When I originaaly updated to Vista Home Premium the games folder worked fine Now when I try to run a game it says that I have to Set Associations I've tried turning the games on and off, rebooting and so forth Anyone else had this problem or a solution for it Thanks

Hello, We are having trouble with our Window's Vista. We have recently upgraded our computer to the new Window's Vista, but we cannot play Backgammon, checkers, or any games on the MSN. We didn't have any trouble with XP, but since getting the new computer with the Window's Vista we cannot play any of the games online. We upgraded the Active x, it says all is installed properly. When we are...

Does anyone know what games that are Vista compatible and can be controlled using 360 Wireless Signal Receiver + Wireless Controller? I know "Game for Windows" series is. but the number of titles there is extremely poor. None of my favorite games are there. Any help appreciated.

Dawn of War Dark Crusade has troubles looking for Spooge driver somewher in DirectX. 'System Initialization Failed! ERRORS: Spooge driver not found. Verify that DirectX is properly installed.' It said. I try install DirectX through the game disc, 9.0c. It doesn't work out, so I

Besides telling my wife not to play it so much, what is going on with this thing? She plays 5 or 6 games and the screen goes white and she hards to power off and on. Or is is a Vista problem not specific to games

I just installed vista 64bit and when i try to run steam games or c&c 3 demo the screen goes realy blury, if i try alt-f4 nothing happens, alt-tab jus changes the blur to a green blur. ive updated all the drivers and searched for answers but cant find anything. im running a amd 64 x2 2.21 ghz cpu, 3071 mb of ram and an asus a8n32-sli motherboard

I have discovered that if you run the software after checking the run as administrator it will load for you. Does not solve all problems though. I am still working on games that won't run because of the 64 bit etc.. but it's something

ok im having trouble getting cheatengine to work the creator(along with others) said for it to work on vista said you need to get class 3 id certificate to sign the drivers so it will work whos dumbass idea was this i relize it was to help protect agest virus but give us the fricking option to turn it off if you ask me its retarded we have to this to use programs that arent signed

i am having trouble with Windows Vista games i.e freecell, chess etc every time i close the game down it shuts computer down it is a new computer 2.8 dual core processor 1gb of ddr2 ram

Hi! I'm trying to get C&C Generals working on Vista and many people have said that the Application Comatability Pack from Windows Update has the fix to this. However, I can't seem to find it anywhere on the Windows Update client, it hasn't been installed recently and if I try to install it manually then it says it's not needed on this system or something like that. Am I doing something...

I bought a new PC with Vista, and I'm interested in gaming on my HDTV. I have an Asus P5B Motherboard with integrated audio. I'm able to output in 5.1 with DirectSound 3D when I use the 3 speaker plugs on the back, but it doesn't output over the fiberoptic cable with Dolby Digital... It will for the Windows test, but not with DirectSound 3D. Can anyone do that? What sound hardware do you...

If I play Fifa 07 windows media player will then not load. Any ideas how to fix it?

I have recently installed the Sims 2. There are three users on the system and each user seems to use the same game i.e. if I play the game and save, the next user goes into the same game and doesn't seem to be able to play their own game. I can't see any way of saving individual games and then playing the requested game. I am running Windows Vista and I had to download a patch from Maxis...

Im having issues on loading my maps slow, but my FPS is great around 50-70 but my load times are horrible takes me about a minute to join and my friend has almost exactly same computer but his load in like 7 seconds. i play FEAR combat and Savage Battle For Newerth. anybody have any suggestions on how to make the computer load faster?

Does anyone know if The sims online works with Vista? I downloaded fine but when it finishes and takes me to the page to go to the city it says connection failed. I go to the icon on my desk top to sign back in and nothing happens. I've changed compatability for it to play on Service Pack 2 but still no go. I've downloaded twice and it still doesnt work. Any suggestions? Anyone ? I miss my...

Hi,i just bought an imedia 2579 and battlefield 2,stalker and countersrike are all freezing within 10 mins of play every time,once the game has froze i cant do anything i have to turn of pc,i have update all drivers and i have tryed turning off windows vista areo theme and the sidebar as i have heard that this will reduce the amount of RAM that is used,i have done a system recovery set it...

just released, installed fine and running sweet with no probs at all. My machine spec AMD FX-62..Asus Silent Square Pro Cooler...DFI LANPARTY UT NF590-SLI-M2RG...ENERMAX INFINITI EIN720AWT PSU...2x74gb Raptors (raid 0)...2x320gb Maxtors (raid 1)...2 x Gainward BLISS 8800 GTX (forceware 160.03)...4x1gb Corsair XMS DDR2 800...Plextor DVDR 716AL...Pioneer 112 DVDRWDL...Creative X-FI...Vista...

I've had the XBox 360 controller laying around for so long time now, I can't remember why I bought it. I decided to install the Vista 64bit driver and plugged it in. Now if some one will be kind enough to suggest titles of some good PC Games that will use this controller, that will be appreciated. Al

Read, and discuss. Try to keep the anger on the backburner. Microsoft is Screwing Up Live on Vista By Jason Cross (http://www.extremetech.com/author_bio/0,1728,a=2538,00.asp) Article Link: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2128054,00.asp Makes sense to me, Microsoft is basically trying to expand their XBox experience to Windows in hopes that everyone will drop all the free offerings...

Can anyone help, I have just installed Neverwinter Nights 2 and played for a while. Upon saving my game, the file goes into the Documents folder instead of the Vista "save games" folder. What can I do? This confuses the me to why it would do this, is there a manual way to tell a game where to save its files? Because I can't even get it to save in its own install directory. Cheers for you...