Re: Games on XP Home Edition

Dave wrote:

Hello, I have windows XP home edition on my brand new pc, and this new pc is in everything twice as good as my old one.
But the problem is, that i cant play some o f the games, but i COULD PLAY ALL on my older pc.
Now here are a couple examples of games for what works and what doesnt:

-Call Of Duty 2: Loads some maps, but automaticaly restarts my pc when i load a specific map.
-Call Of Duty United Offensive: I get the following message when i am trying to run the game: "Could not load OpenGL. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacturer's web site."
-Medal Of Honor SpearHead: The normal Allied Assault does work, but this expansion will not work, it aint got an error message, it just will not open the game.
-Medal Of Honor Pacific Assault: Runs great, it is a way more heavier game then spearhead for example, but it runs everything!

So the first games wont work, but except for Call Of Duty 2, which isnt very much better with graphics then Pacific assault.

Does anyone knows what it could be?

Some specifications: Amd Athlon Pentium 4 3.2 ghz processor
512 MB ram
AGP slot video card - Ati Radeon X550 (RV370)
Windows XP home edition

Also some movies which i play (not real movies but small vid's which are recorded) wont play good and i only see plain colours, its even hard to see the objects.
I found out what that was, the Hardware speed.
I go to desktop, then right click and go to properties, then go to settings, then to advanced, then to solve problems (or whatever it is in english because mine is dutch) and then set the hardware speed lower.
Then i can see vid's but cant play any games anymore cause they need to be on the higest hardware speed to play.

My solutions:
1 I Could need a cooler for my vid card
2 Windows XP home edition is the problem
3 Windows XP home edition is the problem because i havn't got the English version
4 The games dont support windows XP home edition
5 The store which sold this pc to be lies and the video card wont support these games.....

And what to do about it if im right at anything of this? I have no idea.
I already had the english version 1 time, and not even 1 game worked on it.....
Look, i can take my whole pc back, but then i lose alot of features which this pc haves, like: Movie Maker, DvD/CD Writer, automaticly unzipping stuff (dont ask me how my pc does that last one).

Anyway: SOS!, Help!, can someone please tell me what the problem is?...... 

You display driver probably need updating. Try here:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=293

Steve N.


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