have got a new machine is a phenom quad core with x-fi sound and vista x64 every time ti try to play wow it freezes up usually with in 5 mins of starting, is there a known issue here? or is it something a little bit more drastic
View 4 RepliesWhenever I play any game at full quality graphics, after some time the computer just freezes.....Does anybody know how to fix this My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Intel Core 2 Duo ....
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've an Asus f5sl laptop with Vista Home Premium (32bit) but it's been freezing on me lately. When I boot up, it gets to the black screen with the green bar but after a few seconds, the green bar freezes and I can't log in. Occasionally it boots up after around half an hour but then Vista periodically freezes for a few seconds before resuming (which is annoying when trying to write out something etc)
I don't see any problems in Safe Mode so is possibly a driver? I've updated all my drivers, completely updated using WIndows Update, ran antispyware, used System Restore etc. Only problem is; I've moved to a new country, and like a fool, I left my Vista start up disk back home. Which I would otherwise have tried.
CD's play fine, some older commercial DVD's play, most new ones are not even recognized...
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy OS is vista home premium 32 bit , 2GB Ram, 120 GB Hard Drive, DualLayer 8x DVD Burner. I'm considering to buy some pc games, particularly Windows DVD games such as Crysis, Modern Warfare , Flight Sim. etc.
Being my first time for pc games, I'm not sure if my laptop has got enough to play those games. I heard that it depends on my video card(?)or my graphic card(?), and I have no idea where and how to look that infos up. I have 65.3 GB left on C: , and 9.35 GB left on my D: drive.
that's all.. i cant play bf2 on win 7 on the version 1.0, on google, they said that patch the patch 1.5, i follow it, the result is i cant patch this to the game
View 7 Replies View Relatedhere is a summary of the posts this poor guy had to go through to try and get his dvd working. imagine having to type cryptic commands into a terminal window. no wonder why ubuntu is so screwed up. ubuntu will never take over the desktop. ubuntu is prehistoric. here is the summary of the posts: i cannot get my dvd to play cds or dvds. a summary:
1. i have hardy running as a virtual file on a xp host.
2. cds and dvds play ok in windows although they do not autorun, i have to start them using the player,
3. i had the same fault with gutsy
4. i followed reassuringlyoffensive's guides and everything seemed to load without errors.
5. i tried gxine first. when i run the dvd i get a message "xine engine fails to start" then "read error from /dev/dvd"
6. i get sound when i log on and i am able to play videos, with sound,from Internet.
7. i installed hardy from a download, i was able to check for errors.
does the dvd any encryption/is it a commercial videodvd? sudo apt-get install lsdvd libdvdread3 libdvdread migth help. if not you will require to setup the medibuntu repos follow the howto, how to add the repo and get some additional dvd reading utilities sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 non-free-codecs.....
I'm just about to have a substantial upgrade to my rig-new mobo+new case. All my other components will be transplanted.I've become aware of the LG GGC-H20L. This will apparently allow me to watch Blu Ray movies (and HD-DVD if I can find any) and is also a good DVD and CD writer. Also I can get it for just £66.So I was thinking of swapping out my existing Samsung DVD/CD writer for this unit but have several compatibility concerns.
I have a BFG 8800 GTS OC 512MB GPU. This card has a 2 DVI outputs but no HDMI output.I also have A Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP monitor which has loads of inputs including, I believe, an HDCP compliant HDMI input.So. Does anyone know whether I'll be able to watch Blu Ray movies on my PC using the LG unit through my GPU and into my monitor? I could get an adapter cable or maybe DVI would do? It would be great if anyone has this thing and could tell me if it's any good. I could keep my current DVD writer as there's plenty of room in the Cosmos S I'm getting but if the LG writes CDs and DVDs well I might as well pass it on to somebody who needs it.
I'm a complete novice to computers. I've recently bought a new computer but can't seem to play CD's on it. The computer doesn't seem to be reading the drive. I've even tried playing the software and documentation disc that came with the printer and its not recognising that either.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe burned a movie unto a disc from windows media player and it will not play on my 1 year old player on my tv. it will play on my vista os but not on my xp os.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy windows media player can play my MKV and AVI but my media center can not everytime I try to play anything it says VIDEO ERROR Files needed to display video are not installed or not working correctly. please restart windows media center or restart the computer I am running vista home premium 64bit. I only have one codec installed which works fine with Media Player and its DIvx .
View 4 Replies View Relatedhave been experiencing frequent crashes, freezes, and BSOD lately and after some research decided the video card/driver might be a likely culprit. ran memtest just prior to see if RAM might be the issue; no errors. uninstalled video driver; and was prompted to restart to finalize removal of old driver. however, the system now freezes on startup at the welcome screen when starting normally or in safe mode.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI got a really weird problem wth my vista. Every time i try to play game that's not on the list of games in the start menu (like some "old" games) they ALWAYS crash with some kind of error even if I put the compatibility stuff on them. searched the errors on the internet but nobody has them so i got stuck here unable to play nothing.
P.S My computer is a laptop Sony Vaio VGN-NR3350FE.
Core 2 Duo T5550
3 gigs of RAM
250gb HD
im using vista home premium 32bit and it seems like i cant play some games i like. for instance gta, nfs, etc.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWow requires hardware slightly more advanced than a graphing calculator to run, how am i not able to play with a system like this. The only thing i can think of is that maybe the different types of RAM are causing problems, maybe the timings are off or something. This is exactly double the spec of my XP machine and on that machine WoW flies. I dont get it. While not in the game the PC is lightning fast. Anyone have similar issues with WoW in Vista, if so how'd you fix it?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI don't play games, and only instal programs like Microsoft Office, photo programs. I did all that was recommanded like disk cleanup etc. etc. I did search to see what is so much space and was not successfull.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSo I just got my computer back from a friend that switched out my Hard drive for me. I am now running Vista 32bit. I'm trying to run the car racing game, GRID on it. I know that I'm running DirectX 10 on Vista, but this game will not run on 10, only DX 9. How can I make this game run? I bought a game that I haven't been able to play!
View 5 Replies View Relatedis my IL2 Sturmovik forgotten battles won't play. It loads no problem but when you click play the next icon(shows a russian plan) appears the screen flicks and thats it
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have a few videos in AVI format that play the audio but not the video. is there a codec or something i need for windows media player?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've come upon a problem and I dread calling MS support. I have found nothing useful (without paying a subscription) on the net. I have Vista U x64 and a Hauppage WinTV1600. Everything was working fine for a couple months, but now I cannot play Live TV as I get this error. "Cannot Play Video: The file is currently in use by another application and cannot be played. Please try again later." Well, later is now over a week. I can still record tv and all other functions, no other issues at all.
I can't exactly pin down when it started due to a 2 week period of not watching live tv or what software (if any) could have caused it. I also tried the maintanence feature of MCE, but did not correct it. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience to this issue? I'm not sure what "file" or "application" could be doing this. I do have Nero 7 Essentials installed and uninstalled Cyberlink DVD in case, but I'm just swatting flies with these thoughts.
I have copied a .wp3 file onto my new Vista operating system computer. Is there anyway I can view this photo file with Vista or can it only be viewed with XP?
View 8 Replies View Relatednow i cant seem to play regular DVDs on windows media player 11, i have installed a divx codec pack but to no avail. my other comp runs xp with media player 10 i think and no probs? also is there anyway i can get rid of WMP11 and go back to 10?
View 4 Replies View Relatedis there any software that can play mp4 player? because i think the VLC player is not compatible with vista... I want the same player as VLC.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if it is possible in vista to use an animated .gif picure as a wallpaper, I tried but the animation does not play, the only reason I am asking this is because animated .gif images would play if you set them as your backround in XP.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have my WoW installed on a separate partition, b/c I thought this would speed it up (something about the computer not having to look through ALL of its memory during game play). However, whenever my computer does ANYTHING else, I experience a 5-10 second lag in game play. I have a 2 Ghz dual processor and over 200 gigs of space on my main drive (the WoW drive has 15/30 gigs being used right now). Is the problem being caused by WoW being on a separate partition? if so, would removing that partition fix the problem? And can I do that without reinstalling WoW (WoW regularly updates with patches downloaded from the internet, which would take several hours to redownload and install).
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy system has recently been randomly turning aero off, but I haven't made any major change recently but it still decides to randomly shut off aero. I need to know how to fix this. The laptop comes stock with 2x512MB of ram, and apparently from using it this long, from around July, I believe I would be better with 2GB of ram. I need to know how to do this. Today I went to try to play the game FlyFF and it went find for about 20mins and then randomly my display driver crashed. It recover immediately, well as so Vista said, but my computer was stuck with this big white box over the screen and I had no choice but to power off manually because nothing worked. Now I need to know if there is anyway to have some shop or way of getting a new display driver or getting a better one, or one I can actually work with. I can't play any games grrr. I believe thats it. Sorry I couldn't find that much info on it. There was specs on E/B but I have just E.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIm trying to watch a movie on my laptop. It keeps asking me to download flash. i download it no problem but will still not play the movie. Kinda stumped.....Its not just movies, it involves anything flash....
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter I log on my account on windows xp, the computer starts to load and then it freezes....the recent changes I made to the computer was two things; first I installed the computer game crysis and 2nd I installed a new nvidia driver for my geforce card, anyways the computer freezes totally so I can't uninstall or change anything and then I restart using the restart button and it all happens again.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAfter booting up the computer the desktop freezes immediately. If it doesn't freeze up immediately I'll have some functionality, but minimal. I'll no longer have access to the internet (no network adapter present), can't run programs (they fail to open) or can't install programs/updates. I have even gotten a couple of Blue screen error messages such as: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
In safe mode with networking I do have access to the internet. When I try to download updates in safe mode I can't because Install shield will not work, or some other excuse. There are no restore points to restore to. There was a Windows Framework update on August 7th. I tried to uninstall it, but apparently it was never installed properly. No blue screens while in Safe Mode. I've been trying to problem solve this on my own, but with my limited computer repair skills I'm scared to try things.
online backup installed an update on my extremely stable Vista Home Premium. It asked me to reboot and when I clicked reboot, the system froze up. Every time I boot, it will freeze within seconds of loading the desktop.
I would seriously love to get this fixed as I have reinstalled Vista 4x, the last being 18-months ago
How may I resolve OR troubleshoot this issue? I have done a restore point back 2 weeks, but thats as far as I can go without getting an error.
I'm using XP Professional x64 now cause most things really work fine on XP x64. But I'd like to use Vista with 4GB RAM!
My hardware:
Asrock Alive xFire eSATA2
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ tray AM2 2x2,60GHz 2x512kB
4x 1024MB DDR2RAM Kingston PC667 CL5
XpertVision / Palit 512MB X1950GT Super PCIe
500GB 3,5" Samsung SpinPoint T166 HD501LJ SATA2 7200rpm
Sharkoon Silentstorm 120 SHA500-12A 500W ATX 2.0