Games won't run properly

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-16 11:12am

Okay, I've been trying to get USAF (a flight sim) to run. It starts, but it insists on remaining minimized for some unknown reason. I haven't changed any graphics settings since the last time I played. The only thing I've done to the system since the last time it worked was defrag the hard drive, and I doubt that defragging would cause this. Anybody know what the hell is going on?

Edit: X-Wing: Alliance is doing the same thing. I'm having to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to close the programs. CPU usage jumps to 100% when I run the programs. I really don't think that should be happening, but I've never checked before since its never given me a problem before.

Darth Phoenix · Post by **Darth Phoenix** » 2004-04-16 11:56am

That also happened to me before.
Updating my video card seemed to stop it from happening.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-16 12:00pm

It worked yesterday. The game's the same and the computer is the same save for a defragged hard drive. Is there some sort of self-destruct to force you to upgrade the card or something?

Darth Phoenix · Post by **Darth Phoenix** » 2004-04-16 02:02pm

Rogue 9 wrote:It worked yesterday. The game's the same and the computer is the same save for a defragged hard drive. Is there some sort of self-destruct to force you to upgrade the card or something?

That is very strange. Have you tried reinstalling the game?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-16 02:05pm

It happened to all my games.

Darth Phoenix · Post by **Darth Phoenix** » 2004-04-16 06:13pm

That is wierd. Frankly i don't know what to tell you

Perhaps it is a compatability issue.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-17 05:39pm

Okay, they spontaneously decided to work again.

This is weird.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-17 05:45pm

conflicting video drivers perhaps?