game performance

I don't play many games on my computer, but occassionally I enjoy (or used to) playing Bejeweled or specifically Jewel Quest. I purchased the latest Jewel Quest game from Best Buy and it said it was compatible with Windows 7, and in fact in installed fine. When I attempted to play the game I...

Hi all, Firstly, thanks for a great forum. When searching for a way to figure out BSOD problems, I came across this forum. People like me are very grateful that there are those of you willing to help out. I have recently built a new computer, and have been getting BSOD - so far it has...

I can't launch Fable 3 or Dirt 3 for some reason. It doesn't give me a error or anything when i try to launch them but it just "thinks" for a while and does nothing, but the odd thing is that Fable used to run without any problems whatsoever it just stopped working after i got about half way...

I have A HP Compaq 6270 laptop,I've just installed Windows 7(32 bit).Few problem have been occuring 1)All games are being run on 16 bit thus ruining the graphics.2) When i close the lid and open it the screen flashes 2 or 3 times and os carshes showing BSOD.These problems never occured in vista...

hopefully someone can help me! i get this error message in windows 7 x64, vista x86 but not in xp x86 I'm guessing its my graphics card as it happens when watching video or playing games. bsview report below, if anyone needs more info please let me know, a diagnosis would be great...

does prince of persia forgotten sands which is being installed in a windows 7 computer needs DIRCTX 11 to start to play the game....

I have this problem that every 6\7 seconds my game gets stuck for like 1 second, and when I play serious games this problem becomes very serious. I have tried to change video resolution and renderer, but nothing changes. If I open a New Game just by myself I have no problems. This means that...

Boris Jabes is fun guy to talk to about C++. He has the distinction of being the first guy to share the news about the removal of C++/CLI intellisense support in VC10. He also has a great perspective on why the decision was made and understands the complexity of intellisense projects and complex...

if i have 504MB of ram and have 23.0GB memory on my local disk(C:) will that be ok for me to get steam and team fortress 2 or get half life 2 deathmatch thank you to anyone who can give me the awnser

Hello, I'm not sure of how to explain this but when playing videos and games on my LCD TV or LCD monitor there is sometimes a tearing of the image, usually during a great amount of movement. I have tried turning vsync on in games and it didn't solve the issue, just dropped frame rates. So...

I recently installed Fifa 2010 on my computer, and just opened it up for the first time. However, it seems as though my computer is constantly pressing the down arrow on the keyboard. I then shut off the game and went in to firefox and it kept on doing the same thing- it kept on switching...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...