Topic: HELP!! p.c games arn't working !

[Michelle]

lol  

ahhh okay then sandra, thanks for that anyway - now I know  

[Robotochan]

One of the updates on the windows update site may make your game a wee bit faster   If your on a 56k beware anything to do with modems on the site as it reduced my connection from 38 to 33k :'(

[carnaging]

..ok, i tried the service pack, but it hasn't made any difference, anyone got any other ideas ? :chicken:

[Clive]

I'm afraid that we are stumped at the moment Carnaging.   :'(  But we haven't forgotten your problem and if we can come up with any ideas we will let you know.

[carnaging]

:-\oh, okay, my freind sujjested a format....do you thnk that would help ? thanks anyway people!

[Clive]

Have you tried updating your graphics card drivers in case your re-installation of Windows changed them?

[carnaging]

erm sort of, but the problem  :-[is im not 100% sure what driver i need, i am really usless at this sort of stuff!! :-[

[Sandra]

Do you know if you have a grahics card or is it onboard Daz ?
If you know which board or card you are using we should be able to tell you which drivers you need  

[carnaging]

right, all i know is that it's a Nvidea graphics card, i'm not too sure off anything further than that, is there any way i can find out what graphics card i have? it is the original one that came with my computer, i'll eventually buy a new one.

[Sandra]

If you go to Device Manager it should tell you in there which card it is hopefully Daz.
Right click on My Computer,select Properties then Device Manager and it should be under Display Adaptors :doggie:

[Simon]

Another way is to right click an empty area of your desktop, select Properties, then click the Settings tab.  Under 'Display' it should say which gphx card you are using.

The drivers are easy to find and install, once you know what your gphx card is.  

[carnaging]

ok, i have device manager open, but thewre is a lot of different catogories, theres:
computer,
disk drives,
DVD/CD rom drives,
Floppy disk controllers,
Floppy disk drives,
IDE ATA/ATA PI controllers,  
keyboards,
mice and other pointing devices,
modems,
ports (com & LPT),
processors,
SCSI and RAID controllers,
Sound, video and game controllers,
system devices,
universal serial bus controllers.
which one do i select ?  

[carnaging]

i did what simon said, and it says under display : (default monitor) on
 

[Sandra]

It should have Display Adaptor listed after Disk Drives and befor CD-Rom Daz.
Run an Add New Hardware Scan and see if it picks it up Daz :doggie:

[carnaging]

it has found "VIA bus master IDE drivers" but it's asking for the disk to install it, but i don't know what disk it is, i have tried them all