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Unable to boot older games. (Windows 7 64-bit)
Hello, everyone. After getting a rush of nostalgia lately, I've wanted to go back and play some of the games I grew up with. In particular, the older Tom Clancy games. Regrettably, I am having difficulty getting most of these to run. For example, I can get Pandora Tomorrow to boot, but not the original Splinter Cell, or the first two Rainbow Six games. The issues amongst the latter three are the same: I attempt to run the game, I get a little Windows 7 loading circle for less than a quarter second, and that's it. Nothing. I have tried to run as administrator, changed the compatibility when booting them, none of this is working.
I'm not sure what the issue is, so perhaps someone here can help me. I've checked the PCGamingWiki and there's no mention of the original Splinter Cell or Rainbow Six Rogue Spear simply not even booting as an issue. I've installed them via disc, too, which is the way I've played them on my tremendously old eMachines back in the day. Hopefully, someone here can help me troubleshoot the error, as I'm really in the mood to just mess around with some of these older games.
I'm not sure what you guys need from me, but I have an i5-3370k with an NVIDIA GTX 970 if that somehow helps, but as these are not technically demanding games, I don't think my issue is new specs, but how to figure out how to get older games running.
EDIT: In fact, to give you a list of the games I have and in their order of release, I'll list their status as working or not. Perhaps what's making one of these fail is making the rest all fail too.
Rainbow Six - Doesn't boot
Rainbow Six Eagle Watch - Doesn't boot
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear - Doesn't boot
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear Urban Operations - Doesn't boot
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear Covert Ops Essentials - Boots (???? I have no idea why this one works...)
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear Black Thorn - Doesn't boot
Ghost Recon - Doesn't boot
Ghost Recon Desert Siege - Doesn't boot
Ghost Recon Island Thunder - Doesn't boot
Splinter Cell - Doesn't boot
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow - Boots
These were all tested with just disc installs, and then recent patches. Nothing changed before or after.
Last edited by Foffy; 12 May 2019 at 02:52.