I’m looking for some information on installation issues I am having with
games in the final release of vista home premium. I have 6 different games
which refuse to install correctly of a clean install of vista. They were all
fine with XP. Games are;

Just some of the multitude and ever growing reasons not to use Vista.
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when I start FSX, the message 'colorscheme changed to vista-basic' appears,
cause the program ist not compatible with certain visual elements in vista.
Is FSX not compatible to Vista?
my system:

i just bought a new comp running vista....the computer i bought has an on
board graphics card...nvidia 6100 from what i understand is crap. so I went
out and got a new ATI top of the line. I am having problems running games
that have 1/8 the requirements that I now have. any ...

is microsoft comming out with a new driver for the sidewinder joystick for
vista

i just got a new laptop because my old one died and it is on vista and it has
a jack to plug an x box 360 controler into and theres all this hype about x
box 360 and vista together so i was wondering, well what would happen if i
stick a 360 game disk in the computer. so what ...

With roughly half od my games (including new ones), the game will resize,
then only display the upper left corner of the screen.
I've tried fumbling with drivers and restore points and patches and FSAA and
everything else I could imagine. Since it happens on around 10 of my games

well BF2 dosent work for me...so i guess i need a list of what works and want
dosent!

My Vista Game Explorer has stopped working. When I d-click on a game in there
now, I get the following error:
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel"

I have NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT with 256MB of DDRIII memory installed. I have
installed Flight Simulator X on my XP, and it works great. when I try to run
that game, there is an error message appears: "FLight Simulator cannot run
because the version of Microsoft DirectX(R) installed ...

Building a new computer.
Bought Vista Ultimate 64-bit.
Does that OS have a compatibility mode for 32-bit software? Or do I need to
run 64-bit versions of everything? Will using the 64-bit version of Vista

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Lets help each other sort a listing out :-)
Dave

I have Rise of Nations (Gold) and I installed it on Windows Vista, but it
does not start. Obviously, I can't even go to the updates section.
What can I do to make it work?
Kind regards

I have downloaded Ravenhearst from Yahoo and can play it fine when it is
first downloaded.  Once I close out the game and try to play again, I get :
Mystery Case Files Ravenhearst has stopped working.
So, in order to play I have to delete it and re-download... anyone know how

I've been trying to load some games - Quake II, Half-Life, Hexen, Heretic...
all those that work fine in 98SE and XP. So far, the only game my Vista Home
Premium will play is a joke on me for thinking I was upgrading!
Out of 19 different programs that ran in XP, only one installed ...