Nostalgia

by Nickje • 25 Aug 2016, 10:47 • Journals
Hello everyone,

I've been feeling a bit nostalgic lately and i started playing old school games again.
Pokemon (red/blue/gold/emerald/TCG) on GBA emulator.
Gran Turismo / Worms Armageddon / Tekken 3 / Tomb Raider 1&2 / Crash Bandicoot series and a lot of other games on ps1 emulator.

Now i'm looking around on GOG for pc games i used to play like Dungeon Keepers, AOE, HOMM 5 and Robin Hood: The legend of sherwood but i'm afraid of buying them since my new pc seems to have problems with "old" games.

Every time i put in a cd-rom of one of my older games (warcraft 3 / frozen throne / Vikings / C&C Tiberian sun) my pc simply freezes, refusing to install them.
However if i enter my cd-rom of BO2 it opens the installation screen just fine.

Can anyone help me fix this or do you know if i will have the same problem if i buy one of these "older" games?
Thanks in advance <3

EDiT: i have windows 7
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BOBiKA 25 Aug 2016, 12:30
DirectX clash maybe?,

Had it with the old Stormship troopers
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Nickje 25 Aug 2016, 12:49
Do you suggest uninstalling all my DirectX versions and installing the version needed to play game X every time i want to play one of those game? Or am i getting this wrong :p
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BOBiKA 25 Aug 2016, 12:54
To be fair I tried that, but it was simply the way that it wouldn't work unless I installed older OS and older version of DirectX (had the same regarding my oldschool AoE CD collection...)
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Nickje 25 Aug 2016, 12:56
That kinda sucks because my biggest motivation for windows 7 was so i could play these older games ^^
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Nickje 25 Aug 2016, 13:17
I just bought and installed Robin Hood and Homm 5 and they seem to work fine, haven't actually played yet but i can launch the games without any problem.

Is it possible that problem lies with my disc reader or smth?
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mama 25 Aug 2016, 23:43
Start them with compability mode for XP or something like that if it doesnt work Virtual Box + Win98/XP and u are good to go
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ohurcool 25 Aug 2016, 23:54
a lot of those games you can just download online for free

I still play HoMM3 and C&C Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge from time to time, good games
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Nickje 26 Aug 2016, 03:00
with torrents?
If it's games i play more than 100 hours on i'll gladly pay a few bucks but obviously you don't know that before hand if it's a new or unknown game.
But in this case i'm not going to download them.
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ohurcool 27 Aug 2016, 14:42
well yeah I'm sure you can torrent them as well but I just meant through community websites/orgas (like XWIS or CnCNet for the Command & Conquer series, for example)
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Nickje 27 Aug 2016, 23:14
ah, didn't knew that.
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