game installation

I'm new to this forum,i've searched for solutions and no luck so i came here. I don't know much about computers,laptops,technology etc... so if anyone has solution to my problem please explain it slowly and understandably. My problem: First time appeared while running steam (Valve product) I...

Hey guys, I got a problem installing Gears Of War in other partition but C. I have low space free in partition C, and every time I install the game and choose a different destination it installs to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Gears Of War. Can't help it I have Installed it 4 to 5 times but...

Hey guys, this is my first time doing this so please be patient, I bought GTA complete pack from steam from steam the other day and patiently waited for the 40gb of files to download and they all ran fine but when I play GTA IV it runs fine until I shoot someone or crash in a car. When I...

Hi, I am having an annoying problem that I would appreciate some help in resolving. I have deleted and reinstalled a game program, now, three times. Prior to the last installation I went thru and defragged and used disk cleanup. I got the same results: Instead of installing new files from the...

Hey guy's, I just got a new game called Hard to be a God and it seemed to install fine "except from AVG's false win32 Heir Virus that I get on EVERY game" So I click on the game and it comes up with Insufficient privileges. You must be an administrator to run this for the first time. I...

I just had my computer wiped and it was going well over a few weeks until I got this bluescreen: ================================================== Dump File : 071711-22448-01.dmp Crash Time : 7/17/2011 5:01:16 PM Bug Check String : Bug Check Code : 0x00000124 Parameter 1...

Hi I use windows 7 ultimate SP1 64 bit. I tried to install a program tonight and got the following dialog box. You may not have the necessary permissions to use all the features of the program you are about to run. You may run this program as a different user or continue to run the...

I bought a HP computer with Windows 7 installed, It worked perfectly for about 25 minutes, and then blam, BSOD. After some frustration, I returned it, and got a new one. Same... exact... problem. I don't know WHY it's doing this, at first I thought it was because I tried to install a game(which...

i'm having a windows 7( 32 bit),,,, i' hv installed prince of persia forgotten sands,,, but when i clicked the exe' file of the pop game to begin,,, it gv me a black screen n then it told me that "prince of persia is stopped working",, then it said "windows is finding the solution"(it running a...

i have windows 7 ultimate and as i was trying to install a game i got this blue screen. i ve tried to locate exactly what the problem is but i cant make sense of it all. i have the dmp files here if anyone can help me with these.

Hi, As of now I only have 1 game installed on my fastest drive which so happens to be my OS drive (is that a good idea?) Also I would like to know what defrag to use so I can tell it to put that one installed game folder on my OS drive to the fastest part of the drive? I currently use...

I am running Windows 7 64-bit and have a legal copy of Call of Duty (original) that I'd like to play. I installed the game (seemingly without error) and tried to run it, and got a buffer overrun error. I used the Windows 7 troubleshoot feature to run the program using Windows XP...

Okay so for some unknown reason my Call of Duty 4 game crashes my pc and i have to force restart it. Prior to installing cod 4 i played some cod 2 which worked fine in single player and multiplayer without patches but when i installed the patch 1.3 (up to date patch) it would crash when playing...

I am running Win7 64bit, Q6600 CPU, 8G Ram with ATI4870 display card. I love the game "Sid Meier Railroad" and still wish to play it, tried several method such as running in XP service Pack 2, win95, win98 and even win2000 compatiable mode, BCDedit string editing, largeaddress aware patch for...

Guyz I use windows 7 ultimate 64 bit with 8gb ram 9600 gt nvidia graphic card intel core 2 duo e7400 2.8ghz my problem is that when i try to run the setup for prince of persia it gives me this error message saying Error Code: -5001 : 0x80070002 Error Information: >SetupNew\setup.cpp (142)...

ok so im runnin 64 bit win 7 pro. ive installed many games and only one never worked on this laptop which is warcraft 3. now, however, the same thing is happening to half of my games, one day they just stopped working ang i cant figure out why. here is what happens, i double click the shortcut...

This has been happening with many games that I download off the internet. After the game downloads and installs, the exe file goes from being a program installer to a video game launcher. Windows fails to realize this, and every time I start the game the UAC pops up and I have to confirm that...

I do not play games online, but it appears more games seem to require you log on before you can play. Since I really do not want this requirement, is there something that identifies such games I can see before I purchase them? For instance, I got Batman and the box said Windows Live. So when...

I am getting this error when I try to install COD4 on my new Win7 pc: Error 1305 E:\Setup|Data|main\video\scoutsniper_load.bik When I cancel out I get Error 1603 Consult Win.Installer Help(Msi.chm) I tried to install under Admin and still got the same error. Any ideas, I would really like...

Xbox 360 Gets USB Storage Support by Paul Thurrott On Tuesday, Microsoft issued a software update for its Xbox 360 video game console that adds an interesting new capability: Users can now connect up to two USB storage devices to the console to supplement the Xbox 360's hard drive. But...