BF1942 - Quick slowdown fix for XP
 

Well, I'm sure most of you already know this, so don't go about yelling at me that you already did, obviosly, it's for the people who didn't!

If you have Windows XP, and are expirencing an issue with and ONLY with BF1942 whereas the game slows down constantly, espically when in a large area of AI/MP players, this may be due to you having the Windows XP Service Pack 1. I found my demo of BF1942 running as smooth as ever. Once I got the retail version, I wondered what went wrong. Then, I discovered it was the SP1 after all.

My suggestion to you all is to uninstall it, reboot, and get the hotfixes. After uninstallation of the SP1, XP will return any hotfixes you had before the installation of the pack. Then, run BF1942, and see if it fixes your slowdown. Hopefully, EA or Microsoft will release a hotfix to fix this issue, or re-release the SP1 as SP1a.

i dotn wanna uninstall my antitrust with the us goverment! WAAAAA cry:

Like I said, if you have the hotfixes, and a virus scanner/firewall, you have nothing to worry about.

I don't really want to uninstall service packs... hake: It runs pretty good now. I don't really understand, when I change refresh rates, the font changes in the game...really weird. I'm surprised it's running so fast on my Gf2. biggrin:

how did u discover it was the service patch 1? i just reformated and have sp1 but now CS runs slow.

Can't you read??!?! How did I discover?! Tool!

Just unistall it and thank me, k?

Good find, Joe!

Yeah.. laggy crappy performance since I installed DISservice Pack1.

I'll uninstall it tonite and see if things improve.

hey joe.... i've met a bazooka joe all the time when i was playing bf1942, is that you. i remember killing him many times tho.. biggrin:

it's all in lowercase like this ---> bazooka joe

I ve seen that guy and wondered the same thing . Sov do you still use the same name ?

I have also seen him on some of the more popular BF42 boards. Was wondering if it was you Joe.

ya.. i still use the same name... and add the kaos tag behind so ppl can recognize me although kaos doesn't have a team on bf1942.. YET... biggrin: