gaming trbl

[JB350]

I have been trying to get my ol jalopy to play some games with out much luck. the games will load up and pretend Im gonna get to play just to close out back to the desktop. I have a voodoo 3 card that seems to be working ok I can play some 3d games like f22lightning but then mig 29 fulcrum will not work. any ideas.

[Gnerma]

Gonna need some more info JB. What Operating System do you use? Give us your other system specs. Esp your processor & motherboard.

[JB350]

I dont know a whole lot about it really because my bro is more the comp doc in the family and he put it together for me when my old sys went down I think the processor is an amd k6 3d and its running 500mhz

[Gnerma]

What about your Operating System?

Okay, lets get the computer up to date and see if this problem gets solved. First let's update windows..

Click start then 'windows update', on the web page that pops up click 'product updates'. Download all of the updates. You will have to reboot several times. You may want to update office as well, if you have it.

Defrag your hard drive. Error check your hard drive.

Okay, are you using the newest (last released) drivers for your voodoo 3? Go to http://www.voodoofiles.com/ & find out.

Now, read this article here on PCmech. Update all of your drivers. Use SiSoft Sandra to figure out what components you have in your PC.

Now tell me what motherboard you have, Sandra should be able to tell you this. It should also tell you what chipset the motherboard has. Tell me one or the other.

If you don't know how to do any of this let me know.