Please bear in mind that on any help site a problem well stated is a problem half solved.

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compare your machine: http://tinyurl.com/22fwuj & http://tinyurl.com/mh78u

If you're unfamiliar with posting at GT, please read the board guidelines. In addition, here are a few things to keep in mind when asking for help on the PC Game board.

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If you're experiencing any sort of problem, name the exact program and it's version, tell us the error message or symptom you see, and include your machine's specifications. We don't know what kind of computer you have. If you don't tell us or at the very least ask us how you can tell us, then we can't help you.

Try to ignore fanboy comments. It doesn't matter if you like AMD, Intel, nVidia, ATI, etc. If utilising the right tool(computer) for the job disagrees with someone's random bias, too bad for them.

Your computer may or may not be old. No one cares. If it isn't built to play a game, please don't ask everyone how to make the game look like it's running on a 300 million dollar supercomputer.

Continue discussion of your problem in your own thread, and don't make five topics to get more attention.

A brief on troubleshooting, from Microsoft: http://tinyurl.com/22mqb5