Windows Xp Game Problems! Help Plz
Hi everyone! I got Windows XP Pro and Im getting this very annoying problem. I installed my WinXPro over my Win98, I was kinnda lazy and did not want to Format so I did not. But then I started to get this problem. When ever I start up a game like for example, Warcraft III, The game goes down the the task bar. Then I click it to bring it back up and it just will go down back again (Or in most cases not even respond when I click on it). SO then I start up the game again and this time when it is Starting up I RAPIDLY click my mouse button and the game dosent go down to the task bar and it runs normaly. I also cannot ALT+TAB the game to the Task bar or I will encounter the same Problem. This happens with 95% of the games I use. My Comp specs are pIII 866mhz, 256 meg SD Ram, 32meg GforceTI2 3d Vid card, etc... I have Tried all the NIVIDA Drivers and I have the lastest DriectX.
I hope somone could help me or at least tell me what is wrong! This problem is very annoying!
I hope somone could help me or at least tell me what is wrong! This problem is very annoying!
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but I do know that installing windows on top of another version of windows is always always always bad. Windows isn't really made to be installed that way, and it always breaks things. To get the best performance and least wasted space, you need to format. Yes it can be a pain to reinstall everything, but then you won't be having these big prolems, and your computer will be faster and more stable too.
I installed XP Pro *shudders* over 98SE and
regretted it within 20 minutes.
You're having conflicts between the old drivers tne crap XP
DECIDES you SHOULD have,
In the end i formatted (well i got my mate Phil to come do it for me)
and shoved 98SE back on...... haven't looked back since
and I've been running xp pro sp1 since late november. In that time I've only rebooted 3 times (once for a power outage) and the only thing that has crashed was internet exploder (4-5 times) which was never a fatal crash (meaning i could just open up exploder again and continue to browse).
I've been running xp pro pre-sp1 since a long time before that (a year at least) with more or less the same results.
the moral of the story...... XP is less crash prone than 98 if you know what you're doing.... and always always always always do a format before you install ANY windows
Of course, moving from 98 to 2000/XP, you'll be changing file system as well. 2000/XP comes with a tool to do this, but unless your extremely lucky you'll end up with a 512byte cluster size, which really messes up performance. I seem to remember readyroom.org had loads of information on this.
Back to the original post. It doesn't sound like your OS install is the problem - it sounds like something else is stealing the focus. I have this problem if I start up a game before windows has finished loading properly. I assume this still happens after windows has loaded properly, so I'd say try closing down all programs before you run it - including stuff in the sytem tray.
I stuck with fat32, there's really no need to switch
And I only format c: cuz all I have on there is windows stuff, so same difference.
and about the registry. If you're really lazy about re-installing old stuff, you can make a smoother recovery by performing a "registry sandwich" as I like to call it.
Here's how it works.....
before you format/install, export your entire registry.
format/install.
export your entire NEW registry to another file.
import your pre-format/install registry
import your post-format/install registry
basically this lets you keep all the new setting of the install and fill in all the gaps where old programs created new information.
It will cause some registry clutter tho
Does this happen to anyone else?
Anyone know how to fix it? im tihkning it might be cuz i instaleld xp over 98 now...
Unless you want to risk messing your comp up even more than it already is, just backup, format, and reintall windows fresh. Everybody seems to have the easy solution. Well let me tell you, unless you REALLY know what your doing or are just lucky, the procedure that supposably will only take five minutes to do will take forever and be so much hassle that you will wish you did the right thing from the start. Trust me... If you aren't a computer wiz, fix it the clinical way otherwise you risk problems down the road that you may have more touble with than they're worth.
The games that this DOSE NOT do this on includes, Star Trek Elite Force, UT2K3, and Half-Life...Now what do these games have in common besides all being FPS....
win xp and xp pro is having to open my task manager to kill hl after I get out of a game . <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> athough I don't
have sp1 installed tho *shiftyeyes* <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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I do do that but I dont want to half to do that! Thats the problem.
Wha???
I coulda sworn that XP was Win2k with a "prettier" front-end. I've never had XP crash on me, even when I've tried to crash to crash it.
I've used both OSes, and really haven't found a glaring difference between the two. I still say Red Hat is better though. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->