I have several games, running properly in Win XP Prof SP2, and as I'm
considering to migrate to Vista Home Premium I would like to know if somebody
already ran them under the new OS.
Here some of the games for which I would like to have your comments - other

I am using Windows Vista on my Macbook Pro with boot camp, and I just
installed Viva Pinata.  Every time I try to run this program it encounters an
error and shuts the program down.  I tried reinstalling the game but it still
doesnt work.  Does anyone know what might be wrong?

I've tried to install Microsoft Bicycle Board Games from year 2001 (not the
1.5 Version) on Windows Vista 64Bit (german OS) and I found no way to
install the program. Short after setup launch the taskmanager shows rapidly
spawn processes from the game installer with random names. ...

Did Bioshock or AnyDVD through a monkey wrench into the system?  The sytem
now crashes when attepting to install any PCDVD game.  CD works fine though.
Unistalling AnyDVD hasn't worked.  A spare CD/DVD combo drive does the same
thing so Im sure its not the hardware, also it ran ...

Hello my name is Matej Priteržnik from Slovenia I am using Windows Vista home
and when i run a game a get a mesage:
BF2142.exe has stopped working
And then I go:

Hi there guys, recently my brother got a new computer with a DVD/CD Drive
bother occupying the same slot.
The drive reads CD's fine, but when we try to install games from PC DVD's
like Dawn of Wawr The Dark Crusade, or another program like Magix Video

Vi$ta features a My Games folder.
What's the proper procedure to add a game into that folder for games
that're not detected by Vi$ta?

okay so upgraded my ocmputer, threw on windwos vista home premium. Everything
ran great. Picked up gears of war, ran too sweet. went to a lan party
everything stil lran great. came home and some reason all my games were
uninstalled. Well deleted from my HD really. Now, I can see ...

I notice that whenever I start Chess Titans, it opens in the middle of a game
in which the machine is playing black.  When I try to exit the game, it asks
whether I'd like to resign or play on.  Neither option has stopped the system
from presenting the same mid-game scenario ...

Can anyone recommend a good RPG that works on VISTA?
Preferably one that does not take a million hours to finish.

because Vista does not support starforce protection I could not install
Ubisofts Brothers in ARms ... they will not even answer any questions I post
.... obviuosly they have become many of different vendors saying "We don't
support Vista" ....

It'd be really nice to have an easy way to modify certain details in the game
dir. Newer or obscure games don't get the pretty cover art, and some new
games are (foolishly) coming out without Vista-ready icons. I know it can be
reg-edited, but why should it need to be?

Hello, i have the same problem as many of these people except i have 2 games
now working. Command and Conquer Decade, and Battle for Middle earth 2. The
games both installed fine but when i go to play them they just sit there
loading a menu that never maximizes. Then after about ...

Hi - I have a question about Steel Beasts Gold Edition.  I'm trying to run it
on Vista and it installs fine.  However, when I try to play the game I get a
message that it is missing d3drm.dll.  Any ideas on how to make this work?  
If I were to find the dll file somewhere and ...

Under Vista mscdex/mscdexnt fails dos cdaudio support for games who need it
(e.g. Tomb Raider 1) as it's obsolete and IOCTL codes are now out of use.
Same goes for mscdexnt replacement, sapucdex which was born just to make for
mscdexnt's limitations and in fact worked... with ...