direct manner. This means that when a game wants to make a 32meg precalculated table, Win2k tends to give it the 32megs. Win98 would only give it what it could spare. Therefor, many sites have recommended running with at least 192 megs for games. I personally plan on going to 256 shortly, although I really haven't had any problems with 128. (MORE IS BETTER - hehe)

i have not had that problem my games run faster on win2k the only problem i have is the one in HL when you hit esc it goes to a black screen ,,"iknow the menu is still there" but has anyone seen a fix yet

I have always had tons of disk paging with 128Mb of Ram under Win2k, even running OpenGL with my TNT2 PRO. Direct3D helped me with some games, but I still the paging.
As soon as I went to even 192Mb majority of my problems went away. And now 256 is just Godlike. I would never go back to just 128Mb.

I'll second what Johnny said. The move from 128 to 192Mb RAM made a huge difference.
 
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Quote:Originally posted by Johnny:
And now 256 is just Godlike. I would never go back to just 128Mb.

I never thought I'd see the day. My first computer had 8 KB of memory, and now we are complaining about 128 MB not baing enough.

Don't get me wrong, I have 192 MB.

[This message has been edited by Thrawn (edited 01 August 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Thrawn (edited 01 August 2000).]

i go from clicking on the game in gamespy to choosing my team in about 30-45 seconds on my win2000pro machine
and i only have a p3-550e 256mb ram one of those kick ass ibm 72000 drives and a geforce2
 
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I am not having problems in CS either (p3 700, 128mb ram, geforce). Here is a little tip that I was given a few weeks ago. Decide for yourself as to whether it helps or not:
 
 
For any of your games, create a .bat file. Add the following lines to this .bat file
 
echo off
Start /high hl.exe (this was for half life).
 
You can add these following lines right after the hl.exe if you want:
 
-console -game cstrike -numericping -nojoy -fps_max 100 -noipx
 
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CS is still running flawlessly for me
After you get past the 200 mark, you don't really see a difference. I went from 160 to 384, and saw nothing.
 
 
 
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OBSIDIAN (Win2k System)
---Custom Built---
AMD Athlon 750(model 2) retail (Slot A)
Asus K7V Mobo BIOS revision 1007-02c(beta)
PNY 288(295 listed)MB PC100 SDRAM (2x128 & 1x32)
A-Top 901 Case & 300W Athlon Approved Power Supply
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CL SB Live! X-Gamer Liveware 3 Drivers-only
CL GB Annhilator Pro
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ATI Xpert 98 video card
Sonic Impact S90
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Mandrake 7.1
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