Vista - Zoo Tycoon

I can not seem to get Zoo Tycoon 2 African Adventure to work in Vista Beta 2.
I have tried running in Windows XP SP2 and as an administrator but it still
crashes within a minute of starting the game. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
--
Chris

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:16:01 -0700, ChrisW
<ChrisW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I can not seem to get Zoo Tycoon 2 African Adventure to work in Vista Beta 2.
> I have tried running in Windows XP SP2 and as an administrator but it still
>crashes within a minute of starting the game. Does anyone have any
>suggestions?

In case you miss the point of Marks' previous post ITS A BETA!

Vista is 7 months at least away from release, expecting it to support
games written for XP is very ambitious and a little silly. Would you
expect PS2 games to run on a XBox if not then why expect Vista Beta to
handle games written for XP. Compatability mode cannot perform
miracles.

Try zoo whatevers web site and see if they have a patch to allow the
game to run in Vista Beta.

Good luck with that!

8-)

Jonah

Be sure to report it via the feedback link.

"ChrisW" <ChrisW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I can not seem to get Zoo Tycoon 2 African Adventure to work in Vista Beta
>2.
> I have tried running in Windows XP SP2 and as an administrator but it
> still
> crashes within a minute of starting the game. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
> --
> Chris

Actually, MS is very interested in XP (and earlier) games running on Vista.
This has been an active area of interest since the first Beta 1 drop.

"jonah" <jonah123@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:16:01 -0700, ChrisW
> <ChrisW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I can not seem to get Zoo Tycoon 2 African Adventure to work in Vista Beta
>>2.
>> I have tried running in Windows XP SP2 and as an administrator but it
>> still
>>crashes within a minute of starting the game. Does anyone have any
>>suggestions?
>
> In case you miss the point of Marks' previous post ITS A BETA!
>
> Vista is 7 months at least away from release, expecting it to support
> games written for XP is very ambitious and a little silly. Would you
> expect PS2 games to run on a XBox if not then why expect Vista Beta to
> handle games written for XP. Compatability mode cannot perform
> miracles.
>
> Try zoo whatevers web site and see if they have a patch to allow the
> game to run in Vista Beta.
>
> Good luck with that!
>
> 8-)
>
> Jonah