Yapette said:

I have it on good authority that you have also bought disk duplicates of games you already owned but had forgotten you did. Or the originals were so hopelessly lost in the bins that you never realized. [Image Can Not Be Found] [Image Can Not Be Found]

 

You mean someone here hasn't done that?

@Yapette I wouldn't do it just because I'd rather spend money on new games that I still won't have time to play.  Also, the big world BG2 thingy made installation of BG somewhat, well, moderately, well, okay it was painful but not destructively so like my current reinstallation of Oblivion.  Two Worlds I was thinking of playing–never did.  But it's even got a sequel!  Heck I haven't even played NWN2; still sitting in its box(es) (because of course I bought the expansions).  And there's some game…what is it called.  Drakensang?  Had one encounter, seemed like 20 people to talk to, and I gave up.

The Divine Divinity and Gothic sequels–I'll just have to play them in my next life.

But question for you: have you encountered any problems playing older games on the 64 bit version of Win7?

@Toger: I still have never played past about the first dungeon of Arcanum.  Is it worth it now?  I remember lots and lots of bugs when I first tried it (way back when the game first came out).  Not that Ben will let me play it (see my other post about his predilection for shooters).

Yapette said:

Ernest, personally, I'd rather pay peanuts for older "games I won't have time to play" (to quote you) than full price on newer games I won't have time to play. Eventually, as I'd have nothing played (seeing as I have no time), the new games will become older at which time I can buy them cheaply. 

I actually understood that.

I haven't tried the Nehrim mod.  I would possibly at some point except that I'll probably never actually finish the un-Nehrim game.  I had installed it in XP but by the time I wanted to play it again I'd switched to Win7.  Though apparently I don't need to reinstall games in Win 7 (I'd done a clean install), I didn't know what all the mods were so I figured I'd reacquaint myself with them.  There's a mod–BOSS–which supposedly sets up a load order for the mods.  It also apparently works in FO3.  Which I'll test at some point.  Oh about 2015.

My biggest problem with Oblivion: I run around looking doing etc. and then after a while it just starts to seem lonely.  It's not as though the NPCs actually can talk to me.  Maybe starts to feel kind of like a Twilight Zone episode.  Maybe is kind of like…I forget the term–about people's reactions to robotic faces which are almost but not quite human.  The NPCs are almost but not quite human, you know?

I have bought every one of those stinking games and I have never finished a one.  I still remember the spaghetti dungeons of The Elder Scrolls: Arena.  To this day I have no idea why it was called Arena.

Based on my experiences with Win 7, you might be able just to copy over the oblivion file from your old hard drive and play from there.  But then again, why?  I mean, sounds like you've finished it twice already.

Simpler just to procrastinate until the new one comes out, then face all these issues all over again.