I am purchasing an Alienware laptop  does anyone know if XP gaming software
will run on Vista? I dont know if lets say Sierra will upgrade their software
to Vista. I dont want to buy games that wont run on Vista. unless updates are
ava. from the makers of a game for compatability ...

Do all versions of Vista come with DirectX 10?
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Hi can anyone help please, i have installed Vista and now when i try to run
FSX, the programs keeps closing with a vista message box saying  it has
stopped working and windows will close it and notify of a solution...it then
closes and DOES NOT notify of any solution> It was ...

I've got a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D board, an AMD FX60 cpu, 4GB of RAM and
the onboard sound module (realtek) and an XFX 7900GT Extreme.
Whatever games I play, Halflife-2, Halflife-2 Episode One, Fear, Fear
Extraction point, NFS Carbon, etc etc.

I just recently upgraded to vista x32 ultimate edition, and I'm having some
problems with games. I have tried playing counterstrike: source as well as
battlefield 2142, and during startup they have both froze up. I have a NVIDIA
7900GT, and have heard that they are having ...

OK... been running Vista RC! Build 5600 sinde it was releaded. It's worked
fine so far, with the exception of games. Vista RC1 had serious compatibility
issues with 50% of the games my kids had that worked just fine under XP.  
Even setting Vista in XP mode seemed to make little ...

How can i get Battelfield 2 to work on my computer it downloaded ok but when
i start to run it the screen goes blank and then returns back the desk top?

I heard that there might be an update for flight simulator x to make it work
with dx10. Is this true? and if it is when is it going to be released and
what kind of improvement will we be able to expect?

I've recently installed Vista and was playing around with the Games Explorer.
I'm not sure exactly how "List most recently played games" works. Downloading
information is obvious, but this setting doesn't seem to make a difference
for me. It doesn't seem to do anything. Icons are ...

I am trying to run Half Life 2 on Vista 64bit and it is hanging while
loading.  I assume that it is having issues loading the 64bit version of
Halflife 2 because all of my other steam games run fine.  Is there a way to
force 32bit?

I have just bought ATI's Sapphire X1900 256MB for my PC. I have got Vista
Ultimate installed and Vista detected the graphics and installed with no
problems until it needed to reboot. It gets to the green bar going across
the screen and then I get a black screen with the message ...

I have encountered a strange behaviour. If I run a game (tested with Guild
Wars & Unreal Tournament 2004) and switch back to the desktop, the game
produces 100% cpu usage (in reality 50% because i have a dualcore cpu). Even
if i am in the game, the cpu usage is not so high. I ...

Hi I have 2 x 8800 GTX's in SLI mode which worked great with XP. I did a
clean install of Vista Home Premium, re-installed FSX and I can't play it for
more than a few minutes before it starts to slow down considerably, then
closes as Vista brings up a message saying I am out of ...

Only certain games seem to show up in media center and the game folder on
vista. I use my pc as a gaming/media pc so it would be nice if I could
access all of them through media center, is there a way?
Examples -

Is there a way to purchase or download solitaire, minesweeper and the like
onto Windows Vista Business Edition? I recieved this version through MSDN
Academic Alliance, and would like to get some of the software that isn't
included.