Vista - Who says vista wont play old games?

I have vista 64 bit SP1 on my laptop and this happens to work very well with all of the games in the Age of Empires Series, including the original. Yay!

Blizzard's Diablo 1

Most games will work with some tweaking. I have not had any problems as of date. Some people will have more hassle with 64bit because it is not designed to run 16bit games. There are emulators and other things you can do to get a game to work.

What kind of tweaking do I need to do to get all my old games to run? SOme of them are for Vista and they won't play. They will load, but they won't do anything!

It depends on the game.
You can try to run the very old games in Dosbox, compatability mode, Use a vertual machine running an older version of windows.
Some setups require a tweak depending on the hardware, doom3 was not supposed to work on XP but there was a hack around to get rid of th eproblem.
You need to list what games dont run and what is happening with each one.
Check your error logs, the games not running may indicate a fault somewhere else.
Check for patches and updates to the game.
Google for an answer, it is a good chance someone else has had the same problem as yourself.

Let us know how you get on.

Someone told me to run them as an administator. All of them worked except one called (DON"T LAUGH) Pinkie Pie's Party Parade for My Little Pony. Of COURSE, THAT is the one we need to run.

what errors does it give you when you run it?
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None. It just shows me the front page of Pinky Pie and has an arrow to pres START and the when I do, a blue page comes up and says INSERT CD DISC. When I do nothing happens.

After reading the Joke Thread in the chillout room this is just hilarious, lmao.
Ok, I had enough. No, I'm still laughing
The game must be jokes, I'm ask around about this if anyone knows the title.
Ok, on another note, anybody tried Starcraft on Vista 64? It performs excellent on a 32 bit.

Pinky Pie/ My Little Pony is a computer game for children. I watch my sister's kids sometimes and they like My Little Pony. Of course this is the one game that won't play. I wven contaced the seller/ designer and no one knows anything. Figures.