Driver Madness

When I play games in Virtual PC(old games that don't run on my computer), some games change the resolution to 320x200. When that happens, the screen is cut in half. Here is a screenshot:




It should show "Electronic Arts". Why is it like that?

maybe it doesn't like the Virtual PC

also what game is it???

bb_42001 wrote:maybe it doesn't like the Virtual PC

also what game is it???

The game shown: The Need for Speed SE
Other games that do it: A2 Racer

I wouldn't use Virtual PC to play games, it really wasn't designed for that sort of thing.

If your using Windows XP, I would suggest using Compatibility Mode. (Vista should have this feature to but I'm not sure if it is located in the same area, although if I can remember correctly it is).

Right click on either the games executable or shortcut (making sure it's the shortcut you always use to load the game under compatibility mode).
Right Click --> Go to Properties
Go to the Compatibility Tab and play around with the options.

Hope this helps

Windows Vista and & are in the same spot

madness wrote:I wouldn't use Virtual PC to play games, it really wasn't designed for that sort of thing.

If your using Windows XP, I would suggest using Compatibility Mode. (Vista should have this feature to but I'm not sure if it is located in the same area, although if I can remember correctly it is).

Right click on either the games executable or shortcut (making sure it's the shortcut you always use to load the game under compatibility mode).
Right Click --> Go to Properties
Go to the Compatibility Tab and play around with the options.

Hope this helps

I tried all of that stuff but the games really do not like my video card. They just crash back to the desktop.

Use DOSBox instead.

CJayC wrote:Use DOSBox instead.

Notice that the games I listed were WINDOWS 95 GAMES!!!! DosBox is for DOS games.

Not entirely. It's being expanded to allow for loads of games.

Try it anyway. It might work.

CJayC wrote:Not entirely. It's being expanded to allow for loads of games.

Try it anyway. It might work.

If the game has its own icon, it will obviously not work. Happened to me with many games in DOSBox. I just got the error "Windows 95 executable".

Huh. I just found out that it only does it on my Windows 98 virtual machine. All of my other virtual machines work fine. Maybe I need to reinstall.

I tried reinstall, but it did not work.

so we learned that something in Windows 98 doesn't like it

bb_42001 wrote:so we learned that something in Windows 98 doesn't like it

Yeah. I guess there is a difference between 98 and 95. Oh well.