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unfortunately i am unsure of when the problem started to occur, seeing as it only arised in my newest copy of "world of warcraft". I'm almost 80% sure that this is a graphical error, but cannot seem to find the problem. my computer freezes, locks up, but the processor seems to continue to run, and i cannot do anything. ( this is only in games.) in world of warcraft, when i am loading a level, or sometimes rendering parts of the world, it occurs (specifically, and oddly, when i move into an instance and the loading bar at the bottom of the screen is loading, the program exits. Also, at random times, not specific, i may be flying on a mount or doing some arbitary travel, nothing graphically intensive, and the computer freezes as described above.) Another case where this is happened, is a downloded a doom program called doomsday kickstart, which allows me to choose either "opengl" or "direct3d". when i first started the program, and its default was set to "opengl", i would get the identical crash symptom as in world of warcraft, THE MOMENT i would step forward. (crashing has only occured during movement, i have never crashed when running word or anything either, the only times are with world of warcraft and doom, i mean who the hell crashes in doom?) BUT when i changed the settings to "direct3d" the problem dissappeared. THOUGH i am unsure whether the game crashes at random spots like world of warcraft, i havent played it for long enough. Specs. Amd Athlon XP 3000+ Radeon 9600 XT ( i have the latest catalyst.......) Sound Blaster Audigy Ls (i think, and i dont think the drivers are a problem here) hope i got enough here for someone to identify some sort of problem,. thank you

Well, we've been designing a powerpoint style slide presentation of all the photos taken of our class for the year, using windows movie maker. The program is fine, but after x amount of photos and transitions the program gets laggy, and the movie made becomes un-encodable due to length and transitions. It is obvious that it is due to the program, as we have a more than capable computer, and the software, windows movie maker, was not intended to make powerpoint style movies. This means we need to reduce transitions and reduce length. Another problem, is that we are left with a "wma" file at the end of it, which i am forced to convert to dvd format. This means that by the end of all the editing, there are many kinks in the film that can only be brought down to a minimum after at least 20 tries and 30 blank dvd's. ( Our final product, had 2 minor errors in play, and took 3 weeks of attempts, this is something that we need to avoid.) The help required, is a program, which we can use, that we will be able to create a powerpoint style presentation, that is able to have music alongside it, with transition effects(not a total must), that will not lag out the system when it gets to photos up in the 100's, and will be able to be saved straight onto dvd, to be played on any dvd player (desperate feature). thank you very much.