If I have Bryce installed on my Win2K machine, I can click on the icons in the lower menu to toggle between programs. If I install it on an XP machine, I have to alt-tab to switch between programs... Is this normal quirkieness btwn operating systems?

hello all, i thought i could jump in here instead of starting new thread. can bryce b run on win 98? if not, what is a good starter program? thx

Yes, bryce does this with 98 and xp. the nt based windows are a different story. It probably actually runs better in 2k due to the less-bloated OS base.

I use the "Windows" key to give me access to the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

Er, Ornlu, XP is NT 5.1, while 2000 is NT 5.0. You can also remove practically all the bloat and the kitschy eye candy on XP. Jabbiati, you can probably stretch your Quick Launch area in XP. Just click on the double arrow icon, hold and pull to the right. (And I can alt-tab in 2000, too.) Or the taskbar's set on auto-hide? loosescrew, yes, Bryce works on 98.

Xp is still much more bloated than 2000. Hence why you can keep an xp server up a month, whilst a 2k server can stay up FAR longer. Better memory management, less unnecessary tasks.

Ornlu, have you ever used XP over a long period of time? I've found XP to be the most stable and reliable Windows OS and as Erlik said you don't have to have all the junk that you don't need. Catlin

Well, I have both operating systems installed on this computer. Quite frequently when I bryce I use win2k. I find that I can load more objects (...metaballs...) =P with 2k than with xp. Bryce can be strained a lot more in 2k apparently. Rendertimes are generally a little shorter as well. 5 to 10% from what I've seen. Which isn't bad. I'm just working off of personal experience here.

Oh, it all depends. I had to repair my Win 2000 isntallation and now it installed some services that weren't there before and the system is much slower, it takes a lot of time to save a file and so on. I think that a complete reinstallation is in order. But I'm afraid that the system will go on the fritz completely and I cannot afford a new computer now. On the good side, I finally got back my monitor. :-)

Lets face it all windoze is bloat ware, I still want Bryce 4 Linux. I haven't touched XP because of all the spyware, and the fact I tend to change my hardware a lot, the re-registering thing would get right up my nose :-(. I have Bryce running on 98 and on several 2k machines, it's been stable on both until I installed sp3 for 2k (see my previous thread on that one)

Well 2k is more stable than Win-ME................But I can't get MOVIE MAKER 1 to work on 2k. Can anyone give me a file listing of MOVIEMAKER. I may be able to hotwire it onto 2K...?

I ran Bryce on 98, and switched to Win 2k with the new machine, no problems I've noticed. XP has a feature to change the desktop to a 'classic' (pre-XP, 9x-type look) look, just don't remember the code. Of course, I haven't even looked at animation, I'm still trying to get decent still artwork..;)