[So Many Gaming Problems]

I hope someone here can help me.

I am running XP pro in my PC and am having Problems with nearly all my games !!!

I am getting wingdings type characters instead of text in Black and White.

Red alert 2 and Messiah are unplayable when the bother to load at all

and the Sims disks take ages to load up .

I have a thunderbird 1400

Abit KG7

512Mb DDR Ram

80Gb Seagate Barracuda

Matrox G400

I have converted my drive back to FAT32 and re-installed everything and still no better.

All the Software is genuine ( I'm a mug I know !) so I cannot even blame it on Pirate copies !!

Any Ideas ?