Beware Game XP

o0RaidR0o · January 9th, 2004

ElectronicPunk has removed the link, but just incase you or someone you know comes across it on their own please take notice.

I pulled these posts off of our brethren site WinXPcentral:

**WARNING** - I just heard from Dave and he sent us this warning about using Game XP Utility: "You may want to add a warning to your site or remove the link for Game XP Utility. It seems that it may be causing games that run Punk Buster to register this program as a speed hack. I haven't heard any word back from Even Balance, but several people have been banned already do to this program. Just a heads up."

Post by Spud: “After serious testing of both GameXP and SafeXP, I can say, do not use this software if you want a stable machine.

There are many things both of these programs do that are really 'unsafe' for your operating system. The changes by GameXP also do not have much of an effect on speeding your games up either, often causing them to crash.
You have been warned.”

Post by jgoewert: “After running it, applications could no longer find DirectX. I made a test app and it couldn't load DX anymore either. Even after running the return to default and reinstalled DX9.0b, still no DirectX devices could be created. I've since reinstalled.”

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**xsivforce** · January 9th, 2004

Thanks for the heads up.

**sboulema** · January 9th, 2004

whoo pretty nasty :|

**Kr0m** · January 9th, 2004

pfew, I actually thought about installing this thing until I read a few reviews about it... I'm glad I didn't now.

phishhead · January 9th, 2004

uh oh I already installed it...will go back to the default setting when I get home.

January 9th, 2004	Top \| #1
o0RaidR0o OSNN Addict Joined: February 2002 Location: S.E. Florida Posts: 119 Reputation: 20 Power: 124	Beware Game XP ElectronicPunk has removed the link, but just incase you or someone you know comes across it on their own please take notice. I pulled these posts off of our brethren site WinXPcentral: WARNING - I just heard from Dave and he sent us this warning about using Game XP Utility: "You may want to add a warning to your site or remove the link for Game XP Utility. It seems that it may be causing games that run Punk Buster to register this program as a speed hack. I haven't heard any word back from Even Balance, but several people have been banned already do to this program. Just a heads up." Post by Spud: “After serious testing of both GameXP and SafeXP, I can say, do not use this software if you want a stable machine. There are many things both of these programs do that are really 'unsafe' for your operating system. The changes by GameXP also do not have much of an effect on speeding your games up either, often causing them to crash. You have been warned.” Post by jgoewert: “After running it, applications could no longer find DirectX. I made a test app and it couldn't load DX anymore either. Even after running the return to default and reinstalled DX9.0b, still no DirectX devices could be created. I've since reinstalled.” o0RaidR0o

January 9th, 2004	Top \| #2
xsivforce Prodigal Son Joined: February 2002 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 8,542 Reputation: 1410 Power: 221	Thanks for the heads up. I miss you allllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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sboulema OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: June 2002 Location: Amstelveen, The Netherlands Posts: 2,846 Reputation: 120 Power: 147	whoo pretty nasty :\|

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Kr0m OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: December 2001 Location: Turtle Island Posts: 1,389 Reputation: 290 Power: 140	pfew, I actually thought about installing this thing until I read a few reviews about it... I'm glad I didn't now.

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phishhead OSNN Senior Addict Joined: January 2004 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 422 Reputation: 20 Power: 103	uh oh I already installed it...will go back to the default setting when I get home.