Hi, I'm thinking of installing NT 4.0 on my computer along with Win98. I want to make use the beter memory handling abilites in NT but I have applications that will not run in NT. I also ocasionally play the odd game. I don't have any problem setting up NT and Win98 to coexist together. What I would like to do is use my existing installation of poser in NT rather than install another copy. Has anyone ever tried this by copying the registry entries? Is there any untility that will do something like this available? Thanks, Thorgrim

Hmm. I'm not sure about your message. I have a dual boot system and installed Poser under the NT partition. I have a couple of apps installed on the NT that I run under WIN98. THey are not MAJOR programs like Office but they run. I did do this with Poser. I'd do it now, but with this internet thing running I'd run out of RAM rather quickly.

Running a Dual Boot PC isn't easy even with Powerquest BootMagic. For one thing you can't read a FAT32 partition from NT 4 though you can get a copy of the Winternals program called FAT98 that will let you do this. They also have one that allows you to read and write to a NTSC partition from 98 You could rebuild your system, live with all 2GB partitions under FAT16b NOT I have more reason than anyone to do what you suggest. I have a dual CPU motherboard with 2 900MHz Celerons and a GB of RAM. I've pretty much give up on NT 4 NO real QT 4.0 support NT kills it all the time. No support for ActiveX past ver 3. NT is a stable platform but no guts and no glory. Win98SE still rules.

I'd forgotten the about the 2gb partion limit in NT. Well, that won't do. Is the Winternals program FAT98 stable? I don't have any problems with dual boot system, I've had Win98, NT4.0, and Linux all running fine on a single PC. I haven't installed NT on my current machine because I wasn't running anything that required it. I have recently upped my memory from 256mb to 512mb, but according to the tech tips this month from Currious Labs Win98 will not allow Poser to grab more than a 128mb chunk when rendering. I was hoping running Poser under NT would allow me to render more complex scenes. I guess I could go to Win2000 but I already own NT so it would be a cheaper solution since I probably will use Win98 as my default OS. I just wanted to find out if I can get away with running in NT the copy of Poser I have installed in win98. Thanks

The 2GB limit is only if you go with Fat16. NTSF allows you to go to huge drives but forget compatability between OSes. Yup. 98 won't allow you to do much with the memory above 512 even though you will see it in BIOS. I use Poser under NT and find it to be stable. As you say if you are a gamer then NT makes life dreary. If you are into 3D modeling, rendering, and video production than NT 4 is great. If you have 2 or more systems you can network them together and even run Poser on the NT box from your Win98 system. Mixing and matching on a single system is theoretically possible, especially if you have the utilities I mentioned. You really only need the one for reading/writing FAT32 from NT. I think it only costs about $30 from Winternals With it you can use a dual boot system and run Win98 under a Fat32 partition, and have a second fat32 partition for your programs. You have a separate NTSF or Fat16b partition for NT. You install Poser 2X once from each OS to the same subdirectory on your FAT32 drive dedicated for programs. Of course dual booting is best with BootMagic from PowerQuest. It hides the other OSes partition, the one you didn't boot from. Win98 hates it when more than one partition is active. Good way to crater your system in a hurry