Are these intro, ingame, and endgame *movies* that are playing? If so,
are they separate files so you could double-click on them separately of
the game to see if they play okay then? If they are separate files,
determine from the extension what filetype they are and check what
application is associated for that filetype. For example, maybe they
are quicktime movies so a reinstall of quicktime might fix the problem.
Perhaps you need to reinstall the video codecs; Ligos now wants to
charge for their Indeo codecs because they bundled the WinXP codecs
which they could charge for but previously they had the Intel Indeo
codecs that they couldn't charge for. Since the Indeo codecs work on
Windows 2000, they probably still work under Windows XP (but then the
game should have an iv5.exe or other install file; it may not reinstall
them if it sees they are already installed).

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On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 03:28:18 GMT, "Kelly Miggs"
wrote:

I've noticed that a lot of games lately just freeze up on the
opening
screen. The video is choppy and doesn't seem like it's going to
work,
then
it eventually "catches up" and starts working normally. This
happens
every
time a new screen loads, though, so the games are unplayable.

I thought maybe it was just newer games that my computer may not be
strong
enough for, but I reinstalled Return to Castle Wolfenstein and it
does
the
same thing. That game had run perfectly a few months ago.

My graphics card is an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro, and
I just
updated the drivers to the latest version.

Any other ideas what might be wrong?


You don't mention how new or demanding those games are, but consider
that the TNT2 M64 is a half-bandwidth version of a popular card in
'98... it may be slow because it's a slow card.


I thought it was just new games at first, but then I reinstalled
Wolfenstein
and noticed it doing the same thing. The weird thing is it just
freezes up
on the opening screen, with the animated flags and music. The game
itself
works fine.

Enemy Territory does the same thing. The sound is choppy and it seems
to
freeze up on the introduction, but the game itself works fine.

It's like only certain types of graphics are slow.

Try newer nVidia refernce drivers. http://www.nvidia.com ,but the
most
likely fix is a newer (and faster) video card.

Dave

I don't know if this makes any difference, but I'm using Windows XP.