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Offline codyy

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« on: April 07, 2003, 04:50:44 AM »
Ok...this has nothing to do with Game Consoles, but it does have to do with PC games. Some of my games won't work on Windows XP. In Age of Empires 2, the loading screen comes on (lasts for several minutes) and then the pregame cinematics starts. But as soon as the Age of Empires 2 cinematic ends, the screen goes black and the program is "not responding." I've reinstalled it a few times (both Age of Empires 2 and the Expansion) with no avail. Need for Speed won't work either, and even Block Breaker has problems (no sound, line across the bottom). Anyone have any ideas how to fix it? Or direct me to a place?  
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2003, 06:12:14 AM »
Try updating your graphics and sound drivers. Also try updating / reinstalling DirectX.
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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2003, 07:09:23 AM »
you could always get rid of XP. That fixed most of my problems.
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Offline manunited4eva22

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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2003, 01:12:26 PM »
And go back to ME? Are you insane?
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2003, 01:25:27 PM »
Eh, I've got ME installed, it's not as bad as everybody likes to go on about.

codyy, XP is known to react strange to 'older' PC games. I don't see why it's not working with AOE2, that's fairly new-ish, but yeah, expect to run into problems with the original Need for Speed and such. Anything developed before 1996, and there's a good chance XP will have a cry.
I got a copy off a friend once, when XP was the brand new funky thing. Installed it, laughed at all the security measures set up (The majority of it is just clever spy-ware), tried to run Sonic CD, got a black screen. Next day, I got a registry error for no reason, lost everything, went back to ME, threw XP around the back until it hit the shed and shattered.

Done and done.
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2003, 02:52:38 PM »
I have ME, I hate it on this PC. I can turn off every program and still encounter lag (I have 1300MB RAM, 1Ghz athlon) it also has a nack to crash during photoshop, no idea why.
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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2003, 01:55:11 AM »
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(I have 1300MB RAM, 1Ghz athlon)


1300MB RAM?  whoa!

i have 98SE.  hehe...

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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2003, 05:01:06 AM »
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(I have 1300MB RAM, 1Ghz athlon)


The hell are you doing with 1300MB of RAM?!? I did know mother boards for desk tops back then even supported anything over 1gig. Anyway, I will just stick to my Mac thanks.
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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2003, 08:29:06 AM »
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I have ME, I hate it on this PC. I can turn off every program and still encounter lag (I have 1300MB RAM, 1Ghz athlon) it also has a nack to crash during photoshop, no idea why.


You are wasting all that ram. ME doesn't know how to release programs from RAM properly. One problem with ME is that it wants to say where to run programs in ram, rather than letting the program themselves deciding it or the processor. So it looks in site A for space, but everything else wants to put it in site B. ME doesn't want to go into site B and freezes or crashes because it didn't get to do what it wanted. I have had no such problems of any kind after XP drivers for everything came out. I got a copy of XP about 3 months early from MS and the only issues I had were video card and raid drivers. But since then, do driver or program issues at all. I have even been able to run my computer for 2 weeks including installing, uninstalling, opening and closing programs, and moving files around. All with no problems at all. XP is night and day better than ME. Often times, when one problem is fixed in ME, another one arises if not the same one days later.  
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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2003, 11:03:11 AM »
I thought I haf ME limited to 256MB of RAM, but thatnks for the tip.
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