goz5000 Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 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??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redxii Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 (edited) Isn't the problem obvious? M$ Windows binaries aren't compatible with MS Windows. Edited September 11, 2006 by redxii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goz5000 Posted September 11, 2006 Author Share Posted September 11, 2006 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 themWell I tried google and it didn't point to what I wanted so.............Any links maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goz5000 Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 Never mind I got them working ...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 How? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonGW Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Never mind I got them working ......................It'd be nice if you told us how to do that Thanks!Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Never mind I got them working ......................id be interested in knowing this too, the default XP games are lame lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goz5000 Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 Somebody got most of them ported over to xphttp://shooter468.com/downloads.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 thanks worked like a charm you wouldnt by any chance know where i can get more sidebar gadgets though, do ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardofwindows Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 try (http://www.joejoe.biz/joejoe/)cyncus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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