I find that many games have their own support forums with either patches or workarounds to get the games running again.
I have a few issues with some downloaded games. It's not all because I have Steam downloaded and have played a game off it before and worked fine. I have the Wizard101 game downloaded and a old Pegi Book Worms game and neither work. They are both not very demanding games in my opinion so it shouldn't be a hardware issue. When the games start their launchers DO open and ARE working fine however, after that I get the same series of flashing colors and I still hear the game running in the background going fine. Is this an issue with my graphics or just an overall PC issue?
My PC is running Windows 7 still

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