Recomended OS

[Glugus]

Due to some really strange problems I'll be re-formatting my HD and reinstalling in an attempt to get this great program working.
System is a 1.4gig athlon, 512meg ram, xfxforce mx4000 64meg video, 2x PVR350, SB LIive and 40 gig drive.
Which OS should I install, Win 98, 2000 or XP Pro?
Can anyone make a recomendation and if 2000 or XP, what patches and SPs to install or avoid?
Stability and performance are tha main concerns here.

Thanks

[cameluk]

You need Win2K or XP to run GBPVR.
I'm running XP Service Pack 2 with all the updates and the PC seems to be pretty stable.

[Stimpy]

After I bought an nForce2 motherboard, my system has been perfectly stable. Here's what I'm currently using:

- motherboard with nForce2 chipset
- Duron 800 MHz CPU (100 MHz FSB)
- 256 MB RAM
- Diamond Viper V550 video card
- PVR-350 (using TV output)
- one 10GB hard drive for OS and programs
- two additional hard drives set up as one "spanned volume" for a total of 280 GB
- Windows 2000 service pack 3
- DirectX 9.0
- MDAC 2.8
- GB-PVR 2.311
- Windows Time service pointed at a free NTP server
- no other programs, tweaks or patches

The PC is connected to my home network which is behind a Linksys router/firewall.

The only reason I installed service pack 3 is because I needed support for hard drives larger than 137 GB, otherwise I would have left it without any service packs since that configuration was perfectly stable too.