Silentway

I tried that but unfortunatly the games still shut down from DEP even with it
set to system files only

"Noddy" wrote:

> "Silentway" <Silentway@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:99D34F53-76D7-4FC0-8613-383DD045DF3C@microsoft.com...
> > Ok So I think I have found the problem most people have been having with
> > Games not working on Vista and simply crashing after 10 min. Everyone
> > always
> > tells them it's a driver issue.
> >
> > I found that the problem is with the DEP (Data Execution Program). When
> > your
> > game crashes its because Vista thinks the software is processing the
> > memory
> > (RAM) wrong and shuts down the program to "protect" the computer.
> > The problem is, is that in order to run your games you need DEP active and
> > Vista won't let you turn it off for your Games, but the DEP is what is
> > shutting down your games.
> > So in order for your games to work you need DEP but DEP is whats shutting
> > down your games.
> >
> > My Question is, how can I play my games without DEP shutting them down if
> > I
> > can't turn DEP off, without changing OS?
> >
>
> You can set DEP to only protect system files. That's the default setting so
> if it is still happening then perhaps you need to give those games admin
> control. XP has DEP too and I haven't had any issues on Vista64 yet with
> games but I only have a few installed to Vista64 as I dual boot XP/Vista so
> don't really need Vista for games yet.
>
>