"Anne" <Anne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> hello Ken,
> With Vista home premium, hubby will play a game - Brian Lara's cricket -
> and
> it's fine until you have a boundry in the game and 2 fielders run for the
> ball - then the graphis start to flicker, making it impossible to play the
> game from then on. It is the only game that acts like that. He has 4Gb Ram
> memory and a 512Mb NVidia 9500 graphic card/chip. Virtual memory seems to
> be
> the only thing I can think of, as if it's not clearing the previous game
> out
> of the memory before the next game is played.
>
> With me and XP, it doesn't bother me so much, I can handle it. But sorting
> hubby's vista premium Acer 6920G laptop is the more urgent thing to do as
> he
> suffers depression and looks upon the screen as a fault. His Tiger Woods
> golf
> 2008 game has just crashed. Nothing else was going on at the time.
>
> The guy who told us about the software is a builder and said the software
> fixed it and he's had no problems since.
>
> Cheers
> Anne
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> Quote:
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:59:00 -0700, Anne
>> <Anne@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Quote:
>> > We have a virtual memory problem
>>
>>
>> Exactly what is the problem?
>>
>> Quote:
>> > and have been told that there is software -
>> > Flashware - that can fix this.
>>
>>
>> I don't know anything about this particular product, but in general,
>> *all* third-party software that attempts to optimize virtual memory in
>> any way is snake oil. At best it does nothing, but it's likely to make
>> things worse, and I strongly recommend against it.
>>
>> Explain what your problem is, and it's likely that someone here can
>> help you.
>>
>> Quote:
>> > Does anyone have a link or an idea where this software can be found?
>> > We need it for both XP and Vista Home Premium.
>> >
>> > I have 1Gb of ram for XP and hubby has 4Gb for Vista.
>> > Both of us have virtual memory problems - mine when using a graphic
>> > photo
>> > program. Hubby's virtual memory is not clearing out whenever he
>> > finishes with
>> > a program.
>> >
>> > I do hope someone understands what I mean.
>> >
>> > Anne
>>
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>>
The Brian Lara cricket game, if the 2005 version is old and not accredited
to run on Vista and the laptop graphics card is not supported by this
version either. There is no support info on the 2007 version that I can
find.
You need to contact Codemasters directly..
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