Win2k3 Enterprise: no games?

[rebelo]

Hi,

I've been running Windows 2003 Datacenter SP2 and I think it's the best OS I've used so far. Everything runs great, except for... games. I just can't run any game, old ones, new ones. Is there any trick on that?

Thanks,

Rebêlo.

[nitroshift]

Do as described here: http://win2k3.msfn.org/ and you'll be able to run games. I did

[rebelo]

nitroshift, are you sure you're talking about datacenter edition? because even 'converting' it to a workstation, I still couldn't run games. It's datacenter, not the Standard edition of 2003, which runs perfectly fine with games and all. Thanks!

[Idontwantspam]

Maybe they did something to it to prevent it from running games. After all, it's meant to be a server OS, and most datacenter servers aren't running games.

[slipk487]

do u have the graphics acceleration turned up to full. right click desktop>properties then settings tab advanced>troubleshoot. if hardware acceleration not turned up then no games will run.

[mau-yong]

Maybe they did something to it to prevent it from running games. After all, it's meant to be a server OS, and most datacenter servers aren't running games.

Just ENABLE video and sound hardware acceleration, DirectX's DirectDraw, Direct3D, etc. and your games are good to go.

do u have the graphics acceleration turned up to full. right click desktop>properties then settings tab advanced>troubleshoot. if hardware acceleration not turned up then no games will run.

Include sound hardware acceleration, Run =>dxdiag go to Display and Sound tabs, enable all accelerations.

I'm using Win2003 Enterprise SP2 and I am playing Civilization III & IV, Command and Conquer, Starcraft, Sims, Grand Theft Auto, Windows Solitaire, Winmine, etc. Nintendo emulator ZSNES, etc... etc.

Edited August 31, 2007 by mau-yong

[nmX.Memnoch]

What I'd like to know is why you paid THAT much for a Datacenter license just to run it as a desktop OS? I'm also sure it has some specific code in it for doing the duties it's designed for. As a matter of fact, some features that are included with the Standard and Enterprise editions are either partially included or aren't included at all in Datacenter.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsse...es/compare.mspx