Quote Originally Posted by Mr. E View Post
Try running the games in compatibility mode for Windows XP. It has solved all gaming issues I've had on vista, with the exception of some really really old stuff from like Windows 98 that I tried to play once.
Whilst you're in the properties window you might also want to check the boxes for "disable visual themes" and "disable desktop composition" to temporarily kill Vista's transparency and other effects whenever the program runs. Some games seem to hate trying to run whilst they're enabled.