For some reason only in windows XP. When im playing win 95/98 based games that read MUSIC TRACKS and other data off the CD while you play, on windows XP no data is read at all from the CD when I play them.  This frustrates the *&! OUT OF ME.  there must be a way to fix this problem WITHOUT having to USE win 95/98 to get the *censored* game to load music data from the CD. Can someone please help me with this problem.  THANKSOne thingyou can try is to locate the .exe file for the game you are running, rite clik it and under Properties select Compatibility Mode and select Win 98...

patio.*censored*!!!! good one, but unfortunately I already tried that im sorry.  I dont understand why it does this.  And ive even tried  copying the music track data files from the CD into the game directory on the Hard Drive, but no luck.  There must be a reason why this is happening only on WIn XP.  Ive noticed they dont make games that run music tracks on the CD anymore.  BUT AGAIN WHY!!!! anyway thanks for your reply, and attempt to fix my problem.  If any other solution comes to MIND, please please dont hesitate to post it here!!! thanksI've never tried it as a games emulator as such but I use VMware Workstation quite extensively. I'll dig out some DOS games when I've got time perhaps.
There was a purpose built DOS emulator called DOSBoxFro or similar about at one time that was supposed to have been pretty successful in achieving DOS based gaming under XP.
The problem is that XP doesn't address the hardware directly while DOS did.

If this gaming is really important to you, consider a dual boot system with a DOS partition large enough for your games, drivers and a good memory configurator etc.ok   for your info these arent dos games.  These are win 95/98 based CD-ROM games.  But thanks for the LINK.  I am going to check out this software Vmware workstation.   But before I do,  I have  A BIG QUESTION.  WILL it OR WILL IT NOT alow me to USE win   98 or 95 on My PC thats running XP..  in other words,  will it ALLOW me to have and use multiple OS's on the same machine?  if the answer is yes, then thank you.    But let me explain that I was trying to avoid having to use a software like this in the first place!!   dam it there must be a way to not have to GO through all that trouble just so that the cpu can load the cd-rom for the music tracks when i play!!!.   oh and before anyone mentions it,  i have looked and searched all over for any known issues on this subject.  And I have DOSBOX on my CPU and its for DOS GAMES ONLY.