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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Stee on September 23, 2001, 03:35:55 PM

Title: Can\'t Play Games From CD
Post by: Stee on September 23, 2001, 03:35:55 PM

My son found to his utter dismay he could no longer play his favorite cd-rom games after I upgraded from win98se to win2k. They used to be okay with the win98se. Can anyone help? The graphics card is Nvidia Riva TNT model 64. If I can\'t find a way out, I may have to uninstall win2k. Thanks.

Title: Can\'t Play Games From CD
Post by: wizard2010 on September 26, 2001, 11:24:34 AM

Need a little more information ?
Can you still copy and Paste from the CD Rom Drive?
Can you see the files from Explorer on the CD Rom?

Did you upgrade over win 98 ?
Or was it a clean install ?

Have you done the Windows Updates ?
What Direct x version is installed ?

Nividia have seperate Drivers for win 2k !

Answer the above and mabey I can help more ?

It doesnt sound like a Hardware issue up to now /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

Just zeros & ones ???

Title: Can\'t Play Games From CD
Post by: The_Flames on October 26, 2001, 06:50:03 AM

I have experanced that some game have copy protections that force direct hardware access to access the disk, the X-files is one of these games, all you can do is ether dual boot or check if these is a update for the game avalible.