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Post Date: 2007-10-17
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    Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 3:43pm

Yesterday I purchased the "Orange Box" tried to install it this morning and it gave me an error message? Didn't install.

I tried to install Quake 4 and I got a message that the game has known issues ... wouldn't install
 
I can go on! I did have success loading and running MOH Airborne so it ain't hardware.
 
Can you guess what operating system I'm using .. can you say Vista.
 
I have never had problems installing any game on my second machine ... can you say XP
 
Anyone else have problems with Vista game installs and I would appreciate any guidance on how to overcome my problem.
 
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Originally posted by ksilvers

Yesterday I purchased the "Orange Box" tried to install it this morning and it gave me an error message? Didn't install.

I tried to install Quake 4 and I got a message that the game has known issues ... wouldn't install
 
I can go on! I did have success loading and running MOH Airborne so it ain't hardware.
 
Can you guess what operating system I'm using .. can you say Vista.
 
I have never had problems installing any game on my second machine ... can you say XP
 
Anyone else have problems with Vista game installs and I would appreciate any guidance on how to overcome my problem.
 
Thanks
Ken Smile
 
 
Since starting to reload my games on my new system, I had one instance that said something to the effect of "not tested on this O/S" but it ran fine. I d/l'd HL2 EP2 right from Steam and had no problems.
 
Games I've installed so far with no problems:
Bioshock
World in Conflict
BF2 (minor problem with punkbuster kicking me out due to unrecognized OS but heard there is a work-around for that)
Steam (Orange box et all)
Supreme Commander
 
 
Still have more to load up, but so far most of the things I've seen relate to just getting current drivers for video cards.
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Posts: 131 		  Quote gdhart Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 4:06pm
Make sure that on the install executable that you go to properties and check the Windows XP Compatibility check box.  This will usually clear up the problem. 
 
You may also have to do it on the Game executable also.
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I haven't had any problems loading games thus far.

Bioshock
MOHA
BF2
BF2142
COD4 Demo
QWET

All play extremely well also.
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Posts: 791 		  Quote Kelly Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 5:41pm

Same here.  Since MS released these hotfixes for vista, http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html, I haven't had a single problem with a single game. 

And, to stop the "why didn't you install it on my system?" flame before it starts, we are now installing them on all systems shipped after 10/1.  These were only released in sept.


Edited by Kelly - 17 Oct 2007 at 5:41pm
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Posts: 1826 		  Quote EdH63 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 9:30pm
Matter of fact, I haven't had one freaking issue since I got this system from you guys.  I keep waiting for something to blow, but every morning I come back to my office she's sitting there purring like a kitten after a warm bowl of milk.  Oh, that's me.
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