Most of the games in the present day which are designed for PCs along with PSP and XBOX are being designed for Win32 Platform. This is the result of the popularity and the easier porting capabilities for Win32. Better part with Microsoft Windows is that it uses DirectX which is capable of running the 3D games even without OpenGL support and compatible hardware speeds for Operating System.
Basically there should be some settings for windows which should make it simpler to know what the issue is when a problem comes with any application or game. These settings include the following,
Just after the installation of the Operating System, make sure that the file extensions and the hidden files and the system files are shown. You should be able to see all the files in the Hard Disk and each file also includes the extension of the file shown.
One should know what are the system files and what are the files of the application or a game. Basically there are some system files hidden in other drives. One of it is System Restore. And the other files more important to the OS in the installation drive are the pagefile.sys, the NTuser.DAT etc. These are some of the hidden files which should not be touched what ever problem may exist. Better thing is to see all the files in C: Drive or the installation drive and the other drives for what the pre-written files are.
Coming to the basic problem with any application, there can be any problem with any of the files generally of the installed games and applications rather than the OS files. In this situation, the Operating System will show an error report. The error report generally includes a request to Send the error report to the Developer and a Don't Send option. In this case the problem in the application can be seen by opening the Details tab.
In the Details tab, the problem with the specific executable file is shown. This executable needs to be re-installed or to be copied from some other previous dumps or from the developers website. Also, if the application do not need such a file as its basic need, like if it is an optional file, then it can be renamed to exclude it from loading. These optional files generally will be the introduction movies in games and other picture or background kind of files and does not need to re-install everything. Some times if the file in the installer itself is corrupt, it is a must to change the file with a duplicate and by renaming the duplicate file with the original filename, only if the corrupt file is a video or a picture file.
Some times some of the main executables will be corrupt because of some reason. This situation can be solved by getting the patches for the executables from the developer.
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