Pc Games That Will Or Won't On Vista?
The purpose of this thread is find out from those who have been running the latest versions of Windows released on 1/31/2007 not including the previous beta versions of RC1 and RC2. Those were beta evalution versions only.
A partial listing here shows some older seeing good results while others simply fail. The results posted by current Vista can help those now and later considering whether or not to upgrade from XP or another older version of Windows.
Beside the tool for creating a virtual dos environment known as DOSBox having seen good results. The list here shows others that saw good results or simply failed to install or run. These will be in some chronilogical order.
Games that so far saw working results:
The original Duke Nukem 8bit dos games through DosBox which some are familiar with from different screen captures.
Nukem2 also an 8bit dos game in virtual DosBox window.
Return to CastleWolfenstein 98/ME/XP compatible
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix GOLD version
EA GAMES 007 NIghtfire
Steam's Half Life 1 and sequel HL2
HL2 Episode One
Counter Strike: Source
FEAR
FEAR Expansion pack
Prey
Games seeing problems with installation or running:
Soldier of Fortune(1st version) Platinum runs well but graphical corruption where charaters have solid color faces and no details. Dead bodies are one solid color like a cut out of the game map. NOT ADVISED!
HL2 Episode One did see two stalls at one point in two different game maps where Steam crashes to the desktop. That was before Creative finally released full version Vista sound drivers to replace the beta.
The above named here are a very small list of games tested for compatibilty with the Vista Home Premium edition. If you are also running this or another version and have tried different games this is the place to post the success or failure with different games.
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