Threads Replies Last Post 21 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21   Vista wont install games Hi, I have a fairly new 1.6 ghz, dual core, vista. Some of my video games install. Some old and new ones will not install. I mean, I only get the allow, cancel window. It wont give me the option to install, I have gone into the settings, into dos. It wont do anything, the only action I get is the green tower light and some action in the dvd player, thats it. Anyone know whats wrong? -- mazda20... 7 12/30/2008 4:25:28 PM WoW + Vista Ult 64x Framerates are horrible... Hey guys, Kind of upset here at the performance of WoW. I have a pretty nice set up. I had XP64 before and WoW ran flawlessly. Here's my setup. Mac Pro 3.2ghz 8 Core. 8800GTS (Latest nvidia driver installed) 180.48 WD 300GB VelociRaptor HD. Vista Ultimate 64bit. SP1 I honestly don't think I should be having any problems with lag at the highest setting with this set up. It must be... 12 12/30/2008 4:22:17 PM Age of Empires 3 online, "failed to join" message Well, here it goes: When im *online* on *Age of Empires 3*, actually called Ensamble Studios Online(ESO), don't matter which game i pick from the list of the games i can join, but when i join, a box shows up where it says "connecting", and instead of taking me to the game, a new box saying "failed to join game" appears. The strange thing about this, is that i my self can host a game, and others j... 1 12/30/2008 1:28:58 AM Sims 1 I have The Sims 1 Complete Collection, and am using an Acer with Vista Premium 64x (to my knowledge, there's a folder that specifies 64x & I'm honestly not computer savvy). I loaded the Sims onto the computer, and when ever I switched to a different neighborhood (neighborhood three was the biggest culprit), the pop ups for the patches for the expansion packs would run repeatedly. I wasn't unable... 2 12/29/2008 6:23:55 PM Problem Playing Burnt Games Hey, i have bought a few burnt games from the markets, and none of them work with vista. the games work fine on my friends computer (windows xp) but vista wont seem to accept the burnt games. Is there any way to fix this? any program i should download?? Has anyone had any similar experiences?? -- melly2009 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com ... 4 12/29/2008 6:03:27 PM NFS Undercover Compatibility Hi, I have MS Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Service Pack 1. I want to buy in the next days Need For Speed Undercover. I want to know if there are some known issues about running this game on my operating system or if it can harm my os integrity. Thank You.... 4 12/28/2008 4:34:58 PM Renaming Games entries? I have a number of Games in my Games folder, and I would like to rename some of them. Surprisingly, right-clicking on these entries doesn't give me a rename option. Any ideas?... 2 12/28/2008 4:19:48 AM low gaming framerate after vista wakeup Hi everyone, here gaming in a bussiness x64 with a q6600 8gbram 8800gt and i having a 20 dps drop in games after waking up the computer, after a reset everything goes to normal, have anyone experience this problem, fixes, comments anything?? Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums... 1 12/27/2008 10:04:02 PM So how do you shut off auto start in chess titans? Why does the game automatically start instead of allowing the user to set up the options beforehand like color and level? Is there any way to shut down the auto start? -- letsgonow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ letsgonow's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/letsgonow.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-games/109398... 1 12/27/2008 5:54:16 PM Vista won't install Fritz 11 by Chessbase Hello, I have been trying to install the new game Fritz 11 (which is Windows Vista compatible) without success. My computer runs on Vista 32bit (Service Pack 1) 2.20 Ghz. The autorun doesn't start, I cannot even run it manually since I can't get access to the contents of this DVDrom (!) I have updated my drivers, desabled the antivirus, the control on the user account etc. but it is useless. :s... 1 12/27/2008 4:55:50 PM Vista wont install most games Hi, I have a fairly new 1.6 ghz, dual core, vista. Some of my video games install. Some old and new ones will not install. I mean, I only get the allow, cancel window. It wont give me the option to install, I have gone into the settings, into dos. It wont do anything, the only action I get is the green tower light and some action in the dvd player, thats it. Anyone know whats wrong? -- mazda20... 1 12/26/2008 3:32:39 PM Can't Get Fallout 3 to install I've surfed the net and found many vista users with the same issue, unfortunately no working solutions out there for most of us. I get a message during setup (usually right around MenuVoices.bsa) saying: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\Data\Fallout - MenuVoices.bsa doesn't match the file in setup's.cab file. The medium from which you are running the setup may be corrupted; co... 2 12/26/2008 2:58:04 PM Steam: Call of Duty World at War Hey, My Call of Duty World at War via steam is not allowing me to create an online profile. Everytime I do, I get error "unable to create online profile". I got to where the profile are being created "C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles" and it does is create a folder called $$$ with bunch of config files inside it. I tried copying all the items in the folder with... 2 12/26/2008 2:32:00 PM Half-Life 2 failed to load and crashing once loaded [RESOLVED] So I just built a new system, installing Vista Business 64bit to take full advantage of DX10 and large amounts of memory. Not having many games lying around, I decided to download steam and install Half Life 2. If you are reading this, and using a 64bit edition of windows, then my guess is you are having problems with Half Life 2. I encountered two problems, and after a few hours was able to sol... 3 12/24/2008 4:09:39 PM checkers is there anyway to keep internet checkers from xp when you install the full version of vista? thank you... 4 12/24/2008 4:01:26 PM flight simulator x error what is the error 25(null) -- franmonn... 2 12/23/2008 8:18:35 PM ink ball [ F O N T = L u c i d a C o n s o l e ] : m a d : : p a r t y : h e y c o o l b l o g , n o w i g o t t a f i n d i n k b a l l [ / F O N T ] -- zachlasky... 2 12/21/2008 2:48:06 PM Death Space players.... Hi there, I like to ask anyone who plays Death Space to let me know is SecuROM affect your computer in anyway and what you think of it being there. What do you think of the game? Cheers, Bruce -- bruce2... 6 12/21/2008 5:46:42 AM FSX and Low Virtual Memory I am running Vista 32bit with 4gigs of ram, AMD Phenom 9950, just put in an ATI 4870X2 with 8.11 drivers. I have two hard drives, one 250gb with the OS and FS9 and FSX on it and another 500gb with really nothing on it. I have my virtual memory set up as follows: C: and D: drive set to system managed. Should I set the custom size and to what intial and max size??? Total paging file siz... 6 12/19/2008 4:11:10 PM Battle for Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings). DVD Hey there Just brought myself LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 1, for PC today. And i cannot even start the installation, comes up with 2 error messages which both state that the data is corrupted, the game is brand new from "Game". I am running Vista Ultimate with 32 Bit, with a Dell XPS420, surely this should not be a problem... Any help would be much apprechiated. Thanks Tristan ... 3 12/18/2008 5:13:36 PM FSX/readyboost drive/performance Hi, My understanding is that a ready boost drive is a usb drive that vista uses to dump data to, rather than a hard disk as the readyboost drive is considered to be faster than the hard disk. So if my comment above is true, and I can now buy a 32gb readyboost drive for $70, is it a good idea to install games such as FsX onto a readyboost drive, and get better performance than using a... 4 12/18/2008 5:07:07 PM legacy of kain defiance I have a toshiba satellite laptop with windows vista haome premium installed. I Installed Legacy of Kain Defiance. When I try to run game I get a message "conflict with the disc emulator software detected" and the game will not run. What does it mean and what is solution? -- thanx Sallyw... 5 12/18/2008 4:30:50 PM The Sims "Not Enough Space" Install Error Whenever I try to install the Sims Deluxe edition I get this error message: [image: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn96/WeeMadRach/Random/notenoughspaceerror.jpg] However, there is also a Sims Deluxe Edition on the installed programs list on the "Uninstall a Program" Window. Whenever I try to uninstall this it says the exact same thing. Help! This game is driving me crazy! -- WeeMadRach... 1 12/18/2008 4:13:27 PM Spider Solitare Hi A fault has developed where-as when I select the game it says "play saved game found" Etc ,, on exit don't save is selected, But every time it start wants to open saved game.. A couple of times I have agreed to run the saved game, to empty it out of the system,but the next time I start the program,although I had selected don't save it has the last game I I aborted saved I know this... 2 12/16/2008 12:49:16 PM Windows Vista Games-Solitaire-download I have Vista Business, it came with no installed games, how/where do I find them to download free?... 3 12/15/2008 6:04:06 PM 21 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21