Anniversary Update will not run original W7/Vista games.

Bumpkin · 03 Aug 2016

blackroseMD1 said:

I believe I saw a post from Jimbo the other day that said he had made an updated version that works with the Anniversary Update. If I can find the post, I'll come back and link to it.

Edit: Hmm, maybe it wasn't from Jimbo, as I don't see it in his recent posts. I'll do some searching for it. Hopefully I can find it.

Wow! Sure hope you can find the post!

My wife will make me find a new home if I can't get the W7 games running again.

blackroseMD1 · 03 Aug 2016

Bumpkin said:

Wow! Sure hope you can find the post!

My wife will make me find a new home if I can't get the W7 games running again.

Hmm, I can't seem to find it, although I know I didn't imagine it. I'll keep looking around when I have time.

AmericanPharaoh · 03 Aug 2016

Here you go, found some more info.

Anniversary Update will not run original W7/Vista games.-chess-giants.png

AmericanPharaoh · 03 Aug 2016

Chess Giants is the new improved version of Windows Vista Chess Titans.

After installing the game, I checked in the Registry. There is only a 32Bit version installed.

Here is their Website.
http://www.pmbaty.com/chess/

Hope this helps'
John

mart1981 · 04 Aug 2016

If you go here you may be pleasantly surprised.

ddgm91 · 04 Aug 2016

I have Windows 10 build 14393.10 and all my old Win 7 games are working including Chess Titans, just checked. I installed these games after 14393.3 came out as FreeCell changed the way it was scored. No running tally of games won. I had over 4000 won and only 6 losses in the prior version.

Phone Man · 04 Aug 2016

mart1981 said:

If you go here you may be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for the link, It works great. I use the Mahjong game and this new install added a tile to the start menu. The old version didn't.

Update. I just play a game and it remembered my previous scores and this is after uninstalling the old version.

Jim

Bumpkin · 04 Aug 2016

mart1981 said:

If you go here you may be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks so much for the link!

The games even found the statistics left over from the upgrade.

Mooly · 04 Aug 2016

Thanks for all the replies folks. Yep, I've installed the Winaero games as well. Its much better having a single launch tile than having to create one for each game. In fact, although the method I tried yesterday (a few posts up from this) worked, some of the games wouldn't run due to a missing dll do-dah. Those were Freecell, Hearts and the two Solitaire games.

Anyhow, great result all round. I think we'll mark this as solved :)

rosiesdad · 04 Aug 2016

mart1981 said:

If you go here you may be pleasantly surprised.

Hey HEy HEY Well done, Im back in business. Thanks