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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Ok, games room and games packs are supposedly free. What you actually get are 10 minute demos of VERY old games. AND you have to unlock further games as you 'progress'. The only game I could try was an appallingly poor version of Scramble. Don't know if it needed a gamespad or joystick. I couldn't get any keys to control anything.

   As for the games room itself, it's quite glitzy, but an absolute nightmare to try and navigate and find things. help and instructions are extremely scarce. Plus all the 'free' games packs it is nearly 1/2 Gb download, and used up resources viciously on my 2.1 GHz AMD machine with a decent graphics card, locking up and freezing if so much as anything else was running, and requiring a hotfix and restart, and a further update.

   A HUGE amount of hassle and several hours of my time just to even try it out. Overall verdict - Don't even bother -USELESS....!

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   I had a similar experience. The gameroom itself is 411 MB and with all the packs is over 1 GB of disk space needed. I had to go through the manager to get it "initialized" because if I tried it outside (direct click on gameroom.exe, it wanted the code)! I wasn't given a code.

   The way it downloaded, it downloaded the "add ons" before it downloaded and installed the main game and that must have been why it didn't know about the extra games. I could not figure out how to do it.

   I had no actual errors or problems playing but it was incredibly annoying to try to figure out what was going on - no helps at all! To top it off, there were no conventional "options" menus anywhere so I could turn off that music. I like sound effects in my games but I always turn off the music. If I want music, I'll use foobar2000 and play my own!

   Result was the same as you - game uninstalled and all addons deleted. I left the game manager "just in case" as it's less than 10 MB installed. I need to check my Software Explorer to see if it stuck anything into the boot cycle. I would not put that past Microsoft!

   Posted 13 years ago #
3. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Tinker on the other hand, free at the moment from the Microsoft LIVE games site is a super puzzle game with great graphics :) Love the moving cogs animation!

   Posted 13 years ago #
4. 

   Dragonlair
   Member

   I've had Tinker for a couple of years. I happen to have Vista Ultimate so I got it as an "Ultimate Extra". I think it's a great game!

   Posted 13 years ago #
5. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   You can see some images I posted of tinker HERE. Yes it is an excellent game. Pity it was only released for the premium Vista packages. I only ever got the Home Premium and home Basic versions. (Thankfully, as by the time I did I'd already heard about win 7. till, you'd think they would have included it in the win 7 package seeing as they ahve it up for free now anyway. Maybe they are using it to get people to install the XBox live thingy. Which is annoying.

   Posted 13 years ago #

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