# CDDA on Win XP?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [July 7, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134 "2013-07-07T14:05:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/1 "2013-07-07T14:05:40Z")
Does anyone play on windows XP? My work computer has this OS, and the night shifts are loooong, should i expect any troubles running CDDA on this OS? (I’ll find out anyway :D)
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### Author:  [@Pux](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pux)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/2 "2013-07-07T14:18:26Z")
The game worked for me on Windows XP (SP1). Some things might lag though, for example reading.
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### Author:  [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/3 "2013-07-07T14:54:09Z")
Ty. I’ll report tomorrow how well it works.
In case anyone but me is interested 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sonny](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sonny)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/4 "2013-07-07T16:14:53Z")
I play on XP (service pack 3) all the time, no problems anywhere.
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### Author:  [@ComputerWarrior](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ComputerWarrior)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/5 "2013-07-07T19:40:29Z")
XP (SP3) here too, and there are no problems or lags playing CataDDA.
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### Author:  [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/6 "2013-07-07T19:42:20Z")
But it lags a lot if you enlarge the HUD.
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### Author:  [@Sonny](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sonny)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/7 "2013-07-07T19:48:04Z")
Strange that Samedi (the stable one) version runs alright even with 30x20 view, while experimental builds are slowed down.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/8 "2013-07-07T20:06:04Z")
So far it works fine on the XP tower here. I’d be interested in Win2K performance: planning on resurrecting an ancient machine and no need to get microsoft’s permission to do so.
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### Author:  [@Sonny](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sonny)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/9 "2013-07-07T20:18:21Z")
Well, sometimes Cata’s computing can take quite an amount of system resources… Like last time, when I had set a hospital on fire, other than that, it runs fine. GL with win2k, now that’s archaic.
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### Author:  [@BigD145](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BigD145)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/10 "2013-07-08T03:04:35Z")
Gotta love 2K Dev version. No keys or anything. That laptop is way too old for Cata. The Celeron would not play nice. It overheats after 30 minutes anyway.
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### Author:  [@ClaytonRISING](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ClaytonRISING)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/11 "2013-07-08T05:49:48Z")
Ha ha ha…windows XP…
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### Author:  [@Sonny](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sonny)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/12 "2013-07-08T13:33:05Z")
Hey, XPs are best… You can run almost everything on them, they’re easy to use (unlike all later versions of Windows), everything is where it should be… Oh I get it, Linux, hey.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cdda-on-win-xp/2134/13 "2013-07-08T15:56:54Z")
The slowown since 0.6 in the nightlies seems to be from a utf8 thing, there’s a pull request from utunnels pending that seems to fix it.