Vista - loading of games

I have just bought a new laptop with Vista installed. All the games i have
won't load,one does but some of the keyboard controls won't work.
There are no error messages just rejection.

I'm not very pc literate so any replies please make as simple as possible,
sorry and thanks

=?Utf-8?B?a21vcmdz?= <kmorgs@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:258EF728-1A65-4A14-A968-3ACD3F1EEC08@xxxxxx:
Update Windows, make sure you install the optional updates as well. Make
sure you have Vista Service Pack 1 installed. (Right-click Computer icon,
choose properties to see this info, should say Service Pack 1 somewhere
near the top)

Update your video card & sound card drivers, don't know your computer make
or model, so I can't help much here without more info

Update the game, you didn't mention any game names so I'll assume you're
playing Solitare, but there's no update for this game and you can't really
reinstall games that come with Vista.

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The Laptop is an ACER 6920G
INTEL CORE 2 DUO T5759 / 2GB PROCESSOR
4GB RAM
250GB SERIAL ATA-150-5400RPM HARD DRIVE
HOME VISTA PREMIUM
NVIDIA GEFORCE 9500M GS 512MB

tHE GAME I'M TRYING TO PLAY IS OLD, 1944 BATTLE OF THE BULGE, ITS A
FAVOURITE OF MINE.

aRE THERE ANY GAMES SIMILAR TO THIS THAT WILL WORK ON MY LAPTOP ?

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> "Andy [YaYa]" wrote:=?Utf-8?B?a21vcmdz?= <kmorgs@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:4C51C92E-6CA0-4D89-BDB6-3203744C197B@xxxxxx:
Looked up the game online, it's not that old, it needs DirectX 9, runs
in Windows. No reason this game won't run on your system.

Update video card drivers:
The nVidia 9500M card is kindda new, and the Acer website sucks. I can't
find any driver updates. You can get universal nVidia drivers from:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ they tweak nVidia drivers so one file
works on all nVidia cards.

When you install the game, open the CD on your computer, right-click on
the Setup.EXE icon and choose Run as Administrator, just in case Vista
doesn't see it as an installation program.

Once installed run the game by right-clicking on the icon and choosing
run as admin again.

Game info online says Win 2k, XP only, no mention of Vista so you might
try looking up the game makers website and see if they have any
solutions for running in Vista.

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