With some games many spots of the screen stays black

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:32 Z

With some games, for example GTA 4, Completed it but when i start it many spots of the game stays black
my Video card is: NVIDIA GeForge 7300 LE
any1 has suggestions

With some games many spots of the screen stays black

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:59:31 Z

Upgrade your video card. You have a old one that isn't supported to run GTA IV.

With some games many spots of the screen stays black

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:13:48 Z

Hi Dunnowhat2do,

Thank you for visiting Microsoft Windows Vista Forums.

It looks like the Video card driver is malfunctioning. I would recommend you to either update the video card driver or un install and re install the compatible driver successfully.

To update the driver, you may follow the steps given below:
1. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and hit enter.
2. Expand the display adapters, right click on the item and then click update driver.
3. If the driver is updated successfully, then restart the computer.
4. Try to play the game.

To uninstall and reinstall the driver, you may follow the steps given below:
1. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and hit enter.
2. Expand the display adapters, right click on the item and then click uninstall.
3. Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
4. Visit the nvidia website and download the compatible video adapter driver and install it successfully:
http://www.nvidia.com
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_175.19_whql.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_181.22_whql.html
http://www.nvidia.com/page/7300_faq.html
5. Once the driver is installed, then restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
6. Try to play the game.

Let me know if this worked.

All the best!

Thanks and Regards:
Syed V - Microsoft Support.

With some games many spots of the screen stays black

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:38:57 Z

Ok thanks, i've done that and some other games work now
But GTA doesn't work properly yet, it lags and still some spots are black, i got 3 GB Ram so i dont expect lag =/
thanks :)

With some games many spots of the screen stays black

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:31:52 Z

It is your graphics card, I think those particular model has 128mb of ram, which. You need atleast 512mb to run the game, so don't expect anything flashy or nice.

Upgrade your video card!

also this site is great to test games to see if you can run it.