Installing games on Vista

I am trying to install a few games like FEAR onto my brothers computer which he recently purchased. And me not liking vista never really did learn any of the new things except its harder to work with games. I try using autorun on the disc and it brings up the first menu like always except when you select any of the options nothing else pops up. And after 5 mins you realized nothing is going to happen >.> The only game that allows you to navigate the menus I noticed is the pirated version of Oblivion I have and not the legit version I tried. So I was wondering if there is something else we need to do to make legit games work on this machine instead of pirated versions?

Try the internet. I installed Fear but not oblivion without a single issue.Deihmos

Yeah, don't use vista, run XP as a dual boot and keep Vista for when DX10 games come outwhgresiak

I am having no problems with vista and my games.