[andrewas]

You very likely have a Nvidia GeForce4 MX 420. You have my sympathies, the MX line have never been all that hot for gaming.

The problem is that windows update is less than perfect when it comes to installing drivers, and you probably have two sets of them conflicting or some such nonsense.

Go into your control panel, system, device manager, graphics adapters, and delete the graphics card. Reset, and let it isntall the basic graphics driver when it asks you to. Then re-install the 53.03 drivers, which are the best available for this card so you may as well try them.

If that fails, version 45.23 was good as well, so download and try that. Do not try and use the winXP standard driver for games. It will probably work, just very very badly.