Why does my comp, do this?

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Why does my comp, do this?

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Name: Dennis
Date: December 24, 2002 at 12:24:31 Pacific
Subject: Why does my comp, do this?
OS: XP Pro
CPU/Ram: P4 1.8 GHz/768MB Ram

Comment:

When I play certain video games, the game freezes while I'm playing. Also characters and objects in the game disappear where they shouldn't. For example....I play alot of combat flight games, and the airplanes that I'm shooting at disappear where they should not. I don't even shoot at them sometimes and they do this. My graphics card is a Radeon 7000, is this the problem, or is it the game....or worse?

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Response Number 1

Name: Alan
Date: December 24, 2002 at 12:31:14 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Have you loaded the latest drivers for your motherboard, video card, and other hardware?
Have you gotten the latest Critical and Recommended updates (including DirectX) from windowsupdate.microsoft.com?

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Response Number 2

Name: Richard Trahar
Date: December 24, 2002 at 12:34:00 Pacific

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Yes it could be, with the ATI cards things tend to dissappear, I had a Radeon 8500le and i was playing die hard nakotomi plaza and the chracters legs were all over the place and guns were missing, upgraded to a Geforce 4 ti 4200 and have not had a problem since, you can get any geforce card and you should not have a problem, they are also exellent at playing Combat flight simulator 3, my radeon was not
If you do decide to upgrade to a Geforce never go for a MX as they are very slow, prefrebly get a TI, they are exellent
Goodluck
Merry Christmas

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Response Number 3

Name: mrpost
Date: December 24, 2002 at 12:42:04 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Ive had a similar problem with an ATI card. I fixed it by going to their website and using an alternate driver that was available for the card. Sometimes Windows will use its recommended driver for the card upon installation (and it's not always right).

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Response Number 4

Name: possum
Date: December 24, 2002 at 15:07:51 Pacific

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Go to the game`s web site and look for patches, which sometimes include fixes for problems with particular video chips.

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