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nathy_87

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31st Dec 10 at 16:32

Is it possible seen a few threads on here but looked in the search but it doesn't come up with anything.

So can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks

Rich H

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31st Dec 10 at 18:33

What do you mean? Play a game designed to work on XP on a Vista PC instead?

iirc you need to run in compatibility mode and set it to run as if it's running on XP.

Daveskater

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31st Dec 10 at 19:18

Most of the time it will just work, but if not then set compatibility mode like Rich said.

I've run Windows 98 games on Vista before without using compatibility mode though

So give it a try

Numberwang!

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Brett

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31st Dec 10 at 19:24

Dave's right, most will just work without fannying around, otherwise compatability mode as said. I've struggled with games like Theme Park in the past iirc and had to use DOSbox

Daveskater

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31st Dec 10 at 21:28

Theme Park was epic

Numberwang!

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I like you Dave, you are a man of men

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Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle

Look at my pictures

harrisp

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1st Jan 11 at 10:47

quote:
Originally posted by Daveskater
Theme Park was epic

I had that on ps1

pow

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1st Jan 11 at 11:47

The main problem is the movement of AppData and and other system folders. Idiot programmers who use absolute paths and not environment variables!

nathy_87

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1st Jan 11 at 14:56

Yup that worked cheers.

But when i try run the game (The Sims 2) on XP i get an error message poping up saying:

Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have DirectX 9.0c compatiable graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate.

Common sense tells me that would be a graphics card anyone confirm this? If so is there any decent but cheap ones on the market?

Thank you again.

[Edited on 01-01-2011 by 5dr corsa-3dr_polo]

nathy_87

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2nd Jan 11 at 17:16

Anyone?

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