Running old Windows games in Windows 7

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Is there any kind of fix for installing old Windows games on 64-bit versions of Windows? I don't have the nifty version that lets you switch between old OS's. I'm trying to get the old Tie Fighter Collectors Edition to run and I can't make it work.
 
Ok, are you running in compatibility mode?
 
Ok, so what you are going to want to do is right click and goto properties, make sure to check "Run as Administrator" and then find the compatibility panel, and set it to an OS with known compatibility. Tell me if it works.
 
I think it may not have installed correctly to begin with. I'm going to play around with it some.
 
Awesome! Glad you got it working. It can be frustrating sometimes.
 
You could try installing an older version of Windows on a virtual machine (like Virtualbox) and playing the game on there.
 
raymond said:
You could try installing an older version of Windows on a virtual machine (like Virtualbox) and playing the game on there.
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Any tutorials on how to make it run old PC games?
 
homerbeoulve said:
raymond said:
You could try installing an older version of Windows on a virtual machine (like Virtualbox) and playing the game on there.
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Any tutorials on how to make it run old PC games?
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1. Get yourself a copy of an older version of Windows.
2. Download Virtualbox.
3. Burn your game on a virtual disc or something.
4. Install it on your virtual computer the same way you'd install it for a normal computer.

PM me if you need help.
 
raymond said:
homerbeoulve said:
raymond said:
You could try installing an older version of Windows on a virtual machine (like Virtualbox) and playing the game on there.
Click to expand...

Any tutorials on how to make it run old PC games?
Click to expand...

1. Get yourself a copy of an older version of Windows.
2. Download Virtualbox.
3. Burn your game on a virtual disc or something.
4. Install it on your virtual computer the same way you'd install it for a normal computer.

PM me if you need help.
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I don't have an older version copy of Windows, so that's now off the window.
 
Every game runs differently, there's usually a different fix for every game.

As to Homor's thing about WC2. I'm assuming that's Wing Commander 2, which is a Dos game and you need to run it with Dosbox. If you get the Gog release it runs automatically through dosbox.

Unless it's something completely different
 
^This, if it is a DOS game use DOSBox, its simple and lets you play you're old DOS games just fine.
 
Dr. Cuddlebug said:
Every game runs differently, there's usually a different fix for every game.

As to Homor's thing about WC2. I'm assuming that's Wing Commander 2, which is a Dos game and you need to run it with Dosbox. If you get the Gog release it runs automatically through dosbox.

Unless it's something completely different
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WC2 is Warcraft 2.
 
Well Warcraft 2 was a dos game so it should run fine in Dosbox
 
Not necessarily.

Many of the later DOS games ran under a 32-bit expander like DOS4/GW. That was a 32-bit environment that let a game access a whole 4 GB of memory (woo hoo) unlike 16-bit DOS, which for some reason known only to God and Thomas Watson could only access 640K.

The punchline is Dosbox isn't always successful at trying to emulate a 16-bit environment hosting a 32-bit environment. I could never get my own game to run in win XP, Dosbox or no.
 
Well, their compatibility list does list WarCraft 2 as fully compatible. Obviously your miles will vary.
 
Smokedaddy said:
Not necessarily.

Many of the later DOS games ran under a 32-bit expander like DOS4/GW. That was a 32-bit environment that let a game access a whole 4 GB of memory (woo hoo) unlike 16-bit DOS, which for some reason known only to God and Thomas Watson could only access 640K.

The punchline is Dosbox isn't always successful at trying to emulate a 16-bit environment hosting a 32-bit environment. I could never get my own game to run in win XP, Dosbox or no.
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The only Dos related games I found that ran horribly were really system intensive games for the time. Like System Shock 1 and Daggerfall.

System Shock is now very much playable with System Shock Portable. Though Daggerfall still infuriates me to try playing to this day. It's why I'm looking forward to DaggerXL since it plans to recreate the game's engine
 
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