lilyr wrote:

I have lots of games that I've purchased but haven't played as yet. I'm appalled at the number that won't play on any system newer than Win 8. I've got some that won't work on anything newer than Vista!

I transitioned from Win8 to Win10 when I had to get a new laptop.  Clutter VI gave me problems.  It loaded the home screen, but when I clicked on play, nothing happened. 

On both my old and new laptops, I had set the screen resolution to 1920 x 1080 and the scale to 125%.  Works for most games, but on the new laptop, for Clutter VI and the World's Greatest Cities games, I had to change the scale to 100% to get them to work.

Don't know if that could be your problem, but you might want to try changing the settings.  Right click on your desktop, then chose Display Settings.
 

I played Sherlock Holmes VS Arsene Lupin a very long time ago.  Not a pretty sight.  I can't do 360°, makes me nauseous.  Playing in 3rd person view, I had trouble making the characters go where I wanted them to go.  They constantly walked into walls and usually lurched around as if they were drunk.

I'm play the 3 World Riddle games. Played them when I first bought them back in 2011. 

Thanks SilverHawk. I think I've read something about a compatibility mode in Win 10, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how to do it. I do know that MCF: DIRE GROVE won't play on anything newer that Win 7 (I think), much to the despair of many people who think that's the best MCF game. Oops! Just checked and it should play on Win 8. But I don't know if 8.1 would work.

Last edited by lilyr (April 25, 2018 10:55 am)

I just have the bonus levels to play in World Riddles: Animals.

I had forgotten just how clunky the older nonogram games were.  The curser is so large and the boxes so small on the larger layouts, so very easy to click the wrong box.  And you have to click every box, even the blank ones.

Like most older games, this one doesn't make it easy for you to exit.  When you've got a layout open, you have to:
click MENU
select EXIT from the pop-up window
select YES from the next pop-up window
click the X in the upper right hand corner of the Continent page
click the X in the upper right hand corner of the Choose a Continent
click EXIT from the opening game page
click EXIT from the pop-up window
 

Another month, not much progress.  I finished 5 games in April, 2 CE's and 3 SV's.   But I didn't acquire any new games, so I am making progress.

Finished World Riddles: Seven Wonders and will be starting World Riddles: Secrets of the Ages  tonight or tomorrow.  I'm also still working on Clutter VI: Leigh's Story.