Hi,

after installing a new WinXP OS, I tried to get FarCry Demo and Price of
Persia Demo to run. FC randomly crashes with a Fatal Exception and Prince
of Persia even freezed my system.

Sometimes when playing with Tribes Venegeance Demo (single and multiplayer)
I get an error in DirectX reported from a small M$ dialog windows which
allows me to send this report to M$.

Afterwards *no* other games are able to start. All of them quit with a
DirectX error.

I'm using XPpro (new installation!), SP2, DirectX 9.0c (from SP2), the
newest Catalyst drivers V4.10 (already tried V4.9) on my Asus X800pro.
Soundcard: Creative Audigy with newest drviers.

I already deactivated the Norton AV during gameplay but no success either.

I'm clueless right now. SP2 cannot be deinstalled as it was slipstreamed
into the Windows XP installation files.

Before buying my new Assus X800pro I had an old GeForce 2 TI which ran
perfectly. I never had such problems playing games so far...

--
cu,
Michael