Playing Games In Vista

BecBennett · 06-03-2007, 03:31 AM

I've tried to put two of my games that I played on XP (Simon the Sorcerer & Emperor: Rise of the middle kingdom) onto my new computer which has Vista, I can't get either of them to work.
Both install fine but won't play. Simon The Sorcerer opens a screen but stops responding before it's anything but a black screen, while Emperor will only start the CD spinning but doesn't actually bring anything up on the screen. No error messages or anything, nothing happens.
I've downloaded all the patches and updates that I could find, I've tried running them in XP compatability mode and I've tried running them as an Administrator but it hasn't made any difference.
My new computer with Vista has a larger hardrive, more RAM and better sound and video cards compared to my old computer which runs XP.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Tiber Septim · 06-04-2007, 03:14 AM

Hi BecBennett. Welcome to TSF.

Try running through the First Steps. The main things i would be checking is that you have DirectX 9.0c installed. Vista comes with some version of DirectX 9 but it seems to have problems running a lot of games.

If that fails to help, try turning of Vista's UAC. Go Start > Click on your display picture. There should be an option to turn UAC on/off.

06-03-2007, 03:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
BecBennett Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10 OS: Vista	Playing Games In Vista I've tried to put two of my games that I played on XP (Simon the Sorcerer & Emperor: Rise of the middle kingdom) onto my new computer which has Vista, I can't get either of them to work. Both install fine but won't play. Simon The Sorcerer opens a screen but stops responding before it's anything but a black screen, while Emperor will only start the CD spinning but doesn't actually bring anything up on the screen. No error messages or anything, nothing happens. I've downloaded all the patches and updates that I could find, I've tried running them in XP compatability mode and I've tried running them as an Administrator but it hasn't made any difference. My new computer with Vista has a larger hardrive, more RAM and better sound and video cards compared to my old computer which runs XP. Any suggestions? Thanks Last edited by BecBennett; 06-03-2007 at 03:33 AM. Reason: first sentence makes no sense

06-04-2007, 03:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
Tiber Septim Asst Manager, Games Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 2,866 OS: Fedora 11 / Windows 7 My System Blog Entries: 5	Re: Playing Games In Vista Hi BecBennett. Welcome to TSF. Try running through the First Steps. The main things i would be checking is that you have DirectX 9.0c installed. Vista comes with some version of DirectX 9 but it seems to have problems running a lot of games. If that fails to help, try turning of Vista's UAC. Go Start > Click on your display picture. There should be an option to turn UAC on/off. __________________ First Steps - System Specs - SIW Help TSF beat Cancer and other serious Illness.