gaming issues

At some point during my usage, the effects for minimizing, closing, opening, and maximizing get turned off by Windows. I'll be enjoying the effects until at some point... closing and opening windows become instant (like in Windows XP or older), same with minimize/maximize. I never turn these...

Greetings. This issue frustrates me to no end, i very much hope you can help me out. I downloaded the Empire Total War demo from steam, but when i try to run it, it only shows the first screen (the ones who played Total War games, know it, the one with total war logo, creative assembly, sega...

Ok, so i'll write the whole message again.... got a message saying the message was too short although i doubt it was... Well here it goes. Whenever i install some games like Mirror's Edge and Saints Row 2 my whole computer freezes. Everything except the music,progessbar and the mouse pointer...

Hello, Recently, I installed Windows 7 (64bit) and decided to give it a run. Installed quick, set itself up (I LOVE the no-driver hassles), and everything about it is just great. However, gaming with it is another story. I installed the following games: -Battlefield 2142 (punkbuster) -Call of...

Hello: Im new in this forum and this will be my first question , When I want to start my "star defender 3 " game,I get this ERROR: STAR DEFENDER 3 HAS STOPPED WORKING A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is...

These games are running on HP pavilion dv6409wm laptop. Current list, will update as I install Age of Conan - works Battlefield 2 (with expansions) - works Battlefield 2142 - works Fable TLC - after several hours of working on getting this game to run I finally did get it working. It was all...

Hello people, I'm experiencing some weird issues that i've never heard from anyone about windows 7 before. Because all said ''w7 is increasing fps and dx11 helps a lot'' My operation system is; Windows 7 32 bit (didnt try 64 yet) 4gb G-skill 1066mhz @ 4 4 4 12 Intel e8500 @ 4.2ghz Zotac...

I was wondering, can Game Explorer detect already installed games? It detected all the new games that i installed and 2 previous installed. I was just wondering cause i have more than 10 games, that i installed before Windows 7, and they all work fine, just Game Explorer doesn't detects them...

Well i got a game on .mdf/.mds but problem is i cant mount it due to deamon not working on 7.But i tried ripping the file to just out of mdf format and i did but the installation hangs forever. Is there a way a 7 compatable way to mount a .mdf/.mds file? I just tried to install virtual pc from...

This is driving me nuts, as i don't see many others with same issue. All steam games crash within 3-6 minutes. Locks up so bad, it takes a power down/reboot. 7 sits on its own partition, fresh install, newest ATI drivers for 7 were installed, yet to no avail. Not seeing it here yet, but ive read...

Hi, today I installed windows 7 on my current pc ...after big problems with the nvdia driver I installed the vista x64 diver because the 3d-preview at the N-control-centre didn't work. If I start WoW it works perfectly but when i try to start wc3 I only get a blackscreen. Under my second...

I have recently upgraded my system with some new hardware, and installed Vista for the first time. It turned out to be a disaster. My computer freezes up seemingly at random, requiring a reset from the front switch. This freezing has occurred as soon as the login screen loads up, when...

Hello I am using a Toshiba Laptop i had recently Downloaded SP1 for vista and it will not detect my dvd drive. It is updated to the most recent driver. I cant even play my games so i went to the restore point because i got mad because i could not play my games. Can anyone help me out please...I...

I have been facing a problem with games in vista for the past 5 days. The games are getting dragged and discontinuous. I checked the task manager and found the cpu usage to be nearly 100% when games are running. I dont know whether that is the problem. I found that TrustedInstaller.exe was...

Well, I Installed my trusty copy of Jedi Knight Academy, when this error popped up in the script box, not letting me open the game. --- ambient sound initialization --- Sound memory manager started Loading dll file ui. Failed to load dll, looking for qvm. Loading vm file vm/ui.qvm. Failed...

Hi, Im starting to get really pissed off at the random shutdowns that occur when im playing games online. i have checked the error logs i get 2 events when this happens: Audit events have been dropped by the transport. The real time backup file was corrupt due to improper shutdown...

I own the 64-bit edition of Vista Ultimate and my Games Explorer is a mess which really bugs me because I'm a big gamer and I liked the idea of having a neat central location for my games. First of all, some of my games don't appear in the Explorer at all. This is strange because two of the...

Ok, Kinda a weird problem.. I have a really old game that i love to play and worked on all my op systems except vista.. I'm so mad. Its called starsiege tribes and it was meant to be run on windows 98. But i really wanna play it and cant figure out why it only opens in a window that i cant play...