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Originally Posted by Chucky
If you don't mind the $125 outlay then Steel Beasts Pro is great.I have Vista 64 and run it,plus Steel Fury and T34 vs Tiger.
Maybe you can find Steel Fury at a discounted price.There are plenty of mods for it that will keep it going.
As for the older stuff,you may have to work hard at getting some of them running.
Have a look on SimHQ,some guys on there play the older tank sims,M1TP2 for instance.
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I took a look at SB Pro PE, but the site I was looking at (linked from the SB site) didn't have any. It was on backlog, I guess because they needed to get "dongles". Otherwise what would be the hold-up. The $125 seems a bit steep, but I've pad more for other software.
Steel Fury looks good to me and I will probably buy it. What about Steel Beasts Gold edition. It looks really nice to me, might be a first step toward buying the Pro version... kinda a demo for the more expensive software.
I downloaded the demo for Armored Fist 3 from CNET last night. The demo installed okay, then when I ran the program, I got some sort of missing file error. I didn't know what to do, so I just clicked okay. Then the program loaded like normal and I was able to play it. I did set compatibility mode to Windows 98 before I started it up though. The graphics were okay, but obviously dated and blocky.
The video driver issue is a serious one. I have an Nvidia GTX 285 1gb board by EVGA. When I first installed it, the darn card wouldn't work at all... except in the default resolution 640 by whatever and 256 colors. After downloading a never driver from Nvidia, it has worked much better. From my old games, I have managed to get Age of Empires III to work -- after Vista 64 advised me it wouldn't! But I had to download a patch. No sweat.
I also picked up a demo for Panzer Elite Action from CNET last night. I haven't had time to try it yet. The game looks cool from the YouTube videos I have seen and the price is good, because it is an older game.
Thanks for your feedback!