PlayingAge of Empires and Age of Empires War Chiefs with Vista - no internet connection

Our PC is often corrupted by children's internet use. My partner wanted
a second PC with no internet connection just for these games but the new
PC we bought for his birthday won't play the games. Retailer said they
wont play on Vista (didnt tell us this at the time we bought it and
explined what we wanted it for)but we might be able to download
something to enable it to play on Vista - defeats teh object of having a
PC free from internet corruption. Advice welcome. (Keep it simple
please)


--
twigatorme
Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hi,

So switch them. If the old one plays the games, make that the offline system
and the new one the online system.

It's either that or one of these alternatives:

a) (easier) see if there are upgrades or patches available from the game
distributors so they are compliant with Vista. You can download them from
the connected machine and put them on a thumb drive to transfer to the new,
offline machine.

b) (more complex) if you have an extra license for XP, use it to install a
virtual machine on the Vista machine and run games from there.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"twigatorme" <> wrote in
message news:...
>
> Our PC is often corrupted by children's internet use. My partner wanted
> a second PC with no internet connection just for these games but the new
> PC we bought for his birthday won't play the games. Retailer said they
> wont play on Vista (didnt tell us this at the time we bought it and
> explined what we wanted it for)but we might be able to download
> something to enable it to play on Vista - defeats teh object of having a
> PC free from internet corruption. Advice welcome. (Keep it simple
> please)
>
>
> --
> twigatorme
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>

"twigatorme" <> wrote in
message news:...
>
> Our PC is often corrupted by children's internet use. My partner wanted
> a second PC with no internet connection just for these games but the new
> PC we bought for his birthday won't play the games. Retailer said they
> wont play on Vista (didnt tell us this at the time we bought it and
> explined what we wanted it for)but we might be able to download
> something to enable it to play on Vista - defeats teh object of having a
> PC free from internet corruption. Advice welcome. (Keep it simple
> please)
>
>
> --
> twigatorme
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>


Age of Empires III requires a patch to play on Vista which could have been
obtained on the machine which does connect to the Internet.

--

Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

"twigatorme" <> wrote in
message news:...
>
> Our PC is often corrupted by children's internet use. My partner wanted
> a second PC with no internet connection just for these games but the new
> PC we bought for his birthday won't play the games. Retailer said they
> wont play on Vista (didnt tell us this at the time we bought it and
> explined what we wanted it for)but we might be able to download
> something to enable it to play on Vista - defeats teh object of having a
> PC free from internet corruption. Advice welcome. (Keep it simple
> please)
>
>
> --
> twigatorme
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>
You shouldn't need to connect both PCs to the internet. You should be able
to download the update on the one that is connected, then transfer it in any
number of ways (depending on file size) to the one that isn't. You can get
the update here
(http://www.softwarepatch.com/games/a...s-3-patch.html). The first
fix mentioned is Vista compatibility.

Your first option is to look for patches like this. Your second option is
to try the compatibility option on the properties of the shortcut to start
the game. Your third option is to install a different OS either in place of
the primary OS, as a dual boot, or in a virtual machine.