Old PC games that you'd like to play, but can't run on your new computer?

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Witchhaven I.
Rebel Assault II.
The original Command and Conquer.
Puzzlequest.
Dungeon Keeper.
Quake I.
The original Doom.

The list goes on.
(Oddly enough, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 works just fine)

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

KotOR 1 won't work for me

 

[Firefly22]

Realms of the haunting always gives me problems even with dos box. Its a shame as its an awesome game.

 

[The_Deleted]

I have Vista so take your chuffin' pick!

 

[SantoUno]

I'd like to play Thief 1 and 2, as well as System Shock 2, but sadly I doubt they would work on my laptop.

 

[zidine100]

UT, it works, but its damn near unplayable online and off.

You my friend, need this

http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/

The default D3D renderer is tripe, switch it over the the UTGLR one in the ini... bosh. Working UT99. Had to look it up a while ago, it was utterly horrific in Windows XP, which is weird since i originally played it in 2000, then XP, haven't tried in Windows 7 yet though.

I think it is because DirectX has changed alot in that time, i'm not really 100% sure. But OpenGL hasn't really changed alot, and OpenGL2 is completely back compatible with OpenGL anyway... all is good with that anyway.

Enjoy your fragging.

i heard it was because vista has a different memory managemt system compaired to xp and previous or mabie that was the newer direct x with the diff mem management or something like that, i cant remeber the exact details now, anyway thanks ill give this a try.

I'd like to play Thief 1 and 2, as well as System Shock 2, but sadly I doubt they would work on my laptop.

system shock 2 takes some tweeking, but it works. Alast ive lost the link now, but im sure you can find it.

The original Command and Conquer.

if i remember rightly wasnt there a fix available for that, i managed to get it working once anyway, sorry for not digging up the fix but it was a couple of months ago and right now i dont really feel like it, but just saying its possible.

Grim fandango. Not compatible with XP.
You know what this means? My PC is TOO GOOD.

http://www.grim-fandango.com/compatibility.php get to work, ive got it running on mine right now.

 

[compensating]

Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Mechwarrior 2.
I loved that game to such inhumane levels that after we got a new mac that wouldn't run it, I eventually started having dreams of it working, in increasingly stupid "solutions", IE "Install it through Dosbox, on a PS1, then copy the files to a computer", or some other idiotic situation.
Finally I ran into an old computer that'd run it, and I was happy from then on.
THE END.

 

[Chipperz]

My screen's too big for Total Annihilation. I can't handle seeing the intro scene with giant yellow boxes instead of KBots

 

[Snotnarok]

Tie Fighter was hard to get to work, but I figured out a fix and it worked.

You install the game on a XP machine and copy the files to your vista machine, this usually works with OLDER GAMES. Farcry worked the same way.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

Backyard Baseball.

 

[Cryofthewolf]

The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall. I have the game downloaded from the Bethesda site, but it still won't work. Have DOSbox and everything. =-/

 

[Joachim Aachen]

Dr. Sulfur's Night Lab. Then again, it was made for Windows 98 and I'm stuck with Vista.