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Re: Game Compatibility

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Old 05-12-2008   #1 (permalink)
Nick
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Re: Game Compatibility

Try right clicking the game icon and run as administrator

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> I have a coule of games that will not run on Vista. I have Vista Home
> Premium. I have searched the web and tried every approach i could. I
> download
> a whole lot of patches and still not progress. I wonder, is there any way
> to
> run XP games on Vista?
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Old 05-19-2008   #2 (permalink)
Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]
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Re: Game Compatibility

Many software installers (including far too many game installers) write
poorly handled version checks that block on future versions of Windows. Most
of the time, they work perfectly fine on newer versions of Windows if they
didn't do this kind of thing.

Try turning on the "Windows XP SP2" compatabiltiy mode for the installer and
that should get it to stop blocking it. Of course, YMMV after that depending
on other potential problems with the game.

Create a short-cut to the installer

Edit the properties of the shorcut

Go to the Compatibility panel

Turn on "Run this program in compatablity mode for:" and leave the list as
"Windows XP (Service Pack 2)".

For the installer to work, you may have to also turn on "Run this program as
an administrator" as well.

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Chuck Walbourn
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