Say I built a very powerful computer with the latest technology and I wanted to play a classic game like Diablo or Half-life. Would this hinder the games performance? Would the game be too outdated for my pc. Is this even an issue?
There are issues with the OS, not the hardware itself. You can usually get them to work, even in Vista, using some built in Windows 98 compaitibility modes and such. I'm not sure about Diablo, but Half Life shouldn't be a problem.
However, I tried everything under the sun to get my old copy of Red Alert running on my new machine with XP, and I couldn't get it to work. I think eventually, some of these games will become lost without some emulation or other help.
There can be issues with both the OS and hardware, just as some current games also don't like certain hardware combinations. Also, most games can adapt to the speed of current hardware, but not always (and end up being unplayable because they run too fast).
things things often start crippling down because of the OS. but problems with quad core processors occur with older games so you can easily run into problems either way
There can be issues with both the OS and hardware, just as some current games also don't like certain hardware combinations. Also, most games can adapt to the speed of current hardware, but not always (and end up being unplayable because they run too fast).
Gog
Yeah. I experienced that. I tried playing an old game from 1999, it would sometimes work, but other times it would be glitched. I guess my rig was just too awesome for the poor game...heh, jk.
There are issues with the OS, not the hardware itself. You can usually get them to work, even in Vista, using some built in Windows 98 compaitibility modes and such. I'm not sure about Diablo, but Half Life shouldn't be a problem.
However, I tried everything under the sun to get my old copy of Red Alert running on my new machine with XP, and I couldn't get it to work. I think eventually, some of these games will become lost without some emulation or other help.
Fignewton50
I have also played diablo on vista, it does work just be sure to "Run as Administrator" when you launch the game and it should work fine
LOL man i just bought like 25 pc games everything from Crysis to COD4 to EE3 even some classics like Starcraft, Diablo 2, C&C Red Alert 2 I never owned this games but I did play them but I have a itch to play them again :), I got Vista X64 set up here with 4GB DDR2, I really hope I can get them to play since I would be very angry esp if Commandos 2 & 3 come tomorrow & I cant play them :(
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