Old games and Win 7 XP mode

Posted By: fabian | Jul 15th @ 12:54 AM
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#Jul 15th @ 12:54 AM
fabian
fabian

I wanted to see if good old Diablo II would work under Win7 (x64) ... i didn't expect it too but that should not stop me from trying Smiley

Diablo installed just fine but would not start ... the game reported that the hardware was unsupported ... tried to install XP under virtual PC ... same result ... tried the XP mode for win 7 ... it could not start the virtual application (but it made the correct entries in my win 7 start menu). 

I finally downloaded a trail version of vmware proffesional. Dioblo runs "fine" under vmware...vmware is using around 70% CPU but it works ...

Is XP Mode for Win 7 not supposed to address this issue? If not ... what are you using XP mode for?

 

#Jul 15th @ 1:00 AM
Evil SEO
Evil SEO
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Diablo II on vista was working fine. Did you install all the updates?

#Jul 15th @ 1:52 AM
fabian
fabian

hmmm ... yes installed all updates. Also tried to set the compabilty flag on all exe files ... were you running vista 32 or 64-bit?

#Jul 15th @ 6:22 AM
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To run it under XP mode on Windows 7, you're probably going to have to disable the integration features and run Diablo from within Virtual PC...  apps doing full-screen, graphics intensive stuff probably aren't going to work well under XP Mode's desktop integration stuff (might not work on Virtual PC, either, but that's a different matter).

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