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June 3rd, 2008, 06:31 PM

mrwynd

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Originally Posted by Aznargo

I have a problem with Call of Duty 4. Whenever I try to play online, it locks up and I have to restart my computer. But, with single player, it never does that unless I'm downloading something. It also crashes when I'm playing C&C3, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, and C&C Generals.

I don't think it's DirectX because I have 9.00c (I have Windows XP).

And sometimes it works (last night it did), but I tried a few minutes ago and it locked up on me.

Here's my computer properties:
Micro-Star International Co., LTD
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core processor 6000+
3.00 GHz, 2.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Version # 6.14.11.6921 (with DirectX 10)
RealTek HD Audio Output Version #5.10
Plug and Play Monitor
Microsoft XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600)

Also, my brother told me my video card could be becoming glitchy. Is this possible?

It's probably a bad network card, do you have access to another card that you can swap out?

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June 8th, 2008, 04:32 PM

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thanks

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Originally Posted by mrwynd

I googled the hp pavillion dv2000, it's a laptop and probably cannot ever be updated with a video card that would play games better.

oh well, im gonna have a ps3 in a month or 2 so ill have that for any games
its a fast laptop so i dnt get many problems with games

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July 23rd, 2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Thndrchckn

upgrade your video card the 9800 pro's are cheap now so look into one of those preferably 256mb but if you cant afford it the 128mb one will do just fine

i would personally go with the 2mb one. even with such a small capacity it still works really well. sometimes taking it out and just massaging it works wonders

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Is there any memory test software which doesn't need a floppy to use?
My PC hasn't got one

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July 15th, 2009, 06:11 AM

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Problem running oblivion 4

I just bought oblivion 4 yesterday and when i was downloading it i gotted a blue screen. Well i restarted the computer and when i putted oblivion back in the computer it sayed that it was ready to play so i clicked play and it wont start it gives an error so i wanna uninstall it and that wont go to. so i tried to delete everything but that didnt work to delete the game so i cant play it and i cant uninstall it please some help.

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