Originally Posted by: schmangeGuess I'm just really suprised that I've got a game here that's only a few years old called Riven 2. It was still sealed in it's original wrapping, yet it doesn't run on my brand new latest, greatest Windows computer. Neither does Encarta 98, or After Dark which still had the receipt in the bag from November 1998 when it first came out.[/QUOTE]

The reason those games don't work is because with XP windows changed from the ol' DOS standard FAT32 file system to NTFS file system. I was very pissed too when I went to play some old game and XP just took a dump and stared back at me.


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I guess I'm lucky in that I've never had any problems running any of my old games on winXP (except from windows 3.1).

Last summer I was bored and started digging through my "way back" collection of old video games, and I stumbled upon some old DOS games that I used to play on my 386 back in like 1992. If XP hates WIN95/98 games, it really hates DOS games. Then I had the idea of restarting with an old DOS 5.0 bootdisk that I've had forever. Bam! Problem solved. Give it a shot sometime.