Vista - games stop working with Vista

Ok most all games seem to stop working. Is there anything that can be done or
am I stuck cussing Vista

"Shari" <Shari@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FFCA0898-DA34-42C3-83EA-533629773582@xxxxxxThere's a bunch of stuff, but without some general information like which
game isn't work or games, what your system make/model is, etc. there's not
too much to say other than to try some of the other suggestions posted here.

Run as Administrator or
with older games (no mention of vista as a supported OS in the system
requirements) run in Windows XP compatibility mode.

A crashing system is not always the OS, it could be the game/program, the
hardware, or something else.

-A.

I've also noticed that with certain games you need to modify your D.E.P.
settings.
I had to add AOE3,FEAR and valve's steam to my list.

"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dave Angel" <jaimem@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6EFC18D6-67F7-4629-AD35-F1410EC58751@xxxxxxI'd rather not mess with that DEP stuff. I mean they had to of hidden that
screen away for a reason.

Which Steam game is giving you problems. I was play testing TF2, before the
last patch I got the sound loop crash. Tried DEP, didn't help. After the
last update though my crash is gone, so it wasn't really Vista, just the
game itself.

Might submit a bug report to Valve or Sierra for fear, etc. See if this is a
problem with the game.

-A.

You'll know if DEP is causing the problem pretty easily though since the
game will crash/close and Vista will tell you that it was closed due to
protection settting you have in place or something like that.
And yeah most people probably won't see this anyways since it will only show
up if you have DEP enabled for all programs/apps which isn't the default
setting.

"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I dont know about other games since i havent installed them however i had XP
and i upgraded to Vista Ultimate Recently, Had NFS Carbon running fine on XP,
but once i installed Vista and reinstalled NFS Carbon, its not working.. is
there any way i can make it work..

"Shashank" <Shashank@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:22392A83-DED8-4A08-9A5E-795FE871A17C@xxxxxxYeah, re-install Windows XP.

http://support.ea.com for help with Electronic Arts software, or post your
system specs or make/model.

Have you tried some of the compatabilty modes for the game to see if that
resolves the problem? You might try the Windows 98 or Windows XP modes to
see if that fixes it.

--
Chuck Walbourn
SDE, XNA Developer Connection

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