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HALF LIFE 2 RUNTIME ERROR!! HELP ME!!

surfer_boi
I have just installed half life 2 on my dell inspiron 6000, with 1. 4Ghz celeron M, intel Graphics media accelerator w/64MB RAM, and a system memory of 256MB. Running XP. My game ran fine, although on low graphics for a while and then it started to expirience slow downs and now everytime i load a new chekpoint, the ...
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Forcing games to load on secondary monitor?

belveder
I was wondering if there is a way to force a game to load on my secondary monitor as my primary is a widescreen and some games just don't go to good on a widescreen. Any help would be appreciated.
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NHL 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge

whaleman
Hi everyone, first time poster, hopefully you experts can help me because this is my favourite game! Anyway, NHL Open Ice is an old game I used to use on my Windows 95 pc. I am currently running Windows XP Home edition, service pack 2.
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Freelancer on Windows 2000

Vaelor
Hey, just wondering if anybody can help me out getting the game Freelancer working under Windows 2000? Every time I run it, it's missing half the audio, music and dialog. It makes the game absolutely unplayable.
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Monkey Island 4 on Windows Xp x64 edition

malmern
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get a hold of a 64 bit installer for MI:4? The original installer won't work since it's partially 16 bit (Or so I've been told) and 16 bit won't work in 64 bit what so ever! MI:1,2 and 3 works fine, since they can be run with SCUMM, but you can't run MI:4 on SCUMM sin ...
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lag.......

vista_user98
hey there! i just got the computer about 3 weeks ago and as soon as i got the computer i have been having some lag issues in games. there is a lag spot every 30 to 40 secs, i am using a linksys wireless router 54Mb and i have it in my room.
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Need For Speed 2 SE 3DFX?

tk31
hi. I want to run Need For Speed 2 SE using 3DFX. So far, ive managed to run it without using 3DFX (hence no car shine, bad quality 3D models etc. ) but is there a way to run it using 3DFX capabilities on WinXP? im not talking about Glide Wrappers.
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Simcity 3000 uk edition On Vista home premium

dbsr
hi can anyone help just bought a new laptop intel pentium duel-core T2080 x86 2gig ram sound: intel 943gml (calistoga) + ICH7-M running Vista Home Premium. . was runing a 2. 8ghz toshiba running vista home basic and this game worked fine with no probblems what so ever.
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Battlefield 1942 on Vista

Leon_Evolon
I've been running Battlefield 1942 on Vista and it seems to run alright but there are various texture problems and the crosshairs are missing. Also buttons and sliders in the menu system are not present which makes it hard to chance settings.
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Monkey Island 4: no character voice sound!

roz2roz
Any idea how i can the the character voices work? everything else works but not this and it spoils the game. is there a similar thing to DOSbox or SCUMM that works for this game to convert it to XP? thanks.
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game

Anuj0104
i need the registration key for the game medal of honor pacific assault to ply online
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Starcraft installation problems

BlueRules777
Hey, I'm trying to re-install starcraft on to my pc XP. I accidentally uninstalled it. But the soon as it starts installing, it (just the installation not the computer) freezes at about four bars (the ones marking the installation progress) into it.
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question about the sims2 university and nightlife

bayantaani
first I downloaded the sims 2 nightlife and it worked but when i installed the university without deleting nightlife it worked but without seeing the nightlife things in the game and i want the 2 of them and yeah another question my comp won't open the game in the full screen mode it tell me this: the application h ...
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Racing Game . . .

ktpmsmd
I want to know which is the most realistic RALLY GAME which can be played in 32bit card with atleast 256MB of ram of Athlon system. .
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The 7th Guest

Quintus
Hello, This is my first post on the forum so nice to meet all of you. I recently purchased the 7th guest and have installed it onto my computer. Here is some basic information. I am running windows XP.
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Sims - lost downloads after uninstall

Viordevae
Hi there, and yes, this IS going to sound stupid, ridiculous even. I was having trouble with my computer running slow, as it hasn't really enough RAM, as the store short changed me, by half the RAM months ago now.
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Railroad Tycoon 2 install

Shadow_2nd
I love this game but whenever I try to play it on Windows XP (service pack 2) the error Not Compatible with Windows NT appears. I have tried installing and running the program in compatibility mode and the problem persists, what can I do to be able to play this game?.
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Sims not loading. CRASH

bigbogalog
HI, i have been playing on my sims for quite a while, but something came up during gameplay. I had to uninstall it all. so i did, i then re-installed it. Everything good so far. when i loaded it. The logos EA & MAXIS came up as did a short video, after, a screen came up (the loading screen)after a few secs it CRASH ...
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