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Geek Culture / Gettung my new PC Soon, questions about XP Media Center 2005

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 20:42
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Hey, I'm getting my new PC on Thursday, and it is comming with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and I have heard that it has had a few compatability issues with certain games and apps, and I don't know if most of these things have been corrected, or all of these problems have been fixed. Thanks

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Oraculaca
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 20:59
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What games and apps?

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Jeku
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 21:24
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What exactly are you asking? Did you try Google first?

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 21:47
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I tried google, but since there are so many millions of pages related to it it is hard to find the one thing you are looking for.
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 22:05
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My dad has a laptop with media centre on it, alongside XP. It's pointless. It's media player with a nice GUI.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 22:10
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I thought it was Windows XP with extra features and cheaper..

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Oraculaca
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 22:30
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Quote: "It's media player with a nice GUI."


Not quite

Quote: "@Oracula
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The only progs Ive used are CS:Source (it worked fine) and BF2. It is fine on normal servers but it crashes all the time on jalalabd 24/7 servers for some odd reason though it is fine on karkand 24/7 ones :/
Ive still to buy the cs2 upgrade so am stuck with the rather cack but better than nothing PS 5.5 at the mo. It works fine.

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 22:51
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Ok, thank you for verifying.

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Oraculaca
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No probs. Im curious though as to why there would be compatibility issues that wouldnt occur with a normal copy of xp as I was under the impression it was just xp pro with an optional media front end

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 11th Dec 2006 23:15
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I just remember seeing lots of things on gamespot gamespace forums like this "I just got a media center edition PC, but when I tried to install [game name], it said [some random error]". Thats why I was wondering.

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