26th March 2010, 5:00 PM
You can also try running in administrator mode. However, just as in the other thread, there is NO universal answer, it all varies from game to game! It's to be expected. This isn't really the fault of Vista in this case. The OS is completely recoded from the ground up, not a reuse of the NT system, so it's bound to not be compatible with some games. Again, every game is coded differently, in most cases completely different even if they seem to look the same. I would NOT say getting Windows 7 would fix this problem by the way. 7 is a better OS than Vista, but it's just an upgrade over Vista, not a significant overhaul like Vista is to XP. If a game isn't compatible with Vista, it won't be compatible with 7. There are other things you can attempt, but I can't promise any of it will work. Heck, for all I know the game you are running uses a 16-bit process, and if your install of Vista is 64 bit, 16 bit processes won't work at all no matter what you do. This was true of 64 bit XP as well (though I know no one that HAS 64 bit XP).
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