Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Are you having a problem running older games in Windows XP?
My son got a star wars game for Christmas that was made to run in Windows 98. Every time he ran the game, it would start to load and then totally disappear. I think this has something to do with Windows XP automatically closing DOS windows when it thinks they are finished.
The game had a shortcut on the desktop, so I right clicked on the shortcut and clicked "Properties".
On the Properties window, I clicked the "Compatibility" tab and near the top there was a section called "compatibility Mode".
I clicked in the box to run the program in compatibility mode and then was able to pick the version of Windows that the game was made for.
I clicked "OK" and the game has run great ever since.
