Gaming Windows XP SP3

[FaRReR]

Well, yesterday I downloaded Windows XP Service Pack 3. I was excited at how much better it would make my computer.


I was wrong.

My computer, after the installation and not one, but TWO restarts, was around 1/3 of its normal speed.

Microsoft, I have to say this to you - YOU SUCK!

I'm very disappointed with this Service Pack. I've uninstalled it... computer, surprise surprise is back to normal speed.

Is this some sort of scaled-down version of Vista?

Overall, I have to warn you -
SP3 isn't any good.

 

[jumpman17]

Yep. It killed my network and took over a week to fix, even after downgrading back to SP2.

 

[fischju]

It has worked fine on all of my clean installs

 

[FaRReR]

Wow, that's amazing. I wasn't expecting anyone to agree with me- I thought I was starting a fanboy flame war LOL

 

[juggernaut911]

mine worked fine. though whenever I get like a new vid card, proc, mobo, (major component) I just reinstall my XP Home with a bunch of fixes intergrated.

I've got pretty good with nlite, pretty handy

did you try rereinstalling? might've been a bad install

 

[FaRReR]

I don't want to spend another hour of my (precious, so precious) time. I'd rather be playing a free online FPS with a bunch of egoists

 

[xcalibur]

SP3 has worked out pretty fine so far but I'm going to upgrade to Vista soon anyway.

 

[Richy Freeway]

We get around 50 XP machines in to repair a week. Every one of them gets SP3 applied. Since SP3's release we've only had it mess up 2 machines. We fixed both and sent them out with SP3 on.

That's a lot of PCs running happily with SP3. A good mix of clean installs, machines that didn't even have SP1 installed and machines updated to an average standard.