Two problems:
Rainbow Six 1 refuses to run no matter what I try. Anyone have any luck running it on a Vista laptop with ATI graphics?
Same for Raven Shield. I REALLLLLLLLY want to try it out since I heard it's awesome.

Is this the GOG version of Rainbow Six?
I remember having a lot of trouble getting Raven Shield to run in XP but I can't remember the fix I used. Shall see if I can dig up my copy later & try to get it running in Win7

No, it's the CD version (Thanks Half Priced Books). I tried a demo and it wouldn't run, bought the game because, well, it was a $1. Pass that up, would you?

Raven Shield works on XP, I've played it before. Same goes for the first one.
Tried compatibility mode?

....I totally forgot to try that.

Same here... I remember having trouble with Raven Shield early on in Vista, but it eventually fixed itself somehow, probably driver related.

Nope, compatibility mode and the latest patch just gave me a giant FU in the form of the second opening cutscene and an error message.

Which said?

Typical shit. "name of executable file" has encountered a problem and has stopped working. Windows is looking for a solution.

I would look closely at seeing if it a driver issue. Operating systems often get blamed for driver issues.

Well I just got around to installing Raven Shield on my Win7 machine, it installed perfectly fine, I had to redownload the 1.6 patch but then that went on okay, I used the fixed exe & DLL replacement to remove the CD check and it runs perfectly.