How to open games in window mode and how to run civIII my monitors starts to black out when i run civIII?
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Try lowering your resolution
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chk ur graphic card especially the 3d support , go \n( start==run==type dxdiag , ok) then chk ur pc totaly
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Either the crack of the game is buggy OR it might have referred to your VGA driver.\nTry to reinstall, that also.\n(With a better one if possible.)
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Maybe your monitor not connected with power supply plug-in. \nIf you heard "bip" twice at the first booting and than the black screen, it means your VGA-Card not plug truly to your motherboard.\n\nRed light? Your monitor positions to close with magnetic item. example, speaker active, or else.
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Just turn the monitor on it's side. Just kidding. You probably hit a hot combo key that controls you graphic adapter. Try hittin your Ctrl key and then the up down arrow keys to get it back right. If that's not it hover your mouse over the systray icons in the bottom right of the screen. Well it may be on the top now. Find one that has to do with you graphics controller right click on it and open it. Browse around in there and find where you can rotate it back.\n\nIf all the above fails go to control panel and then Display and browse in the settings there to find where you can rotate it back.
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go to device manager from control panel, control panel>system>device manager>display adapters and either rinstall driver or rollback driver. If that doesn't fix it, the in graphics properties, change you monitor driver to plug and play. that should fix you up, if not, email me if you find any other problems and I can talk u through them
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before starting: i recommend C & C Generals Zero Hour...it's an addon but wayyyyy better and greeater.\n\nfor your problem : enter options. somewhere in the upper half (i think) there's a part related to graphics where it's set to automatic. Click on the downward arrow and click custom.\n\na new window will appear having different aspects related to the game. i prefer cancelling all but the heat effects, and reduce the particle and the terrain resolutions. \n\ni think this will solve your problem or else you must have some system limitations.\nto be on the safe side, open the C & C Generals directory and open the folder "go-EZ". open the executable file and it will compare your system resources to the system recommendations.
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Ahh yes!  I have seen this before!  It's crazy!\n\nIt's different for each video card but try this.\n\nRight click on your desktop and in that menu that pop up check to see if there is a rotate option there.\n\nIf there isn't, right-click on your desktop and choose Graphic Options --> Graphic Properties.  You should find a roation option there.\n\nOtherwise I guess you will just have to turn your monitor onto its side! :)
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This sounds like a hardware acceleration problem. Go to your display settings.. click on advance.. troubleshoot.. and slide the acceleration to none.  If it doesn't work try updating your video drivers.
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could be a video driver conflict, be sure to update your video card drivers, also have all the latest updates from Microsoft
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This may have to do with Windows adjusting the display settings to either better work with your monitor refresh settings or display adapter card.\nUpdate the driver on your display adapter card.  Check out what its settings are at:\nright click the desktop and go to properties>settings> advanced> adapter\nCheck the monitor settings as well.
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you probably need to update your graphic card driver, go to your graphic card manufacturer's site download the latest driver for you windows version, install and reboot computer.\nIf your graphic card is a old model, no new driver or no manufacturer's site, simple uninstall graphic driver and reinstall the driver come with the card will alleviate the problem.
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reinstall directX 9.0c  get it at microsoft\ntry that.........if its just for resolution. get or reinstall  er update video card driver
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Make sure you have nothing else running in the background. If you don't have a high end laptop,  games that are heavy on graphics will run slow and/or freeze.
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mabe you should get a newer game or a older version of windows, some games do do that,
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Do you have the drivers for your monitor installed to the computer? Mine did the same thing before i had them installed and also would not let me change the resolution.Try that
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This may be your video card going bad.  If there is a fan on the video card, make sure it is free of dust and operational.  If you have access to a different video card then try that.