PC games affected by Service Pack 2

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#21 · Aug 15, 2004

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the point is that list should be at zero, and hence, any number of programs on there is too much.

 

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#22 · Aug 15, 2004

hm yeah...
but it's not as bad as win98<>xp compatibility issues ;P
I think half(?) my library of games doesn't work on XP, because I used to buy quite a few in 1997/1998 :/

 

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#23 · Aug 15, 2004

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I have had no problems with SP2 whatsoever, other than the bootscreen issue before I realised what the hell was goin wrong.

 

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#24 · Aug 15, 2004

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SP2 just keeps bugging me to activate windows everytime I reboot my PC

 

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#25 · Aug 15, 2004

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that means your key is invalid

 

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#26 · Aug 15, 2004

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AFAIK SP2 doesnt check for keys anymore, like SP1 did.

 

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#27 · Aug 15, 2004

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I thought SP2 checked for the same keys as SP1.

 

Kane

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#28 · Aug 15, 2004

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It does, but there were rumours that it would block more keys

 

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#29 · Aug 16, 2004

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Well, it doesn't really matter to me what programs will or wont work with sp2 because I couldn't get ICS to work right....so...back to sp1 for me

 

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#30 · Aug 16, 2004

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diskeeper ain't working? Well then I definitely ain't updating this. That and zinc won't work lol

 

Kane

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#31 · Aug 16, 2004

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Uh.... both Zinc and Diskeeper are working fine here.

 

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#32 · Aug 16, 2004

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SP2 doesn't even work with Microsoft Products?

I need Visual Studio .NET for development.

What a piece of $#@! SP2 is!

 

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#33 · Aug 16, 2004 (Edited)

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I think we should stop jumping the gun. This only happens on certain configurations. So the likelihood of a failure is rather low. (Statistically anyway…)

 

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#34 · Aug 16, 2004

yah, I think it is. NFSHP2 is listed on there and I didnt find any problems with it....just as an example...

 

Raziel

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#35 · Aug 16, 2004

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If you guys took some time to read, you'd notice that most compatibility problems are with soft in the original state, meaning, 1.0, and most of them have patch, so, instead of taking the easy way and flame MS, take some time to read, and anyway, if was to be expected, you don't increase security without some loss with some apps.

 

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#36 · Aug 16, 2004

it shouldnt be nescesary.

anyway, not really much to see here, as the problems are minor, or virtually non-existant, apparantly.

 

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#37 · Aug 16, 2004

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Kane-Sama said:

Uh.... both Zinc and Diskeeper are working fine here.

Click to expand...

uh... http://www.bannister.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=001420

 

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#38 · Aug 16, 2004

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I'm on a Thouroughbred core and I had no problems playing Soul Blade on it.

 

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#39 · Aug 17, 2004

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i tried command and conquer generals and warcraft 3 and both games work fine...

 

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#40 · Aug 17, 2004

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Kane-Sama said:

I'm on a Thouroughbred core and I had no problems playing Soul Blade on it.

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Looks like someone couldn't read the linked thread. In short your old thouroughbred core is like fine, the newer AMD and soon to be released Intel processors are the ones that probably won't work with zinc due to the NX (possibly the same reason for diskeeper I'm not sure)..

With that said I'm sure I'd take the word of the programmers for zinc and mame over that of yourself in just saying that everything is fine and they don't know anything.