older games

ok so when i tried to play an older game it stopped the loading and told me i needed to have directplay installed so i clicked install now the issue is when i click install it says searching for files then it says windows needs to restart to apply the changes now i did it and it didnt do...

Hey, so recently I wanted to play some older games that did not work on any windows 7+ so I wanted to install windows vista as a multiboot system, now I saw that there was this warning: Warning You must install the older operating system first, and then install the more recent operating...

Microsoft recently released an update kb3086255 which disables two old style DRM's Securom and Safedisc. This means that any games still using this old style of Digital Rights Management will not work under Windows 10. This is to address security concerns and if your truly desperate to play...

If you want to play older games on your new laptop it's a good idea to enable this. 1. Press [windows key]+[x] then press [p] to open the control panel. 2. find/ open "Programs and Features" then press the "Turn windows features on or off"... it's on the left hand side. 3. Put a tick in the...

My wife likes to play many of the kinda outdates games like Solitaire and stuff like that, you know games that you don't need a fancy joystick for (although she has one of those for an airplane game she never used) Now that I've gotten her a new Win 7 Pro x64 computer... is there a place to...

I recently redownloaded Sins of a Solar Empire. It won't work on my laptop. I heard there is software or something you can get/do to get older games to work on Windows 7. Is it true? If so can you provide a link?

I am a total newbie to this sort of thing but here it goes. I play a LOT of "older" games such as Hidden and Dangerous, Ghost Recon and other FPS. Still haven't successfully found and used a flight sim for Vista so don't know what to expect with Win 7. I have a Gateway FX6801 and my question is...

I thought I would start this thread for games. What games have you seen work, what games have issues so far? I am successfully running Crysis, Sims 3, and an older game called Maelstrom. So far so good.;)

Realtek has released the Link Removed of 3D SoundBack, a utility designed to restore advanced audio effects in older games on systems using Realtek audio solutions under Windows Vista.