2020. 3. 1. 14:01ㆍ카테고리 없음
Anyone have any tips for trying to get older games (like, Windows 95/98 era) running on a Windows 7 x64 laptop?I've got an Acer Aspire 5532 that I use mostly when traveling (which is not very often) and I figured I'd be able to install some of my older games (with lower requirements) on it using compatibility mode. However, the first two older games I tried seem to be giving me no love. They both start up and either chug away at 100% CPU until killed or just end immediately. Neither of them show any visible signs of doing anything.I'm trying to get Icewind Dale running at the moment. I've tried setting it to run in a few different compatibility modes (95, 98, and XP) with no luck.
I disabled my antivirus, in case that was killing it for some reason, and I added it to the list of Data Execution Prevention exceptions. Still nada.Any other suggestions? Or should I put these games back in my closet where they are doomed to forever yearn for the light of a computer screen? Win 7 seems to work fine. I don't have the machine in front of me (left it at work this weekend - I also use it as a backup machine in the office because I was tired of them giving me crappy laptops or giving me nice laptops and then taking them away because someone else needed it), but I'm fairly certain it has all of the requirements. It runs Civilization IV just fine (which was a complete surprise to me. I didn't think a non-gaming laptop would be able to handle something that modern).I wouldn't be surprised if my Norton antivirus was killing it or if it killed part of the installation.
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I clicked the 'disable auto-protect' option on the antivirus while I was trying to play it, but I didn't shut it down entirely.Did you need to do anything special to get it running? Did you have to install a particular patch or set it to run in compatibility mode for a certain OS? It would be nice to compare notes with someone who has it working so I know I'm at least heading in the right direction.I don't have another Windows 7 machine to try it on (unless I try it on my work desktop, but I don't think they'd appreciate that ) and I don't really have the desire to have it installed on my Vista desktop (the machine I'm using right now). I just wanted some other miscellaneous games on my laptop so that when I travel I have a little more choice in what games I play. I'm the one who actually installed and played it on the Win7 machine, and it was fine.
I installed it fine from disk (well, CD). I downloaded and installed the newest patch just out of habit, so I don't know if it needed the patch to run or not. The game runs great. I do use ThrottleStop with it, but that's mostly because my laptop has issues. It didn't require anything to be changed in the settings or whatever. I'm pretty dumb when it comes to getting things to work, so if I figured it out, there was nothing complicated about it. I didn't even have to pick where to install the patch!
Merkuri is fine.Yeah, my husband got one of those viruses. He's not as much of a computer expert as I am, but he knew something was fishy when the 'you have a virus, click here to get antivirus software' dialog didn't have a cancel button, just OK. He was also swift enough to realize that his computer was not really blue-screening and rebooting repeatedly, it was just a screensaver installed by the virus. (I almost didn't catch that because wiggling the mouse didn't wake the machine up, only hitting keyboard keys.)Ever since then I've made sure he has real antivirus software on his machine (whatever our ISP is giving us, which is Norton this month). If I'm not already using that version I hope my ISP upgrades to it soon.
My husband had to turn off some of the features on his laptop because Norton absolutely slowed it to a crawl and made it feasibly unusable. He was very close to ditching it until I convinced him to just turn some of the features down. (He's the one that always gets viruses, never me, so I really don't want him running antivirus-less.)On my beefy desktop machine (which I spec'd out for gaming) it adds an additional 5 minutes to the startup time and if I try to use web applications before it's ready it can cause that application (or the entire machine, sometimes) to freeze until Norton's finished doing it's thing. When this sort of thing happens I can't help but think of the security at an airport. It's like Norton has to stop and frisk each of my applications and scan their luggage before they can board their plane.Once that's done it doesn't affect my machine speed as far as I can tell, but the startup lag is seriously annoying. If I'm not already using that version I hope my ISP upgrades to it soon.
My husband had to turn off some of the features on his laptop because Norton absolutely slowed it to a crawl and made it feasibly unusable. He was very close to ditching it until I convinced him to just turn some of the features down. (He's the one that always gets viruses, never me, so I really don't want him running antivirus-less.)On my beefy desktop machine (which I spec'd out for gaming) it adds an additional 5 minutes to the startup time and if I try to use web applications before it's ready it can cause that application (or the entire machine, sometimes) to freeze until Norton's finished doing it's thing. When this sort of thing happens I can't help but think of the security at an airport. It's like Norton has to stop and frisk each of my applications and scan their luggage before they can board their plane.Once that's done it doesn't affect my machine speed as far as I can tell, but the startup lag is seriously annoying.