Games & Xbox

When you play any of the Microsoft games that is listed at the beginning of this article, you may receive the following error message: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. ... However, when a user has display issues in a game or a game doesn't launch ...

When you play Shogi and you attempt to promote a rook, you may experience one of the following symptoms: If you are the player on the bottom of the screen, you may not be prompted to promote the rook.If you are the player on the top of the screen,...

When you try to start one of the programs listed in the "Applies to" section, the game may stop responding (hang) or quit unexpectedly. ... or sound, video, or game controller when you start Microsoft Windows, you may receive an error message.

Method 8: Install and then start the game from a different CD drive or DVD drive If this issue continues to occur, the CD drive may be unable to read the game CD correctly. ... If you do not see System , click Switch to Classic View in the left pane.

This article is the second of two articles that describe how to troubleshoot "invalid page fault" and "fatal exception" error messages in the Microsoft games listed in ... Remove the game, clean boot your computer (see the "Are any programs running in the background conflicting with the game?"

When you run one of the programs listed in the "Applies to" section on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98, you may experience one of the following symptoms: You do not hear any sounds in Microsoft Art Gallery...

Describes how to perform a clean boot procedure to prevent background programs from interfering with a game or a program. ... These programs may interfere when you install, run, or use a game or program such as Microsoft Flight Simulator or Microsoft Streets and Trips. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796/en-us

This article contains a list of video-related issues that you may experience in Microsoft Bicycle Games. The following video adapters and chip sets have known video-related issues in Bicycle Casino. ... contains a list of video-related issues that you may experience in Microsoft Bicycle Games.

While playing Bicycle Casino, the dealer misreads your hand, and a losing hand unexpectedly wins. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326001/en-us

Set the accelerated graphics port aperture size to 64 megabytes or to 128 megabytes If you are using an accelerated graphics port (AGP) video adapter with less than 32 megabytes (MB) of memory, and the AGP aperture size is set too low, some games may crash and some games may not run.