Games Fail to Load!!

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Hi.

I have installed XP Home and never had any problems in
the past when playing any of my games, namely Neverwinter
Nights, Max Payne 2 and Diablo II.

Up until recently though, my games have been failing to
load. I have updated all my games, updated all my
drivers, tried a combination of previous and recent
drivers for hardware and the games themselves and have
had no success.

Each of the games require a CD to be inserted into either
of my CD or DVD drives. I have had these CDs inserted
into either of these drives and still had no success. I
have noticed a trend, that these games work, even after a
reboot, up until I install a new program, whatever it may
be (Old games installed work up until I install something
like either a new game, a Windows Update (which I am up
to date with) or any other application, whatever it is).

Please read through carefully before suggesting
anything. I have posted in numerous forums asking for
help and all people have said is to try something I have
already said I have tried (ie trying new drivers/old
drivers etc).

When double clicking the icon to ANY application that
requires a CD after install, the CD does not spin as I
would expect it to in either of my CD/DVD drives. I have
tried the drives on my friends PC and established that
these are not faulty using the same drivers on the same
games.

Windows is having trouble executing any post install disk
required applications. Please help.
 
try the games websites. search google or yahoo typing in
the game name. there should be support at these sites.
 
The problem I'm having does not seem to be soemthing
reported as a bug in any of the games/applications that I
attempt to use. I have visited forums, emailed for
technical support but like it has been suggested,
everything points back to a Windows fault.

My CD/DVD drives work fine. I do not have any problems
with these and have established that they work by trying
them with the same applications on a different system.

I have a friend with an almost identical system and he
does not have any of the problems I've been suffering
from in the past few months. The only difference between
our systems is that he is running his system with a
slightly slower processor.

The games websites have only confirmed what I originally
suspected; it is a problem with the configuration of my
Windows XP Home.

As for resources, I have plenty. My system is soemwhat a
slightly above mid-range system running a 2.5Ghz Pentium
4 processor with 512BM RAM.

Don't make me repeat myself. I've already said I've
established that the fault lies within Windows.
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi.

I have installed XP Home and never had any problems in
the past when playing any of my games, namely Neverwinter
Nights, Max Payne 2 and Diablo II.

Up until recently though, my games have been failing to
load. I have updated all my games, updated all my
drivers, tried a combination of previous and recent
drivers for hardware and the games themselves and have
had no success.

Each of the games require a CD to be inserted into either
of my CD or DVD drives. I have had these CDs inserted
into either of these drives and still had no success. I
have noticed a trend, that these games work, even after a
reboot, up until I install a new program, whatever it may
be (Old games installed work up until I install something
like either a new game, a Windows Update (which I am up
to date with) or any other application, whatever it is).

Please read through carefully before suggesting
anything. I have posted in numerous forums asking for
help and all people have said is to try something I have
already said I have tried (ie trying new drivers/old
drivers etc).

When double clicking the icon to ANY application that
requires a CD after install, the CD does not spin as I
would expect it to in either of my CD/DVD drives. I have
tried the drives on my friends PC and established that
these are not faulty using the same drivers on the same
games.

Windows is having trouble executing any post install disk
required applications. Please help.
.
I ran into this problem you're seeing after I had to
Click to expand...
reload xp because of a bad driver killed it. I reloaded
fresh and the dvdwriter and all other programs work fine
but when I put the games back on they're hanging. I've
found that if you leave diablo II up for a while like 20
minutes or so it will actually start and you can play it
but there's also a delay when you exit. I can't get AOE
to play at all. It goes through the cinematics ok but
hangs at a blank screen when it should be giving me the
main menu. I've also updated all the drivers and such and
have reloaded twice now. I'm disapointed that xp isn't
giving me more info on the problem. I have 6 computers in
the house, 2 -xp pro, 2 -xp home, 1 win2k, 1 ME and this
is the only computer this is happening on.
 
Hi,

I am having same problem that you are having, its like
you took the words out of my mouth. I play NWN, Warcraft
3 and a bunch of other games that all require disc. This
might be a Windows problem or somthing else but I really
could use help.
 
Been there, done that. As you may see from other posts,
this isn't a problem that is solely isolated to myself.

Somebody please HELP ME!!!
 
Been there, done that. As you may see from other posts,
this isn't a problem that is solely isolated to myself.

Somebody please HELP ME!!!
 
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