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Nothing seems to work.
I have tried installing battlefield 2142, counterstike source, age of empires 3, even oregon trail 2, and nothing seems to work. I know my hardware is fine, it all is boiling down to vista since chances of 4 other companies screwing up when it all works on XP seems strange. Now I am not trying to just be a complainer, I want to know if there was anything in Vista I was supposed to inst...
12 10.07.2007 22:55:03
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Compatibility problems with Vista premium home 64 bit and Star Wars KOTOR. I have a new PC, good graphics, loads of RAM etc. I have gone through previous postings and reloaded using the Win XP compatability option as well as running the SWKOTOR.EXE directly with XP compat and admin rights checked. However, I still get the error message telling me it has "stopped working and Windows wi...
12 10.07.2007 19:14:01
Battlefield 2142 failed to run, what else?
Hi, This is like the 5th forum I have been to for help. I bought a brand new computer today with windows 32bit installed and I bought a copy of battlefield 2142 to try the computer out. The computer I bought is a brand new computer designed for gaming, that is in no matter the question, and yes I have experience with gaming and didn't take their word for it when it came to hardware....
8 10.07.2007 18:29:36
More game questions
I have a new computer running Windows Vista Ultimate - Intel 6600 Dual Core - 2 gigs of ram - Dual Nvidia 8800 GTS in EVGA in SLI mode - All drivers have been updated and everything is working fine but on certain games such as AGE of MYTHOLOGY I cannot get the Mouse Cursor to show during game play and you cant play the game without the cursor to make your selections, I have tried changin...
2 10.07.2007 18:10:55
BF2 Point of Existence Mod
I am running Vista 32 bit and trying to download the Point of Existence mod for Battlefield 2(http://silo1.hypernia.net/pointofexistence-2/PoE2-v1.1.5_full-client.zip). After I dowload the file and try to extract the zip I receive an error message that reads, "Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be created." I downloaded Zip Reader and managed to unz...
6 10.07.2007 13:51:08
Dungeon Siege II Messes Up Desktop
I am currently running Dungeon Siege II under Windows Home Premium. After exiting the game my Windows desktop graphics is messed up (Windows sidebar is changes position, some icons seem to be in a shaded area of the screen, etc.). Is there a better way to run this other than through Windows? ...
1 10.07.2007 12:54:41
Graphics Driver has stopped responding
I have been running Vista for several months now and so far all has been good, Upto now!!. For some reason all of a sudden my games keep freezing up, If i quickly ctrl alt del then cancel the window asking if i want to start task manager the games start running again as normal. If i leave the freezed game it will eventually crash to desktop stating that the graphics Driver has stopped r...
1 10.07.2007 07:50:03
solitare
At the end of game when there are no more moves nothing happens. When I go to start a new game a window appears giving me options to quit game. Is this right? I don't remember previous versions of windows operating systems working that way....
3 10.07.2007 05:24:00
MS Forcing Vista on people
While many people can choose to buy Vista or not, the idea of making Games only work with Vista is almost criminal. A game such as Halo 2 for the PC Which MS Knew everyone wanted, was made only for Vista... ...
3 09.07.2007 20:00:51
Guitar Hero II Controller (XBox 360) on Vista
Maybe I should've posted this message in this forum right from the beginning - I'm just quoting my post from the hardware forums...: Hello there! I'm not sure if anybody is familiar with this piece of hardware - it's a normal USB game controller. =) Anyway - I've read ALL over the internet that people have no problems at all with Vista recognizing the guitar as an XBox 360 Controller stra...
4 09.07.2007 19:40:55
Vista widow sizes
Ok here is my question and frustration as I am one step from removing Vista. I do online gaming speciffically Everquest. When I come out of the game to look at something the widow is extremely small. It use to be like minimized until i ran aero one time to see what it looked like. I have a 22" widescreen monitor by Gateway and my graphics are set to 1280 X 1160. How do I resize this win...
2 09.07.2007 18:48:05
Gothic 3
When i play, try to play Gothic 3, the game starts up fine, and after about 5 min the game will load the level, but im faced with horrid frame rates, 4-9FPS. I've downloaded an INI program and looked though thier fourms, settings what others have gotten to work, but to no avail, hopefully someone here can help me or point me in the right direction.. here are my system specs: I have the...
7 09.07.2007 16:20:18
Trouble with games on windows vista ultimate
Ok ive ben running vista ultimate for a few moths now. I istaled Hardtruck apocalypse and cant save my game and it also sometimes crashes. Also having trouble with Need for speed carbon running slow, and i know its not cause of my system. I also have another pc that i run thease games on and its only got 1gb ram and an Ati radion 9250 256m video card and 3.4ghz prosessor, and the games ...
6 09.07.2007 15:02:17
Neverwinter Nights 1
Is there any way to run this under Vista?...
2 09.07.2007 14:48:01
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1 09.07.2007 14:41:30
Everquest
Anyone else having problem when you log in have to hit CTRL+ALT+DEl to get manager then click bck into game to let enter ro if in game have to do that to move etc? Any fix? Also once on toon log to toon slection and it crashes. Hav eto log completely out of game and back in to change toons. Vista is really startign to make me mad and is one step from reformt back to XP and trash. Any...
1 09.07.2007 12:02:02
Intelligence Built into Microsoft Solitaire
I played a few games on a third party Solitaire game and won about 7-percent of the time. The Solitaire game shipped with Vista appears to increase it's difficulty the more I beat it. Consequently, I have to ask, is there any intelligence built into the game?...
1 09.07.2007 03:44:01
Minesweeper doesn't respond
Hi, I see reading the posts just now that many have had the same problem I have had for two months or so. I play minesweeper and about 70% of time it locks up, and just when I'm on the home straight, sometimes with a world record in my sights! What was or is the solution to make it run normally reliably? Help would be great. Many thanks, Peter Davies...
2 09.07.2007 01:26:02
DOS Fullscreen issue NTVDM with Vista... Please fix this......
Hello, I think Windows Vista 32-bit OS has an issue because it won't run DOS fullscreen apps although the option to do so is in the properties.When I call a DOS app that tries to run in full screen, I receive an error telling me that It doesn't support fullscreen.That's ridiculous since the NTVDM used in Windows XP is the same of Windows Vista.Are you planing to fix this issue in Wind...
3 09.07.2007 00:38:01
Battlefield 2142
I have just upgraded to Vista Ultimate, no when I have finished playing a map in multiplayer mode online , windows shuts down exe file and closes the game. Has anyone got any suggestions/ answers....
22 08.07.2007 21:55:41
Legacy game won't run - Heroes of Might & Magic IV
I recently picked up an older game, Heroes of Might and Magic IV. I used to love HOMM2 years ago, and picked this one up on an impulse at Best Buy since it was only $10. Anyway, I get home and install. Install wizard runs fine except for one thing - despite the fact it correctly identifies all my hardware, it tells me that my 2GB RAM fails to meet the 128MB requirement. Despite this, it sa...
7 08.07.2007 15:20:55
BF2142 cd error
i have installed vista home premium and whenever i run bf2142 i get the please insert bf2142 install disk to continue message. now my dvd-ram drive is working fine as is the actual dvd and i have set program to run as admin. anyone know how i can rectify this?...
2 08.07.2007 02:22:00
video card memory
i just upgraded my system from xp pro to vista ultamite. when the installation finished i wanted to play GTA vice city, but somthin popped up sayin "GTA VC cannot find enough avalible video memory space." when i had xp pro it worked fine, but i tried to play some other games, like that chess game vista came with, that had the same problem!!!!SOME1 HELP PLZZZZ IM SOOO BOOOORED!!!!!!!!! -...
4 07.07.2007 12:17:39
How do I register older games in the Games Explorer
Just wondering if there is a way to register older games in Games Explorer. I've installed them and dragged the icon to the explorer, so at least they appear in the list but they show up as genre "unspecified". I've heard that there are game descriptor files but I can't find anything that sound like it. Can someone point me to some documentation? Mark...
2 07.07.2007 07:46:01
Chess Titans has lost the 3D aspect
I have a high end computer with two 8800 GTS Nvidia cards. When I first ran Chess Titans it ran OK in 3D but since attempting to install Windows Mobile device Center the 3D has gone and wont come back. tried reinstalling game and latest drivers for card. Anyone any ideas? PC ...
3 07.07.2007 05:39:38
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