Threads Replies Last Post 17 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17   Minesweeper locks up? Minesweeper on expert mode freezes everytime I get down to 19 or 18 mines left. any ideas?... 1 27.05.2007 16:57:01 Can't Install from CD I am having issues with some CD-ROMs I can't even get Vista to open some CD-ROMS, I put it in, it Autoplays - sometimes the install game screen comes up, sometimes not. When I do click install the screen poofs and nothing happens, no lockup, nothing. I turned off the Program Controller thing, thinking it may be conflicting - but doesn't help either. I tried to browse the CD and it ... 4 27.05.2007 11:37:01 Vista installed games do not save and resume I play simple games like Solitaire and Mahjong Titans. Nice games. But they don't save themselves between sessions. I have set the Options to do just that, but when I close a game it does not ask me to save it and when I restart one it always starts with a new game. Bummer What's going on. Is this a bug or what? Hello Microsoft? ... 3 26.05.2007 20:55:20 WoW: Burning Crusade What are the chances of a patch being developed by Microsoft Windows: Vista team to minimize the choppiness of Vista. I recently puchased an HP, that, in all honesty, is over qualified to play World of Warcraft. What steps can i take aside from researching and implementing the most recent drivers, will minimize this unfortunate inconvenience.... 4 26.05.2007 17:33:50 Can't Turn Games On Running Vista 32bit Business Edition. When I Go to Control Pannel, Turn on Windows Features, a box comes up with different selection box's. I choose Games (or any other for that matter) and it starts to load (or I think it does). Then an error message is displayed:- "An error has occured. Not all of the features were successfully changed." As a matter of fact nothing had changed. I have ... 6 26.05.2007 17:04:01 sidewinder can ya use microsoft siderwinder with vista,,,,,,will it work?... 5 26.05.2007 14:19:34 online games Windows Vista is stopping me to play games online i.e. literati at yahoo games. I think it got something to do with the active x controls. Please can somebody tell me how to get in there... 3 26.05.2007 08:05:00 Where's the games??? whenever i get into the games explorer folder there are no games??? Howcome? Please help.... 11 26.05.2007 03:53:01 Chess Titans Issue Every time I play Chess Titans, my screen freezes while playing. I have a ATI Saphire 1600 512mg video card. My index score is a 4.6 on graphics and a 4.9 on gaming graphics. All drivers are up to date. What could it be? Any help?... 1 25.05.2007 15:28:03 Vista Minesweeper crashes Quite often when I am plaing minesweeper (a mission-critical application), it freezes for no apparent reason. The game box goes white and the rotating wait indicator shows up. It then no longer responds. The only way to get the game back is to close it and restart. Has anybody seen this? Is there a workaround or an update?... 7 25.05.2007 02:15:00 Any Game It Seems I have just brought a Laptop, Fujitsu Amilo Li1705, to be precise ... However i have now tried loading two games onto this, knowing both games are fine when i put them on my Computer with XP ... They install fine and all seems to be going superbly, its starts to load and then they freeze ... Just stop dead ... The only thing i can then do is to go to Task Manager ... Anybody Possible Help M... 8 24.05.2007 17:28:01 MOHAA Anyone had any luck getting medal of honor series running on vista? mine runs spash screen goes into open gl control then to black sreen and stops. ... 10 24.05.2007 17:09:52 Arthur and the invisibles not wrking... hello i brought this game authur the invisibles and it is not working on my new laptop... i go to install it and it goes through to this page that says.... INSTALLATION ENDED The installation was interrupted before arthur and the invisibles could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again. So i c... 2 24.05.2007 15:34:01 Vista crashes (blue screen) after a few minutes while playing any I had XP SP2 and all my games worked fine, without any crashes. After I got Vista, any 3d game I have will crash in 5-15 minutes of playing, every time. I wrote down the "technical information" on the blue screen, it read: "Stop 0x00000124 (0x00000000, 0x8463F9A8, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F)". Also, when I restart the computer, the "error information" that comes up is the following: Proble... 7 24.05.2007 01:40:00 Sims 1 and Vista Home Premium I have all the expansion packs and the Sims Deluxe Edition and I wanted to put them on my new computer, which came with Vista Home Premium, and NOTHING is working correctly. I found that my other games I can run them as an adminstrator and they work fine, but not in this case. If anyone has ANY suggestions please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated! ... 2 23.05.2007 22:35:36 HELP! this is wierd! i tried to install a few games, but two games failed, but even so, it used up my free disc space, and before i knew what was going on, I had tried to install it again and again, but the wierd thing is that, i can not find the files anywhere! where should i look??? help please... 4 23.05.2007 22:19:47 Very Old games - Very New hardware, Any Help? I recently found my copy of Destruction Derby 2. As far as i know the windows 95 emulation on vista is letting me start the game, but there are some siriously tripped out/ Stretched and unusable pictures once the starting intro has finished. Maybe this is something to do with older hardware rendering? I don't realy know, thanks for help. I also can't find any Hardware Acceleration option... 3 23.05.2007 21:09:00 I would just like to thank MS for finally having MS personnell reading their own newgroups!! It's nice to sometimes get answers from the 'horse's mouth'!! -- Mike Matheny ... 8 23.05.2007 06:00:54 Monitor goes to sleep while playing a game Hi, I have had this issue ever since I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my PC. I used to run Windows XP, and have never had this problem while running XP. The problem is, everytime I play a game for sometime (the time when it happens varies), the monitor goes to Sleep randomly while playing a game, and there is no way to get it back from that state (it never comes back from Sleep mo... 7 22.05.2007 20:19:11 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Would anyone know why when a particular mission loads up after I completed one (bear something), the mission which is meant to load up does not load up, and stalls. I have tried to reboot my PC and play from a fresh reboot. Still same results. My graphics card is a 7600 GT GeForce Nvidia, amount of RAM on PC is 2GB. Vista Ultimate. Core 2 Duo. ... 1 22.05.2007 16:06:41 purble place game I would like to know how to play the intermediate game of comfy cakes[where you make the cakes] How do you make the double and triple ones? I know it's a strange question but I haven't been able to work it out!... 2 22.05.2007 16:04:22 Microsoft Train Sim Does anyone know how to get Microsoft's Train Simulator to run on Vista? It worked for a couple of years just fine on XP, but now I'm running Vista Home Premium. It seems to install OK, and runs after I set it to run in XP compatible mode, and admin mode, but it won't shut down properly. Also the update won't install. I looked for the MS web site, but all that's there is an announcemen... 7 21.05.2007 21:41:04 Game Exchange Does anybody know of a vendor, or gaming site, that will trade legit versions of owned games for downloadable versions of the same games (or other games for that matter)? Also, if I purchase a game via download do I play that game without a CD/DVD? What if I my OS crashes, or I need to wipe my system, how do I get my game back? Thanks. ... 5 21.05.2007 21:26:58 An old program they should bring back It wasn't so much a game as it was a facinating simulation of AI. There used to be a program that let you pick out any number of musical instruments and the computer would put together a song intelligently using those instruments. It was a lot of fun to play around with but it was never continued. I believe Microsoft developed it or at least distributed it. I'd love to see them bring it ... 4 21.05.2007 19:51:49 Vista Home premium FSX DEP problems I have a dell with AMD Athlon 64X2 5000+ 2.6, ATI Radeon 1300 pro, 2GB memory -The screen setting is forced revert to vista basic on entry to FSX and I keep getting DEP crash before / after the main screen intermittently - maybe worse if appearance settings are high. It tells me it crashes sometimes and to look at DEP (which can't be switched off) - fantastic game when it works, but I ge... 4 21.05.2007 18:25:01 17 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17