WinXP SP2 Affecting Games! Thread

Microsoft have just published a complete list of all applications that don't work correctly under SP2. Unfortunatly, there's a ton of games in the list. Including my favourite, Unreal Tournament.

Support.microsoft.com

Hope you didn't install it, ShortCutMan.

Programs wrote:
Starcraft
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition
Command & Conquer Generals

That's going to isolate a lot of people.

Programs wrote:
Office XP Standard

Heh.

- Edited By frosty_theaussie On Sat 14th, Aug 2004 @ 4:55:17am

Now you are witnessing the true evil that is....

Windows XP....

Now you can understand why I never upgraded to XP eh?

.. lol

Office 11 Microsoft
Office - Power Point 2002 (German) 2002 Microsoft
Office Access 2002 2002 Microsoft
Office System - Power Point 2003 Microsoft
Office XP Access 10 Microsoft
Office XP Professional Excel 10.0 SP2 --- Microsoft
Office XP SP2 - PowerPoint 11 Microsoft
Office XP Standard 10 Microsoft
Outlook 2000 9 Microsoft
Outlook 2002 10 Microsoft
Outlook 2003 11 Microsoft
Outlook Web Access x Microsoft
Revenge of Arcade v1.0 Microsoft
Server Administrator Tools --- Microsoft

Its companys own stuff

Thats why I never downloaded it.

ShortCutMan wrote: Microsoft have just published a complete list of all applications that don't work correctly under SP2. Unfortunatly, there's a ton of games in the list. Including my favourite, Unreal Tournament.

Support.microsoft.com

I've had sp2 since it was in beta testing, I have only had one problem wiht games and that was due to a rougue virus making rundll32.dll not quite work properly, I fixed this and I have no porblems with any of the listed software, although it is a good thing to note that there is a number of M$ pieces of software in that lineup

Why the heck not just make a list of softwares that DO work... no way I'm downloading this

I downloaded it the second the final release was announced, but didn't install it; I thought I'd wait and see what happened first... good thing too!

CheapAlert wrote: Now you are witnessing the true evil that is....

Windows XP....

Now you can understand why I never upgraded to XP eh?

Xp rocks, sp2 does not.

Luckily, I don't have SP2.

Me either, not for a few weeks, I told people to wait.

LLLOOOOLLL

UT doesn't work with Windumb XP SuckPack 2...

i'm soooo happy having linux where it runs better than under windumb

My, aren't we on an ego trip...

I never get any updates really :/

I dont think ive been prompted for it yet, cant remember

Taken from the site:

The programs that are listed in this article may experience issues after you upgrade to Windows XP SP2. You may not notice some of these issues. Additionally, software vendors may have resolved some of these issues. Contact the software manufacturer or vendor for more specific details.

So it doesn't mean all of the games are still effected. The games like Warcraft 3, Starcraft, and C&C should have already been fixed by the development workers, since they want to make sure their community continues to play their games. At least, that's what should have happened.

It might fuck up a lot of stuff, but it was necessary; those programs were obviously using some bad (or at least insecure) programming practices, and were acceptable sacrifices for the sake of finally getting some security into Windows.

Once patches are released for anything you use that's on the list (although unfortunately this might not happen for the older stuff) then XP SP2 is a must have.

Just watch; once SP2 is widely accepted, virus counts will plummet, since most of the major ones relied on exploiting horrible flaws in Windows security that have now been fixed.

ANY programming practices on a windows platform is insecure.

SeienAbunae wrote: ANY programming practices on a windows platform is insecure.

ROFL. So true!

XP: SP2 is the most secure version of windows ever. Its better to sacrifice some stuff to enable you to actually be able to use your PC for more than 5 seconds without being compromised by a worm or virus

Greg speaks *me ph34rs

What he says is true, its better to stop viruses/trojans and other problems just at the sacrifice of a few games not working. And they dont say 100% that they wont work they say its an off chance.

I've run my computer for a long time now (3 months+) on Windows XP without AVS and still no virii.

Thats pure crap ..

Thank god I haven't updated to it yet.

pah... if you want to stop virus, worms, crashing apps, st00pid users... then take Linux.

windows secure? never... not with SukPack 2, not with Mighty-Gate-Pack 6 nor something else. windows is and stays the most insecure OS around. thinking you are safe with it is a dream.

EDIT: besides... what insecure programming stuff can a game have? or an office package? the only one is to use the win-api at all...

- Edited By Dragonlord On Sun 15th, Aug 2004 @ 12:30:52pm

Dragonlord wrote: pah... if you want to stop virus, worms, crashing apps, st00pid users... then take Linux.

No thanks. I like playing games. I'd prefer to continue playing them, too.

My computers have been online for many years on Win98 / ME and they have NEVER gotten a virus (or a hacker attack, or some really malicious spyware), infact the last virus I had was the Peter virus from a very long ways back on my 386 system. Also, I haven't had virus scanners running in the background either.

Why?

- Don't use a vulnerable browser (IE), i was always a Netscape or Mozilla user
- Don't use P2P software. This is the most popular way to get worms and such nowadays.
- Don't get warez
- Don't install WarGames™

- Edited By CheapAlert On Sun 15th, Aug 2004 @ 7:07:30am