I'd expect the 2d client should still work, as you just need to patch it up. Certainly when I ran win ME I had no trouble with UO. If your using older hardware in your PC, it's wise to check the system requirements for the newer windows versions carefully as you may need to upgrade both PC and OS to run windows 7. XP seems to run fairly well on our older PCs, but again I'd check the requirements if it's an old PC.
I haven't fiddled with the new client to get it working on linux, but the 2d version certainly works just fine under Wine emulation. So if money's the reason you're putting off the upgrade, you could always try using a spare partition or second hard drive to run linux instead. I tend to recommend Linux Mint as it's very beginner friendly, sleek and also a complete breeze to install.
Wenchy
Thx for replying
Millenium has always run UO 2D greatly, as you said, untill the very last patch (the SA one) and I have all the necessary system requirements on my PC by far.
What happens precisely is the following :
I patched successfully and I got the "patch session completed" but when I clicked "OK" to load UO (as usual) it said :
"Error Starting Program
The CLIENT.EXE file is linked to a missing export KERNEL32DDL : SetFilePointerEX."
There is another thread about this in UHall : somebody else with windows98 said she/he had the exact same thing.
I have no clue about what to do, I am not very computer wise and I don't know why I should update to XP ; anyway I don't know how to update and I don't dare doing it.
So, now I can't log in anymore in UO and I wanted to know if this is subject to change (as somebody said it was on EA's side) or if it will never change.
In that case I'm afraid I'll have to kiss UO bye bye because all this is far too complicated for me and of course I won't be buying a new computer etc...
That's why I wanted to know for sure from a dev if it'll change or always be the same...
I can't see why it worked so well before and not any more since the last patch and I'm sure the devs (engineers) could do something about it...