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Trouble running games....

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Name: Hannah
Date: August 13, 2002 at 07:41:55 Pacific
Comment:

I have been running the 'Theme Hospital' game made by bullfrog on my windows 95 computer for some time. However, suddenly i couldn't open it. (This program has performed an illegal operation etc.) Clicking 'Details' gives the following emssage:

HOSPITAL caused a general protection fault
in module GDI.exe at 0001:00005fe1.
Registers:
EAX=22e7182f CS=06d7 EIP=00005fe1 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=01a00838 SS=4fef ESP=000085c6 EBP=000085f0
ECX=00000000 DS=182f ESI=000085e8 FS=1b5f
EDX=00024fef ES=182f EDI=000085d0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 ff 1f 59 66 5f 66 5e 66 5b 03 e1 66 53 cb b8
Stack dump:
22e70000 00000000 000a2026 0000016f 00008ae6 186710e8 22e70000 00000000 1b5f2026 0032016f 863c0000 019f0028 22e70000 28a20cbe 0000bff7 f6200057

I tried reinstalling it, but got the message some way through:

Theme Hospital requires DirectX- would you like to install it now?

Clicking 'Yes' gives the same 'This program has performed an illegal operation...' etc, but clicking details gives this time the message

INSTDX caused a general protection fault
in module GDI.exe at 0001:00005fe1.
Registers:
EAX=5117182f CS=06d7 EIP=00005fe1 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=00630838 SS=5297 ESP=00006a72 EBP=00006a9c
ECX=00000000 DS=182f ESI=00006a94 FS=1a77
EDX=00025297 ES=182f EDI=00006a7c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 ff 1f 59 66 5f 66 5e 66 5b 03 e1 66 53 cb b8
Stack dump:
51170000 00000000 000a2026 0000016f 0000ca56 186710e8 51170000 00000000 1a772026 0032016f 6ae80000 019f0028 51170000 28a210d2 0000bff7 dacc0041

What does this mean, and what can I do about it?



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Response Number 1
Name: cobra
Date: August 13, 2002 at 08:16:21 Pacific
Reply:

HI:what video card did u have?
get the latest drivers for your video card drivers from the factory
HTH.


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Response Number 2
Name: Hannah
Date: August 13, 2002 at 08:27:58 Pacific
Reply:

Cobra: I have been having problems with video cards in the past. I had my colour settings stuck on 16 before I got it sorted. The thing is, I don't really know how I did it. I tried to reinstall the video card but I didn't really know how: I just clicked at things randomly on the video card screen thing and somehow everything worked. How do I reinstall my video card?
My video adapter is 3dfx Voodoo3. How do i reinstall that *properly*?

Thanks

PS I am also having trouble going to games sites on the internet eg bonus.com


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