Games won't work

A guess would be that most games you play in your web browser use Flash or Java.

http://majorgeeks.com/Adobe_Flash_Player_IE_AOL_d5163.html
http://majorgeeks.com/Sun_Java_Runtime_Environment_d4648.html

As Mimsy said, beyond that please tell us what your trying to play, specific game name would help if the above 2 downloads dont fix it.

 

Hi

To get some info to help you please download this free software Everest Free and what it basically does is collect some info on what hardware and software is installed in your PC, this will give us some ideas as to why these games are not working.

To get an Everest report, install the software and run, once run click Report > Report Wizard > Next > choose System Summary only > Next > choose Plain Text > Finish then click Save to File

Once saved then attach* this to your next post, plus if your PC was a bought one from the likes of DELL, HP, SONY etc please tell us the make and model number, usually on the case.


*A guide on how to attach the logs HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post




My initial thoughts are your upto date with DirectX and this is why it seems not to do anything, to double check which version you have do this for us, click Start > Run and type dxdiag and hit enter, in the window that pops up have a look under System Info you should see a line that says DirectX Version, just tell us what it says.

The other bit I read into what you posted above is "16 (something graphics program)" and this to me is refering to your graphic card and in it may not be powerful enough to play the games, but the Everest report will help us with this, in allowing us to help you update your grpahics card driver.



Also as Major Attitude mentions, please tell us a specific game title your trying to download and play as we can also download a test this, being able to use the same software or game in this instance your trying to play allows us to recreate and see what could have gone wrong.


The only other web-player software left to update would be this one as its also used in games like Java and Flash, in Shockwave http://www.majorgeeks.com/Macromedia_Shockwave_Player_d4272.html