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Answer» I miss being able to play some of my old 32bit games on my new windows7 machine. I have the NVIDIA graphics card. Someone has TOLD me that I should be able to switch between 32bit and 64. I can't find anything about this. Is this possible, and is it simple? Thanks in advance for any info.64 bit windows can run 32 bit programs. What specific games are you having trouble with?Civilization I. Actually goes back to DOS I think. But it played well on my XP 32bit. I did TRY a couple of emulators for it, but neither was satisfactory. Not sure I'll ever find a single-player game as addictive as that one again. I miss it. (grin)That's a 16 bit game. 64 bit Windows won't run 16 bit programs. Quote I did try a couple of emulators for it, but neither was satisfactory. Have you tried Dosbox? http://www.dosbox.com/Yes I did try DOSBOX. Apparently that works well for a LOT of PEOPLE, but not everyone. Ahh well, I guess it's time to move out of the stone AGE anyhow. (grin)Try Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, which is free.ok there is a way that took me a year of changing things around to get it to work. but i have found an easy way to get dos games to work. this works with both win vista and win 7 i am not sure if it maters with vista but with win 7 there are two ways to do it if u have 64bit or 32bit 32bit way. open windows explorer. copy and past link in address box. C:\Windows\System32 then locate DPLAYX.DLL. this is y u are having issues it because it was renamed from dplay.dll to dplayx.dll. so once u find it u need to make a copy of it and past it in system32 ant rename it DPLAY.DLL. so now u should have 2 of the same files but with different names. it is a bit different with 64 bit. paste link in address box. C:\Windows\SysWOW64 then locate dplayx.dll it may be easyer to search for the file it the search box once u r in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 then u do the same think as before but make sure u keep the file in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 file as it wont work. so copy and rename it and it should all be good with no need to download a dosbox. hope this helps. nick |
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