IM buying a game on amazon, and beside it, it says windows 98, me, xp if it runs on windows vista?

Help, please

Relay 100% on information from Microsoft Compatibility Center. There is one important thing that you can check yourself. You can download the demo of these games and see can they work with Windows Vista. If I remember, I installed and played carefree in Railroad Tycoon 2 on Windows Vista.

Here you will find demos of these games:

If they do not work with a normal installation, you can try to install and run them in compatibility mode:

  1. Right-click on the file that starts the installation, and then select Properties
  2. Select the compatibility tab
  3. Check the option run this program in compatibility mode for , and for example select Windows XP
  4. Click OK
  5. start the installation by double-clicking on this file (sometimes they must be run with administrative privileges, so double-click it but right click on this file and choose run as administrator )

You may also do this for a file that runs a game. After a successful installation do exactly the same steps for a file that runs a game to run it in compatibility mode.

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One last thing. I mentioned Railroad Tycoon 2. If you were talking about Railroad Tycoon 1 that was created for a BACK, you may need to download special emulator BACK that allow you to run this game. Download and install the emulator back from here: http://www.dosbox.com/ this one I think is the most popular (if I remember that I've also used) > launch game using the emulator back (somewhere, you will find information how to do this). In this way, I launched a few really old game, as the Park theme and Desert Strike.

Much more information on dosbox, you can find on their site wiki: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page

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