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Vista can't see ANYTHING Networking Set Up Issue
I have tried to borrow a LCD monitor and connect to my Vista machine and there is no problem running any of these things that makes my CRT monitor display corrupt graphics. Running games in windowed mode work fine. The computer is a HP m7360.dk with a Pentium D 920 CPU, 3GB RAM, Nvidia 7900GT based graphics adapter

Oblivion Won't Run
critterbug critter...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista games I am running AOE 3 on vista ultimate with no patches. I would also suspect video card drivers as the likely culprit. Regards, Chris "Dustin Harper" wrote: Make sure you have the newest drivers for your video card.

New Linux Games Installer, Kernel Debugger Might Come to Linux
I have just done a complete reinstall and I am sure that last time, I just let DEP allow the game and it worked but it doesn't seem to want to do it this time? There are a few programs that DEP won't allow and it's hellishly annoying but that's Vista for you? Not finished properly but looks good, so we will sell it

Why is my Vista laptop so Bloomin' slow?
\(O\)enone oen...@nowhere.com comp sys ibm pc games action comp sys ibm pc games rpg comp sys ibm pc games adventure FoolsGold wrote: Apparently the DirectX 9.0L which is used for backward-compatibility in Vista is missing these files. Instead of coping these files from another installation, you can always install

Roy Steps up to the Plate :)
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista file_management microsoft public windows vista games microsoft public windows vista Use Windows as the toy OS it was meant to be for running games etc. and use Linux for everything else. All Linux is need are games to really make it more

Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista?
Sascha Jazbec sascha77ha...@123hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general If this game requires progman.exe, then it is designed for Windows 3.x or 95.. In Xp there is a progman.exe, but only for compatibility reasons, so the app thinks it's running on 3.x With SP2 Microsoft has disabled that progman.exe

task launcher
So apart from when running games I can't see the point of having more then 1GB of RAM for Vista even when running a lot of bloatware, and if you don't run bloatware you can use 512mb quite happily... 2GB and 3GB sometimes quoted is overkill unless you regularly run Battlefield 2 + 280mb or more of bloatware and

UAC
MBO "Dustin Harper" wrote: Do you have any trouble playing games? Media center seems to use a lot of CPU, and it may be challenging your RAM. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and upgraded my CPU to an E8400 from a 6400 Core 2 Duo. This increased the bus speed to 1333 Mhz. It appears that it has broken

BSOD at end of installation
Jane C jellyb...@NOSPAMxjgarage.org microsoft public windows vista games This may sound silly, but if you change mouse pointer scheme, does the cursor then appear in your games? -- Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-) MVP Windows Shell/User "Tom Dawg"

Bluescreen Vista Ultimate
Lol L...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista games Thanks for the suggestions Andy. After contacting Fujitsu help I found the drivers at: You might also try http://www.sis.com/download/index.php - the SiS site has 1 driver for notebooks running Vista, stands to reason that one will work with

Problems running games on Vista
Tom Dawg Tom_D...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista games I have Age of Empires 3 and Civilization 4 on my computer but for some reason when I load them the mouse cursor disappears. Obviously you can not play the games without the mouse so how do I fix this?

All in the Family
Tom Dawg TomD...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista games I dont need to update my video drivers according to Vista. This computer is only a week old and its top of the line XPS 410 with just about every upgrade in hardware and software. This thing was built for gaming specifically but its not

Help with running games on Vista
... in news:Ybudnc0SSI7upiXanZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@comcast.com: Vista has been out for a year now and I had waited 6 months before buying a new computer with it. are you running on it & did they also come on the new computer or are they programs you purchased before you bought the Vista computer? does Vista run games

AOE II Errors on New Vista System
The game's main menu comes up when the disc is inserted but when I click play a small blank window opens with Oblivion as the title and another information box opens stating that Oblivion has stopped working. I am running Windows Vista Home Basic Version 6.0. Any ideas? -- culliot.

Video flashes in Microsoft games!
gwr102558 gwr102...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista games It was telling me that I needed to install Windows Media Player Series 9. Only think I can suggest is running in Admin mode, and since the game doesn't seem to have any support for Vista you may not get it working without a

SW: Force Unleashed too powerful for PC!
How hard can it be to make his games run on Vista? Even freewware developers know how to get their progs running on Vista now that wouldn't before. Oh well, that's just one less game I dont think that a non vista game would be too much of an issue yet, according to the last Steam survey only 14% of PCs are Vista.

Problems running games on Vista
Same if I have three in Vista says there is 3 gigs. However when I have four in Vista says there is onlz 3.6 gigs. To me this seems to confirm that Vista can not mangage the RAM properly. I should note this does not only occur with games but when Vista is running nothing on the desktop. So I suppose that makes me

Running DOS Games under Vista
Pipboy n...@email.invalid comp sys ibm pc games action comp sys ibm pc games rpg comp sys ibm pc games adventure On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:46:29 +1030, FoolsGold wrote: Apparently the DirectX 9.0L which is used for backward-compatibility in Vista is missing these files. Instead of coping these files from another

vista appearance
C34CF9EF06C5C2A8F0182...@news.comcast.net>, George Graves <gmgrav...@comcast.net> wrote: You ought to try running Vista on an IBM 1630 computer! Now, THAT'S backwards compatibility Yeah, but I've read that it's slower than XP for running games, so I think I'll stick with XP on my 1630!

general gaming problems
Andy [YaYa] android8...@MAPSONhotmail.com microsoft public windows vista games "PabloCruzio" <PabloCru...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:355B31AA-B9B8-4A0A-A313-3D528678BC86@microsoft.com... Do what I did, get a KVM switch, and a small form factor (like XPC by shuttle) computer, with DOS,