Laptop with nothing but Windows on it - can't play games...Follow

Hello...

So my computer just screwed up and they had to replace the hard drive. Best Buy, being the idiots they are, just installed Windows XP and lost all my other information.

I just bought Age of Conan and for some reason it wouldn't run, even after I installed DirectX9 and the latest Driver for my video card. What else do I need to download to get my computer back to what it was??

Thanks!!

They were supposed to back it up before replacing my hard drive, but they failed to do that. i.e.: a bunch of idiots.

No, I was not running AoC before they replaced it. But I was running WoW, EQ2, and FFXI (all older games, but I was running them quite well).

What information do you need? I mean all I'm asking is a general question: Is there anything else that I need to install/download/update besides the most updated driver and dx9??

Here's the problem: whenever I start AoC, all I get is some weird flashing black screen (I hear music though), and eventually after 10 seconds it fades to all black. Then, after a few more seconds, like half the screen becomes white... it's hard to explain, but that's pretty much it. I can hear the music the whole time.

Any suggestions?? Please...

If they had to replace the hard drive, odds are it was bad enough that an entry level tech couldn't back it up.



The worst game on that list is EQ2 and all those are designed to run on systems that would barely classify as middle ground. AoC is very hardware intensive compared to those.

List your hardware specs, CPU, Video chipset and memory would be a good start.

The dxdiag would be useful but not necessary.

On a side note, if your going to berate the Best buy tech support, it's generally a good idea to have a clue as to what your talking about.

Edited, May 23rd 2008 5:51pm by Raolan

I don't know of very many laptops that run 512mb of dedicated video memory.

It's not required, it's recommended (and likely would be crap without it.)

And I'm sorry, but my old computer ran XP, had a 3.0Ghz pentium 4, had a 128MB video card. But it could barely run Command and Conquer 3. I doubt it would be running Age of Conan very well, if at all.