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Q: Harry Potter DVD video games won't run: Help, please?

Recently purchased Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD video games (new) from EA.

 

Running OS X 10.11.5 on a mid-2010 iMac 27" i5 quad cord 2.86 Ghz/20 G RAM (ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB) machine, and neither will load properly nor run.

 

Any idea why? Games both spec Intel-chipped Mac...

 

 

Desperate to get these running for my daughter...

 

Thank you!

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), mid-2010 i5 27-inch; 2.8 quad-core

Posted on Jun 24, 2016 12:45 PM

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jun 24, 2016 1:38 PM in response to Citiboy
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    Jun 24, 2016 1:38 PM in response to Citiboy

    Not sure where you bought them from but they are going on 10 years old and not likely to run on El Capitan.

  • by Citiboy,

    Citiboy Citiboy Jun 24, 2016 1:57 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Jun 24, 2016 1:57 PM in response to dialabrain

    Thanks for your prompt response!

     

    Game hardware specs merely state:

     

    "Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later / 1.83 Ghz or faster Intel Core Duo processor / 1 GB RAM / 4.5 GB or more free hard-disk space / Video card: ATI x1600 series or later; NVIDIA GEForce 7300 or later / 8x or faster DVD-ROM drive / Keyboard and mouse. Note: This game does not support GMA950 integrated graphics card"

     

    As my system specs meet or exceed those minimums, I don't understand why there's a problem?

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Jun 24, 2016 2:03 PM in response to Citiboy
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    Jun 24, 2016 2:03 PM in response to Citiboy

    Where it states…

    Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later

    That doesn't mean every version of OS X forever. I don't know what the last version of OS X that would run those games but as I said, it's highly unlikely they will work with El Capitan. It's not your hardware, it's the version of OS X.

  • by Citiboy,

    Citiboy Citiboy Jun 24, 2016 2:08 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Jun 24, 2016 2:08 PM in response to dialabrain

    So... perhaps load an earlier iteration of OS X on another hard drive, then restart and see if that works?

     

    Thanks, again!

  • by dialabrain,Helpful

    dialabrain dialabrain Jun 24, 2016 2:16 PM in response to Citiboy
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    Jun 24, 2016 2:16 PM in response to Citiboy

    Maybe. Like I sad, I don't know which version of OSX they stopped working on.