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September 12th 06, 05:57 PM
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Old games on RC1?
I really like RC1 except that can`t play any older games like Quake, Halo and
any other game that worked from Win95 thru WinXP. Anyone know of a way to get old games to work? 
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September 13th 06, 03:28 AM
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Old games on RC1?
16Bit Applications ( DOS/Win 3.x/ early Win95 ) are not supported, as in
Windows Vista the complete 16bit Code-Support is gone and it wont come back by no way. All native 32bit apps (NT/2000/XP) should do well, as well as most "true" Win98/Me apps. rightclicking an icon / the *.exe and try all compatibility settings to get an old app to work. Also try running as Administrator if else will fail. for DOS-based games you could go with emulators like DOSBOX /Microsoft VirtualPC (is free now ) and the Likes. SBJ "rhuds13" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I really like RC1 except that can`t play any older games like Quake, Halo and any other game that worked from Win95 thru WinXP. Anyone know of a way to get old games to work?
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September 13th 06, 11:13 AM
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Old games on RC1?
I successfully ran Quake3 so I could get a bit of an idea of what the frame
rate would be. It runs as fast as XP. "rhuds13" wrote in message ... I really like RC1 except that can`t play any older games like Quake, Halo and any other game that worked from Win95 thru WinXP. Anyone know of a way to get old games to work?
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September 16th 06, 02:21 AM
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Old games on RC1?
I don't think that's accurate, because I am able to run 16-bit programs on
Vista RC1 just fine. I tried out the old Windows 3.1 game "Alien Force" just to make sure. DOS programs still work also, I was able to play 8088 Othello from my IBM XT. "Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" wrote in message ... 16Bit Applications ( DOS/Win 3.x/ early Win95 ) are not supported, as in Windows Vista the complete 16bit Code-Support is gone and it wont come back by no way.
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September 23rd 06, 08:01 PM
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Old games on RC1?
"rhuds13" wrote in message
... I really like RC1 except that can`t play any older games like Quake, Halo and any other game that worked from Win95 thru WinXP. Anyone know of a way to get old games to work? I know for a fact that Halo works. There is even a Bungie web page that you get sent to at the "this game has compatability issues" warning that says "Vista displayes a false warning, these 2 files will remove the warning". The game runs a-ok.
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