got vista ultimate some qs

guys just installed vista in another drive as gog said in my earlier post so made dual boot now of winodws xp pro and vista

1 thing i wanna ask is how can i make my games work again on vista

i have AC and it doesnt open when i click on AC for D_10

and another is that iam really not impressed with vista so u think i shld keep it or format the disk?

Like I said before, some games can be played by simply running the executable, others need to be re-installed.

You can also try to take an export of the registry settings for a game ad import them in Vista but if you aren't comfortable with modifying the registry I would advice against it.

Give Vista a bit more time. 1 day isn't nearly enough to get to know Vista. You need at least a few weeks.

Like I said before, some games can be played by simply running the executable, others need to be re-installed.

You can also try to take an export of the registry settings for a game ad import them in Vista but if you aren't comfortable with modifying the registry I would advice against it.

Give Vista a bit more time. 1 day isn't nearly enough to get to know Vista. You need at least a few weeks.

Gog

ok ill just use it less than xp for gaming and mayb ill get use to it

also need some answers 1stly how do activate 64 bit in my computer and also can i actually use it

also now i have installed the vista on a new disk which is 160gb

it is dedicated to vista only

how do i go about games

steam aint opening TF2

the screen with the head comes but its very small and when i press escape from that valve the program just shuts down any advice?

i play games on vista, and i just need to have them installed on that hdd, the only other time i played games from on another hdd was when i had a 2 hdd xp machine, in which one was the slave, maybe the slave/master thing has something to do with it....or is this something completely different?

It has nothing to do under which drive the game is installed on which OS you were running when you installed the game. That means installing it several times if you use more than one OS.

You don't activate 64-bit. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions are 2 different operating systems.

It has nothing to do under which drive the game is installed on which OS you were running when you installed the game. That means installing it several times if you use more than one OS.

You don't activate 64-bit. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions are 2 different operating systems.

Gog

i got the 64 bit ultimate vista

but when i go in apperance its only showing me 32 and 16

[QUOTE="Gog"]

It has nothing to do under which drive the game is installed on which OS you were running when you installed the game. That means installing it several times if you use more than one OS.

You don't activate 64-bit. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions are 2 different operating systems.

paraskhos_basic

i got the 64 bit ultimate vista

but when i go in apperance its only showing me 32 and 16

That is colors and has nothing to do with 32 vs 63 bit OS's.

[QUOTE="paraskhos_basic"][QUOTE="Gog"]

It has nothing to do under which drive the game is installed on which OS you were running when you installed the game. That means installing it several times if you use more than one OS.

You don't activate 64-bit. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions are 2 different operating systems.

ch5richards

i got the 64 bit ultimate vista

but when i go in apperance its only showing me 32 and 16

That is colors and has nothing to do with 32 vs 63 bit OS's.

oh ok so u think its 64 bit by default? if so thats good coz i didnt know i thought its like in colors or something

also u think i shld install all mobo and graphix drivers again for vista coz i think its not giving me the nvidia control panel so mayb thats y nohing is working

When you install a new OS in general, you'll want to reinstall everything. Since it sounds like your going from XP (32-bit) to Vista (64-bit), you definitely want to reinstall everything. Reasons:

1) 32-bit drivers do not install onto 64-bit environments
2) Windows (64-bit) typically places 32-bit programs in different directories (Example: C:Program Files(x86))

When you install a new OS in general, you'll want to reinstall everything. Since it sounds like your going from XP (32-bit) to Vista (64-bit), you definitely want to reinstall everything. Reasons:

1) 32-bit drivers do not install onto 64-bit environments
2) Windows (64-bit) typically places 32-bit programs in different directories (Example: C:Program Files(x86))

GamingMonkeyPC

the thing is i did install a fresh xp pro and then on another drive did vista

though didnt install drivers

ok will do that and come back