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Name: Greensystemsgo
Date: May 8, 2008 at 16:03:45 Pacific
OS: xp media
CPU/Ram: 1.8ghz 512mb
Product: HP
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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




Response Number 1
Name: Wombat
Date: May 8, 2008 at 16:08:14 Pacific
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You should be working if your at work, not playing games...

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...



Response Number 2
Name: Greensystemsgo
Date: May 8, 2008 at 16:09:12 Pacific
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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



Response Number 3
Name: Wombat
Date: May 8, 2008 at 16:25:21 Pacific
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...and that is probably while the place is failing.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...



Response Number 4
Name: Greensystemsgo
Date: May 8, 2008 at 16:37:16 Pacific
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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



Response Number 5
Name: aegis
Date: May 8, 2008 at 17:12:18 Pacific
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"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?



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Response Number 6
Name: Greensystemsgo
Date: May 9, 2008 at 11:32:48 Pacific
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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



Response Number 7
Name: Greensystemsgo
Date: May 9, 2008 at 17:56:18 Pacific
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problem solved.

ubuntu studio 8.1 amd64 did the trick :)



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



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