Why some laptop/PC got BSOD or sudden quit whenever playing old game (such as Stronghold HD or Simcity 4 both of them release in early 2000)?

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Why some laptop/PC got BSOD or sudden quit whenever playing old game (such as Stronghold HD or Simcity 4 both of them release in early 2000)?

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Its probably due to memory management and security.

Newer OS comes with more strict memory mapping and protection. Once a program tries to read/write a memory location in a way that worked for older OS, it causes a crash.

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