How can I play old 90s games effectively on windows XP?

[Nickelob Ultra]

Lego Island works perfectly with Windows XP AFAIK.  It's generally with Vista/7 that old games start to not work properly.

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[Timezbrick]

I can't install Lego Creator :(
forget you Vista.

[Nickelob Ultra]

I can't install Lego Creator :(
forget you Vista.

Like I said, Vista/7 have problems with older games.  In very few, rare cases it may work for some people and specific hardware set-ups.

Worse comes to worse, you can do what I do and just use a spare/old copy of Windows XP you still have, and use VirtualBox.  Install XP into a virtualbox, set it to be able to do 2D/3D acceleration, and you're good.

[ZSNO]

I can't install Lego Creator :(
forget you Vista.

You can install it, but it impossible to run without an elusive XP patch or virtual machine :c

I should totally play Lego Island again

[snot2]

i liked the music in lego island 1 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TidC6X2nIiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gxSBIjrODY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWEzSCTs80

[Timezbrick]

You can install it, but it impossible to run without an elusive XP patch or virtual machine :c

I should totally play Lego Island again

I can't install it, I get an error at 10%

[KoopaScooper]

a remake of the original lego island would be cool
like digitally remastered sound updated grafics and shiz

also it only appears to not work with D3D HAL because you're using DirectX 9.0c instead of DirectX 8.1
it has compatibility issues with 5 for some reason and is support for 5 & 6 discontinued in DirectX 10, which is why it doesn't work on vista
You CAN get Lego Island to work on vista, but I've not been able to experiment yet so don't hold your breath

I can't install Lego Creator :(
forget you Vista.

you're using directX 11.

[Nickelob Ultra]

i liked the music in lego island 1 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TidC6X2nIiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gxSBIjrODY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWEzSCTs80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNGPvWtFSA&feature=related

a remake of the original lego island would be cool
like digitally remastered sound updated grafics and shiz

also it only appears to not work with D3D HAL because you're using DirectX 9.0c instead of DirectX 8.1
it has compatibility issues with 5 for some reason and is support for 5 & 6 discontinued in DirectX 10, which is why it doesn't work on vista
You CAN get Lego Island to work on vista, but I've not been able to experiment yet so don't hold your breath
you're using directX 11.

If I remember correctly some guy from BZPower (a BIONICLE fansite still up and running) was trying to make a whole remake but like any other 1-man project it's really slow and awful.

[Mushroom man]

I should re-install lego island. It's such a good game.

[KoopaScooper]

well to answer tony's question he'd have to install DirectX 8.1 (which mind you still has support for 5, 6, and any older ones)

[Nickelob Ultra]

well to answer tony's question he'd have to install DirectX 8.1 (which mind you still has support for 5, 6, and any older ones)

DirectX is highly backwards compatible.

The only way you would have problems is if you're trying to run a DX-10 only game with a graphics card that isn't capable of using 10.

If you pop open dxdiag, in most cases for many people it will say "DirectX 11", even though their graphics card probably doesn't even support 11.

[Belogna]

I have my old Myst CD, but it don't work.

[KoopaScooper]

Yes, but on a fresh install of XP SP1, I can run Lego Island with D3D HAL fine, as SP1 has DX8.1
When I try with SP2 or SP3...

[Katamari007]

Doom works fine on my Vista






then again I have skulltag

[Legodude77]

I belive I managed to get Lego Island running with Vista, but there were  messed up textures but not a lot (I think, haven't played it in a long time.) I remember downloading something that XP had and Vista didn't onto my PC, and then I could run it.