This may help you Frank.

Hi. I'm back

This is my post to the forum at www.windowsxpmagazine.co.uk
on Friday 30th September.

Saracen I hope that this helps you.
Please bear in mind that I have tried the games in safe mode with no joy,
that my windows xp came with my computer, so I do not have a windows xp disk,
I only have a reload disk.

The first thing I did for maybe the 100th time was to use my reload disk to
put the system back to the factory settings.
The system now consisted of: Base unit, Monitor, Mouse. Keyboard and
speakers. Thats all. plus the factory loaded software.

The hardware wizard detected: Printer, Scanner,Digital camera and asked if
these should be installed. I said no to all and in fact I disconnected them
all from my system.
I then turned off my speakers, and made sure they were disconnected. This is
important, because this is the only difference from other times when I have
tried to solve this problem, and that was tried very many times

So with just base unit, monitor, keyboard and mouse. that is about as light
as it gets.
I installed my Medal of Honor/Pacific Assault.
The installation went well and I then with my grandson played the game for
about 3 hours, no problems.
I then, still with the bare bones system, installed EA FIFA football 2004,
and have played this on and off all day today.

They both are still playing to perfection.
I have now reconnected myspeakers and they are not causing problems.

My factory settings OS were: XP Home, without SP2. No anti virus, anti
hacker or spyware, so even the software installed was very minimal.

At about 3pm today I installed my broadband modem, and played yet again,
with no problems.

Before connecting to go on line I installed AVG anti virus, and Zone alarm
pro. for protection.
We will play both the game again tonight, to test them now the modem is
installed, then tomorrow I will Install another item and play on to see the
result.

I think that you should get down to the bare bones and see if this works for
you, then add one peripheral at a time giving time in between to see if one
item causes the problem.

If this is a cure I will be over the moon.
Just hope it may help others as well.
PLease let me know.

Good luck
Mike
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Mike Jenkins, 65, Retired Project Manager in construction. I have built
about 11 web sites and enjoy the challenge of getting my hands dirty inside
computers.
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Mike J


"Mike jenkins" wrote:

> Frank
> I wish I could help you out, I have been chasing this problem since I bought
> the system in September 2004 and stil it wont run the games.
>
> The system is from Tiny/Time and they are no longer with us. apart from the
> problem with the games the system is as perfect as any PC can be.
>
> Have you tried your game in safe mode, even that does not work for me.
>
> Is there a list of things to do before you install or play the game, like,
> clear temp files,disc clean up,error check, closing down anti virus, firewall
> and auto updates.
> If there is please post it perhaps it will help others.
>
> You could try the things that I have tried as follows.
> 1. Go to http//NibblesNbitsVideo.tk It gives a whole lot of advice and
> helpfull links.
> 2. Get a free utility, called: Everest. just type it into your search box,
> it identifies all the parts hard and soft you have on your system, this will
> help when you are looking to update drivers.
>
> When you look at the website at no 1 take your time, be patient, that way
> you will pick up a lot of information.
> Never been so frustrated.
>
> If you find a solution, please let me know, what it is.
> Good luck
>
> --
> Mike J
>
>
> "Frank Kolwicz" wrote:
>
> > Mike:
> >
> > I'm having what seem to be the same problems with MotoCrossMadness2 - the
> > only way I can be pretty sure to get it running is to reboot, reinstall it
> > and set everything up again. Then it will run until it crashes or I exit and
> > have to repeat the whole process over again.
> >
> > I have fewer start-up problems with the game if I don't let it check the CD
> > but play straight from the HD. Nevertheless, it will still only last a short
> > while. When it does play it is better than ever on this new system (AMD64
> > 3200+, Giga N-force 4Ultra, 2 gig DDR RAM, ATI X-700). It is installed on a
> > separate XP boot that has minimum stuff installed; on my main XP boot it has
> > just as much trouble, if not more, but plays much slower on the rare
> > occasions I can get it going.
> >
> > MCM2 was previously on an AMD 1600+ system and it took a lot of effort to
> > get it up and working and never really ran as well as I think it should have
> > - low frame rates.
> >
> > If you have any further input, I'd like to hear about it. Email [my last
> > name @exchangenet.net].
> >