I have several older games, I like to play, they are Compatible, not compatible.

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Compatible, not compatible.

Win7 home 64 bit. OEM

I have several older games, I like to play. Age of Empires II, StarCraft Original, Empire Earth.

Everything to Win98SE and XP.

I can get to install, but the games will only play in resolution 800 x 600. If I try to change the resolution, that the game will crash or system will freeze.

The video is of very poor quality. And games is jerking.

I tried compatibility mode, but there is no change.

This PC has two HDs. not connected at the same time. We got Win7. The other has XP.

The MB, graphics card, Ram is the same used on the two OSs.

I just unplug a HD and the other.

So with everything the same. Why the games perfectly preform on the hard drive on XP but not on the HD Win7?

The two HDs are the same brand and size. Just different OS.

Only thing I see is XP is 32 bit and Win7 64 bit. So, I guess that 64-bit is not backward compatible.

Boss thank you very much for your answer.

I do not 'Dual Boot'. I don't have that one BONE is connected at a time because of the problems of the past with the new OS, creating a sort of chaos with the operating system older. It seems to work a heck of a lot better that way. Neither OS has no memory of the other.

I seem to have understood "Empire Earth" works pretty well.

I read another post of similar problem. The answer was to install the game via the open/explore the game CD and clicking on the 'Setup.Exe' instead of using the "Auto install".

The game is loaded without a problem and works well with the Nvidia card. The graphics are excellent.

I'll try the same method on other games. I hope that it will work with the same great results.

Thanks again for your concern and Advisor.

Tags: Windows

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