Vista - I can't play Heroes 2 on vista

I can install the game but once i click on it to load it just stays on a
black screen and will eventually tell me that an error has occured and stoped
the game from running and will exit the game.
does anyone know what i can do
i tryed doom 2 as well and that wouldnt work either so i think its vista
because the games both work on other computers with xp

"liveasagoat" <liveasagoat@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6242F8C1-E3E3-4DEA-B212-94981C679EC3@xxxxxxWell Doom 2 is a pretty old game, it probably won't just install and work on
your system. I'm not sure I've heard of Heroes 2, is that based on the TV
show Heroes, or are you talking about Heroes of Might and Magic, or maybe...
some other game?

For Doom 2, look around the Internet for a Windows 9x update. A lot of
people have taking the "now" open source game Doom 2 and made new programs
that are Windows compatible.

As for your other problems, sounds like you need to update your windows
video card drivers. Look up your computer online, find out which video card
you have and look for a driver update for it. You might also run Windows
Update (in the control panel) and see if there's an optional hardware driver
update listed, Vista usually installs a fairly recent version of nVidia and
ATi drivers.

Respond here if this doesn't help, include your computer make and model# as
well as which game specifically you are trying to run.

-A.

yeah the game is heroes of might and magic 2 and its my favorite
im mostly worried about playing heroes more than doom
i have a gaming laptop asus and i think the modle # is G1 74N0AG004194

how do i go about updating my video card driver

thanks for the help

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

I think HOMM2 is a full-screen dos game. If so, you will need to download
DOSBox and run the game from inside of it.
If you have troubles getting it working just post your questions.

Hope that helps!
Mark


"liveasagoat" <liveasagoat@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C7151626-164A-4BC6-8E5E-258A5064E407@xxxxxx

"liveasagoat" <liveasagoat@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C7151626-164A-4BC6-8E5E-258A5064E407@xxxxxxYeah, old DOS games, not really easy to get going, but as someone just said,
look for a program called DOSBox, it emulates an older DOS computer and lets
you run old games (albiet poorly). Might let you get the game going.

Good luck,
Andy

ok ill give that a try and let you know how it went
thanks guys

-phil

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

On Sep 26, 2:08 pm, liveasagoat
<liveasag...@xxxxxx> wrote:The only time DosBox emulates old games poorly is if you haven't
configured it correctly or your trying to run DosBox on a machine
where you'd be better off just running DOS. If I had a penny for every
time I've helped people with DosBox only to find out they are trying
to run it on 400/500mhz PC's then I'd be rich.

ok so i went to download.com and i looked for dosbox and i downloaded
dwlse05installer and then when i try to install it it says it requires the
..NET Framwork version 1.1.4322 and it gives me the option to be directed to
the website its located
so im at this website
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/net.../aa731542.aspx

and there are like 20 different things and i dont know which one to download
but i tried downloading x86 version and x64 version
and then i tried to install one of those and i got an error that says error
creating process
<C:\Users\Phil\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP000.TMP\Install.exe>.Reason:
C:\Windows\system32\advpack.dll

so im totally confused once again
any insite

thanks
phil

"ronald.phillips@xxxxxx" wrote:

"liveasagoat" <liveasagoat@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FFB97237-364D-4377-8116-96590D22F799@xxxxxx..NET Framework are a bunch of system files needed to run some programs
developed with Visual Studio. For future reference, you are probably running
Vista 32-bit version, so the files you want (if you have a choice between
x86 and x64) is x86 files, the X stands for 386, or 486 which was the call
numbers assigned to the old, but popular Intel chips upon which all current
home PCs are based. x64 was invented to indicate that you were using a
64-bit processor. Slightly different, but i digress.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

The link above should take you to the Microsoft .NET Framwork 1.1 Service
Pack 1 download page. It's a 10 meg download, run that then try to play
around with DOSBox.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/net.../aa569263.aspx

Link above is the page before the first link, if it doesn't work there's a
link to .NET Framework 1.1 under Popular Downloads.

If you can't find the file, try google, but only download it from
microsoft.com.

"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EAC79BC3-AEE3-41FD-A68D-5BB4EED6AF40@xxxxxxOh crap, and you CAN have a 64-bit processor, but still run a 32-bit
operating system. Most people are running 32-bit, so even if you have a
64-bit processor you are more than likely still going to want the 32-bit
(x86) version.