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Compatability Mode in Windows XP
Name: Chris Trebesch Date: March 31, 2003 at 03:21:42 Pacific OS: Winxp CPU/Ram: PPro/96megs
Comment:
I was wondering, sence XP has a compatabilty mode, does that mean XP will run anything? When i had windows 2000 i was unable to play alot of games, so i had to do a dual boot OS System with Windows 98. Now that i have XP every game ive tried has worked, and i would like to know if everything should/will work with XP?
Name: Cody Harris Date: March 31, 2003 at 03:28:27 Pacific
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That would be too good to be true...WinXP doesn't like DOS that much (hence why alot of my DOS programs crash ONLY in XP). But, i 'magin that some olde Win32 programs don't work, but i'm not sure. Trial and error processes find the ones that don't work.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sandman Date: March 31, 2003 at 03:54:11 Pacific
Reply:
Compatibility mode works but it isn't perfect. Games that fail to run because of simple Windows version checks will almost always run under compatibility mode.
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