Game troubles

ok Im havin problem with some fairly new games.(I.E. 'F.E.A.R' and 'Condemned:Criminal Origins'.)Well my system can play these games easily(Im guessing.)Thing is when I go to click the game's icon it gives me a black screen as if its going to load the game and then it just goes back to my desktop and acts as if I had never tried starting the game.Help would be appreciated alot cause Im a Hardcore Gamer and we all know what happens to hardcore gamers who dont get their fix.Thats right we READ or GO OUTSIDE!!!So plz help me get my fix.thnx

 

What you need to do mate is disable any forced resolution\refresh rate software your running "reforce ect." the latest graphics engines need to be in full control of the resolution\refresh rate,this happens with most EA games,le me know

 

Another that has just sprang to mind is a problem I have with battlfield 2,the game randomly wont spin up the CDROM and recognize the disk,BF2 exe is running in taskmanager but I get just desktop,the way I work round it when it happens is to end BF2exe,open the cdrom,close it let the game auto load and spin up the disk once its whistling I close the autorun menu and double click the BF2 exe on the desktop,it dosnt seem to work when clicking play game in the autorun menu

I still havnt found a fix to this and many other people are having the same problem with this game only,I have a practically brand new liteon DVD burner

 

Reply to halo: it was factory OC
Reply to Rikky: um how do ya stop forced refreshrates n stuff like that?

 

If you havnt ran a refresh rate lock like reforce you wont need to adjust anything,what reforce does is lock the refresh rates at thier maximum for your monitor to avoid the refresh rate dropping to 60hz "known as the 60hz bug,the screen looks like its flickering"

If you have recently installed an nvidia driver your refresh rate will already be controlled by the game engine which is what you want

Has Major attitude passed on some advice,have you followed it,has anything changed?

 

think he siad its my drivers but my drivers are up to date and yeah im stuck at the 60hrz refresh rate.

 

even better I cant even change the friggin refresh rate.

 

Nvm I changed the refresh rate to 85 Hertz.Thats good right?

 

do you have an lcd monitor,if so it doesnt matter about the refresh rate,although I'm not sure as I havnt owned one

 

yep Lcd and man changeing the refresh rate didnt do jack.I still cant play FEAR or Condemned criminal origins.
brb foods done.mmmmmmmm fooood.

 

Does the disk spin up when you double click the icon,is the game process in taskmanager not using the cpu?have you tried playing by inserting the disk and clicking play?Go to the game start options to see if you can start the game in safe mode,if so set the game resolution and refrsh rate to the same as your desktop,BTW put it back to 60hz to save confusion

 

Tweakguide on fear:

http://www.tweakguides.com/FEAR_3.html

 

ok.Rikky I've tried everything you siad.and Theefool I have already looked at thetweak guide it doesnt help me at all.

 

Not sure, if this will help, but do a search within the directory that FEAR is installed at. As in search for a .log file, then post it here.

 

I looked through the VU forums and nobody seems to be havin my problem.
my dad siad to me that it might be a copyright program as Ive stated b4.what do ya'll think?

 

how? it should play the game fine.

 

Try:

disable intro movies by the check box in the config utility- start menu-> sierra-> fear-> config.

Also, within the config, try setting everything to minimum.