today i played test drive unlimited because of the not going on internet and the game just crashed without anything i done about it.. after that i wasnt able to play the few other games i have installed and got on 2 games a error message with directdraw or something that i have disabled it that there isnt any 256 color depth sorry,i forgot to bring the exactly error code with me ;/

Direct Draw is part of Direct X--
DirectX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
it is part of what allows games to function within Windows.
If it is damaged... they won't work right.

Please go to start/run/type "dxdiag" (without quotes)
a window will popup--go to the display tab-- click on the "Test Direct Draw" button-- let it run it's tests --post what it says.