[URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303032/"]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303032/[/URL]

that web page. go down a bit and click on the 300 number link at the bottom.....watch where it leads you... then click the link there.

figures though,,,,,, only microsoft can make a game that has problems with its OS......

yet roughly 5000 software manufacturers can do it daily.

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Can't find 300 number link.

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um, that was a waste of time

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well, wait a minute. yeah, it's silly that microsoft games don't run perfectly on microsoft's own OS, but neither do other games. In fact, i don't think I've ever played ANY game on ANY windows system that never crashed, had graphics issues, sound issues, locked up the whole machine, at least a few times. and aren't these games by microsoft farmed out to smaller studios? even if they aren't, the department that makes the OS is probably different from the dept that makes the games, making conflicts inevitable. plus, the microsoft OSs are made so compatible that the likelihood of errors is overwhelming. I'm amazed that they do so well, despite the problems.

don't get me wrong, i'm no microsoft fanboy, but i don't expect their own software to run any better than anyone else's on their OS.

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[quote=sammwalk]and aren't these games by microsoft farmed out to smaller studios?[/quote]

They just publish them, studios like Big Huge Games actually make them.