win 7 speeed issue

[carp]

Sorry if i have two posts. This forum format has never been intuitive to me. I am loading from discs because I bought the game(s). It's not just one machine. I have three laptops, all with win7. I have tried windowed and full screen. I can get one of the three to run the game(s) and that one is slow, delayed and crashes the video. All should be up to date. I have been playing since the first box SP came out and I have followed Camo etal since inception and have never had problems like this.

I have shut off animations, and any switch I can but no go. When I start the game(s) on the laptops on two of them I get real brief messages that something can not load and the game(s) crash. I have no idea how to recapture that text so I can forward to you all.

I have been running the desktop since forever and not one problem but right now I am kind of dinged up and desktop time is very limited so I'd like to get the laptops up and running. Tell me what I need to send you for a systems check and how to get it and I will. This is maddening.