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

[nikef]

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

 

[CyberZeus]

Maybe the colour deep of your screen has been lower. Check it out by right-clicking on the desktop and choose screen resolution.

 

[nikef]

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 .

 

[CyberZeus]

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

However, a game or an application cannot affect BIOS messages colour

 

[nikef]

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 .

 

[nikef]

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

 

[CyberZeus]

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

 

[Phase]

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?

 

[nikef]

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 .

 

[Zomby88]

As mentioned uninstall any video drivers and reinstall .

 

[nikef]

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?

Hi and thanks for your help

I uninstalled it through my computer

I thought when i asked it 2 unnistall everything would be unnistalled

I did not configure my game settings ,i would not know how 2 sorry

When i installed the game windows said it had changed my settings 2 windows basic theme

 

[Zomby88]

When i installed the game windows said it had changed my settings 2 windows basic theme[/QUOTE]


Games should only do this only when you play them.

 

[nikef]

When i installed the game windows said it had changed my settings 2 windows basic theme

Games should only do this only when you play them.[/QUOTE]

Sorry i meant when i played the game

If i unnistalled my graphics driver and re-install through windows

What might i expect to happen with my monitor while the change over takes place

Thanks for your help

 

[CyberZeus]

You could expect that colours will be fine

 

[nikef]

You could expect that colours will be fine

Thank you

I have just uninstalled the graphics card and windows reinstalled the drivers , restarted my pc and the problem is still the same .

 

[nikef]

If it is my graphics card playing up, would i not be getting same symptoms when i go on-line ?

 

[nikef]

Can some1 help me to un- install and re-install my graphics driver please

I do not know where to go and get the right one for my card

My card is Radeon x1300/x1550 series

Thanks for any help

 

[WindowsStar]

Can some1 help me to un- install and re-install my graphics driver please

I do not know where to go and get the right one for my card

My card is Radeon x1300/x1550 series

Thanks for any help

What you are going to need to do is figure out what files are part of your video cards drivers. The .DLL, .DRV, .INF etc. files, then uninstall the driver from within Windows. Next boot on your Ubuntu disk and delete the video .DLL, .DRV, .INF files (NOTE: just the ones for the video card). Now reboot in to windows and it will load the Generic Video Driver from Microsoft. At that point you can install the correct ones from the web site. This should fix the problem because you will really replace the drivers. Many times uninstalling and reinstalling does NOT delete the files so if one is corrupt the problem remains.