cant play any old games??

EdGey · 3 Feb 2009 at 16:39

ok ive had some problems with a few of the older games recently...always getting some kind of error etc.

Cossack, command and conquer, IGI all very old games.

ive tried re-installing them several times, tried different graphics drivers and dx drivers and has made no difference.

the games work perfectly on my old pc. This is a ss of the error im getting on the most recent game i tried just a few minutes ago...

only think i can thing of is the drivers may be too up too date? :confused:

no idea - any thoughts/suggestions ?

thanks

oh and im on XP btw

thx

ro_0t · 3 Feb 2009 at 16:43

silly question but have you tried setting compatibility on the .exe's ?

simbady · 3 Feb 2009 at 17:00

Also its a long shot but try running as Admin

DarthBallz · 3 Feb 2009 at 17:02

this has happened to me with old games on xp before. it's most likely compatibility with the games and not your drivers. I think compatibilty with old software was removed from xp in a service pack or something, can't really remember. they wouldn't work even after I'd changed the compatibility settings.

anyway. what I did was went on google and typed in my problem and after a few hours of reading found a small file to download that you drop into your windows folder and the games starting working instantly.

I don't remember the name of the file which is quite annoying but you could google "win xp old game fix" or something similar like I did and I'm sure you'll find it quite easily.