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Well hello all Xp users just wanted to see if anyone else was having these weird problems with xp ? first off is I cant download anything off the web but maybe a tiny 3 k file (I can surf the web fine and check my email ) but if i try to download drivers or auto update Tribes 2 It just sits there as does nothing at all I have waites up to 10 mins for a download or update to start and it never does , but like I said before it browses the web nice and fast and if i try to join a Tribes 2 game online it will load the map about have way then just sit there (its like I cant take anything in but I can send out ) I dont have the firewall turned on in XP and security is on med-low , I am however behind a linksys router (worked fine in windows 2000) and have my pc networked with 2 win2k machines ,Also I went to the windows update to check for stuff there and my pc will not download the updates ,it will start but then just sit there as well and a security thing pops up and says file not found do you still want to download and if you click yes or no the updater fails uuughh! please let me know if any one of you knows how to fix this I am on a AMD 950 with a MSI kt7 pro 2 a MOBO and 512 mb of ram with geforce 2 gts and SBlive value card and the network adapter is (according to XP ) a sohoware 10/100 card there are no bangs or anything else wrong in devive manager thanks ahead of time

ps my desktop is 1024x768 at 24bit color the game it 800x600 16 bit color

ok well here is my problem in a nutshell i have read through almost all of the ut posts here and hear ppl complain about unreal taking a whopping 15 sec to load OH MY (hehe) its taking unreal 96.5 sec to load on my computer and thats not a typo so please if you know anything that could cause such a thing please let me know ok and even after it loads its so choppy that its almost unplayable here is what i know so far i play on a lan with realtech 10base t ethernet card 8 port hub and no one else on the hub has problems and here are my specs win2000 (final release) AMD k6-2 450 ,64 megs of ram ,a diamond monster fusion 16 megs video card using 3dfx nt 4.0 reference drivers from 3dfx.com ,awd64sound card ,two 2 gig harddrives and one zip drive ,25x cdrom and a great big o cooling vent fan that sucks out all the hot air and it all seems to run pretty slow i already have the map turned off at the intro and it still takes 96 secs to load and almost that long to turn ut off after i exit the game and the whole time i get lots of BIG HARDDRIVE SWAPING (lol) please let me know what you think I am getting my but kicked here at the house and every one it trashing win2k but i know its a good os thanks all