New games don't work

defanatic · Post by **defanatic** » 2006-11-22 02:43am

Games like FEAR won't seem to work on this computer. It has a 3 GHz processor, 1 Gb of RAM, and a GeForce 7600 GT.

Windows SP 2

I just double click the icon, and it comes up with the error report window.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2006-11-22 02:45am

Write down the error message and either post it here or put it in to Google. Chances are good you're not the first one this has happened to. Also, make sure all of your graphics and audio drivers are as up to date as you can manage.

defanatic · Post by **defanatic** » 2006-11-22 02:52am

AppName: fear.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 ModName: kernel32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2945 Offset: 000f3154

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2006-11-22 03:01am

Thanks to google translation, it appears that the problem has something to do with an update microsoft made to kernel32.dll.

The translation wasn't without problems, but from what I can gather, here's what you need to do:

Go to the control panel, open add/remove programs, select "show updates", and then remove KB917422 (a windows security update). Restart, and it should work.

That's what they said, anyway.