backward compatibilty of xp and sp2

[rob11888]

am i the only one who is fed up with the backward compatibility of xp home.

i myself am a lover of retro games like sim city 3000, and theme hospital. but ever since i updated to sp2 these games have stopped working and wont even install, which is annoying now because both of my pcs are xp so i have no way of playing these games.

i have xp home now for 2 years and updated to sp2 6 months ago

i was thinking of removing sp2 installing the games then reinstalling sp2. do you think this would be a good idea?

or another idea was to go out and buy windows virtual pc.

i have never had this problem with older OS's

please help

thanks

robert

[IamGerhard]

It might help if you post this in the XP section. Someone there might've upgraded too and 'suffer' the same problems.

[rob11888]

Originally Posted by IamGerhard

It might help if you post this in the XP section. Someone there might've upgraded too and 'suffer' the same problems.

thanks i will try that

rob

[Disk_Contented]

before you do, have you tried compatability mode? Some settings were changed in SP2 i believe.
Or:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/SimCity_..._t32751.h tml

[rob11888]

Originally Posted by Disk_Contented

before you do, have you tried compatability mode? Some settings were changed in SP2 i believe.
Or:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/SimCity_..._t32751.h tml

thanks for the help i went to the website you gave and have fixed the problem

thanks