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Old May 8th, 2010, 05:16 PM
Dimension5100 Dimension5100 is offline
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Question can previous games run on win7 from ex drive?

using games designed for XP etcc. on an external drive using a Win 7 Machine.

I bought a Win 7 computer and would so much to keep playing my old games that were designed when XP was real popular.. ( I have Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City and San Andreas) and I would like to play them but I dont really think that they would be compatible with Win 7. Can I (possibly) run/install the game to an external drive and hope that it works.. Im not adding any files to anything other than the external drive, would there be compatibilty issues that would arise playing off of the Ex drive..
I did play a game that was installed on the drive from before I got this new PC, I had XP working (before the motherboard crashed, thus the new PC) and it worked fine..

Please dont give me anything like "it wont work, your screwed" and the like. I hate idiots that do that.. Please give an educated opion on whether this would be able to work.

Thanks
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