game installation

I was wondering if there's anyway I could fix my problem. Right after I successfully install Sim City, the autorun loads up the game and I have a blast playing it. When I try to opem up the game to play everytime there after, nothing happens. When I insert the play disk, my computer recognizes...

Hi I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 installed. I have installed the following games: WoW Battlefield Vietnam Battlefield 2 Wow works with a little bit of lag but both BFV and BF2 will not start. The shortcut is clicked the small title window appears for a few seconds then...

Hi everybody , i have 1 problem with my new win 7. Im using a Dell laptop. the system is win vista . changed to win 7 some days ago. the system runs good. but yesterday when i installed 1 game with dirext 9 , the game still run good, i played some hours then turn off the laptop. Today, after...

I have a game installed on my computer. All of a sudden, windows 7 has changed the entire folder to read only, and will not let me change the read-only status of the files. (Although it tells me it is changing the status) I am the only user. I have had this computer for less than a day. What...

I was attempting to instal and mod the game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Bethesda softworks, and was having problems with it, so I decided to statover. I ran all of the relevant uninstalls (the oriignals games, the expansion, the mods) but there is still a bethesda folder in my program files...

Hi I have recently installed W7 64bit and so far so good. However, my favourite game Jewel Quest Online Party is giving me a headache. I works fine on XP but W7 is a different story. It's a relatively new game. I've managed to install it ok. When I click to go into the game, I get a message...

Does anyone know how to get need for speed road challenge started in wondows 7? I'm running the 64bit RC client. The game installs but will not start.:confused:

ive had the RC for awhile now (so far so good on that part) and i decided to re-install one of my favorite games star wars: knights of the old republic, i fully patched it and everything but when i tried to play it would go to a black screen then it would say "this programme is not responding"...

Wondering if my graphics card is shot. I've been running Windows 7 for about 1-2 weeks without any problems. My cousin installed a game on my pc last night (which i've since uninstalled), and now my display driver is acting crazy. I'm constantly getting "Display driver nvidia windows kernel...

Specs: Q6600 ~2.5ghz, 4gb ram, HD4850 video card, windows 7 x64 build 7100 Whenever I install a game that is several gigabytes large or I copy a file which has gigabytes of data my physical RAM fills up (up to 99+%) and my system slows to a crawl. Even after the trasfer/copy/install is done...

I am running Windows 7 RC 1 on a clean install and I tryed to install Rise of the Argonauts yesterday and after a little ways into the installation it stopped with this error mssg.: "Error 1305 reading from file C:\Program Files\Codemasters\Rise of the Argonauts\Liquid Games\Cooked...

Hiya guys, Now, many of you may call me crazy but let me assure you, I know my way around computers pretty darn well, both hardware and software but this is really quite an odd issue. Since the RC release I've been testing, as we all have. Honestly, to me, Win 7 so far looks like XP with a...

I want to install a PC game on Windows 7 RC that was meant for Windows XP or earlier. The game is called Ai Yori Aoshi and it is a Visual Novel from Hirameki International Group Inc., KID (Kindle Imagine Develop), and Anime Play. The problem is: I cannot install the game. I can run the...

Call of Duty 5 i bought from my friend for 40 bucks along with Call of Duty 4. Cheap right? Haha. Anyways, they came with a video card he had bought and he didn't want them so he sold them to me, they're unopened, brand new. I installed them, Call of Duty 4 works perfectly fine. Sometimes...

any time i try to install an optional update, it just sits forever at the 'creating system restore point' until finally it kicks back out and says it failed. i'm trying to update my geforce drivers using that, since, when i try to update the drivers with nVidia's download, it says there are one...

Hi, i just instaled windows 7 on my PC i instaled my call of duty 2 and i entered SP...it works now i tryed to get in MP mode and all i get is a black screen and my mouse i tryed instaling patch 1.3 then nothing works....i tryed PB same situation all in all i reinstaled the game like 4 times...

i heard that many online games are not compatible with vista. since i am using vista... i have not yet played any online game without bothering about being disconnected form the server all of the online games were successfully installed. i can even enter them the problem is that.... it...

Hi there. I recently found a very strange issue. I have an Acer 7520G laptop with Windows Vista 64-bit Bussiness Edition installed. It worked fine (relatively) for some time. However, just today, I installed a game, switched the resolution to 1440x900 and the computer froze. I tried...

Greetings all! I thought I would post this here and see if anyone had any ideas before I am reduced to wiping my drive and starting with a fresh install of Vista. The problem is this. I am trying to install a Virtual CD program that is, according to their site, Vista compatible. However, the...

i have a question i checked and windows 7 beta comes with directX 11 does that mean installing a game on windows 7 will be better that vista or xp? does it means games will run smooother look better?