For reasons too numerous to post,, I can only give one bit of advice to a FS2002 user:

"Lose XP and stick 98SE or ME on there"

Here comes the hate-mail  

Seriously though,, Is it a new machine ?  If so XP "should"  be  ok... and there isn't much tweaking I'd advise on a factory installation of XP.

If you made the switch on an older machine ,,SWITCH BACK NOW  


rats,, my inbox is bursting already...


oops,, I just checked,,you mentioned you just bought it,,never mind..

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Why MS claimed XP was a better gaming enviroment, i'll never know

My mind is boggling

Don't know anything about XP Home 'cos I use XP Pro (having previously used 98, ME and FS2000 Pro)

XP Pro is great - very stable and quick. Best Windows OS I've ever had.

Win98 and Win ME are v bad memory managers in comparison to Win2000 Pro and Win XP Pro. I could go and make a cuppa tea while ME was loading FS2002 on my machine - and doing any painting or scenery work with it where you have to keep re-starting the system to see your work was more frustrating than ..... well, betta be careful what I say becos of all the younger readers!!

Unless you only have a donkey processor in your PC - and then it doesn't matter what system you run becos FS2002 will always be cr*p (ie all sliders and settings not on max) - then do yourself a favour and invest in the technology that gets the best from yr system. FS98 and ME surely won't!!

If you pop over to www.guru3d.com you can pickup TweakXP - XP version of the old gem.

Please let's not get into a pointless debate about whose OS is better.

Well,, if we get right down to it,,, Windows(any version) is first and foremost a file mangement OS. Heck, displaying a desk-top at 800X600 pushes Windows to it's "graphical" limit.

Enter the biggest "patch of a repatched patch" : DirectX

Instead of EVER just designing an OS for gaming... we got "DirectX" and all the joys that came with it  

I run a dedicate Counter-strike server on a LINUX machine,,,

Sometimes I'll just sit in front of it to watch a computer NOT crash or lock-up  

Okay, please forgive a little rant here:

Again, let's not get into a pointless debate about which OS is better.  One person believes that WindowsXP is worse than Win98, and another thinks that Windows in general is prone to crashes.  These issues are IRRELEVANT to the thread topic, and don't mean anything to a person who has XP, who is not going to change to a different OS, and who wants to find websites that will help him get XP to work more efficiently for him.  While I'm all for free-ranging and spirited debate, it's disheartening to find people changing the focus of a help-request thread into a meaningless backbiting session.  If folks want to debate Windows vs. Linux, or Win98 vs. WinXP, they should (in my humble opinion) please start another thread for that discussion.  When one finds, via the email notification system, that one's request for help has received numerous replies, it's kinda annoying to find that two out of three responses are from people with an axe to grind regarding something completely irrelevant to the discussion topic. 

P.S.  Thanks to all the folks who have taken the time to respond with relevant info. 

OK OK,, relevant information:

If XP and  FS are happily coexisting,, quit while you're ahead and don't tweak anything.

I got WinXp Pro recently, I love it, it starts so much faster than my old Win98SE, and another advantage is that it never freezes!  It runs very smoothly on my system, 576Mb Ram, P3, 766MHz, and I like it much better than any other OS, it has a lot more cool features with it, it even comes with it's own winzip which is convenient.  My flight sim hasn't really changed since I changed OS.  I don't really know what the difference between WinXP Pro and Home, but the Pro Edit. is, I reckon the best.  If you have a good computer WinXP is fine, there's nothing wrong with it, you just need a bit of memory for it and a good processor, that's all.

Greg