Well that's probably a good thing. Is it Windows update you've been using to keep up to date? Yes. I can't vouch for SP1 or DX9, however. I only installed these when UT2K3 and Metal Gear Solid refused to work at all. They didn't help the problem so I bought a new HDD and did a clean install of XP …

Sorry, what I was alluding to is a 'fix' which caused UT2K3 (and a couple of other games I might add) to not work whilst *possibly* another one was required in order to get Glidos working... As to which 'fix' worked and which one messed my system, all I know is that I installed it/them between XP …

I was quite impressed with XP until I bought UT2K3 and it refused to work at all. I used that as an excuse to the missus to get a new hdd as my 40GB was filling up and I didn't have backups of everything to be reinstalled. UT2K3 worked first time on putting the new hdd in with a clean install of XP, …