- Sep 26, 2013
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So, to not be long winded, I'll just give the main points.
I always have friends that want their PC's checked, because in my area, I'm like "the PC guy" because I'm the only one around that has built a PC, and understands the basics of PC's (though I am not an expert, I basically just know a little more than the average person). But this one has stumped me yet again.
My friends PC is older, not ancient, but older. But It's running a GTX 560 ti for example, and I forget which CPU, but I know it's an older Intel model.
So, he's been having issues with it in terms of games.
He installs a game, everything goes fine. But after installation, whenever he goes to launch it, it will give him an error. It happens with MOST games, and the errors are always different.
Although it works on SOME games. For example, hawken runs just fine. But any of the newer games that I personally play (That he has installed to play with me) don't work at all.
In fact he has uninstalled at least one of these games, and reinstalled, only to get the same error as before.
One of the errors for example is a C++ runtime error. However, I made sure to double check, his is completely up to date. In fact so are pretty much all his drivers. At least the main ones, like chipset, and GPU.
This problem also seems to effect other things. Like windows update. Every time he runs it, it will attempt to update, but then randomly fail to update, every time.
Not sure what's causing this. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
I always have friends that want their PC's checked, because in my area, I'm like "the PC guy" because I'm the only one around that has built a PC, and understands the basics of PC's (though I am not an expert, I basically just know a little more than the average person). But this one has stumped me yet again.
My friends PC is older, not ancient, but older. But It's running a GTX 560 ti for example, and I forget which CPU, but I know it's an older Intel model.
So, he's been having issues with it in terms of games.
He installs a game, everything goes fine. But after installation, whenever he goes to launch it, it will give him an error. It happens with MOST games, and the errors are always different.
Although it works on SOME games. For example, hawken runs just fine. But any of the newer games that I personally play (That he has installed to play with me) don't work at all.
In fact he has uninstalled at least one of these games, and reinstalled, only to get the same error as before.
One of the errors for example is a C++ runtime error. However, I made sure to double check, his is completely up to date. In fact so are pretty much all his drivers. At least the main ones, like chipset, and GPU.
This problem also seems to effect other things. Like windows update. Every time he runs it, it will attempt to update, but then randomly fail to update, every time.
Not sure what's causing this. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
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