Try uninstalling and reinstalling - cause my FL and COD work fine!

SP2 brought my framerates down so much with all games that I've long uninstalled it.

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Odd, most of my SP2 problems were with the OS driver's themselves. Going down to WHQL drivers instead of the latest, greatest worked for me.

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Earendil
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Boscoe - I told you people that you'd rue the day you installed SP2!

sp2 is a incomplete servicepack by microsoft it crash all symantec programs eg. Nortan Anti-virus. it is horrible it is a highly non-recommended download by most computer experts.

Live long Live strong

Have you got the current programs for Norton? I have the fire wall and anti-virus both running as we speak, with SP2. No problems at all. I did turn the Windos fire wall off, as i do not need 2 firewalls. Make sure the Norton programs are up to date.

i don't have sp2 beacause of the reasons said above and i have norton 2003 internet security and yes my dad does computer work for the problms all the time. sp2 keeps programs form running and screws them up!!!!!!! Permently unless you reinstall windows xp!!!

Live long Live strong

U guys with your problems with SP2 make me laugh. Blaming the service pack is a cop out. There were problems on your computer before you installed SP2 and you didn't realize it.

There is nothing wrong with SP2 on well maintained machines the have legal software installed on them. The only people having problems with SP2 are those that turn on the power button and nothing else.

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3+ years here and still lovin' every minute!
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If your running 2003 Norton, then your running an out of date version. SP2 does work with 2004 Norton.

Sometimes though, it is better to do a fresh install of Windows, with format and then add SP2. Then add your other programs. Updates are a must. I know it's a pain in hte butt to reformat and reinstall, I have done more than 30 over the years, but it is worth it.

I've never had any problems with SP2 Stinger, mainly because I haven't even downloaded it! However, I feel that it is completely superfluous if you have a good firewall. Besides, I might want to play UT at some stage .

known issues
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... ndowsxpsp2

there maybe others, personaly i got rid a while back

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Microsoft made companies well aware that SP2 would be coming out, and provided plenty of time for them to update their products so that they are compatible.

its not microsoft or SP2 fault at all - they are trying to make systems as safe as possible from attack. I have had not one issue since installing - at all. Everything runs perfectly fine.

Same here, besides my Norton 2003 not being able to run anymore SP2 hasen't disabled anything, it run's great (the PC).

On a sidenote though, keep your own firewall, the XP-one is weird to controll.

While I have heard bad reviews on WinXP's firewall capabilities, I do not know the details. Since I have a hardware firewall I use WinXP's firewall basically as a means for others to not be able to access each 'puter on my LAN unless password protected.

As for the setup and configuration, it has uPnP which makes things easier. This means you need no configuring of INCOMING ports seperately. Instead the software will notify the firewall it expects an INCOMING port to be used. A pop-up confirms that with the user and the tunnel is set. For me, I don't know if that pop-up ALWAYS occurs so I don't trust it. I'd rather set it myself. My hardware firewall also has uPnP but again, I don't know what the software is asking without a positive confirmation so it isn't enabled and thus I have to set the tunnels (sometimes called virtual servers) myself for my FL server, P2P, etc.

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Earendil
SysAdmin of Boston Freelancer server
Server community website & forum: EarendilsPlace.net (server rules)