Sometimes, when I play a game exclusive to Vista, the game sometimes crashes my computer (it turns the screen black and irresponsive, and goes drrrrrrrrrrrrrr on my speakers) My computer is perfectly capable of running these games. Even after I turn the graphical settings down, this still doesn't work. Help?

These are the games that don't work:

CnC3 (Or my brother says, haven't witnessed it in person)

Red Alert 3 (Happens most often in multiplayer, after less than a minute into the game)

Halo 2 Vista (This is very,very rare)

 

My system specs:

Intel Quad Core CPU @ 2.50 GhZ

3GB RAM (My OS doesn't use all of the 4 for some reason and so it ignores the 1GB)

Direct X 10

Graphics:

Nvdia GeForce 9600 GS 2GB

 

If it helps, my monitor is set to 1900 x 1080, but I normall lower the resolution on my games.

 

Thanks! :smile:

The problem with Vista is that it created quite a few problems for older games and in effect they don't run all that well on it.

 

This can be easily solved by adding Windows XP(64 or 32 bit) as a dual boot option.

 

 

Here is a list of quite a few games that are compatible with Vista at this time.

 

http://www.thinktechno.com/2007/03/13/list-of-vista-compatible-games/

 

 

The only real thing you can do is to set your graphics card to performance only, this will erase most of the problems, and the other thing you can do is upgrade to DirectX 11.0.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/aboutGFW/pages/directx.aspx

 

If none of the above suggestions solve the problem then nothing short of modifying the windows code yourself will solve the problem

The problem is, 2 out of 3 games need Vista to run properly.

Also, how do I set the graphics card to performance only? :???:

Beings as it is an Nvidia graphics card there should be a "control panel" for you to access.

 

In windows xp it could be accessed through right-clicking on the desktop.

 

It could also be accessed by going to the device manager, finding your nvidia card, and then open it up from there.

 

The easiest way to open it up though is start > run > nvcplui[Caution: Executable File].