so none of my games load. age of empires battelfield vietnam battlefront grand theft auto san andreas swat 4 etc, etc as far as i can it involves direct draw, in dxdiag i get the error while testing direct draw that i cant get into 640x480. But i could play all these games about 3 days ago... and now im super bored here at work. HELP! btw i have a HP pavilion 8000 with ati200m graphics AMD Athlontm XP 2400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz Windows XP Pro/Corp 5.1, Build 2600 SP2 1280 mb of RAM Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 1-40gb 1-120gbD

You should be working if your at work, not playing games... Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...

haha funny story. i work at a failing pizza place. so in my free time which is always, i play games :) AMD Athlontm XP 2400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz Windows XP Pro/Corp 5.1, Build 2600 SP2 1280 mb of RAM Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 1-40gb 1-120gbD

...and that is probably while the place is failing. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...

nah its blamed on poor managment. i.e. management not being able to read. hahahah BUT this is a computer forum! so help me! please! AMD Athlontm XP 2400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz Windows XP Pro/Corp 5.1, Build 2600 SP2 1280 mb of RAM Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 1-40gb 1-120gbD

"so none of my games load." Maybe a little more information about what happens when you try to load the games might help. Error message? Hang? crashes back to windows? etc?

well gta battelfied vietnam errors out and asks if i would like to send an error report. as for all the other games, the screens flashes between solid black, and a black box in the top left: 640x480px. yesterday i uninstalled my driver and all of its software and utilities and reinstalled and it worked. Im using OMEGA drivers btw. but now it doesnt AMD Athlontm XP 2400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz Windows XP Pro/Corp 5.1, Build 2600 SP2 1280 mb of RAM Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 1-40gb 1-120gbD