dude i think u need to check your english. anyhow i didn't come here to fight i can do that with my gf. i came here for a solution. I bought the pc a month ago, cost me around 2000 euros. so u expect a decent machine at this price. I installed generals and played for ages. perfectly clouds shadows all was perfect, previously on my mx440 video card u couldnt see shadows or clouds. so it was great. friend of mine told me it cab be better download the new patch from ati. so i did, yes it was3.1 somthing dont worry i'm not stupid enuf to download a patch for someother videocard. so i started generals game, on the menu boom monitor froze, pc froze... i tried this for ages samething happened at the menu. i tries other games like halo, max payne,raven shield they all worked perfect. only in generals it did this. now i hear a new driver is out. but i dont want to install it if the same $hit happens, where i have to reinstall everything to make it work as it was before. im asking if anyone had this issue with radeon 9600