"Paul Smith" wrote: "AshT93" Notts wrote in message ... 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)? Yes, the bulk of games will work on Vista. I've tried a couple of dozen and have only...

Im having a great time experimenting windows vista, but theres some things im not particulary crazy about! Meaning my gamming experience has crashed...when im playing ( online or in singlepayer ) all the games i install ( even older games) run slowly, or dont run at all ( for instance, one of Microsoft games "freelancer", i usually play it in multiplayer mode, and even in the lower quality...

Rise of Legends does not work on my machine. Qosmio G35-AV600. Starts the game but errors later during play. "Paul Smith" wrote: "Joshua" wrote in message ... I was wondering if we could start to compile a list of Games that work on Windows Vista... As this would make it easier for many of...

"Paul Smith" wrote: "AshT93" Notts wrote in message ... 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)? Yes, the bulk of games will work on Vista. I've tried a couple of dozen and have only...

It was running ok until I entered warsong gulch. then it gets very choppy, slowing down to 5fps. Dunno whats causing this.

Hello, how does FSX runs on your Vista's PC? I installed the FSX Professional Edition yesterday on my Vista RC2, and I got the impression it runs much worse than FSX demo run on XP. But Vista shouldn't have direct access to hardware resources? Like xBox does? Should have this new technology improve games performance? I don't see all these celebrated improvements...

Wow start fine but now when i try update it, it downloads fine but patching goes good until 99 percent when it try to remove original files. i am administrator why can it not override / move the files

Dear all I upgraded to vista, n everytime i try to run any of these programs Tiger woods 2006 & Worms 3d & Fifa 2006 It just says windows error are anybody else havin the same problem

I managed to get the RC2 driver from lagging "some" but there is still too much lag. I uninstalled all drivers and installed the RC1 Vista driver and this is still the best one so far for my 7950 GX2 EVGA videocard

I have been reading and found out that Directx10 is not backward compatible with Directx 9.0c or earlier. (see this article: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/gaming.mspx) However I have aslo read that a version 9L, for compatibility with older games software, pre-vista DX10, will be included with the Vista release. Is this not included with the RC1 build? Can we...

every time i go to load a game that i had run on widnows xp my computer blue screens. could this due to me being an idiot and listing to a friend and installing x800XT AIW drivers and my mobo drivers that were designed for xp?, any idea on how to fix this?

I'm running Vista RC2 along with a Logitech Cordless Desktop MX, which includes the MX700 cordless mouse, and have just installed Far Cry, along with the cumulative patch 1.4. The game ran perfectly under XP. On Vista, everything is fine until the first level loads, then the mouse stops working. I can still walk forward and backward and strafe from side to side with the keyboard, but the...

Anyone get Civ IV to run on Vista? I keep getting a DirectX 9 error of some kind.

Hi, I installed vista rc1 last friday and on saturday I installed Lineage2 it worked fine. But today I tried to load it for 4 hours and nothing. I have installed he Vista RC1 build 5600 Adobe CS2 Macromedia Studio 8 Firefox 2.0 beta AVG Free

My GeForce 7800 GT worked perfectly with IL2 Forgotten Battles using Forceware 96.33 under Vista RC1, but RC2 shows problems with that driver on games. Normal GUI graphics are OK, though. Edric

Has anyone tried Warcaft 3 updated to 1.20e on Windows Vista RC2 yet, if so does the sound work normally without having to use the banlist program?

After installing from the 2 CD's and installing the latest v1.61 patch, I get an error when I try to start the game from Disk 1 stating that it cannot find the CD to run the program. This is the same set of CD's that I use under Windows XP SP2 on the same dual-boot laptop. I even set the Compatibility mode to run as Windows XP SP2 and checked the option to run as an administrator. My user...

Sorry, I've put this in both the "Games" and "General" boxes, not sure where it should be for su I installed Vista RC1 on our old computer to try it out and set it up with two user accounts, both marked as "administrator". My hubby tried to install one of his games and Vista blocked the driver for it, so I went to the games site to see if there were any updates and there weren't. Then...

Hi, Anyone been able to play any OpenGL Games in Windows VISTA RC2 x64? How. -- --- ///Terje Alexander Barth \\\///

I installed RC2 then went to Nvidias site and installed their RC1 drivers. Now I have issues and I see from this forum I should roll back to the RC2 drivers. I don't see Nvidia in the add/remove programs.