Games Crashing in XP

It seems I an not the only one having problems with games
crashing or not running at all under Windows XP.
I am using an AMD Atlon (tm) XP 2000MHZ processor, with
512 mb of memory, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. I have upgraded
all the drivers to XP supported versions. I am also
running DirectX9a. and have installed SP1a pack.
The games I am trying to run are. GTA III, GTA Vice City,
Carmageddon TDR 2000. Rally Championship. Before I
purchased this computer all the games used to run under
Windows ME, without any problems.
Any Ideas????

With an AMD Athlon, Bob, you may have a VIA chipset on there. Check
http://www.via.com.tw/en/index/index.jsp to see if there's an update for
your motherboard. One of my machines' performance turned around
dramatically with the 4-in-1 drivers addressing a problem on the motherboard
related to the AGP slot.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:098f01c34198$744c55a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> It seems I an not the only one having problems with games
> crashing or not running at all under Windows XP.
> I am using an AMD Atlon (tm) XP 2000MHZ processor, with
> 512 mb of memory, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. I have upgraded
> all the drivers to XP supported versions. I am also
> running DirectX9a. and have installed SP1a pack.
> The games I am trying to run are. GTA III, GTA Vice City,
> Carmageddon TDR 2000. Rally Championship. Before I
> purchased this computer all the games used to run under
> Windows ME, without any problems.
> Any Ideas????
>

Hi Chris
Thank you for the info, but, unfortunately I am now
confused as to what driver I need to download.
My motherboard is a Matsonic MS8137C+ MAINBOARD
with VIA KT266A Chipset Socket A mainboard.
The problem is that there are downloads for drivers on
both matsonic and via websites.
Youe help would be appreciated.
Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>With an AMD Athlon, Bob, you may have a VIA chipset on
there. Check
>http://www.via.com.tw/en/index/index.jsp to see if
there's an update for
>your motherboard. One of my machines' performance
turned around
>dramatically with the 4-in-1 drivers addressing a
problem on the motherboard
>related to the AGP slot.
>--
>Chris H.
>Microsoft Windows MVP
>Associate Expert
>Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
message
>news:098f01c34198$744c55a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> It seems I an not the only one having problems with
games
>> crashing or not running at all under Windows XP.
>> I am using an AMD Atlon (tm) XP 2000MHZ processor, with
>> 512 mb of memory, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. I have
upgraded
>> all the drivers to XP supported versions. I am also
>> running DirectX9a. and have installed SP1a pack.
>> The games I am trying to run are. GTA III, GTA Vice
City,
>> Carmageddon TDR 2000. Rally Championship. Before I
>> purchased this computer all the games used to run under
>> Windows ME, without any problems.
>> Any Ideas????
>>
>
>
>.
>

VIA would probably be the most current, Bob. Just match up your motherboard
with the information on the site, and it should lead you to the proper
4-in-1 driver, if they have one available.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:78ec01c344a7$2f7fd5c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
> Hi Chris
> Thank you for the info, but, unfortunately I am now
> confused as to what driver I need to download.
> My motherboard is a Matsonic MS8137C+ MAINBOARD
> with VIA KT266A Chipset Socket A mainboard.
> The problem is that there are downloads for drivers on
> both matsonic and via websites.
> Youe help would be appreciated.
> Bob
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >With an AMD Athlon, Bob, you may have a VIA chipset on
> there. Check
> >http://www.via.com.tw/en/index/index.jsp to see if
> there's an update for
> >your motherboard. One of my machines' performance
> turned around
> >dramatically with the 4-in-1 drivers addressing a
> problem on the motherboard
> >related to the AGP slot.
> >--
> >Chris H.
> >Microsoft Windows MVP
> >Associate Expert
> >Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >
> >"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> message
> >news:098f01c34198$744c55a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> It seems I an not the only one having problems with
> games
> >> crashing or not running at all under Windows XP.
> >> I am using an AMD Atlon (tm) XP 2000MHZ processor, with
> >> 512 mb of memory, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. I have
> upgraded
> >> all the drivers to XP supported versions. I am also
> >> running DirectX9a. and have installed SP1a pack.
> >> The games I am trying to run are. GTA III, GTA Vice
> City,
> >> Carmageddon TDR 2000. Rally Championship. Before I
> >> purchased this computer all the games used to run under
> >> Windows ME, without any problems.
> >> Any Ideas????
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

Hi Chris
Thanks for the info, have tried all you said, but to no
avail. I never had this problem with Windows ME. I really
do not know what to do next. Could the Nvidia Graphics
card be incompatable with XP or the Motherboard?
Regards
Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>VIA would probably be the most current, Bob. Just match
up your motherboard
>with the information on the site, and it should lead you
to the proper
>4-in-1 driver, if they have one available.
>--
>Chris H.
>Microsoft Windows MVP
>Associate Expert
>Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
message
>news:78ec01c344a7$2f7fd5c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>
>> Hi Chris
>> Thank you for the info, but, unfortunately I am now
>> confused as to what driver I need to download.
>> My motherboard is a Matsonic MS8137C+ MAINBOARD
>> with VIA KT266A Chipset Socket A mainboard.
>> The problem is that there are downloads for drivers on
>> both matsonic and via websites.
>> Youe help would be appreciated.
>> Bob
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >With an AMD Athlon, Bob, you may have a VIA chipset on
>> there. Check
>> >http://www.via.com.tw/en/index/index.jsp to see if
>> there's an update for
>> >your motherboard. One of my machines' performance
>> turned around
>> >dramatically with the 4-in-1 drivers addressing a
>> problem on the motherboard
>> >related to the AGP slot.
>> >--
>> >Chris H.
>> >Microsoft Windows MVP
>> >Associate Expert
>> >Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> >
>> >"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
>> message
>> >news:098f01c34198$744c55a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> It seems I an not the only one having problems with
>> games
>> >> crashing or not running at all under Windows XP.
>> >> I am using an AMD Atlon (tm) XP 2000MHZ processor,
with
>> >> 512 mb of memory, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. I have
>> upgraded
>> >> all the drivers to XP supported versions. I am also
>> >> running DirectX9a. and have installed SP1a pack.
>> >> The games I am trying to run are. GTA III, GTA Vice
>> City,
>> >> Carmageddon TDR 2000. Rally Championship. Before I
>> >> purchased this computer all the games used to run
under
>> >> Windows ME, without any problems.
>> >> Any Ideas????
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>

Did the motherboard come with onboard sound and graphics, and then you added
the graphics card, Bob? You may have a conflict in the BIOS, if that was
the case.

Are you perhaps running some third-party software, like anything Norton on
the system or maybe ZoneAlarm? If so, try uninstalling those temporarily
and see if there's any difference. We had a situation a while back where ZA
was blocking certain things, and people were having a bad time with it.

Perhaps Jimmy will pop in with some ideas. I'm nearly fresh out. 8-)
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:a53c01c346d6$75c33960$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi Chris
> Thanks for the info, have tried all you said, but to no
> avail. I never had this problem with Windows ME. I really
> do not know what to do next. Could the Nvidia Graphics
> card be incompatable with XP or the Motherboard?
> Regards
> Bob
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >VIA would probably be the most current, Bob. Just match
> up your motherboard
> >with the information on the site, and it should lead you
> to the proper
> >4-in-1 driver, if they have one available.
> >--
> >Chris H.
> >Microsoft Windows MVP
> >Associate Expert
> >Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >
> >"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> message
> >news:78ec01c344a7$2f7fd5c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> Hi Chris
> >> Thank you for the info, but, unfortunately I am now
> >> confused as to what driver I need to download.
> >> My motherboard is a Matsonic MS8137C+ MAINBOARD
> >> with VIA KT266A Chipset Socket A mainboard.
> >> The problem is that there are downloads for drivers on
> >> both matsonic and via websites.
> >> Youe help would be appreciated.
> >> Bob
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >With an AMD Athlon, Bob, you may have a VIA chipset on
> >> there. Check
> >> >http://www.via.com.tw/en/index/index.jsp to see if
> >> there's an update for
> >> >your motherboard. One of my machines' performance
> >> turned around
> >> >dramatically with the 4-in-1 drivers addressing a
> >> problem on the motherboard
> >> >related to the AGP slot.
> >> >--
> >> >Chris H.
> >> >Microsoft Windows MVP
> >> >Associate Expert
> >> >Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >> >
> >> >"Bob Reid" <bob@robert7062.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> >> message
> >> >news:098f01c34198$744c55a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> >> It seems I an not the only one having problems with
> >> games
> >> >> crashing or not running at all under Windows XP.
> >> >> I am using an AMD Atlon (tm) XP 2000MHZ processor,
> with
> >> >> 512 mb of memory, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. I have
> >> upgraded
> >> >> all the drivers to XP supported versions. I am also
> >> >> running DirectX9a. and have installed SP1a pack.
> >> >> The games I am trying to run are. GTA III, GTA Vice
> >> City,
> >> >> Carmageddon TDR 2000. Rally Championship. Before I
> >> >> purchased this computer all the games used to run
> under
> >> >> Windows ME, without any problems.
> >> >> Any Ideas????
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >.
> >> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >