I am just getting back into chess (after a 25 year abstinence). It seems that I recall that once your opponent gets down to a bare king, you have a certain number of moves to place him in checkmate otherwise the game ends in a draw. Am I recalling this correctly ? Does anyone know the number of moves which are allowed ?

Hi, I have a Creative SBLive sound card (PCI). Vista installed the sound drivers ok, but generates an error when it tries to install the Gameport driver for the gameport (15-pin) that is on the card. Any suggestions? Vista error details are below for two scenarios I tried. Device manager accepts it if I select "Unsupported Game Port for Creative", but that doesn't help since I can't use the...

Well gee, If I went to a group, and none of the posts were in the language I was going to post in, I'd be intelligent enough to find one that was. "xfile" wrote in message ... I understand but those people may not know that.

I recently installed the RC1 5600 build as an upgrade. I play BF 2142 on a regular basis, and had no problems when on XP Pro with all settings on high. I now try and play and get massive lag spikes, despite my ping being only 29. Iv tried turning all firewalls off, every background program, and even un-installing and reinstalling the game. Nothing has worked. Has anyone hd this problem? And...

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Just to let you pinball addicts know, it works. -- Regards, Richard Urban

yes my pc is the following cpu 1.8 ghz ram 1ghz VRam 256Meg Hard DRive over 100gig DVDRW+- along with a cdrw OS WINDOWS VISTA RC 1 Evaluation cpoy build 5600 when i go to load up NWN the windows vista comes up saying that this program

I have a small problem with Vista and CS:Source. The game actually starts up and plays (locally and online) very well. The problem occurs when I exit the game. Upon exit, my desktop is replaced with a nice tiled graphic pattern. The keyboard/mouse still function properly, but with the tiled graphic overlay of the desktop, of course you can't see anything to click on. Restart is the only...

Just tried to run FSX in vista RTM and keeps failing after the database is built with "not responding" message. Change to XP mode and run as administrator without any luck.

yes, and as well as my nvidia graphics are longer recognised,as i have 82.? ok? or auran's trainz sim's specially 2006 and says to update your mb and nvidia drivers. "AshT93" wrote: Will any of the games that are released for Windows XP editions be able to be played on the new Windows Vista editions (like The Sims 2)?

Has any one got the old games to work? LarryM

I've just build myself a new high-end PC including a 7900GTO gfx card. I dabbled with XP Pro but had a few graphical problems so I thought I'd install Vista (rtm) instead, whcih I did. At first, everything looked OK, but when I started using more demanding applications (i.e. 3D games) I encountered some artifacting and distortion. Particularly in Battlefield 2, Civililzation IV, and...

I'm trying to play a game. It loads and plays fine. But I want to be able to switch to OpenGL video mode.. But when I do it says it's not compatible or something and I have to switch to software mode. The game is.. Team Fortress Classic.. =D old game.. but I like it. Anyway, anyone know what the problem may be? Is it something with my graphic card? or because the game is so old? orr.. yeah?

Hiya Battlefield 2 runs slower on rc2 is this due to Rc2 using more ram ???? is there a fix for this ???

How to Download Games on Windows Vista ?? I want who have link please send me.

hi all, when i join a bf2 server, i get kicked by punkbuster. a message appears with something like: you were kicked by punkbuster (for 0 minutes...) and then something with O/S Privileges. i get this message since i installed vista. bf2 worked fine on windows xp.

I need to go back to XP on the laptop the wife uses. She likes Vista's version of spider solitaire much better than XP's version. Is it available outside of vista? Is there something similar, with the large cards, etc? Thanks

Hi, I would like to know if this game does work in the RC2, it wasn't in Beta2 -- Thank you in advance Merci a l'avance Martin

I have Windows RTM Vista Business x86 and installed catalyst for my radeon 9550xt. In windows all be OK but in World of Warcraft I have artefacts. Enyone have the same problem?

Hello! I got an nVidia 6600 GT and am using Vista RTM. Since the beginning of my Vista testing and RCs, I have trouble running BVE4 from mackoy. In fact, I'm not able to run it at all: it crashes on startup! Anyone has been in this situation and found a solution? hal