I'll get straight to the point: I would like to play a few "slightly older" games on a gaming laptop from 2018 and wanted to ask whether that is possible (with this model my decision is 100% I like to write which laptop it is, but that is completely unimportant for THIS question here). With this question I don't mean the technical components (GPU, CPU, RAM, etc.) of the laptop, I'm of course aware that the recommended system requirements of these games are a joke for the laptop.
Rather, I'm concerned with the incompatibility of older software, including games, with new computer models, i.e. That many older games (e.g. From around 2002) no longer run on a current computer. But my games are not that old xD after all. I would now simply list them, each with the release date, so that a few experts among you can tell me whether these games would run on an up-to-date computer:
Canis Canem Edit (2006) https://www.google.com/...tv8bs5SH-X
Turok (2008) (IMPORTANT: I mean the 2008 reboot of the series, not the original Turok) https://www.google.com/...r4LODA_e56
Jurassic Park: The Game (2011) https://www.google.com/...9eJubA-Fye
I play a lot of old games on my Lappi (4 year old i7, Windows 10) (favorite game from the previous millennium: Nice 2).
Just right click on the installation file and select "Address Compatibility Issues".
The rest is self-explanatory.
I have games going back to 1998.
I also have older games that run on the Lappi, but that doesn't work with 8 or 16Bit games, so the DOS box (or Defend reloaded) usually / often helps.
OK thanks for the answer.
My laptop has i7 and Win10 too, so it's probably quite similar to yours.
I've heard of this compatibility mode, which you mention with the compatibility problems.
Since my games, i.e. The ones I mentioned in the question, are not very old now, I wanted to ask whether you can use them without this compatibility mode?
By the way, I'm only interested in the last two games (2008 and 2011 respectively), the first is not important.
Just give it a try.
If it doesn't work, simply uninstall it and then go back to compatibility mode.
However, if Windows tells you that it would play the game in Win7 / 8 mode, I would, because it doesn't do any harm.
And always make a backup beforehand.
OK, I will do it.
One last question: It is said that some of these slightly older games on disc have this copy protection (I have a proven example from 2005, name of the game: Peter Jackson's King Kong The Game). A lot of users have written that after starting the game normally or in compatibility mode, your PC crashed and there were other complications. The respondents all said it was because of the special copy protection that some older games have. Could that also be the case with my games?
The people there also said that there's somehow different copy protection in newer games.
This is possible because I once had a game that complained after installing it from a virtual CD drive that it wanted the CD in the drive.
But it has now also been running since the 2nd Win 10 version from 2020.
I don't know whether that was the copy-trick that caused the problems.
In the case of a game where the CD no longer wanted to start (scratches?), The manufacturer could / did not want to provide a replacement, so I downloaded it from an abandonware site.
That was the English version, but that doesn't cause any major problems with a pinball machine.
If there's a computer picture version of your game (I would look on Ebay, they are often sold there), then get it for you. Computer image versions are usually years newer than the originals and accordingly run better on newer Windows versions.
The Nice 2 mentioned by me in the first answer, for example, can hardly be made to run in the original version from 1998 under Win 10, the Computer Bild version (I have both) that was released years later runs flawlessly.
