I just bought a new computer with windows vista and I'm unable to play any of
my sim games.  I tried switching to windows xp compatibility mode but that
didn't help! I bought this computer so I could play my sim games and I was
told by Best Buy that they would work fine.  Well ...

I cannot run Bicycle Board, Bicycle Cards and Bicycle Casino games on Windows
Vista Ultimate Edition. I suggest to Microsoft Games Studios to make
available a Service Packs for these games to fix this problem.
Thanks.

Had no problem with Windows XP, now new computer has Windows Vista Premium. I
get a box saying XTRAP unsupported software. Code field
[01-0300-00000000-031]. This game is from NETGAME.COM site. Anyone know how
to fix, Microsoft don't !!! Don't BUY VISTA it sucks !!

I am trying to run a hockey sim game called Faceoff which I have played for
years on several old computers; now having bought a new laptop with Vista I
get the following message when trying to run the game:
Network initialization failed.

Well I seem to be one of the many people having problems with Battlefield
2142.  It was bad enough that I removed Vista from my system and reinstalled
XP (which works just fine).  But before I throw Vista in the trash, i thought
I would try one more time since EA basically is of ...

I upgraded my OS from Windows XP to Windows Vista. now FS won't run.
I can get plane on runway ready for takeoff but nothing from there.
Any suggestions?

TEAM SPEAK ....HEAD PHONES WORK AND MIKE BUT AS SOON AS I ENTER COD, HEAD
PHONES WORK BUT MIKE DOSNT??????  HELP!!!!!!!

I had Windows XP Media Center Edition and upgraded to Vista. When I upgraded
I did a "clean install" which, I suppose, wipped my hard drive. Now, the
games that were a part of media Center 2005, Otto's Magic Blocks and soem
others aren't on my machine. My kids LOVE Otto and I am ...

i resently found a old copy of the sims and i wanted to show my GF how much
better it is for the pc than the ps2.
When i instal the sims it works fine and no problems, i run the game when
i'm done, that when i go play it  the second time it starts to load then

...along with a nice shiney DX10 graphics card.  But wait!  Where's
DX10?  And what about the games - when are they coming out?  So just
HOW long do we have to wait?
Methinks MS have mislead me.  Isn't that unlawful?

Operating System : Vista Ultimate
7900 GTX Video Card
When you try to bring up FSX it just flashes uncontrollably. It's both the
sound & the video.  I made no changes during setup, I just ran the program.

In Flight Simulator X, I hit semicolon in the middle of a flight to save it,
put in a name for a saved flight and a description, then hit OK. The
dialogue windows disappears without an error message of any kind, but then I
can't locate that flight anywhere. I pick Free Flight, ...

ok all i am seeing is how games dont work, i have been trying to get age of
empire 3 to work and now luck there. so what games do work  with vista.

i installed rollercoaster tycoon 3 and all expansion packs, when i tried
playing it said i installed expansion packs in wrong order (i didnt) so i
uninstalled. when i reinstalled rct3 without the expansion packs it still
doesnt work. it wont load it or anything. any clues? please ...

With some MMORPGs like Silkroad and MapleStory,
a program called NProtect launches to prevent "hacking" (speed hacks)
from the client side.
On my system, after NProtect launches, my screen will go black and then to a