Vista problems, any ideas?

[AussieDodger]

I am on Vista now, and when I go to play old games it won't play them and says "does not support full screen mode" or something like that.

Also, it only has a TRIAL version of Word/Excel and therefore won't save anything, rendering it virtually useless.

WTF garbage is this?

Any clever cafe-ers got any solutions?

[Tavish]

I am on Vista now, and when I go to play old games it won't play them and says "does not support full screen mode" or something like that.

Also, it only has a TRIAL version of Word/Excel and therefore won't save anything, rendering it virtually useless.

WTF garbage is this?

Any clever cafe-ers got any solutions?

A: How old of games are you talking about? IIRC Vista needs an emulator to run DOS games.

B: Either buy the full version of Office or get a free open source Office suite like OpenOffice.org

[acsguitar]

So you don't own office?

Also, yea how old are the games. Just put windows 7 on there

[AussieDodger]

A: How old of games are you talking about? IIRC Vista needs an emulator to run DOS games.

Quake 3 (1999?), and I downloaded a free version of Leisure Suit Larry 2 that it won't let me play

B: Either buy the full version of Office or get a free open source Office suite like OpenOffice.org

Yeah my g/f just told me that too, thanks man

[Dan Lambskin]

A: How old of games are you talking about? IIRC Vista needs an emulator to run DOS games.

Quake 3 (1999?), and I downloaded a free version of Leisure Suit Larry 2 that it won't let me play

did you lose your copy of Doom or something?

[Tavish]

A: How old of games are you talking about? IIRC Vista needs an emulator to run DOS games.

Quake 3 (1999?), and I downloaded a free version of Leisure Suit Larry 2 that it won't let me play

Quake 3 should run ok in Vista, it might be a resolution setting. Make sure you have updated graphic drivers. And then try setting the game resolution to the same as your Vista setting.

[acsguitar]

Try running in xp compatability mode.

Is it an openGL game?

[AussieDodger]

Try running in xp compatability mode.

Is it an openGL game?

GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

[acsguitar]

Whats your graphics card?

[AussieDodger]

Whats your graphics card?

This is going to sound dumb, but in this Vista b.s I don't know where to look.