Old Games on new winXP

[RedFanta]

A friend of mine who is a part-time gamer is having trouble playing his old games on his new computer that came with windows XP. They ran fine of his win95-98
The message he gets is as follows:

Aborted: this game is not capable of running on windows NT.

Has windows outgrown his old mech warrior2, his old disney games?


Thanks for any insight,
Red

[AnakiMana]

Has he tried using compatibility mode? If you right-click on the executable, go to properties, under the third tab (I think), you can check a box to run this in compatibility mode, and then choose which operating system in the pull down menu. Surprisingly enough, most of the time it works for me!!

AnakiMana

[RedFanta]

Thanks for the help, I will pass it along to him to see if that will work. Ill post the results.

Go Bears,
Red:D

[redpappy]

I ran xp for a little while, before I went back to 98, Reason Why I went back to 98 is cause I couldn't get some of my older games to run. Always got an error, or the game wouldn't run at all. Which the games ran fine under 98. I think I'm going to wait to see what Microsoft comes out with before upgrading that's for sure

[wizard101uk]

I had the same problem with older games, getting an error messege even in compatability mode.
So I changed back to Win2000 PRO.

[L1 b-boy]

Hmm, strange one this, i also had the same problem, with some older games not running (but a few did when i disabled visual themes?),
i went back to m.e. but since getting another 512mb of ram (756 total) and new processor, have reinstalled(XP pro) just out of curiosity, & i havent had any problems,( "YET" ),

funny thing is i have to disable visual themes with my "MICROSOFT - COMMANDER" :mad:

[redpappy]

now I'm curious, is there problems with the os, or is it that the os is demanding that you have a high speed prossesor and lots and lots of mem???????

[wizard101uk]

On my other PC is a SORRY about this an INTEL P4 at 2GHz with 512 MB of RAM, and I still have the same problem about older games running on XP.
As I have said to friends "SO MUCH FOR COMPATABILITY MODE"

[L1 b-boy]

B3T@'s perhaps ppl ? ;)