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12-26-2008
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit. | Vista wont install games Hi, I have a fairly new 1.6 ghz, dual core, vista. Some of my video games install. Some old and new ones will not install. I mean, I only get the allow, cancel window. It wont give me the option to install, I have gone into the settings, into dos. It wont do anything, the only action I get is the green tower light and some action in the dvd player, thats it. Anyone know whats wrong? |
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12-26-2008
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| | Re: Vista wont install games mazda2001 wrote: Quote: > Hi, I have a fairly new 1.6 ghz, dual core, vista. Some of my video > games install. Some old and new ones will not install. > I mean, I only get the allow, cancel window. It wont give me the option > to install, I have gone into the settings, into dos. It wont do > anything, the only action I get is the green tower light and some action > in the dvd player, thats it. Anyone know whats wrong? > > |
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12-26-2008
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit. | Re: Vista wont install games Dirt tracker racer, which worked once, driver 6. I just bought 2 versions of splinter cell, and a few others . Its not that they wont play, they will not install. I had 98 on an old computer it installed everything. Of course being old some games wouldnt run or were choppy. |
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12-26-2008
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit. | Re: Vista wont install games I think its bizarre that a new computer will install these games. |
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12-26-2008
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| | Re: Vista wont install games mazda2001 wrote: Quote: > I think its bizarre that a new computer will install these games. > > |
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12-30-2008
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| | Re: Vista wont install games > "mazda2001" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message Quote: > news:35d72ae39217221d724f51167c9e3ddd@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: >> >> Dirt tracker racer, which worked once, driver 6. I just bought 2 >> versions of splinter cell, and a few others . Its not that they wont >> play, they will not install. I had 98 on an old computer it installed >> everything. Of course being old some games wouldnt run or were >> choppy. news:8CABD331-20AB-450A-949D-25867106BEDE@xxxxxx: Quote: > Can you give some more information? You say "I only get the allow, > cancel window" is that a Windows dialog or the games? > > if you insert the cd, cancel anything that pops up, use explorer to go > to the list of files on the cd, right-click on "setup.exe" (or > whatever the installer program is called) and select "run as > administrator" what happens? User Account Control asking if you want to grant write access to protected areas for that application. Vista is running the setup, but the setup isn't starting correctly. My guess, is you have an older game that uses a 16-bit installer and you're running Vista x64, which does not support 16-bit applications. -- Joe |
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