Running older games on Vista

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:49 am

Does anyone have problems running older games (2004 and earlier) on Vista? I'm just wondering because My new computer has Vista, and I'm a little leery about running some of my older games, like Star Trek: Elite Force or MDK II. By the way, I have nVidia GeForce 6150 SE on board, and I'm thinking of changing to a better one in a PCI-E.

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:54 am

You switched to Vista? Bummer

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:56 am

It's not as bad as people make it out to be, but it does take some getting used to to do what you want, and Microsoft is providing updates all the time.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:04 pm

Here is a list of Vista compatible software. Unfortunately support for older games is spotty thanks to MS charging ridiculous fees to get the info required for the proper patches. You can run various older games under emulators.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:13 pm

I found this. I cant get Bridge Commander to run on mum's Vista 32-bit machine. It really annoyed me as well >.<

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:53 pm

That's why I'm still running Windows 2000 pro.

EDIT: digging the new AV, Reliant. That's a great picture.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:56 pm

we use XP everywhere except mums...so its on my computer

Enkidu · Post by **Enkidu** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:23 pm

Tsukiyumi wrote:That's why I'm still running Windows 2000 pro.

Me too..... I have XP on my machine as well for running a couple of modern games, but I don't like it much, and tend to stuck to faithful old 2000 pro for most of my computing needs.

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:03 pm

I prefer using XP or 2000. My school is an advanced tech school and we know better then to switch to Vista. If it's not broke don't fix it, or replace it with something that needs to be fixed.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:40 pm

I use XP. Most of the computers in the school I work at are also XP, they're common as dirt over here.