Help: My games won’t run on Vista Ultimate.
August 5th, 2016
I click the .exe like usual, when I want to play it and the loading picture pops up. (The Gothic 3 text for instance.)
After a few seconds, when I would normally enter the game the text disappears and I am where I was before, on my desktop.
Anybody with a solution how to fix this? Same problem with Unreal Tournament 3.
Try running them in compatibility mode – Right click the .exe > Compatibility > Run as XP
Did your games run on XP?
Post your PC spec,update to the newest drivers.
@Szimonz, I don’t have such an option called Compatibility when right clicking the .exe.
@, Yes, they worked fine on XP.
My PC spec : AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+@2,66GHz, 4GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 8800GT, all drivers are up to date.
Try finding latest patches for your games.
You should stick to XP until vista releases SP1.
try compatibily mode and running as administrator.
@Szimonz, I don't have such an option called Compatibility when right clicking the .exe.
That is really strange, could you post a screen shot of when you right click it?
you dont get a run in compatibility mode option when you right click because there isnt one, right click and go down to properties then go to the compatibility tab
Also, Run the program as an administrator. It will stop all annoying permission requests when you try to connect to the internet, etc.
Probably because they weren’t even designed to be compatible with Vista, lol.
I can play COD4 and UT3, on my Vista x64 so they are compatible, BOEM your theory is out the window.
not sure if it will help, but it helps alot of other progs in vista….first thing i do when i install that poopy os … disable UAC (user access control)
start>run>msconfig
tools tab
choose “disable UAC”>click “launch”
reboot