Hey, i have bought a few burnt games from the markets, and none of them work with vista. the games work fine on my friends computer (windows xp) but vista wont seem to accept the burnt games. Is there any way to fix this? any program i should download?? Has anyone had any similar experiences?? -- melly2009 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

I have this program installed on Vista Ultimate and every 5 minutes or so it crashes, screen goes black and it reverts back to the desktop. Anyone have any ideas? John

Hi, all! Someone posted that Age of Mythology was able to be played in Vista if they set their computer to XP. I'm trying to port my son's games to his new computer. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Also, I'm new to this Website so can you e-mail me at I'm not sure that I'll get any message sent to the live account. Thanks. - Mayday

Hi, I have MS Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Service Pack 1. I want to buy in the next days Need For Speed Undercover. I want to know if there are some known issues about running this game on my operating system or if it can harm my os integrity. Thank You.

i'm trying to install wow on my new xps 420, after getting to 100% it says install fail and it lists a mess load of files with could not be renamed (conflict manager::resolve conflicts) or could not be deleted(conflict manager uncreate objects) after them any help?

Hi everyone, here gaming in a bussiness x64 with a q6600 8gbram 8800gt and i having a 20 dps drop in games after waking up the computer, after a reset everything goes to normal, have anyone experience this problem, fixes, comments anything?? Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums

Why does the game automatically start instead of allowing the user to set up the options beforehand like color and level? Is there any way to shut down the auto start? -- letsgonow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ letsgonow's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/letsgonow.htm View this thread:...

Hello, I have been trying to install the new game Fritz 11 (which is Windows Vista compatible) without success. My computer runs on Vista 32bit (Service Pack 1) 2.20 Ghz. The autorun doesn't start, I cannot even run it manually since I can't get access to the contents of this DVDrom (!) I have updated my drivers, desabled the antivirus, the control on the user account etc. but it is useless....

Using Vista RTM, I cannot open any of my games (chess titans, solitaire, minesweeper, etc.) from the Games Explorer on the start menu ('Games' on the righthand side of the start menu). When I select a game to play, I get an error message box saying: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in Set Associations control...

I've surfed the net and found many vista users with the same issue, unfortunately no working solutions out there for most of us. I get a message during setup (usually right around MenuVoices.bsa) saying: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\Data\Fallout - MenuVoices.bsa doesn't match the file in setup's.cab file. The medium from which you are running the setup may be corrupted;...

Hey, My Call of Duty World at War via steam is not allowing me to create an online profile. Everytime I do, I get error "unable to create online profile". I got to where the profile are being created "C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles" and it does is create a folder called $$$ with bunch of config files inside it. I tried copying all the items in the folder with...

After install Age of Empires II, i try to play, but it not run and the message is: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" My Pc is new, i have a good ATI card and i try with the solutions proposed in this link without any result: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B242902&x=22&y=12 Can anyone help me,...

So I just built a new system, installing Vista Business 64bit to take full advantage of DX10 and large amounts of memory. Not having many games lying around, I decided to download steam and install Half Life 2. If you are reading this, and using a 64bit edition of windows, then my guess is you are having problems with Half Life 2. I encountered two problems, and after a few hours was able to...

is there anyway to keep internet checkers from xp when you install the full version of vista? thank you

I just bought a new computer with windows vista and I'm unable to play any of my sim games. I tried switching to windows xp compatibility mode but that didn't help! I bought this computer so I could play my sim games and I was told by Best Buy that they would work fine. Well they were wrong and I'm going to let them know that but if anyone could help me I would appreciate...

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I am running Vista 32bit with 4gigs of ram, AMD Phenom 9950, just put in an ATI 4870X2 with 8.11 drivers. I have two hard drives, one 250gb with the OS and FS9 and FSX on it and another 500gb with really nothing on it. I have my virtual memory set up as follows: C: and D: drive set to system managed. Should I set the custom size and to what intial and max size???

anyone else seeing battlefront 2 just dying after setting up the first profile and starting the first mission? WHen you click "Attack" for single play level 1 the game just dies w/o a crash

Hey there Just brought myself LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 1, for PC today. And i cannot even start the installation, comes up with 2 error messages which both state that the data is corrupted, the game is brand new from "Game". I am running Vista Ultimate with 32 Bit, with a Dell XPS420, surely this should not be a problem...