52Paddy
6th September 2009, 22:49
I bought a new PC yesterday with Windows 7. I've been having difficulties running a handful of games. Maybe some of you can offer solutions in order to get them to run correctly. I'll list the games and problems associated with each one.
Colin McRae 2: I think it's a graphics problem or something. The game works fine right up until I begin the stage. When it goes to the start line, the screen suddenly turns blue-green (menu colour) and I can't see the car. I tried it on high and low detail settings. I also tried changing the resolution from 800x600 to 1360x768 (within the game) which is my moniter's resolution. On top of that, I switched the compatibility to "XP Service Pack 3," but all to no avail :(
GT Legends and TRD3: After the game installed the components, I clicked on the icon. A prompt appeared saying "You must have administrative privileges to run this game." But I am the administrator. I've only got one account on the PC, the admin one! At one point, they accepted me as admin and said I needed to reboot the computer to complete installtion (both games did this.) When I rebooted it, a setup fixing menu appeared saying that something needed to be fixed on the system. I let it do its automatic fixing and when it restarted the games were gone. In fact, it must have done a system restore because all of the latest programmes I installed just disappeared off the system. :confused:
Richard Burns Rally: Initially, it would randomly crash to the desktop during play. Then it stopped for a while but happened again much later. No reason was given. A windows prompt appeared telling me that rbr.exe stopped responding for an unknown reason.
Other than that, I've only tried Mobil 1 Rally Championship, which didn't pose any problems. Though, I wasn't playing it for too long anyway.
Here is some specs to go on:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Phenom II - 3.1x2GHz
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9800GT w/1GB RAM
Moniter: Samsung something-or-other. It has resolution of 1360x768 (or something like that) and contrast ratio 50000:1
Maybe the problem is that Windows 7 isn't being recognised, but I have changed the compatibility for some of the games to "XP Service Pack 3."
Another problem worth noting is that I was told the PC came with a 500GB hard-drive but in the "My Computer" screen, I'm being told its full capacity is 107GB :mark:
Sorry for going on, but this is beginning to bug me. Any help is very much appreciated.
Colin McRae 2: I think it's a graphics problem or something. The game works fine right up until I begin the stage. When it goes to the start line, the screen suddenly turns blue-green (menu colour) and I can't see the car. I tried it on high and low detail settings. I also tried changing the resolution from 800x600 to 1360x768 (within the game) which is my moniter's resolution. On top of that, I switched the compatibility to "XP Service Pack 3," but all to no avail :(
GT Legends and TRD3: After the game installed the components, I clicked on the icon. A prompt appeared saying "You must have administrative privileges to run this game." But I am the administrator. I've only got one account on the PC, the admin one! At one point, they accepted me as admin and said I needed to reboot the computer to complete installtion (both games did this.) When I rebooted it, a setup fixing menu appeared saying that something needed to be fixed on the system. I let it do its automatic fixing and when it restarted the games were gone. In fact, it must have done a system restore because all of the latest programmes I installed just disappeared off the system. :confused:
Richard Burns Rally: Initially, it would randomly crash to the desktop during play. Then it stopped for a while but happened again much later. No reason was given. A windows prompt appeared telling me that rbr.exe stopped responding for an unknown reason.
Other than that, I've only tried Mobil 1 Rally Championship, which didn't pose any problems. Though, I wasn't playing it for too long anyway.
Here is some specs to go on:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Phenom II - 3.1x2GHz
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9800GT w/1GB RAM
Moniter: Samsung something-or-other. It has resolution of 1360x768 (or something like that) and contrast ratio 50000:1
Maybe the problem is that Windows 7 isn't being recognised, but I have changed the compatibility for some of the games to "XP Service Pack 3."
Another problem worth noting is that I was told the PC came with a 500GB hard-drive but in the "My Computer" screen, I'm being told its full capacity is 107GB :mark:
Sorry for going on, but this is beginning to bug me. Any help is very much appreciated.