Re: Q: can't play games in MS-XP Home (does nothing)

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From: Jimmy S. (Private)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:50:33 -0400

Hi Gordon,

Definitely disable or uninstall Norton's 2005 to see it's causing
those problems, especially since they only started afterwards. 

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"Gordon1955" <Gordon1955@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B9D7ABF5-A64C-4313-8747-FD4B46C839AA@microsoft.com...
| I'm having the same problem.  When I click in the .exe for Vice City, the
| mouse pointer turns into a spinning cd icon, the cd spins up inside the cd
| player for a few moments... and then nothing happens.  In fact, I can't even
| eject the Vice City cd- eject doesn't respond- without restarting computer.
| This happened with external cd player, too.  I'm running WinXP Home SP2 on a
| system admin account.  It ran fine for several days after intalling SP2, I
| also installed Norton AV 2005 yesterday.  Maybe that is the problem?  I was
| hoping for some online help before I start uninstalling things.  (I already
| tried uninstalling and reinstalling gta vc: no change in behavior.)
| "MarkD" wrote:
|
| > Using Office XP Home on an emachines install (don't get me
| > started...)
| >
| > I just bought Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I was able to
| > install GTA, but when I try to start the game, it spins
| > the CD for a few second, but nothing else happens. I
| > checked the task manager and it doesn't look like the game
| > is runnng. No errors, no freezing, no BSOD, nothing
| > happens at all.
| >
| > how do I troubleshoot?
| >
| >
| >
| >

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