My cousin is having a strange problem with his computer where it seems like 2D games aren't working, but 3D games still work. The problematic games in particular are Starcraft and Worms: World Party. The computer specs AFAIK are that it's an AMD 1GHz on an ECS K7S5A, 256MB DDR RAM, MSI Geforce2 GTS 32MB, running Win2K.
I haven't seen it in person, but he describes the problem like this:
Game CD is inserted into CD-ROM drive, autoplay menu pops up like usual, he clicks on Play. Then the screen kind of blinks, as if it's going to change display resolution and start the game, but instead it comes back to windows with the game minimized on the taskbar. Clicking on it on the taskbar doesn't do anything, or makes it do that blinking thing again. This happens with both games (and these are the only games he's tried that I know of).
Also, these games were working fine very recently, but somehow suddenly stopped working. I don't know everything he's done with the computer, and I haven't been able to see it myself, so it's tough for me to diagnose the problem. I was hoping maybe somebody out there has seen or heard of a similar problem, and could provide some help? I had never heard of such a problem, so I couldn't give him much advice.
Things I suggested that he has already tried:
Rebooting (duh)
Reinstalling the games
Installing the latest Detonator drivers
Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance...
I haven't seen it in person, but he describes the problem like this:
Game CD is inserted into CD-ROM drive, autoplay menu pops up like usual, he clicks on Play. Then the screen kind of blinks, as if it's going to change display resolution and start the game, but instead it comes back to windows with the game minimized on the taskbar. Clicking on it on the taskbar doesn't do anything, or makes it do that blinking thing again. This happens with both games (and these are the only games he's tried that I know of).
Also, these games were working fine very recently, but somehow suddenly stopped working. I don't know everything he's done with the computer, and I haven't been able to see it myself, so it's tough for me to diagnose the problem. I was hoping maybe somebody out there has seen or heard of a similar problem, and could provide some help? I had never heard of such a problem, so I couldn't give him much advice.
Things I suggested that he has already tried:
Rebooting (duh)
Reinstalling the games
Installing the latest Detonator drivers
Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance...
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