Gamingtrevor
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I have Vista Home on a Dell Inspiron 531S, 2GB Ram (With 2GB Readyboost), 350GB HDD, but I'm installing the game to a 500GB External. I have an NVIDIA BFG 512MB Video Card, and AMD Athalon Dual Core 3800+ Processor.
Now, I don't mean to rant and rave something all of you have heard a billion and a half times, but I'm an average computer worker (Graphic Artist for a top 100 company, and BFA in Computer Animation) who loves video games. Installing new games on my computer is a breeze... But, older games, is another story.
Keep in mind, this rant is strictly from an average user's stand-point.
Now, before you hop on me, and tell me I just don't know what I'm doing, I do have a general idea. I've gotten other games to work, through DosBox, and through changing settings, and if it crashes, I know to disable both processors, and I know about Administrator options (Oh, god, do I know about how to 'run as an administrator', whatever that really does...).
And for me, it's time to face facts. I'm a minority... My old pc games like Starship Titanic, Myst, Grim Fandango, Escape From Monkey Island, and various other wonderful games, will never be patched for Vista... And I have serious problems with that.
I don't understand how Windows can release a program, where it's compatibility mode is faked, where Dos is faked, where everything from it's past is faked, when in reality, it would've taken up very little room for it to be included with my new OS. XP never had these kind of problems. XP had a DOS mode that actually was compatible with the OS (Seriously, why even have a non-connected DOS?), XP's compatibility mode actually did what it says it does.
I just hate pulling out an old game, talking about it with friends, thinking about playing it for several days, finally getting to sit down and install it, and then have to go through hours of searching online, trying to find a solution to actually PLAY THIS FREAKIN' THING!
Does everyone remember a time when you inserted the disc, and it would play, is basically what I'm asking...
And while I'm here, I'll throw my most recent problem at you guys, as you know a lot more than me, and will probably be able to address my problems. Hopefully, you wont take that tirade as an attack on you guys, but something you guys uphold and maintain, and something that if it weren't for you guys, things wouldn't get answered (Damn sure know Windows tech support haven't got a clue what their troubleshooting).
Went to install Starship Titanic, load the install screen, installed, brings up menu, hit the 'play' button, screen goes black, screen drops resolution for two seconds and drops to low-color resolution, goes black, drops back out to GUI and no program running. Changing any of the settings in the compatibility mode yields it to say program is not responding. Running as Admin does nothing noticeable. Headache levels are up to 70%. Could anyone help me out please? I know I'm angry about all this
, but one of you guys could really help an old-school nerd out, and make him happy, like this :D.
Now, I don't mean to rant and rave something all of you have heard a billion and a half times, but I'm an average computer worker (Graphic Artist for a top 100 company, and BFA in Computer Animation) who loves video games. Installing new games on my computer is a breeze... But, older games, is another story.
Keep in mind, this rant is strictly from an average user's stand-point.
Now, before you hop on me, and tell me I just don't know what I'm doing, I do have a general idea. I've gotten other games to work, through DosBox, and through changing settings, and if it crashes, I know to disable both processors, and I know about Administrator options (Oh, god, do I know about how to 'run as an administrator', whatever that really does...).
And for me, it's time to face facts. I'm a minority... My old pc games like Starship Titanic, Myst, Grim Fandango, Escape From Monkey Island, and various other wonderful games, will never be patched for Vista... And I have serious problems with that.
I don't understand how Windows can release a program, where it's compatibility mode is faked, where Dos is faked, where everything from it's past is faked, when in reality, it would've taken up very little room for it to be included with my new OS. XP never had these kind of problems. XP had a DOS mode that actually was compatible with the OS (Seriously, why even have a non-connected DOS?), XP's compatibility mode actually did what it says it does.
I just hate pulling out an old game, talking about it with friends, thinking about playing it for several days, finally getting to sit down and install it, and then have to go through hours of searching online, trying to find a solution to actually PLAY THIS FREAKIN' THING!
Does everyone remember a time when you inserted the disc, and it would play, is basically what I'm asking...
And while I'm here, I'll throw my most recent problem at you guys, as you know a lot more than me, and will probably be able to address my problems. Hopefully, you wont take that tirade as an attack on you guys, but something you guys uphold and maintain, and something that if it weren't for you guys, things wouldn't get answered (Damn sure know Windows tech support haven't got a clue what their troubleshooting).
Went to install Starship Titanic, load the install screen, installed, brings up menu, hit the 'play' button, screen goes black, screen drops resolution for two seconds and drops to low-color resolution, goes black, drops back out to GUI and no program running. Changing any of the settings in the compatibility mode yields it to say program is not responding. Running as Admin does nothing noticeable. Headache levels are up to 70%. Could anyone help me out please? I know I'm angry about all this
, but one of you guys could really help an old-school nerd out, and make him happy, like this :D.
