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Subject: games won't play!

Original Message
Name: polaris_rider
Date: January 1, 2007 at 10:17:47 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
OS: win xp
CPU/Ram: t5200 1.60ghz 0.99gb ram
Model/Manufacturer: Toshiba
Comment:
Everytime i try to play a game as soon as the game starts it goes back to the desktop and i get an error messege saying that the game encountered a error and if i want to send the report to microsoft or something like that. What's wrong here?? i just downloaded NFS Carbon demo and i get the same error message as soon as the game starts to.

also i have a brand new toshiba laptop wih the new core 2 duo processor so it should be able to play the game. PLEASE HELP!


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Response Number 1
Name: Dave02
Date: January 1, 2007 at 11:51:04 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
I've run into this before. I settled my problems with this heppening by installing the omega drivers for my video card. www.omegadrivers.net

I also saw a performance boost in my graphics card after installing the drivers.

Good Luck,
Dave02


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Response Number 2
Name: polaris_rider
Date: January 1, 2007 at 12:26:08 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
my laptop says i have a "Mobile Intel(R)945GM Express chipset family" for my graphics card but i don't see any drivers for intel just ati, nvidia, and 3dfx

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Response Number 3
Name: polaris_rider
Date: January 1, 2007 at 12:43:51 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
i also just downloaded the lastest driver from intel but didn't make no difference

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Response Number 4
Name: Dave02
Date: January 1, 2007 at 12:58:34 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
Yea. He doesn't have any drivers for intel chipset video cards. More than likely the video card can't handle the game very well.

Try an older game if you have one. See if that will run.


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Response Number 5
Name: polaris_rider
Date: January 1, 2007 at 13:30:54 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
i just installed unreal tournament 2004 and that game works great graphics r good everything is great on that game

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Response Number 6
Name: jam
Date: January 1, 2007 at 16:43:11 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
For the most part, laptops/notebooks are not good for gaming unless you buy one that's spec'd out to be a gaming machine. You can have the hottest CPU available but if you don't have a decent video card, you're not gonna be able to play games well. And depending on the game, it may not play at all.

This chart will show you how well the "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950" rates:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile...

Did you look at the minimum system specs before downloading NFS Carbon Demo, especially the graphics requirements?

"NVIDIA Geforce4 Ti/ATI Radeon 8500 or higher"

http://www.worthplaying.com/article...

I don't think your system meets the minimum requirements.


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Response Number 7
Name: casedood2k4
Date: January 2, 2007 at 08:30:38 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
Well, theres two ways to find out.

1) Try it.
2) Does your computer meet the specs?.


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Response Number 8
Name: oliven1234
Date: January 2, 2007 at 18:54:16 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
Yeah I have NFS Carbon for my HP Slimline and It has a Mini Intel GPU that isnt supported by the game. Is there any drivers as mentioned above to fix this problem? My Hp does the same thing.

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Response Number 9
Name: jam
Date: January 2, 2007 at 20:42:39 Pacific
Subject: games won't play!
Reply: (edit)
"Is there any drivers as mentioned above to fix this problem?"

It's not a driver issue, it's a hardware issue. Either buy a better laptop or install the game of a desktop system that meets the recommended requirements.


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