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    Windows 7 Games won't run in fullscreen mode, shrink to taskbar

    I'm going mad here trying to solve this one. I'm new to Windows 7. I've just installed it 3 weeks ago, and I'm still in the process of installing all my software and small mini-games (shooters, arkanoid-type stuff, bejeweled, etc). I've had virtually no trouble getting my applications to run...
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    Windows 7 Freezing on different part of the screen

    Ok this has completely stumped me to I've come for your help I am experiencing freezing on windows 7 but its a little odd, here are the facts 1) the mouse can still move around the screen but can't click on anything 2) It never freezes when I'm on games 3) pressing ctrl + alt + delete...
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    Windows 7 Constant BSOD/crash

    Hello all! I have experienced crashes with the BSOD that made me believe it had something to do with a driver that was corrupt, malfunctioning, etc. I would receive the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and/or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I notice this was happening around the beginning of last...
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    Windows 7 call of duty 4 crash

    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...
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    Windows 7 Just a small question about windows 7 gaming on a slower system

    Hello there, My systems specs are as follows: Epox 9NPA+ Ultra mobo (nForce 4) AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz 3500+ 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (256 MB) 200 GB SATA 7200 rpm HD I'd like to use win 7 to make use of direct x 10 since win xp lacks the support...
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    Windows 7 BSOD Only When Gaming

    Hi all, great looking site you have here. I discovered it while tearing my hair out trying to look for a solution. Anyway, to the point. Over the past two weeks I have had 4 BSODs. 1 around two weeks ago, and three in the last two days. I had two on the 14th so I updated to the latest ATI 10.10...
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    Windows 7 ntoskrnl.exe+70740 crashed during or after games

    Hi all, I install win7 64 bit on the following specs: i5 760 Gigabyte UD3L OCZ 4GB 1333Mhz gold WD Carier green 500GB Sapphire Radeon 5770 After playing for a minute sometimes a little more, the game crashes. It happened with Splinter Cell Double Agent and Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands which...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 x64 BSOD:(

    So, for a week or so i'm having problem whit a bsod that keeps appearing from no where. I tryed reinstalling windows, its the same. I just don't understand why its happening.:( I'm putting here the minidumps and the larg memory dump. If someone can look at them and tell where the problem is...
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    Windows 7 split second game not running smoothely

    i use dell inspiron 1525,2gb ram,160gb hard disk,384mb intel video accelerator,32bit windows 7 ultimate.recently i got the split second car game from my friend but it is running very slowly even i reduced the graphics to low and even resolution also.i did the game to run in xp servicepack2...
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    Windows 7 WIn 7 only using 1 core in i7 cpu's - a fix for those with this problem

    For the longest time i have been battling a horrible slownes in my win 7 64 bit system. Asus p6t MB i7 -930 2.81 gig overclocked to 3.85 gigs 6 gigs ddr Pny Nvidia gtx 470 over clocked as well. All my games played horribly.. low frame rates etc etc. well when over clocking my grafics...
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    Windows 7 win7 100%cpu issue

    when i play a game ex crossfire my cpu usage is at 100%, making the game unstable Imageshack - offfcf.png Imageshack - oncf.png
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 lag spikes during multiplayer games

    Ok i know theres a 1000 threads about this but instead of having one problem i have 2 now. I started off trying to fix my lag spikes during games and ended up messing up my sound. Computer specs: Windows 7 64 bit. AMD Athlon II X4 620 Processor (4 cpus) 2.6 GHz Memory: 6144 mb ram Graphic...
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    Windows 7 Crash log help

    Hey everyone. I've been having a problem lately where any game that runs on steam crashes after about 10 minutes or so. I've been through all the troubleshooting guides steam has to offer, contacted their support people (who don't seem to care.), and combed through various forums to try to find...
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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Video Card Issues: Flickering and Stuttering Problems in Windows

    I am led to believe that i have a problem with the video card or the driver for it ! could the driver be the reason for all the flickering, stuttering and constant refreshing ? for instance, when i go to games in my start panel, and play Solitaire, the game stutters alot and freezes ! constantly...
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    Windows 7 Graphical Performance Issues on Windows 7 64-bit

    Hello, I'm having some graphical performance issues while simply navigating in windows. Simply by dragging icons or open folders I can notice some stuttering, almost like a framerate issue. Minimizing or maximizing folders is also NOT smooth, it's almost like I don't have video card drivers...
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    Windows 7 No Sound When Un-Minimizing Games

    I have a problem where when I minimize any of my games and then maximize them, sometimes they don't have sound and I can't get it back without restarting the application. When I run them normally the sound is fine, but if I minimize them and bring them back up the sound is just gone. Any...
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    Windows 7 Windows Aero Rating of 1.0?

    Hello. I built my PC about 6 months ago with some fairly good hardware. It has an Intel i7 860 quad core CPU, 4096MB DDR3 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card with DirectX 11, and Creative SB X-Fi sound card. My operating system is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Anyway, I've played a lot of games on...
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    Windows 7 creative sb x-fi Ramdom audio problems, help please¡¡¡

    Hi, few several months i ve installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bits in my pc-compaq. All running perfectly but my sound card. sometimes when i m surfing in internet while listenning musik, suddenly theres no sound, again restart my explorer and i got sound for a while and again no sound or sound...
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    Windows 7 Help wiht splinter call

    hello i have a problem when i run the game its says UPLOAD.EE - Download Untitled.png i have direct x 11 and here is my system UPLOAD.EE - Download Untitled1.png I hope that someone can help me :(
  20. Windows 7 Windows 7 General and Audio Lag (Severe)

    Ever since I had gotten my new laptop with Windows 7 instead I have had nothing but problems with lag while playing World of Warcraft (WoW) or doing anything that requires sound (sometimes even when it has nothing to do with sound). Most annoying is: Playing WoW (with game audio shut off) and...