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RE: games compatiable for vista

PC509 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:51:27 GMT

You may need to use compatibility mode in order to get older games to work correctly (Right click program file, Properties, Compatibility Tab...).

Good luck!

RE: games compatiable for vista

jwalker343 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:31:39 GMT

you can always try...

just a note though and this seems like a good place to post this:

if a game has specs like 640x480x256colors or 800x600x256 colors like Starcraft broodwar you may have to go into your graphic properties and change it to stretch instead of center in the screen..

i have an intel 965 graphics card and it had centered screen as its default setting...

change it by:

right-click >graphics properties

display settings > aspect ratio options

change to full screen (no border)

it stretches the game to full screen instead of rendering it in 640x480 in the center of the screen which is like 3 inches by 4 inches or so..

RE: games compatiable for vista

KelsieKatt — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:26:39 GMT

No idea what the games are, so I can't help you with the Vista part, but as for hardware requirements you're in the clear with that computer.

games compatiable for vista

petal — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:09:40 GMT

System Requirements:
Windows 95 or later, 33MHZ processor, 8MB RAM, 8-bit SVGA graphics card, 25MB HDD space, 640x480 256-colours monitor, sound card recommended, mouse.

and the other one

System Requirements:
Windows 98/ME/XP, Pentium III 800 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 100 MB free hard drive space, DirectX compatible accelerated video card TNT2 or better, DirectX 8.1a, sound card and speakers, mouse, SVGA monitor.

have bidded on these games for the wife's birthday next week and i am taking a chance they'll run on windows vista home basic. the computer is a compaq presario SR5025AN-b desktop. :w00t: