Window XP wreaks havoc on Online games.

[Leknaat]

When you get a pop-up from Microsoft next month asking you to download their new Windows XP Service Pack 2, you might want to hold off on clicking that "Yes" button.

According to the computer giant, the latest update to their Windows XP operating system may conflict with many of today's most popular computer games, and in some cases render them unplayable. The problems stem from Microsoft's Windows Firewall, which is designed to prevent hackers from accessing your computer but which also prevents some games from sending data pages that are required for the game to run properly.

Here are the titles affected:

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
Chess Advantage III: Lego Chess
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Command & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Conflict: Desert Storm
Dead Man's Hand
Earth & Beyond
Elite Forces Vietnam: Special Assignment 2
Freedom Force
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Medieval Total War
Midnight Outlaw: Illegal Street Drag
MotoRacer
NASCAR Racing 2003
NBA Live 2000
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2
Roller Coaster Factory
Scrabble
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
SimCity 4
Star Trek StarFleet Command III
Star Wars: Knights: of the Old Republic
StarCraft
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Tribes 2
Unreal II
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition

thanks to allrpg.com for the info

[Laggy]

well damn,..............

[Leknaat]

yeah I don't really play online games but I know that's gotta suck for the people who do..

[Laggy]

thats what i was thinking lol

[Kaffee]

Thanks for that Info, I'll have to call my cousin to make sure he knows about this, he plays online games all the time.

[idgaf rpgfan]

OOPS, I guess MS really dropped the ball here

[Johnson Swags]

thx i play graal and if it got cut off i would be mad very mad it cost money to play thoes games

[Zelphiel]

:pissed

what the hell is wrong with them...

[Kiros]

ugh that sux :(

[Chicken Little]

micrsoft: michael jackson doesnt screw kids, we do.

i play games and they = assholes. But yeah i heard on a melbourne lanning base tht a few have upgraded using the it professional version thats out.

[Nereid]

Well, I use Windows 98, so I can say "Screw You!" to Windows XP in general.