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i've had this problem with my pc lately where either when i try to open a game it will give the illegal operation thing and need to close or when i try to save in the game it closes... has this happened to anyone else? or is this some virus i have that i have not heard about?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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moved to appropriate forum.
have you tried re-installing the game/s?
have you downloaded the latest game patches/graphics drivers?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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lol ive re-installed many times and got the latest patches for the games... not sure about the drivers though... it is sposed to do that automatically
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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What game is it?
Does it happen with any other games?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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its happened to:
warhammer 40,000 dawn of war and its first expansion
rise and fall
gothic 3
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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What operating system are you running, haven't seen the Illegal operation error since Win 98.
Might be worth reinstalling Windows.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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i got xp and reinstalling windows is definitely not an option
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| A13x wrote: | What operating system are you running, haven't seen the Illegal operation error since Win 98.
Might be worth reinstalling Windows. |
Really? I get them all the time.
The save game crashing is confusing, but if no game starts its probably needs a DirectX9 reinstall. Or something, I mean it could be sooo many things, we need more info like if all games are doing this or just a select few.
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this has been all the games i have been playing lately.. so i am assuming it is all of them.
when i do reinstall a game it is fixed for the first time i play it... but then it will go back the closing on me again.
i only got gothic 3 today and it came with directx 9.whatever and i installed that.. so i dont think it is a problem with idrectx
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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goto microsoft.com and download the latest DirectX from there and try that first.
i haven't heard of automatic graphic drivers, so really you should goto nvidia.com or ati.com (depending on your card, obviously) and get the latest drivers and re-install those.
i guess Soundcard and mobo drivers should also be updated, just to be sure.
if these don't work, then you can try uninstall ALL your games and clean up the HDD before reinstalling each one at a time and seeing if they remain working then.
otherwise it's a total re-format.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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ahk thanks... looks like i will be doing that for the rest of today
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can you remember when the problem started or is this the first time in a long time that you have tried gaming on your PC?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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about a month ago.. but i didnt worry about it coz i wasnt playing on pc much and it had only been on 1 game back then
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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^ it's a GeForce 7 Series card.
go here and select "Graphics Drivers" -> "GeForce 7 Series" -> "WinXP"
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ahk in the device manager it ive looked at my graphics and sound drivers and is has search for updates and have told em i have the latest... so i have no idea what to do know besides re-format... which is the worst possible thing... maybe even more worse then not ever being able to play a pc game until i get a new pc
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^ heh, don't resort to a format so quickly. Windows always gets confused with the drivers. Just install them yourself.
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| ObsoletE wrote: | ^ it's a GeForce 7 Series card.
go here and select "Graphics Drivers" -> "GeForce 7 Series" -> "WinXP" |
download? the US 1 or the international 'english uk'
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| ObsoletE wrote: | ^ it's a GeForce 7 Series card.
go here and select "Graphics Drivers" -> "GeForce 7 Series" -> "WinXP" |
ahk i got the driver from where you said and got the US 1 aswell but it said that it could not find any drivers that are compatible with my hardware.. it done the same thing with the UK 1 aswell
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ok, that's weird. =/
and you've seemed to have deleted the post that said you have a GeForce Go 7400. was this right?
i don't know a great deal about the card off the top of my head, but when i googled it earlier, it said it was a Laptop version of the GeForce 7 Series architecture, so in theory, the 7 Series drivers should work it.
i guess in this regard i don't think i can help further.
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yeah it is a laptop.. but im thinking even if there is a update to the driver it wont be able to help because in the case of warhammer 40,000 i had been playing it for a while before it had happened
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Some laptop video card cannot used the conventional Nvidia drivers because the driver wasn't written for the laptop.. try go on to your laptop manufatoury(spell)'s website and download the latest fix..
other things u might look at is..
1.scan for virus as it could clog up or closed someone INF/system/multimedia driver or instruction programs
2. reinstall games
3. install/reinstall directX 9.0C
4. check memory/ sometimes cause problem in running program
5. http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers to check for latest "hacked" Geforce Go drivers
i think dat all i can think of at the moment ..giveitago
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