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Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
doesn't seem all that good.
Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I spend
1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics card, I
made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.

"cricket" <> wrote in message
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> Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
> None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
> doesn't seem all that good.
> Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I
> spend
> 1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics card, I
> made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
> Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.

That's some CPU
Can you give us some more info IE machine spec, what version of Vista and
32 or 64 bit...also which games will not work...thanks, it gives us
something to work with
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VRG Scotty

www.vistareadygames.com
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"VRG Scotty" wrote:

>
> "cricket" <> wrote in message
> news:A99A1389-B8F1-48C4-97FB-...
> > Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
> > None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
> > doesn't seem all that good.
> > Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I
> > spend
> > 1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics card, I
> > made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
> > Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.
>
> That's some CPU
> Can you give us some more info IE machine spec, what version of Vista and
> 32 or 64 bit...also which games will not work...thanks, it gives us
> something to work with
> --
> VRG Scotty
>
> www.vistareadygames.com
> Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems
>
Thanks for responding.
This is what he has...
It is a HP with:
Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Quad
3072MB/Mo Memory
640GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Graphics Card

The games he can not play, some are a few years old but, he still loves to
play them online.

Red Faction
Fire Warrior
Battle field collections
The first Halo
Thanks again for your help.

"cricket" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> "VRG Scotty" wrote:
>
>>
>> "cricket" <> wrote in message
>> news:A99A1389-B8F1-48C4-97FB-...
>> > Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
>> > None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
>> > doesn't seem all that good.
>> > Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I
>> > spend
>> > 1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics
>> > card, I
>> > made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
>> > Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.
>>
>> That's some CPU
>> Can you give us some more info IE machine spec, what version of Vista
>> and
>> 32 or 64 bit...also which games will not work...thanks, it gives us
>> something to work with
>> --
>> VRG Scotty
>>
>> www.vistareadygames.com
>> Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any
>> problems
>>
> Thanks for responding.
> This is what he has...
> It is a HP with:
> Windows Vista Home Premium
> Intel Core 2 Quad
> 3072MB/Mo Memory
> 640GB Hard Drive
> NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Graphics Card
>
> The games he can not play, some are a few years old but, he still loves to
> play them online.
>
> Red Faction
> Fire Warrior
> Battle field collections
> The first Halo
> Thanks again for your help.

Oh man there is some old games in there chuck...right..start by trying to
install the games using compatibility mode (right click the game exe and
click properties then go to compatibility mode and set it to XP sp2 or
windows 98) and run the exe as administrator...but be warned these are old
games and may not work under Vista...however there is a full list of games
that we have running on our forum (just click the link in my sig and reg
tis free) for you and you son to view...we will do our best to try and sort
any problems you have out....good luck
--
VRG Scotty

www.vistareadygames.com
Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:46:03 -0800, cricket
<> wrote:

>Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
>None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
>doesn't seem all that good.
>Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I spend
>1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics card, I
>made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
>Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.

Well, you know, the time to ask that is Before you buy!

But anyway, here's some things to try/consider:

1. Contact the game mfgrs and see if they have a patch to make the
games compatable in Vista.

2. See if your Comp manufacturer will let you swap Vista for XP.

3. Consider buying XP and Partitioning software and dual-boot XP and
Vista. (Yes, I know; kind of expensive way to run games! Be sure XP
supports your hardware before you do this!)

4 Look into VM (Virtual Machine) software to run under Vista and
install XP and games there. You'd probably still need a new copy of
XP, though.

5. New games?

6. Keep the new unit for yourself and buy the kid a compatable
machine on Ebay.

If you list the games you could well find more help here. I'm a bit
surprised that NONE of them work.