Gaaah Damn Vista!

Drunkside · Post by **Drunkside** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:20 am

I got a new comp with vista and now kotor doesnt work. I know its somehow possible to play kotor on vista, but HOW?

rearviewmirror · Post by **rearviewmirror** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:50 pm

The bad thing about vista is that there's no "compatabilty mode" like the one in XP for Win98. So you pretty much are stuck, if there's no patches or anything to make it work. This is an annoying problem with games, I don't remember having such a hard time making Win98 games work on XP at all.
Seems like Microsoft needs to rethink some things.

If I find anything out, I'll post it.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:40 pm

rearviewmirror wrote:The bad thing about vista is that there's no "compatabilty mode" like the one in XP for Win98. So you pretty much are stuck, if there's no patches or anything to make it work. This is an annoying problem with games, I don't remember having such a hard time making Win98 games work on XP at all.
Seems like Microsoft needs to rethink some things.

If I find anything out, I'll post it.

Well.... ehh .. there is in fact compatibility mode. But like in XP that is just rather pointless and mostly ineffective.
Oh, and I have had just as many problems with getting Win98 games to run on XP, as I've had getting other games to run on Vista (64bit as well, in fact. Heck, I'm running a 7 year old game right now).
Oh, and blaming Vista for why an old game doesn't run seems a tad .... well - uninformed in my view, however people did the exact same thing with most other versions of Windows, so I guess it is just popular target. (Nobody forces you to buy Windows anyway).

Anyways - somebody had problems with KOTOR2, and perhaps something in this thread can help you: http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/star- ... 92997.html

Otherwise, dual booting, downgrade to XP or earlier versions etc are all choices available.

rearviewmirror · Post by **rearviewmirror** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:59 pm

Xandax wrote:Well.... ehh .. there is in fact compatibility mode. But like in XP that is just rather pointless and mostly ineffective.
Oh, and I have had just as many problems with getting Win98 games to run on XP, as I've had getting other games to run on Vista (64bit as well, in fact. Heck, I'm running a 7 year old game right now).
Oh, and blaming Vista for why an old game doesn't run seems a tad .... well - uninformed in my view, however people did the exact same thing with most other versions of Windows, so I guess it is just popular target. (Nobody forces you to buy Windows anyway).

Anyways - somebody had problems with KOTOR2, and perhaps something in this thread can help you: http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/star- ... 92997.html

Otherwise, dual booting, downgrade to XP or earlier versions etc are all choices available.

Sorry if I seemed ignorant. I never had any real problems getting old games to run. And I'm not blaming Vista, it's just that that's probably why it's not running, so it would seem.

Drunkside · Post by **Drunkside** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:20 am

Well its just how you like to say it... is it vistats or the games fault, they just dont work together too well... But it NEVER failed me on my old crappy computer that had xp, and this new one is a damn power machine with nvidia gforce 8800 and all kinds of good parts. I actually thought of the nocd crack myself, have just been too lazy to try and find one, couse í have a friend who got it working without anything like that, he just cannot help me becouse he doesnt remember how to do it... Well ill try nocd crack sometime. Or the dual boot if it doesnt work, installing xp on this computer wouldnt hurt at all.

Drunkside · Post by **Drunkside** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:22 am

well can someone put a link for me to any site with a working no cd crack of kotor v 1.03(or whatever the newest version is called). I found one myself but it didnt work....

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:26 pm

@Drunkside, first you admit that you have thought of getting a No-CD crack, but were too lazy, and now you plainly ask us to do the work for you. Why not take ten minutes on google man, cracks are not that hard to find.

(PS, FYI to any mods feeling they should close this thread due to discussion of cracks, they are perfectly legal if you own the CD)

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:27 pm

Siberys wrote:(PS, FYI to any mods feeling they should close this thread due to discussion of cracks, they are perfectly legal if you own the CD)

No need to tell us. We realize that.

Carry on.

Drunkside · Post by **Drunkside** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:19 am

I tried to find them but couldnt, i only found one but it didnt work... (EDIT) Hey is the NFO file or whatever it was needed? It had no installation instructions, and i just thought that they were them, and i couldnt open it so i just thought that vista was again playing tricks.... Just understood that it may have been the real nocd crack... Im a dumbass....