I want to run Vista's M$ games in xp

[goz5000]

I'm useing both vista and XP and was wondering if there is a way to run those new games in Vista useing XP?

I've tried to but it comes back as a non Win32 program....................

Any Ideas???

[RJARRRPCGP]

I've tried to but it comes back as a non Win32 program....................

Now, that's strange. I thought that it would just give you a DLL error or just refuse to let you play.

I never heard of Vista having so many changes that you're required to have a version for Vista and a version for earlier, except for DirectX.

The only major change that I heard of is with DirectX.

I didn't think that XP would reject the file as "corrupted". I would have instead expect XP to just have a DirectX DLL error instead. Because of DirectX 10. Heard that DirectX 10 won't be backported to Windows XP and earlier!

OK, done ranting, LOL.

Sounds like Microsoft changed the .exe structures for Vista. Likely so that people cough up money for Vista.

Edited September 11, 2006 by RJARRRPCGP

[redxii]

Isn't the problem obvious? M$ Windows binaries aren't compatible with MS Windows.

Edited September 11, 2006 by redxii

[fizban2]

Isn't the problem obvious? M$ Windows binaries aren't compatible with MS Windows.

the games used in Vista run with the DX10 DLLs and resoucres, these can't be backported to XP. there was a cleve person earlier on in the beta cycle who ported the games to XP, if you do a search in google i a sure you might be able to still find them

[goz5000]

Isn't the problem obvious? M$ Windows binaries aren't compatible with MS Windows.

the games used in Vista run with the DX10 DLLs and resoucres, these can't be backported to XP. there was a cleve person earlier on in the beta cycle who ported the games to XP, if you do a search in google i a sure you might be able to still find them

Well I tried google and it didn't point to what I wanted so.............

Any links maybe?

[goz5000]

Never mind I got them working ......................

[tain]

How?

[JasonGW]

Never mind I got them working ......................

It'd be nice if you told us how to do that

Thanks!

Jason

[Aegis]

http://www.fromvistatoxp.com/

The Vista PE header is different from XP's. Because XP doesn't recognize the header, it appears to be an invalid executable. To port an application, you must (among other things) convert to PE header to be compatible with XP.

[prx984]

Never mind I got them working ......................

id be interested in knowing this too, the default XP games are lame lol

[goz5000]

Somebody got most of them ported over to xp

http://shooter468.com/downloads.html

[prx984]

thanks worked like a charm you wouldnt by any chance know where i can get more sidebar gadgets though, do ya?

[wizardofwindows]

try (http://www.joejoe.biz/joejoe/)cyncus