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Old 05-15-2007   #1 (permalink)
Tom Clark


 
 

Very Old games - Very New hardware, Any Help?

I recently found my copy of Destruction Derby 2. As far as i know the windows
95 emulation on vista is letting me start the game, but there are some
siriously tripped out/ Stretched and unusable pictures once the starting
intro has finished. Maybe this is something to do with older hardware
rendering? I don't realy know, thanks for help. I also can't find any
Hardware Acceleration options in Vista's Control pannel, am I missing
something out?

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Old 05-16-2007   #2 (permalink)
Betty


 
 

Re: Very Old games - Very New hardware, Any Help?

Tom wrote:
I recently found my copy of Destruction Derby 2. As far as i know the
windows
95 emulation on vista is letting me start the game, but there are some
siriously tripped out/ Stretched and unusable pictures once the starting
intro has finished. Maybe this is something to do with older hardware
rendering? I don't realy know, thanks for help. I also can't find any
Hardware Acceleration options in Vista's Control pannel, am I missing
something out?
>
>
>


It's so odd.........I never could get OLD games to play on Windows XP!!!!!!
LOL


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Old 05-23-2007   #3 (permalink)
Mark


 
 

Re: Very Old games - Very New hardware, Any Help?

I have an old game (Deadlock) that continuously locked up on Vista, even with
all the compatibility modes turned on. I downloaded Microsofts Application
Compatibility Toolkit and played around with it and eventually discovered a
setting that made the game run. If you get really lost, you might try that,
but be warned the toolkit is difficult to use.

Mark


"Betty" wrote:

> Tom wrote:
> I recently found my copy of Destruction Derby 2. As far as i know the
> windows
> 95 emulation on vista is letting me start the game, but there are some
> siriously tripped out/ Stretched and unusable pictures once the starting
> intro has finished. Maybe this is something to do with older hardware
> rendering? I don't realy know, thanks for help. I also can't find any
> Hardware Acceleration options in Vista's Control pannel, am I missing
> something out?
> >
> >
> >

>
> It's so odd.........I never could get OLD games to play on Windows XP!!!!!!
> LOL
>
>
>

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