My system incompatible for games?

[Guest]

I downloaded Yahoo bowling and it worked ok for one day, but the next day the
games hardly ran at all, and then very slow and the audio was silent. My
Volume Control in Windows XP said there was a paging file error. Couldn't fix
it, following their advice. So I did a System Restore, which eliminated the
game, but restored my volume controls. The game requires: SVGA Graphics (16
bit), a 16 bit sound card, and 128 MB memory. I don't know how to find my
specs for the 1st two items , and my memory is 128 MB, with, at present,
12.77 Physical Memory and 1.96 available virtual memory. Do I have the
capalbility for this game, if I buy another version, and what caused my
Volume Control to go haywire?

 

[Nick Kritselis [MS]]

Dubja,

DXDiag is a useful tool to help you find out quickly a lot of information
about your system. If you could reply and post a copy of your DXDiag text,
we could point you in the right direction to help you resolve your issues.

To reply with a dxdiag text:
Click on Start -> Run and type 'dxdiag' in the run box, then click 'Ok'.
When the DirectX Diagnostic Tool window appears you will see tabs across the
top click each tab and run the diagnostic tests on each. Then click the
'Save All Information' button, which will create a text file on your system
where you specify, as in My Documents or Desktop. Open that text file, copy
the contents and paste it to a reply.