none of my games seem to work!

[Clamptastic]

Man this is an on going problem. Halo, farcry, doom 3, the sims, etc. do not work for my pc! What is going on here? I updated all the patches to the current ones, installed/uninstalled sp2, and they don't ever load despite the first time. for example in halo I would install play for a little while turn off the comp. and when I go back to play it doesn't load at all anymore. Can someone offer some advice?

[Raskolnikov]

what kind of change did u make on ur system the last time ?

[Clamptastic]

What do you mean? I have 2 computers that share the same operating system.(windows xp) and I try the games on both pcs and the same thing happens. I've done game installs as soon as I start fresh with my hd.

[Clamptastic]

I've installed other games and progs like spybot and adaware and some other system tools.

[Raskolnikov]

did u try launching the games without sp2 ?

this problem MIGHT be caused by the new "Data Execution Prevention" anti-virus feature in XP Service Pack 2 .

Control Panel > System > Advanced > "Performance" Settings > Data Execution Prevention > "Turn on DEP for all programs and services EXCEPT those I select"

You then use the ADD feature to add software such as Call of Duty Multiplayer" to the list (usually located in C:\Program Files\(name of the game)

Try and see if it works. Good Luck. ( i recommend cs 1.6 tho )

[Clamptastic]

gonna give it a shot and i'll let you know.

[Raskolnikov]

u might also wanna check your eventwiever which is located under administrative tools to see if there is an error log . That might help a whole a lot : )

[Clamptastic]

nope didn't work as for the event viewer there are alot of error logs, but none really indicate much. it says:

The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: 6.

[Clamptastic]

this sucks

[DragonNOA1]

Maybe uninstalling SP2 messed up some files, but you said you are doing this from a fresh install, correct?

You reformatted and installed latest video drivers and chipset drivers then try and play the game and it still doesn't work?

[Clamptastic]

yep

[Raskolnikov]

hmmm if you still didn't decide to install a fresh copy of your OS or buy a new computer try repairing your current OS with the system disk. Since you have lots of error messages this would be a right thing to do.

[Prew]

and they don't work in either computer. Hmm- you've listed several games so I am assuming you didn't buy them all at once and at some point the games worked? And you did something to both computers and now games will not work on both- do other programs work?- or have you never played games on these computers? did you check for viruses using the Trend Micro site? Because it happens on two computers, you can probably rule out a hardware problem. Do both computers use the same drivers?- if not , the differences can help you rule out driver problems.

Maybe list the hardware of your system?

[DragonNOA1]

and these are all legal copies of games, not burnt copies or pirated versions?

[GhostRecon]

What difference does it make whether or not the games are pirated?
Have these games ever worked before?

And are you having any problems with your video card?

[Clamptastic]

these are real copies I don't condone pirating. The 2 computers use the same exact drivers except one was store bought and the other I just finished build last week. I have the geforce fx 5200 in both.