why dosn't tileable animations work anymore in ge

well in the latest version anyway

You’ll have to be more specific.

well, in the uv image editor i load up the image set the tile settings click animation, set the start and finish frame then set the animation speed. i go back to 3d veiw and press p
the plane with the texture works perfectly but the animation isn’t playing

Same here, i couldn’t get the uv animations to work in last few versions :(.

Does this help?
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=98309

Probably you must enable “Use Blender Materials” in the Game menu?!