I love the effort of GAOTD but since I upgraded to Vista every game I’ve downloaded has an “Fatal Error: key is invalid” error when I try to activate. I didn’t have this problem on Windows XP, is there a workaround? I’d really appreciate some help.
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“Fatal Error: key is invalid” error
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Maybe the specifications of the game don't work with your OPS, maybe they only work to XP, so 9X, ME, 2000, 2003 & XP.
Vista in my opinion was released too early.
Some say took too long.
The games you are trying to install, check that they work with Windows Vista.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Wolven
offlineMemberThis calls for a new topic heading.
GIVEAWAY OF THE DAY 'QUOTE OF THE DAY'[quote='Lee'] Don't know why you wasted your money on vista. [/quote]
People, MICROSOFT and the 'GATES of hell' are EVIL. Forget the advertising hype - It happens with every new release and the product has never lived up to expectations. If you think that a new version of Windows OS is so good, or so different, that you simply MUST have it from day one,...stop, think, then buy it 12 months after it is released. It still won't be bug-free, security perfect or completely user friendly (they never, ever are), but it may just stop you cursing so often.
My theory: WINDOWS were made to look out of, not in to.
JANE:
Save yourself the headache and heartache - Install another drive and run your XP on it. Dual boot and have the best of two evil worlds. Keep XP and upgrade from Vista 12 months after the next version of Windows is launched.I love my XP,...evil as it is.
Posted 4 years ago # -
triphammer
offlineMemberI hate to get on the "Trash Vista train" but... I'm not hearing alot of good things from anywhere on the subject. If it's anything like XP's history, I prolly won't upgrade from XP until they have the first Service Pack for Vista.
The best advice I could give you Jane is to make sure you're Vista is updated to the latest updates for the software. Alot of times software companies will fix critical issues immediately. I'm not saying Microsoft is one of those companies ;) but there may be some updates available if you haven't updated. Good luck!
Posted 4 years ago # -
/BuBBy agrees with the above.
If you cannot get away from vista *sob* run a dual boot XP or look at something along the lines of Vmware and run a virtual PC with XP installed.
It is going to be a while before developers can fix up incompatibilities with Vista, as most developers don't even have Vista installed.
"The price of being the first pioneers down the trail - a couple of indian arrows in the back."
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