XP games to Vista

[Dale White]

Are you using the drivers that game with Vista ? Is so those default drivers
don't support OpenGL. You will need to grab the updated drivers from Nvidia
or ATI

 

[Katy Pluta]

Im trying to get Jedi Knight Jedi Academy (jka) to work but i get a openGL

error i have the windows vista home prem 32-bit edition of vista

Do you know what your video card is? You will have to update its
drivers from its manufacturer's web site, the default video drivers in
Windows do not fully support Open GL...

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All the Best
Katy Pluta, Games for Windows MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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[Guest]

Hello,

We are having trouble with our Window's Vista. We have recently upgraded
our computer to the new Window's Vista, but we cannot play Backgammon,
checkers, or any games on the MSN. We didn't have any trouble with XP, but
since getting the new computer with the Window's Vista we
cannot play any of the games online. We upgraded the Active x, it says
all is installed properly. When we are on the MSN, invite one another for a
game it will open on both ends, but on our end ther's a little circle that
keeps going around and around like it's still connecting but nothing happens
further than that. I don't know if anything else is missing or what seems to
be the problem. Our computer friend doesn't seem to know what the problem is
either, he has uninstalled and reinstalled few programs, still nothing to
avail. Please help, we are starting to get frustrated with this new program.
I look forward hearing from you shortly, thanks.

Solve the Problem before it becomes a problem...

 

[Guest]

Here's my current list:

Zoo Tycoon 2*
Half-Life 2*
Civilization 4*
Battlefield 2
Rise of Legends
Quake III Arena***
Unreal Tournament 2003***
Oblivion
Morrowind
Black and White 2
Warcraft 3**
World of Warcraft
Halo
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfigher
Sim City 4*
Guild Wars
Call of Duty 2
FEAR
Command & Conquer Generals
Command & Conquer Renegade
StarCraft
Final Fantasy XI
EverQuest 2
Diablo II
Star Wars Galaxies
FIFA 2006*
Call of Duty
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
DOOM 3

*Problems, on my setup I had to run them into a window first to prevent them
from crashing, I'm assuming a video driver bug not letting them pick up
resolution details. Others have mentioned lowering the desktop resolution
to the same as their default start-up resolution resolves it too.

**Works fine with retail version, but latest patch breaks sound.

***Mouse acceleration seems to be turned on.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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What type of crash were you getting?

Anything like this?

http://i15.tinypic.com/3yo45q9.jpg

Or this on install?
http://i11.tinypic.com/3zjwxm8.jpg

 

[Guest]

Diablo 2 Works fine with retail version, but latest patch breaks sound.
let me know if you come by an answer please let me know as i would like to
load my saved games...they are all based on the patch.it would be cool if i
could find a way around that.

 

[Guest]

hi AJ is my name

im new to vista 64bit

how do i get my old games like warcraft and counter strike to play these are
32 bit games?

please help as this is very frustrating

 

[Dale White]

There isn't anything to do to make them play under a 64bit OSes (whether XP
or Vista64 or Longhorn server)

I installed Warcraft 3 and Steam (CS, HL2 etc) under Vista 64 with no
special effort.

Though in most cases, when you go to install such programs, you'll want to
right click on the installer (Setup.exe) and choose the Run As administrator
option. Sometimes, you might have to right click on that installer and
choose properties and choose Compatibility mode and choose to run as XP:SP2

Outside of that, nothing special.

 

[Guest]

Will any of the games that are released for Windows XP editions be able to be
played on the new Windows Vista editions (like The Sims 2)?

 

[Guest]

When i run Sims 2 as an administrator on my vista basic it comes up with
compatability problems, tried to change to XP but no luck and am unsure of
how to download and use patch at sims website as it doesnt ask me if i want
to save to disk. Wondering if you have any ideas on how i would do that?

 

[Guest]

Does wwe-raw game can be played in vista

Diablo 2 Works fine with retail version, but latest patch breaks sound.
let me know if you come by an answer please let me know as i would like to
load my saved games...they are all based on the patch.it would be cool if i
could find a way around that.

 

[Guest]

I lost the ability to play any of my Might and Magic games when I upgraded to
Windows Vista. However, I was able to fix all but one by upgrading my video
card to a radeon x1300/x1500.
I am still having trouble with might and magic IX however which still does
not seem to be compatable with Windows Vista at all. (The screen does not
refresh between "Loading" screens.) Can anyone offer any suggestions to this
problem?

CoffeeGnome

 

[Mark]

The problem with Might and Magic IX not refreshing after the load screen is
a definite bug. Fortunately there is a workaround, do an alt-tab, then
alt-tab back into the game and it should come right up.

If you are having problems with the other ones, check my online help page
for getting the Might and Magic games working, its at:
http://markbsplace.net/tutorials/mminvista/MightAndMagicInVista.htm

Hope that helps!
Mark

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip Mark but this still does not work. Now instead of the
loading screen I simply get a black screen with a Might and Magic IX
window/border around it. Thanks for trying to help.

 

[Mark]

Sorry it didn't work. If you come up with a solution let me know and I will
post it on the web-page.
MMIX does seem to be very display-driver-setting sensitive. You might try
turning off all of your 3d settings (i.e. anti-aliasing, anistropic
filtering, etc.) and see if that helps.

Mark

 

[Guest]

I saved my saved games to my desktop and reinstalled the game the way you say
to at your web site. This time however I did not install the 1.3 patch (only
the 1.2 patch.) I also changed my screen resolution to 800 by 600 with 32
bit color. Now the alt+tab trick works. It takes a while (half a minute to
three minutes (in one instance,)) but the game so far does manage to get past
the loading-screen glitch.
I also removed all of the graphic extras provided by the game
(tripple-buffering, one pass, shadows, environmental mapping, etc.) but I am
so far hesitant to reactivate them. I do not yet know if any of them were
interfereing with the loading glitch.

Thanks Mark, at least it is now working thus far.

 

[Guest]

I am having troubles with the Star Wars Battlefront II game on vista. I
installed it and played it once. After that, when i shutdown my computer, it
would still start-but when i tried to load a map and actually play-the game
would crash to the desktop without an error report. Does anybody have a
solution?

 

[Guest]

Hey, I have been plating starcraft for a while on Vista, but all of a sudden
it tells me there's some error in the middle of the game and shuts it down.
Has that happened to you? How can I fix it?

 

[Guest]

The Sims 2 works fine on Vista, aswell any of the expansions.

In the Easy Info for my Sims 2 game it says that my system is unknown and
the results says fail. The Easy info also says that there is no display
memory and it also fails. Because these 2 things failed i cant run the game
on windows vista. Any advice to get it working?

 

[Faheem]

hi, i have c&c first decade, and when i try to install generals to vista
32-bit, it gets to the file: \Data\Movies\GLA06_00s.bik and then a window
comes up and says:
Feature: Command & Conquer Generals
Component: Generals
File: E:\data12.cab
Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
and then the installation closes.

 

[ZT2TT]

Zoo Tycoon 2 only wotks under Vista 64 woth no more than 2GB. If you try to
run it with 4 GB it will not start!