Thats the thing, it did pick it up on the last vista install before I
formatted again to setup my partitions properly, now it just seems fudged -
the only thing I can think of is that it has a little menu launcher for the
game with the latest patch, it doesn't go straight into it
"Robert Firth" wrote:
> I would image there is something the game creater has to do to say "Hey, I'm
> a game! Put me in Games Explorer!". So I don't thing there is much you can
> do.
>
> Robert Firth
> http://www.winvistainfo.org
>
> "Spektor" <Spektor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:82298B23-8C4F-4912-8201-53F762F43283@microsoft.com...
> >I have Vista Premium 64bit, my partitions were messed up so I installed it
> >to
> > play about with and back stuff up from my old partitions to format fully,
> > during this I installed Medieval 2 Total War to which the games explorer
> > automatically picked it up and added it with box art etc.
> >
> > However on this install, games explorer has not added it automatically, it
> > won't seem to no matter what I run the game from (shortcut / direct exe /
> > auto-play form cd) I can only make it work from games explorer by dragging
> > the short cut into games explorer but this doesn't auto-update it with the
> > box art and just has a nasty little icon in the middle.
> >
> > Anyway to make games explorer auto search for a particular game or
> > something? 
> >
> > Thanks
>