installed age of empire's 3 and its messed up screen

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  1. Posts : 27
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       #1

    installed age of empire's 3 and its messed up screen


    Hi all

    I installed age of empires 3 , there was a problem with the graphics so i un-installed it

    Now my desktop is looking like this ,not sure you can see my problem in the picture

    Have a look at rocket dock background colour and the start orb

    Thanks for any help
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails installed age of empire's 3 and its messed up screen-screen-capture-graphics.png  
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  2. Posts : 313
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 clean install
       #2

    Maybe the colour deep of your screen has been lower. Check it out by right-clicking on the desktop and choose screen resolution.
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  3. Posts : 27
    windows xp / vista /windows 7 / ubuntu 9.10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Hi and thanks for quick response i have tried that there is no change

    Also when i start my pc my motherboard will display its make and model on the screen in red , that 2 is also effected .
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  4. Posts : 313
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 clean install
       #4

    Have you checked cable connection between your PC and your monitor?

    However, a game or an application cannot affect BIOS messages colour
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  5. Posts : 27
    windows xp / vista /windows 7 / ubuntu 9.10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    I have swapped over monitors to see if there was a problem with my first monitor , but the problem exits ,
    Do you think the game could of corrupted my graphics driver ?
    I have tried a rolling windows 7 back , but no change there
    this web site that i am viewing all the colours are fine .
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  6. Posts : 27
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    Thread Starter
       #6

    Just opened up media center and the the colours look funny there 2 , here is a screen shot

    I also tried to play a dvd and it says it can not play this dvd i need to update my video drivers

    I have tried to update and windows says there is no new drivers for it ,

    Sorry if all this is confusing i am a computer noob sorry
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  7. Posts : 313
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 clean install
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    I don't think that the game could corrupt a graphic driver. However, try to update it to see if it helps.
    Don't use Windows update if your graphics card is Geforce or ATI, but use www.nvidia.com and www.ati.com
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  8. Posts : 86
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #8

    Hmm. I have Ages of Empires installed on Windows 7 & it works flawlessly. When you uninstalled/re-installed did you remove/install back all componenets related to the game? Have you configured your game settings to something different than what you use regularly?
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  9. Posts : 27
    windows xp / vista /windows 7 / ubuntu 9.10
    Thread Starter
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    CyberZeus said:
    I don't think that the game could corrupt a graphic driver. However, try to update it to see if it helps.
    Don't use Windows update if your graphics card is Geforce or ATI, but use Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
    Thanks , i just tried an ubuntu cd in live mode and the colours are the same ,all this worked perfect before i downloaded the trial version from microsoft site.
    My graphics card is a Radeon x1300/x1550 series
    Not sure what site to go on thanks for your help .
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  10. Posts : 499
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #10

    As mentioned uninstall any video drivers and reinstall .
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