I've tried several DOS games and they all lock up Vista and I have to turn
off the computer. A few gave a blue screen, memory dump etc., others just
lock up.
Are DOS games no longer supported? These all worked fine under XP. I've

I was wondering whether or not it will delete all of my old games from XP
when i install Vista,    

Just doing some game compatibility testing on my laptop (Vaio VGN-A517B)
which has an ATI X600 256MB graphics card.
I am using Vista Ultimate (via MSDN) but cannot get a number of games
(specifically WoW) to increase the screen resolution past 800x600.

My windows vista (beta 2) appears partially off my computer screen. I have
two black lines on the bottem and the right side of my screen. On the top and
the left side I am missing a bit, it falls off. This only happens on my vista
machine, not on xp pro. My resolution is 1024 X ...

I have been getting these problems since yesterday. I get following message
when trying to search for updates:
"Windows could not search for new updates. Error(s) found Code 8020018 (or .
Get help  Try Again"

I have flight simulator 2004 installed on Vista, but every time I start
flight simulator, the bluescreen appears, the computer performs a memory dump
and restarts. Please help me as I have spent loads of money on add-ons for
fs9 but now can't use them!!

Is there a way I can install the games that are present in Windows Vista on
my PC so I can play them using Windows XP?

Hello, I'm running Vista x86 Beta 2 version 5384, and trying to run EVE
Online. EVE does install and starts with the splash screen, but with the log
on screen it is only blank. I'm running a ATI Radeon 9200 card with the ATI
beta drivers. Does anybody have a help to get EVE ...

I installed SWAT4 on Vista 32-bit and I'm having some serious graphics
issues.  The game ran completely perfect on XP.  It seems to only happen with
graphics involving lights, whether it be lights from the sunlight or lights
in the ceiling.  I have.. what looks to be.. rendering ...

I upgraded my system with Vista end of last week.  I also upgraded the NVidia
drivers for my card.  The only driver that I cannot find currently is my
monitor driver but it is using the generic.  When I go into everquest II I
can get about 15 to 20 mins of gameplay and then I am ...

All,
I have installed the following EA/Fifa games on Vista Beta 2...
World Cup 2006
Fifa Manager 2006

Coming this fall, based on Doom3 engine so will be opengl. Does this mean i
will have to dual boot into XP? Suppose the question is will ATI have an
Opengl ICD by then!

I got the newer driver from ATI's site and I've tried Eve with it on
Mobility Radeon 9700.
The game runs but what happens is that if I move the mouse pointer in the
game, it flickers and all the other graphics stop updating! I tried with and

I have just done an upgrade to vista and the moment i open up any full screen
program that isnt in a window i get a ...Video initialization failure
                                                       Function failure:
CreateDevice

i saved a solitaire game in vista so that i could continue it later. i
finished it. now everytime i restart solitaire it asks me if i would like to
continue that game. how do i get rid of saved games in solitaire in vista?!?