Windows SP2

Ripstar · Post by **Ripstar** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:39 pm

When this first came out there seemed to be a lot of problems reportedly caused by it.

Have these been fixed and is the current download of SP2 stable?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:45 pm

I waited about a month after its release to install it.

Since then I've installed and re-installed at least 4 times with no problems.

The only thing that seems to still exist is that some games act funny -- the ones I've noticed are the two Rise of Nations titles. Both required a re-install after SP2 in order to work in a MP environment.

ChrisGwinn · Post by **ChrisGwinn** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:52 pm

The problems were mostly overblown on release. The only thing that's a problem for me is that Freedom Force may not work. Irrational has promised a fix for that soon.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:44 pm

No problems here aside from some IE incompatibilities by default, which were to be expected. Installed on dozens of machines.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:59 pm

ChrisGwinn wrote:The problems were mostly overblown on release. The only thing that's a problem for me is that Freedom Force may not work. Irrational has promised a fix for that soon.

The problems were seriously over-hyped on release. Everyone and their mother wanted to find problems with it in order to make headlines. 90+% of the reports were expected in that the firewall was going to default to ON, and that some applications would 'break' because of this.

The only serious problems that I recall reading about (which were also overblown, but real) were those in which a really old BIOS was present. A close second were problems if the system was infected by a virus or spyware.

So - update your BIOS before upgrading and do your best to make sure your system is clean (run an Antivirus and a spyware check).

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