all installed games

Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
doesn't seem all that good.
Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I spend
1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics card, I
made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:46:03 -0800, cricket
<cricket RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Yesterday I bought my son a new CPU, and it has windows vista on it.
>None of his games he installed worked. They freeze up, and the graphics
>doesn't seem all that good.
>Does anyone know what I need to do, to make it work. I hate to think I spend
>1400.00, and he can't play any of his games. Its not the graphics card, I
>made sure the cpu has everything he needs on it and more.
>Thanks, from a very frustrated mom.

Well, you know, the time to ask that is Before you buy!

But anyway, here's some things to try/consider:

1. Contact the game mfgrs and see if they have a patch to make the
games compatable in Vista.

2. See if your Comp manufacturer will let you swap Vista for XP.

3. Consider buying XP and Partitioning software and dual-boot XP and
Vista. (Yes, I know; kind of expensive way to run games! Be sure XP
supports your hardware before you do this!)

4 Look into VM (Virtual Machine) software to run under Vista and
install XP and games there. You'd probably still need a new copy of
XP, though.

5. New games?

6. Keep the new unit for yourself and buy the kid a compatable
machine on Ebay.

If you list the games you could well find more help here. I'm a bit
surprised that NONE of them work.