When playing Spider Solitaire and Hearts, bits and pieces of extraneous cards appear on the screen around the active playing cards. I am unable to rid the screen of these numerous, annoying pieces until the game is complete. The computer is an AMD Athlon XP2600+ 2.09GHz, with 1024MB RAM running Windows XP Professional, with two hard drives: C (40GB) and D (120GB). (more…)

I purchased The Saddle Club - Willowbrook Stables. When clicking the ‘Play Game’ button the following error message appears: ‘Unable to initialise trace logging’. The explanation on the manufacturer’s website is ‘There is no space on the hard disk. You are trying to run the game from a CD. Run the game from the computer while the CD is in the drive’. Now that I understand the problem, how do I run the game with the CD in the drive? After clicking the OK button an error appears ‘SADDLECLUB caused an invalid page fault in module SADDLECLUB.EXE’. The computer is a Pentium III 650 MHz with a 20 GB hard drive (10 GB free). (more…)

I am having problems playing Age of Empires. When the game loads it freezes. This also happens when playing The Sims and Monopoly. Can you help? (more…)

When starting Microsoft Train Simulator the screen goes black for a few seconds and then returns to the Windows desktop. Other games, in particular Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 and Age of Empires (Age of Kings) all run ok. The computer is a Toshiba 2710XDVD laptop Pentium III 500 MHz with 128 MB RAM. Can you help? (more…)

When playing games on my computer, particularly First Person Shooters, the graphics are slow and choppy whenever I press keys on the keyboard. However, if I reassign the function (for example, ‘move forward’) to the mouse then the graphics are fine. My drivers are the latest and I meet the minimum system requirements for the games. Different keyboards do not make a difference. Can you help? (more…)