Lots of games crashing :(

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Hope it's OK to post this here. I have just put XP on my PC (clean install)
after having used 98 for a long time. Now, a lot of my games are crashing,
but it only seems to be the 3D ones? The games I'm talking about should all
run on XP: Farcry, Painkiller, Unreal 2. I have everything all patched up so
I'm not sure what's going on. Can anyone think of anything which might cause
crashes in this way?

Thanks for any help

 

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"Di Farker" wrote:

> Hope it's OK to post this here. I have just put XP on my PC (clean install)
> after having used 98 for a long time. Now, a lot of my games are crashing,
> but it only seems to be the 3D ones? The games I'm talking about should all
> run on XP: Farcry, Painkiller, Unreal 2. I have everything all patched up so
> I'm not sure what's going on. Can anyone think of anything which might cause
> crashes in this way?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
>

Video and sound card drivers come to mind.

 

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MAP wrote:
: "Di Farker" wrote:
:
:: Hope it's OK to post this here. I have just put XP on my PC (clean
:: install) after having used 98 for a long time. Now, a lot of my
:: games are crashing, but it only seems to be the 3D ones? The games
:: I'm talking about should all run on XP: Farcry, Painkiller, Unreal
:: 2. I have everything all patched up so I'm not sure what's going on.
:: Can anyone think of anything which might cause crashes in this way?
::
:: Thanks for any help

Have you updated to directx ver 9? You may have to uninstall and then
re-install the games before they will run properly, if you just did the
upgrade install of XP and not a complete install.



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