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Video Games => Game Help => Topic started by: Negative_Zero on July 15, 2008, 09:53:50 AM
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Let's say that I have The Sims: Deluxe Edition, and it says in the MR that it works with 95/98/ME/XP and I want to install it on my new computer, but my new computer is a Vista
I have tryed this with Age of Empires II with XP, it seemed fine I think
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It will probably work.
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Probably, yes. If it doesn't, try running Compatibility Mode (right-click the .exe file, Properties > Compatibility > Run this program in compatibility mode for (just choose some option there)). Maybe see if any patches exist for the game.
Oh, with you on Vista, you should install the game as an Administrator. I've heard that a lot, that you need administrator rights to install programs. Of course, if I had Vista, I'd be able to verify this, but I don't so I can't.
95% chance it's going to work anyway.
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Anything working on Vista? That's news to me.
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To my recollection Vista plays a lot of pre-XP games better than XP does.
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Yes, but it's in to dislike Vista.
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Vista is kind of like Brawl. It's not bad, it's just that we expected more after seven years.
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Only two and a half months left!
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Vista is kind of like Brawl. It's not bad, it's just that we expected more after seven years.
QFT. *puts in sig*
Yeah, it will work though. Its on my computer right now. (Though I haven't played it since I updated to vista)
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Angle bracket quotes do not work that way. I take it you've never been to our IRC channel?
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Vista is kind of like Brawl. It's not bad, it's just that we expected more after seven years.
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg246.imageshack.us%2Fimg246%2F5519%2F021030208robotsrz9.jpg&hash=64f5195a0425d37818f9e28b6b44eaeb)
Seriously, my only complaint about Brawl is how overrated the Subspace Emissary is (it's like every kid's video game mashup fantasy without any imagination required, but such would be any attempt to cross Kirby and Metal Gear). And that's not even the game's fault.
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I have vista and can verify that a lot of games do not run properly like Command and Conquer: First Decade, Doom, Quake, Blue Shift and some programs like Wingroove, various NES tools, and some stand alone video game music player applications are just plain garbage on vista.
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Why the hell does it work better on my vista, then the past two pc's its been on,
Wait kinda like VC
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I have vista and can verify that a lot of games do not run properly like Command Doom, Conquer, Quake, Blue Shift and some programs like Wingroove, various NES tools, and some stand alone video game music player applications are just plain garbage on vista.
I never said that everything works better, nor am I even saying that Vista is better, but it does have a better track record for some really old games and I can't tell what you were saying there, because I'm guessing "Command Doom, Conquer" is actually some broken up Command & Conquer and Doom? If so, Doom and Quake I can verify are DOS games and they shouldn't be expected to run properly and there are source ports to help with that.
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Or DOSBox.
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I've recently discovered DOSBox, myself. It's brought my childhood back to life.
So take THAT, Windows!
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I would say no. I tried to install Flash MX 2004 on my Vista and it didn't work. I tried Torque Game Engine and it didn't work. I tried other various applications and games and most all of them won't install and the ones that did just run slow and choppy. Vista's are a HUGE waste of money unless your not going to install any of your applications or games and plan on buying newer versions of everything you have.
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Angle bracket quotes do not work that way. I take it you've never been to our IRC channel?
I have before. I don't really care how it looks, as long as it gets the point cross.
And you know what's funny? How 98.9% things are indeed compatible with Vista, it's just that no one ever heard of "Properties" and "Run in Compatibilty for: (insert each and every Windows version here, besides Me)
.1% remainder is for things such as the Nintendo Wi-fi USB connector
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.1% remainder is for things such as the Nintendo Wi-fi USB connector
I don't understand. What makes that 0.1% so special? Also, Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector has been working for Vista since October.
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There's this game called Dungeon Keeper, and it runs fine on my computer, except for the sound. The sound will glitch, and when the voice talks to you, it sounds like he's slow and underwater (no offense to anybody who may be slow or underwater who will read this post).
It does run great on my wife's computer, though, which is weird because both computers are from around the same time period, give or take a year..
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How 98.9% things are indeed compatible with Vista, it's just that no one ever heard of "Properties" and "Run in Compatibilty for:
The run compatibility for feature might let you use your program on the Vista but like I said, it's slow, and choppy.
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The reason why the people who said they don't have Vista and said that was because you can activate it on XP that way. I've heard it automatically activates Compatability Mode if you set something, but I can't verify that because I'm running XP right now.
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There is something that you can download free off of I believe Microsoft's website called virtual box. Virtual Box allows you to have Any type of operating system (except mactintosh) on your Vista. So if you want your old XP on the vista you could get virtual box and get a copy of the Windows XP at pretty much any computer store (although if you bought the XP you own not used from a electronics store you should have some backup disks of your OS. Anyways you can set aside a certain amount of storage from your vista for your XP and the copy the XP on it and there. You have a Vista and a xp on one cpu.
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Actually, the name is Microsoft Virtual PC (if I'm thinking of what you're thinking). It's an emulator... and suddenly I'm wondering how many emulators you could stack on one another... Windows Vista emulating Win98 running ZSNES playing the Gradius minigame in Mystical Ninja.
I'm sure somebody else could do better.
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Linux on the GameCube running Windows 7-type WINE running Vista in a virtual machine emulating XP running DOSBox in Windows 2000 compatibility mode to run the DOS version of ZSNES... playing Mario All-Stars. With that MadCatz PS2 controller made to look like an NES controller.
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It is indeed called Virtual PC (Sun's open source competitor is called VirtualBox, though). And I have fooled around with running emulators in it, although not doing the Gradius minigame. Also, it's not really much of an emulator, as its code is native to the processor. And that's any type of x86 operating system it can run, so OS X yes (must be hacked, though), AmigaOS no (but then you pretty much have that covered with either UAE or MorphOS).
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I never said that everything works better, nor am I even saying that Vista is better, but it does have a better track record for some really old games and I can't tell what you were saying there, because I'm guessing "Command Doom, Conquer" is actually some broken up Command & Conquer and Doom? If so, Doom and Quake I can verify are DOS games and they shouldn't be expected to run properly and there are source ports to help with that.
My mistake. I did mean Command and Conquer: First Decade and Doom as two separate games. Source ports are hard to find and not easy to setup.
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My experience with source ports is the exact opposite.
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I probably can't use Virtual Box because XP was installed straight onto the computer in The Great Crash of 2006 (The licence for my computer is actually someone else.)
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That is irrelevant. VirtualBox is free software.
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An N64 game on a Gamecube disk running on the Wii.
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Ocarina of Time: Collector's Edition?
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Yes. Also Animal Crossing.
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Animal Crossing can even be an N64 game on a GameCube disc emulating an NES game running on the Wii.
I think AC GCN is a port rather than an emulation though, whereas the Zelda Collector's Edition is an emulation.
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Oh is it? I was under the impression that it was an N64 game that Nintendo was going to release only in Japan, but people found out about it and wanted it released elsewhere, and so they put it on a GC disk and released it that way.
Similar to how the original SSB was going to be a Japanese only release..
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Oh boy, I can't wait to play 3-D Dinosaur Adventure again!