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The Sims2. Why can't I see my families?

fantazy10
Ok I just got the new sims for my birthday yesterday and I installed it with no problems. I have windows xp. Anyways after I made my first person I wanted to move in so when I was at the screen with all the families the picture where my person was was blank but if I held the mouse over the blank box it said the fam ...
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Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory

dr_s99
i have this problem with Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, and that is, when i join a game after couple of min it crashes, and i can't even open taskmanager to end task it. What can i do to fix this problem? on my linux i don't have this problem at all.
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Serious Problems : Installed But Can't Play It

perfecto
Can anybody solve my problem? I'm a very die-hard fan of Max Payne. I bought an copy of Max Payne from a retailer here (Malaysia). The game installation was successful. But, the main problem is, when I clicked on the desktop shortcut, appeared a message : Wrong disc inserted despite I inserted two disc at one time ...
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Untitled thread

Botinhas
I'm running XP Pro with Voodoo 5. I'm trying to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein but it flickers like its going to start and then opens up a message stating Could not Load G-L subsystem. I was able to play this game for several hours before.
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Doom 3

jeanpiet
Doom 3 this by far they most scariest game ever made to be put down on the mother earth i tell you my friends it is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hope nobody was waiting for Dungeon Keeper 3

BladeRunner
OK this might be old news, but I didn't know about it until somebody forwarded it to me. I also can't claim this information is 100% sure, but my fried assures me it is. Anyway here is the info: DK 3 On Hold Bullfrog is canning Dungeon Keeper 3.
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Need Help - The Sims 2

damienah
I'm having problems with the Sims 2. The game works fine until you move into a house. When the house loads up i'm zoomed way ouy into the sky and i can only just see the house. I can't zoom in. I'm using a Radeon 9600 pro graphics card and meet all the other specs.
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The Sims 2 problems

damienah
I'm having problems with the Sims 2. The game works fine until you move into a house. When the house loads up i'm zoomed way ouy into the sky and i can only just see the house. I can't zoom in. I'm using a Radeon 9600 pro graphics card and meet all the other specs.
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Some The Sims 2 hints

roxie500
Go to the web site, and make sure your computer has the right system requirments. 800 MHz processor 256 MB RAM if Windows XP 128 MB RAM if Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows 2000 At least 3. 5 gigs of free hard drive space If you have T&L Capable video card If you do not have T&L 2.
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Space Hulk Vengeance of the blood angels

Menteith
Hello, I really enjoyed playing the game back in `96, the cooperative network Mode was absolutely awesome. Now, I got the game from ebay but I cant get it running under windows xp (the game originally was for windows 95).
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The sims on winxp

Icy_spanish
Hi, i can't run the sims on winxp, when i run the. exe it says it's a non win32 app, what happends? Thx in advance for the help. .
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tiger woods pga 2005

ggrandpooba
Does anyone know what it means when I get the promp: SmartHeap library if full. mem_bad_pointer. My game is lagging and I don't know what the problem is. I have a pentium4 3. 0 and a radeon 9700 video card.
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Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

MD
i need help with my ET. . ok i recently got a router ad i got my pcs on it so now when i start ET i lose all connection to the internet on both pc's. . . . . doe anyone know the problem. . i just updated the firmware and everything.
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Twisted Metal 2 under 2000

jasperstory
does anybody know any way of getting twisted metal 2 to work on windows 2000. when starting up. . . it just goes black and stays like that. you just press esc and it goes back to the desktop. i have downloaded Service Pack 3 and enabled the compatibility layer thingy to no apparent effect.
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sims 2 set and game not in English

scotface
Help I am a newbie to computers and games and bought from ebay from a German guy Sims 2 it arrived from Thailand today. I have no idea how to play it in English and apparently it can. I was surprised to find a My Disc CD included in the package the accompaning letter was in German so I do not know what is happenning.
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Forsaken - Chasm the Rift - Figthing Force - Duke Atomic - ...

Fede
Hello everybody, I've problems to run this old games on win xp: - Chasm the rift - Duke Nukem Atomic Edition - Fighting FOrce - Fifa 98 Road to World Cup - Forsaken - International Rally Championship - Pumbaa & Timon Sliding Shots I've tried to find out in internet any fix/patch without success.
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Final Fantasy 7 and Radeon 9600

Deth
I had an old(er) Nvidia card, and FF7 worked just fine. But when I bought a Radeon 9600 it no longer does. It runs just fine, but the graphics are all screwed up. Is there any patches out there to fix that? I already have the XP patch.
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final fantasy 7 sound problem

mtlca66
hey guys. major problem with my ff7. im running win2k pro and everything works fine. i load the game and it plays the opening theme, but once i get into play after starting a new game there is NO sound.
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need for speed 3 hot pursuit

jib
Hi, I cannot install NFS3 - Hot pursuit, even though I've got a w2k sp3/(rc 3. 51)- Dx 8. 01a, with appz compatibility patch (march 01) already installed. The error message is the already known It runs in win95/98 environment only some help?! thanks in advance.
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