try contacting emachines...
however, i think its cuz the integrated gfx suks. when i was using it, warcraft 3 looked funny. once i upgraded to a pci gfx card, i saw a major difference. try upgrading ur gfx card.
btw, if calling emachines, expect to be waiting for like 10 mins...
I need help with some big errors that appears when playing games in the Emachines T5026.
I buy it, like 4 months ago and from the day that I buy it I can't play any game, or at least the majority of them. For instance the games that I can't play on it are: The Sims 2, Quake 3 Arena (a very old game that I don't know why I can't play), somw problems with Unreal Tournament 2004 and Halo.
For the Sims 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004, appeared a driver error saying talking about the ialmnr5 error with the display and then the desktop appeared with a minimum color display making all look very bad and then it said to close all and reboot windows. For Quake 3 the machine automatically reboot and then a window saying that the machine recovery from a serious errror and when I send the error to Microsoft it says that the problem is a hardware problem but they don't know what it is.
Please I need some kind of help. I CAN'T PLAY ABSOLUTELY NOTHIG ON THIS MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!

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