XP Service pack 3

[Blodo]

So it tried to force itself on me through auto-update today, I thought "what the heck, it can't be a bad thing". Little did I know that I would spend the next three hours rolling back all the changes after the very installation process failed, and in doing so literally destroyed the OS. When I read up on the beta, it appears SP3 had a ton of bugs in it, quite severe too like killing the windows installation on a system with an AMD processor and a specific, popular motherboard model.

Anyone else get this sort of weirdness, or am I just doing it wrong?

[Dieter Schprokets]

Thank you for justifying my gut instinct to not permit the update.

(Remembers SP2..)

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[kindred]

I have updated to XP SP3 on several pc's with no problems, all Intel though.
One machine has a few non lethal problems but that's due to driver conflicts
because the machine was not made to be XP compatible aka manufactures
no longer support XP for newer machines.

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Devtonia ; all-or-nothing approach to bias.

[Boss]

I've left it off of mine for now...but my work uses it. Dell machines, seems very stable. Mine's an AMD rig though, so I don't want to put it on.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Angelfire]

intel rig.

my machine seems less buggy with sp3:)

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The Chronicles of Angelfire

[Blodo]

Well SP2 wasn't that bad in the end, it did fix some instabilities. SP3 is really weird however. Though then again most of SP3 is stuff ported from Vista (which is unfinished and sucks) so it's to be expected I guess >_>

[mwerte]

grrr... although I have an intel machine I think I should wait before installing this too... MS....grrr.

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[gafwmn]

Then its a good thing I havent installed it yet. As for me with an AMD and XP,I don't need the extra probs of sp3.nope,no thanks.

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[Vero]

Older Intel P4 machine. Tried twice to update to SP3 both times failed after about an hour into the install.

Somewhat unhappy with the time wasted.:angry:

[Ascendancy]

I have an old Intel Pentium 4 machine running XP Professional Service Pack 3, and it's been running the same if not better than my old XP Home Edition SP2 installation.

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Thanks to Cattman2236 of E-Studios Forums for the signature.

The Kalashnikov. Still sees use in the hands of Coalition-aligned anthropomorphic cats Sirius-wide.