purr4me, thank you for the input! I am not really familiar with computers or the OS obviously and know very little about where to find things that explain my hardware. thanks to the internet managed to piece together some info that you asked for. there is no problem when I load my game ,the game works as far as the load screen and getting it going. searched through my control panel and x86 program files and found some info here is what was in the control panel: no .NET files only Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable x64 and x86 from 2005,2008,2010,2012,2013. In my programs x86 files there was a Microsoft.NET folder and in it there was a folder named "RedistList" and inside that folder were two XML documents one named "AsseblyList_4_client" and the other named "AsseblyList _4_exstended". As far as I can tell my processor is a AMD A6-6400k APU with Radeon HD Graphics 3.90 GHz , 8GB Ram x64bit OS, x64 based processor. like I said I am not very computer savy! I fogot to mention that there were a couple of other things in the control panel, two in fact Games for Windows Live and Games for Windows Market place.