frusrated, have really great games, but will not play on win xp2, used makecompat but to no avail..........eg. silent hunter, quake, wheels of freedom, dig, swat, bad mojo, full throttle, among others....do i need a boot disk or something else ??
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frusrated, have really great games, but will not play on win xp2, used makecompat but to no avail..........eg. silent hunter, quake, wheels of freedom, dig, swat, bad mojo, full throttle, among others....do i need a boot disk or something else ??
A lot of games just no longer run unfortunately. The files and subsystems that they needed to run are no longer in Windows.
If a game was popular enough though, there may be a cult following of people that have gotten it to work. A good example of this would be the X-com games.
In this case, I'd recommend a dual boot. One with Xp and one with a legacy OS like windows 98 or windows 2000.
More info about the dual boot:
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/dualboot.htm
if the games are dos based, have a look at DOSBOX... its an emulator, which should help with compatibility.