Ion Storm says WinME is OVER

[Comstar]

From my experience at trying to get Thief III demo to work, and then finding a thread on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, it seems that yes, Windows ME is no longer supported.

As in, it will not load due to an error, and it being WinME, stufu.


I am glad a demo was released so I did not pay for finding out this error. Guess I'll be playing ThiefIII when it comes out on the underdogs.

Now, I expect most of you HAVE WinXP/2000, so the advice will be "upgrade noob". Bah.

I WILL be upgrading, eventually. Until then, Ion Storm will rott in hell to me.

GAH.

[geldonyetich]

Hmm, sure enough, it's right on the back of the box.

"Technical Specifications: Windows 2000/XP (Admin Rights Required).
98/95/ME/NT Not Supported."

Guess folks who have yet to upgrade will need to start reading the boxes.

It'll run you $100 to get Win XP Home, which has pretty much everything you'll ever need, but it has a mandatory online registration geared in such a way that you cannot install it on more than one computer without having the OS shut down on you.

On the upside, you'll likely notice an actual speed increase in games from running on the more optimized core.   Provided your hardware isn't particularly funky, crashes are much more rare on XP.   Microsoft did a relatively bang-up job this time around.

[TripleDES]

About time developers start dropping Win9x support.

[schild]

About time developers start dropping Win9x support.

No one should have supported ME anyway. In fact instead of fearing the beast, measures should have been put into place that broke stuff when installed in ME but still worked in 98SE.

ME was an abortion, unleashed upon the unknowing public. While I love 2k and XP pro (which I've NEVER had either of them crash on me - unless it was my fault), Microsoft made a huge mistake with ME and they deserve much worse than they got. Which basically amounted to their least sold operating system. Ever.

[Big Gulp]

Microsoft made a huge mistake with ME and they deserve much worse than they got.

Hell, I wouldn't feel at all guilty just warezing a copy of XP or 2K if I were still saddled with WinME.  You've been running your system on an abortion for years now, the only thing holding you back being some misguided sense of honor towards the company that imposed that piece of crap on you in the first place.  Go to Suprnova, grab a copy of XP, and sleep soundly tonight.  If it helps your conscience just consider it reparations.

Once you go to an NTFS OS you'll wonder how in the hell you made do with Win98, let alone the horror of WinME.

[Neph]

WinME... bwahahahaha, how can people still run that piece of shit OS?

[schild]

WinME... bwahahahaha, how can people still run that piece of shit OS?

still? Mleh, I never ran it. I went to NT as soon as possible, then to 2000, then XP.

I think I used 98SE for a matter of days..I guess the question is - when and why did you use it (or at least that's what you imply, with 'still')?

[Neph]

Came on one of my systems I got from my friends uncle, at the time I didnt know any better. :(

[Morfiend]

Upgrade n00b.

[HaemishM]

My fiancee's old computer ran WinME and that piece of shit was an affront to computers everywhere. I would have to reinstall that crap monthly for it to really work right once you started installing ANYTHING on it. Whereas, on her new computer, 98SE is running just fine. Microsoft should have its balls boiled in oil for that shit.

However, my pocketbook is highly resistant to paying $100 for XP even though I want to.