Old games not working on windows 7 :(

My brother installed windows 7 on my computer, i dont like it at all, very little works on it, even the new games end up crashing. I miss the old XP where everything worked fine. Anyways, most or nearly all my old games dont work, these ones where like made in 95-99. One game i tried to play was Dungeon Keeper, i heard you need to download something that windows 7 doesnt do anymore, the old version used to be a Direx3D something, while the new one is something else, theres a new patch, file that allows all the old games that worked on the Direx that wont work on the new one, to work. but its a different file, does anyone know what it is, thanks :)

Many of those old games require DOS to running. Since Vista, Microsoft removed DOS. Which is great, because it was really holding back the OS.

You'll need a DOS emulator to get some of those really old games to work, like DOSBox.

Many of those old games require DOS to running. Since Vista, Microsoft removed DOS. Which is great, because it was really holding back the OS.

You'll need a DOS emulator to get some of those really old games to work, like DOSBox.

XaosII

You can run 2 operating systems on your computer. ie XP and Windows 7 so you could try that.

[QUOTE="XaosII"]

Many of those old games require DOS to running. Since Vista, Microsoft removed DOS. Which is great, because it was really holding back the OS.

You'll need a DOS emulator to get some of those really old games to work, like DOSBox.

Born_Lucky

Your problem exists somewhere else. I have all the games you've listed and they all work fine in Windows 7.

What is your video card?

Rome total war crashes on my windows7, same with Falout 3 and a few other good games, Medieval 2 total war which was made few years after rome dont even work. Im getting alot of cut offs with my games. my old comp used to be XP, the mother board got corrupted and my dad didnt help me get a new one, that was many years ago. I then had my grandads comp, that was a ME, hasnt been updated or used since 2001 according to the clock, net and what not. Most old games worked fine on it. But all the stuff inside the comp wasnt really built for playing games. It was only sometime last year i got my own comp. I got "at the time" the new latest graphics card, one that will enable me to play games in Ultra high graphics, everything was up to date. I went to work only to come back and see my bro built it for me, gave me Windows 7 and not XP. He says XP is rubbish, and putting it on Windows 7 is long and complicated. But i feel windows 7 is a let down, maybe because its new, needs to finnish its patches, updates it needs. but i never got alot of crashes and so on with XP unlike windows 7. I might see if i can find the XP and just wipe windows 7 off completely :/Mickeyminime

I was able to get all of those games to run on Windows 7 (64-bit). Rome Total War, Fallout 3, MW: Total War 2. I had to install all the latest patches for them but they worked. Rome Total war was a little squirrely at first, but it just takes a little while to start.

Dual boot is probably the best way to go in some instances though.

All your games that you listed work fine on my windows 7. Something else is wrong.dannenissan2

Your problem exists somewhere else. I have all the games you've listed and they all work fine in Windows 7.

What is your video card?

my rome doesnt work well on mine, it works ok for awhile, then crashes with messages saying "not responding, working and so on". I put the graphics on high, units on huge as i used to on XP years ago, it worked fine on XP with those conditions, but 7 doesnt like it, even with low units and low graphic settings it crashes. My uncle bought me another Rome collection, i uninstalled my old one, and reinstalled the new one, and againg, it crashes. Medieval 2 was worse, took months to get it to install, kept saying error on disc while when we install it on XP round my uncles, it works fine. It did install in the end, but i ended up having probs with 7 so i had to format the drive, only for the game to not install again. Fallout 3 goes gay after a while too. Im def thinking about going back to XP as 7 seems to be a weee bit rubbish with its gaming :(Mickeyminime

How much RAM do you have? Windows 7 is a hog in comparison to XP (but much better than Vista). I get some strange things with Windows 7 like I have to run Sid Meier's Railroads twice before it will start (2 Railroads.exe's are in the task manager). The witcher has to be version 1.5. Age of Empires 2 is psychodelic with the color scheme.

Also do you use MSE? I had alot of trouble when I had that installed but it all cleared up when I removed it.

Download dosbox, its a dos emulator, I use it to run dungeon keeper on windows 7 64bit. Using it is not the simplest though so you might want to look up tutorial on it.

The only game I haven't been able to get running on 7, is Omikron...but then again, I couldn't get it to work on xp or vista either. Otherwise, everything I've thrown at windows 7 works great.

Yeah, Age of Empires 1 and 2 look funky on my Computer.

even if I press Run like Windows XP.

my rome doesnt work well on mine, it works ok for awhile, then crashes with messages saying "not responding, working and so on". I put the graphics on high, units on huge as i used to on XP years ago, it worked fine on XP with those conditions, but 7 doesnt like it, even with low units and low graphic settings it crashes. My uncle bought me another Rome collection, i uninstalled my old one, and reinstalled the new one, and againg, it crashes. Medieval 2 was worse, took months to get it to install, kept saying error on disc while when we install it on XP round my uncles, it works fine. It did install in the end, but i ended up having probs with 7 so i had to format the drive, only for the game to not install again. Fallout 3 goes gay after a while too. Im def thinking about going back to XP as 7 seems to be a weee bit rubbish with its gaming :(Mickeyminime

welcom to the future, where DOS is a redundant pos.DanielDust

Redundant? Probably, but it really wasn't until fairly recently. POS? No.

Some people at the game store, even Matalan told me people have to becareful what system people use and play games on, just because it works for most people, it may not work for others. Far Cry wont even install on 7, works on my friends XP though lol :(. My Uncle even said, you should have a program when its out, wait 2 years until all the bugs have been fixed then take it, otherwise your going to have problems that you may not understand and cant be fixed as its not known. Windows 7 does look nice, but it would seem Games are not 100% ready to be used for 7 yet :(Mickeyminime

I have the original release of Far Cry for the PC. It also had some install problems* with a virgin install of Windows 7. But, I ran Windows Update a few days later and tried installing far Cry once more. That time, Far Cry installed and played fine.

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*Other games that had initial install problems were C&C: Generals, Rome: Total War, and Pacific Fighters. After running Windows Update that one time, they all installed fine

As for Dungeon Keeper, I can run the non-accelerated version via DOSBox or through XP in VirtualBox on my Win 7 PC. It's limited to 640x480 though either way.

running a PC with Win7 that used to be made for XP with no hardware change....bad idea.

[QUOTE="Mickeyminime"]my rome doesnt work well on mine, it works ok for awhile, then crashes with messages saying "not responding, working and so on". I put the graphics on high, units on huge as i used to on XP years ago, it worked fine on XP with those conditions, but 7 doesnt like it, even with low units and low graphic settings it crashes. My uncle bought me another Rome collection, i uninstalled my old one, and reinstalled the new one, and againg, it crashes. Medieval 2 was worse, took months to get it to install, kept saying error on disc while when we install it on XP round my uncles, it works fine. It did install in the end, but i ended up having probs with 7 so i had to format the drive, only for the game to not install again. Fallout 3 goes gay after a while too. Im def thinking about going back to XP as 7 seems to be a weee bit rubbish with its gaming :(guynamedbilly

[QUOTE="Mickeyminime"]Some people at the game store, even Matalan told me people have to becareful what system people use and play games on, just because it works for most people, it may not work for others. Far Cry wont even install on 7, works on my friends XP though lol :(. My Uncle even said, you should have a program when its out, wait 2 years until all the bugs have been fixed then take it, otherwise your going to have problems that you may not understand and cant be fixed as its not known. Windows 7 does look nice, but it would seem Games are not 100% ready to be used for 7 yet :(jun_aka_pekto

I have the original release of Far Cry for the PC. It also had some install problems* with a virgin install of Windows 7. But, I ran Windows Update a few days later and tried installing far Cry once more. That time, Far Cry installed and played fine.

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*Other games that had initial install problems were C&C: Generals, Rome: Total War, and Pacific Fighters. After running Windows Update that one time, they all installed fine

As for Dungeon Keeper, I can run the non-accelerated version via DOSBox or through XP in VirtualBox on my Win 7 PC. It's limited to 640x480 though either way.

[QUOTE="jun_aka_pekto"]

[QUOTE="Mickeyminime"]Some people at the game store, even Matalan told me people have to becareful what system people use and play games on, just because it works for most people, it may not work for others. Far Cry wont even install on 7, works on my friends XP though lol :(. My Uncle even said, you should have a program when its out, wait 2 years until all the bugs have been fixed then take it, otherwise your going to have problems that you may not understand and cant be fixed as its not known. Windows 7 does look nice, but it would seem Games are not 100% ready to be used for 7 yet :(Mickeyminime

I have the original release of Far Cry for the PC. It also had some install problems* with a virgin install of Windows 7. But, I ran Windows Update a few days later and tried installing far Cry once more. That time, Far Cry installed and played fine.

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*Other games that had initial install problems were C&C: Generals, Rome: Total War, and Pacific Fighters. After running Windows Update that one time, they all installed fine

As for Dungeon Keeper, I can run the non-accelerated version via DOSBox or through XP in VirtualBox on my Win 7 PC. It's limited to 640x480 though either way.

The problems with the games I mentioned were with the actual install. They'd encounter errors such as not being able to read the disc or corrupt file if I was trying to install a game demo. I think Windows Update downloaded and installed the required MS Visual C++ files. Since then, I've had no problems with most games. There's a handful that simply refuses to run such as Dungeon Keeper 1, IL-2 Forgotten Battles, and Quake 2. I've resorted to playing those games in VirtualBox running XP Home.

eg:

Dungeon Keeper:

[QUOTE="Mickeyminime"][QUOTE="jun_aka_pekto"]

I have the original release of Far Cry for the PC. It also had some install problems* with a virgin install of Windows 7. But, I ran Windows Update a few days later and tried installing far Cry once more. That time, Far Cry installed and played fine.

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*Other games that had initial install problems were C&C: Generals, Rome: Total War, and Pacific Fighters. After running Windows Update that one time, they all installed fine

As for Dungeon Keeper, I can run the non-accelerated version via DOSBox or through XP in VirtualBox on my Win 7 PC. It's limited to 640x480 though either way.

The problems with the games I mentioned were with the actual install. They'd encounter errors such as not being able to read the disc or corrupt file if I was trying to install a game demo. I think Windows Update downloaded and installed the required MS Visual C++ files. Since then, I've had no problems with most games. There's a handful that simply refuses to run such as Dungeon Keeper 1, IL-2 Forgotten Battles, and Quake 2. I've resorted to playing those games in VirtualBox running XP Home.

eg:

Dungeon Keeper:

Windows 7 is fantastic, alot better then that Vista nonsense.

There is only two games I couldnt get working and they were Myth1 and one of hte wizardry games. They are both pretty old though. Other then that all my other old games seem to work nicely on Windows7 (:

[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"][QUOTE="Mickeyminime"]my rome doesnt work well on mine, it works ok for awhile, then crashes with messages saying "not responding, working and so on". I put the graphics on high, units on huge as i used to on XP years ago, it worked fine on XP with those conditions, but 7 doesnt like it, even with low units and low graphic settings it crashes. My uncle bought me another Rome collection, i uninstalled my old one, and reinstalled the new one, and againg, it crashes. Medieval 2 was worse, took months to get it to install, kept saying error on disc while when we install it on XP round my uncles, it works fine. It did install in the end, but i ended up having probs with 7 so i had to format the drive, only for the game to not install again. Fallout 3 goes gay after a while too. Im def thinking about going back to XP as 7 seems to be a weee bit rubbish with its gaming :(Mickeyminime

Hes right for teh most part... but Windows7 changes that imo. It was very good right out of the box, where are XP and Vista took awhile to really get going.

Some people at the game store, even Matalan told me people have to becareful what system people use and play games on, just because it works for most people, it may not work for others. Far Cry wont even install on 7, works on my friends XP though lol :(. My Uncle even said, you should have a program when its out, wait 2 years until all the bugs have been fixed then take it, otherwise your going to have problems that you may not understand and cant be fixed as its not known. Windows 7 does look nice, but it would seem Games are not 100% ready to be used for 7 yet :(Mickeyminime

Something is up with your computer.. I can fun Farcry perfectly fine on Windows7.

99% of the games ive tried on Windows7 work flawless.

Vista was an OS that it was good to wait awhile before you got it, but W7 is pretty awesome as is right now. What kind of windwos7 do you have btw? 64bit? Ultimate?

Rome total war crashes on my windows7, same with Falout 3 and a few other good games, Medieval 2 total war which was made few years after rome dont even work. Im getting alot of cut offs with my games. my old comp used to be XP, the mother board got corrupted and my dad didnt help me get a new one, that was many years ago. I then had my grandads comp, that was a ME, hasnt been updated or used since 2001 according to the clock, net and what not. Most old games worked fine on it. But all the stuff inside the comp wasnt really built for playing games. It was only sometime last year i got my own comp. I got "at the time" the new latest graphics card, one that will enable me to play games in Ultra high graphics, everything was up to date. I went to work only to come back and see my bro built it for me, gave me Windows 7 and not XP. He says XP is rubbish, and putting it on Windows 7 is long and complicated. But i feel windows 7 is a let down, maybe because its new, needs to finnish its patches, updates it needs. but i never got alot of crashes and so on with XP unlike windows 7. I might see if i can find the XP and just wipe windows 7 off completely :/Mickeyminime

Your problem is not windows, its soemthing either with drivers or hardware.
I got Fallout3 since launch and not one crash. Had Rome Total War for ages and no crashes on W7 with it.

Its not always the OS's problem if your computer is having issues. Hope your situation improves though.

ahhhhhh that was a good bonus level that one :D,ill have to see if my bro has the XP home or something or another. That was the first game i ever bought back in 95-96, still one of the greatest games i have, i sure do miss it :(, thanks man :DMickeyminime

Actually, that's Level 2. :lol:

Wait a minute - "evolution", is breaking games that used to work fine??

That's the dumbest thing I've read all year - and that's saying something.

Windows 7 is fantastic, alot better then that Vista nonsense.

There is only two games I couldnt get working and they were Myth1 and one of hte wizardry games. They are both pretty old though. Other then that all my other old games seem to work nicely on Windows7 (:

Hmmm, my BIOS still looks ancient.

That message you got was probably a "windows genuine" message. Are you using a proper retail version of windows 7 or a pirated copy?dannenissan2

Either post what hardware is in your computer or ask your brother if it was a genuine copy of windows 7. Windows 7 is solid as a rock and will run just about anything you throw at it better than any version of windows before it. Its either that your copy of windows is a cracked version or your hardware is not playing nice with eachother. Post your hardware and see if you can figure out if your windows is genuine.

Either post what hardware is in your computer or ask your brother if it was a genuine copy of windows 7. Windows 7 is solid as a rock and will run just about anything you throw at it better than any version of windows before it. Its either that your copy of windows is a cracked version or your hardware is not playing nice with eachother. Post your hardware and see if you can figure out if your windows is genuine.

EverestMan

[QUOTE="XaosII"]

Many of those old games require DOS to running. Since Vista, Microsoft removed DOS. Which is great, because it was really holding back the OS.

You'll need a DOS emulator to get some of those really old games to work, like DOSBox.

Born_Lucky

MS-DOS was 16-bit, it had that 640K barrier, remember?:)

The more advanced Windows became, the tougher it was to keep DOS running. It's especially difficult in a 64-bit environment.

It would have been great if Bill Gates had patched DOS into a 32-bit OS, but he wanted Windows more. Then they scrambled to make the Direct-X APIs so game devs would cross over to it.

I'm having problems too. The older games I want to install are Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance. I have Windows 7 Home Premium, and I know it's a genuine copy because I bought it from Newegg. Hardware is in my sig. When I run setup it tells me that setup could not run because of incompatibility with 64 bit versions of Windows.

Ah ok yeah i've run into the 64 bit issue as well every now and then, i dont have the 32 bit, but im told that one runs whatever. 64 bit apparently doesnt play nice with some other things because a 64 bit os didnt exist.