Vista and games

Hello everybody, nice to meet you,

I just bought a Dell latitude D820 with vista installed and managed to install some games on it. All went well with NFS MW and Falcon 4.0, but I couldn't install neither Flight Simulator X nor Battlefield 2142.
My graphic card is an NVS 120 512mb, and I have 2g of RAM.
thank you in advance

 

What do you mean by "couldn't install"? Did it give you an error? Did a message pop up saying that they were not compatible with Vista? Did they install but won't play correctly? Have you tried installing as administrator? If it did install, did you try XP compatibility mode?

Please be more specific. Also, have you consulted this Vista compatibility list? According to that list, both games should install and run smoothly...

Matt

 

I'm logged on the Administrator's account
The BF2142's error says there is a problem with the serial number while it is an original one. The FSX error doesn't give any explanation.
Can you explain me how to use the Xp mode.

 

Sounds like it's problem more with 'return the games because the cd key is in use', then with vista...

 

i do not believe that BF 2142 is supported by vista yet. But there is a type of vista (i dont remember what it is called) but it makes your computer think that you have XP even though you have vista (this is a mod) So you can play any XP game that you want, and still have vista.

 

Okay, here's a question.

Install BF2142 before, or just get it?

You never mentioned a cd.

You aren;t using hell incarnate, IE EALINK, are you?

 

I had installed both of the games on my old computer and both cds are original.
Is there a way to install them on Xp mode ?

 

Is the program still installed on your old computer? I'm not sure how BF2142 works, but it may check to see if you CD key is in use already. And, you can right click an executable, go to properties, and select compatibility mode.

Also, for BF2, I had to run the game in administrator mode to play on Punkbuster servers.

 

Vista and games go together like peanut butter and pickles.

-Josh

 

mmm mmmm....peanut butter and pickles...

Yeah, first try the Compatibility change to XP...I pretty much do that to any game I install, to make sure it'll work, since nobody (even nVidia) wants to support Vista at the moment.

Right now I have Battlefield 2, Oblivion, WoW, PSU, and NFS: Carbon installed.

Honestly, I've done the research and Carbon is a glitchy game, I know, but the game crashes because of things like "Your video drivers have failed and suddenty recovered" or some kinda BS like that..

Like I was saying about nVidia, on their site, they still don't even openly offer Vista drivers, which is probably one of the biggest reasons I had issues with installing these games to begin with.

Through Dell's site, you can access Dell's version of the nVidia drivers necessary to keep it running well, for now.

Besides that, try the Compatibility thing, if that doesn't work, the only other thoughts that come to mind are to keep up with EA's BF2142 web-site for a patch that incorporates Vista or something....though, I guess that comes after you get the darn game installed.

bleh...I dunno...

Vista FTL.

XP Pro here I come....

 

XP Pro is the best thing for games right now... I went back myself after using Vista Business for a month, what a hunk of junk so far. With a minor overclock, my FPS on WoW literally doubled that of Vista and I was able to crank all eye candy to maximum besides the V-Sync and Anisotropic-Filtering.

VISTA BLEH!!!

-Josh

 

I also think XP is still the best for gaming, but I am running Vista Ultimate with Ati 7.2 and games also run fine. I tried FEAR and CSS + STALKER.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I have tried Xp compatibility mode but it didn't work. Anyway thank you guys for your answers. I'll try calling the support center.

 

Hmm... Odd since I've been able to play my entire library of games on my
X1600 vista premium laptop. Including everything on steam, R6-Vegas, PREY, DooM3, FEAR, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and I play BF2142 almost every day!

The only thing I had to do was turn off UAC in the family settings to run
BF2142.



(Also under vista I'm getting like 10fps better in CSS/HL2 about 120FPS in most maps. and everything else, even all OpenGL games run great! no less than XP)

 

Can you explain us how you did that? I have the business edition. I can play everything except for the entire Battlefield series (from BF1942 to Bf2142).