Re: All Game's Crash

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: Anthony Procissi [MSFT] (procissi_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:02:10 -0800

Could you go Start, Run, "dxdiag", go to the "display" tab, and test
DirectDraw and Direct3D and post the results.

You could try updating your graphics driver, but honestly, if everything is
failing... it sounds like hardware. I'd try the above mentioned items and
then start reseating hardware, starting with the graphics card. If you have
an old graphics card, I'd put it in and see if that worked.

I'll throw in the other stock questions as well: Have you applied all of the
Windows XP critical updates? 

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-Anthony Procissi [MSFT]
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"Sgran" <ssgran17@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:12BE14C9-123E-470E-B0BC-7345EC476814@microsoft.com...
>I just built a new comp for gaming, but all games like, Rise Of Nations, 
>Freelancer, Halo, Medal Of Honor battle chest , and some other games.
> MY Comp Specs are as Fallowed:
> Celeron 2.4ghz
> 512 ram
> Radeon 9200 se 128mb AGP video card
> MSI: SIS 661fx motherboard
>
> can any one help?

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