PLEASE HELP!

[nytola]

Not that I know squat, but I do have a friend who is a
microsoft technician (who I am embarassed to ask all my
super-lame questions to...like the one above) but he once
told me to never use old games on XP, it really is not a
happening compatibility.....for whateverits worth
>-----Original Message-----
>I have Xp, 1.2 ghz AMD proc, 712 mb ddr ram, riva tnt2
32mb agp card. I have
>a problem with my games freezing on me. Alot of the times
the games will
>just exit out in the middle of playing. I get a
bluescreen with an error so
>i have to restart. THis isnt just with one game. All my
games are like this.
>I do have cacheman to, and riva tuner. But even with it
all off my games are
>freezing and crashing. Now I did tweak xp from
tweaktown.com awhile back
>ago. Please help!
>
>
>.
>

[Amethyst]

nytola wrote:
> Not that I know squat, but I do have a friend who is a
> microsoft technician (who I am embarassed to ask all my
> super-lame questions to...like the one above) but he once
> told me to never use old games on XP, it really is not a
> happening compatibility.....for whateverits worth
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I have Xp, 1.2 ghz AMD proc, 712 mb ddr ram, riva tnt2 32mb agp
>> card. I have a problem with my games freezing on me. Alot of the
>> times the games will just exit out in the middle of playing. I get a
>> bluescreen with an error so i have to restart. THis isnt just with
>> one game. All my games are like this. I do have cacheman to, and
>> riva tuner. But even with it all off my games are freezing and
>> crashing. Now I did tweak xp from tweaktown.com awhile back ago.
>> Please help!
>>
>>
>> .


Well your 'friend' knows nothing - most are perfectly compatible - I can run
7 year old Windows games perfectly happily under XP - I was replaying Broken
Sword 1 only last night.
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Amethyst wrote:

> Well your 'friend' knows nothing

And you do?

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Amethyst wrote:

> Well your 'friend' knows nothing

And you do?

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[Ken Blake]

In , nytola wrote:

> Not that I know squat, but I do have a friend who is a
> microsoft technician (who I am embarassed to ask all my
> super-lame questions to...like the one above) but he once
> told me to never use old games on XP, it really is not a
> happening compatibility.....for whateverits worth


No, it depends entirely on the game. Although many old games
won't work, others will. It depends on the game and whether it
accesses the hardware directly. Since many games do access the
hardware directly, those won't work, but it's *not* therefore
true of all old games.

Also note that there's no danger in trying. Either it will work
or not; it doesn't hurt anything to try an older game which fails
to work.

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