List of Games that work on Windows Vista

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Unreal Tournament works like a dream - no compatibility problem whatsoever -
even adds itself to the vista games application!

- Running vista x64 beta 2 build 5384
 
Juan Carlos Lopez said:
NFS Most Wanted DOES NOT work in my system with Vista 32bit.
Pentium D 805 2.66mhz
2GB DDR2
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NFS MOST WATED: Black Edition (DVD) works just fine for me! (Vista 32-bit)

Have you tried using Taskman and ending any unecessary processes? Certainly
helped me out!
Ending any unecessary resource hogging apps may improve the situation!

I think Vista is running a lot of extra processes because:

1) I'ts BETA!

2) Because it's BETA, it needs these extra processes to help with program
and application compatibillity testing.

3) Vista-BETA would obviously have all the extra 'bells + whistles' turned
on, to see how these work/run of course.

4) Any new features not yet seen in any other version of Windows, would also
be on for various reasons/purposes.

Hope this helps, it certainly did for me and I thought I had a relatively
capable system for running hardware/cpu/graphics - intensive games!

Mobo: ASUS P5GDC-Deluxe (LGA775, Intel 915P+ICH6R, CPU Lock Free, FSB-800
Overclocked)
CPU: 3.0GHz Intel P4 630 (O/C'd to 3.6GHZ - No conflict with Vista either!)
System RAM: Dual Channel - 1GB DDR2 PC4200(533MHz) Generic
Video: Expert-Vision GeForce 6600LE (512meg)
Sound: Onboard CMI 9880 (Vista has issues with running onboard CMI chips but
I have it running nonetheless!)

Cheers,

Lee-roy (Australia)
 
Add:

NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED: Black Edition (DVD)

SIN EPISODES: Emergence

F.E.A.R. (Needed taskman to end a lot of unecessary processes in order to
run!)

Sorry for repeating "F.E.A.R." but I thought the extra little piece of info
might help others out!

No patches were used in any of the games - straight out of box!
All games were played in the 32-bit ver of Vista.

Cheers,

Lee-roy (Australia)



P.S. My PC-Setup:

Mobo: ASUS P5GDC-Deluxe (LGA775, Intel 915P+ICH6R, CPU Lock Free, FSB-800
Overclocked)
CPU: 3.0GHz Intel P4 630 (O/C'd to 3.6GHz - No conflict with Vista either!)
System RAM: Dual Channel - 1GB DDR2 PC4200(533MHz) Generic
Video: Expert-Vision GeForce 6600LE (512meg)
Sound: Onboard CMI 9880 (Vista has issues with running onboard CMI chips but
I have it running nonetheless!)
 
Leroy Brown!! said:
Add:

NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED: Black Edition (DVD)

SIN EPISODES: Emergence

F.E.A.R. (Needed taskman to end a lot of unecessary processes in order to
run!)

Sorry for repeating "F.E.A.R." but I thought the extra little piece of
info
might help others out!

No patches were used in any of the games - straight out of box!
All games were played in the 32-bit ver of Vista.

Cheers,

Lee-roy (Australia)



P.S. My PC-Setup:

Mobo: ASUS P5GDC-Deluxe (LGA775, Intel 915P+ICH6R, CPU Lock Free, FSB-800
Overclocked)
CPU: 3.0GHz Intel P4 630 (O/C'd to 3.6GHz - No conflict with Vista
either!)
System RAM: Dual Channel - 1GB DDR2 PC4200(533MHz) Generic
Video: Expert-Vision GeForce 6600LE (512meg)
Sound: Onboard CMI 9880 (Vista has issues with running onboard CMI chips
but
I have it running nonetheless!)
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Add *all* of the following:

Command and Conquer Generals
Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour (expansion) (includes 1.04 North
American patch)
Need For Speed Underground 2
(all from Electronic Arts)

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (Big Huge Games/Microsoft Game Studios)

Only issue is with Zero Hour (original auto-patcher does not work correctly;
downloading and running patch externally does work); however, this issue is
with Zero Hour itself, and is reproducible in XP as well.

Motherboard: ASUS P4C-800E Deluxe
CPU: Genuine Intel P4 2.6 GHz w/HyperThreading (Northwood-C/Stock)
System RAM: 512 MB x 2 PNY Optima DDR400 (3-3-3-8/Stock)
Graphics: ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro 128 MB
Graphics Driver: ATI Catalyst Vista RC1 beta
Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Limited Edition
Audio Driver: Creative Audigy Vista RC1 beta
Network: Onboard (Intel/PRO1000CT)
Network Driver: Supplied/included with OS
Printer: HP DeskJet 940C (USB)
Printer Driver: Supplied/Included with OS
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition RC1 (build 5600/32-bit)
Other Beta Software Installed: Windows Live Messenger 8.1, Microsoft Office
2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Christopher L. Estep
 
Joshua said:
I was wondering if we could start to compile a list of Games that work on
Windows Vista... As this would make it easier for many of us..
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I can't get WoW to work at all. It immediately disconnects me from the log
in server after I type my password and press log in. It worked perfectly
under XP.
 
Initially game seems to flicker out the cursor, making it exceptionally
difficult to locate, once located even more difficult to place on button.

Once you can locate and select OPTIONS > Turn on Custom Cursor: then all
runs as smooth and clear as before Vista. Well almost, the sound stutters
and gets out of sync from time to time.
 
Dear Paul,
Rise of nations won't work on Vista Beta 2
Is there a way to make it work.
Kind regards
Johan
 
The installer on most games crashes or throws errors and locks up, has to do
with program allowance in Vista and IE7.

I got:

John Deere American Farmer
John Deere Construction
Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2
Fish Tycoon
Ultima online AOS/7th/ML
(but UOGATEWAY does toss too many errors to work right for those that play
free shards over OSI) Its all part of testing
DOOM3
Unreal
NFS3 hot persuit
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2

There are several other games I am testing still if I can get them to
install. Oh and if they are pre XP (then forget it too big of a problem to
even get them to install) if they are set for XP you can work around it by
setting the program default to run in XP mood or dos install (but has a large
habbit of crashing when you do this).
 
Links 2003 works if you play offline. I can't play online at all. When I try
to host a game, my playing partner gets a connection failed error and if I
join his game, I can get in, but the game crashed as soon as he hit the Play
button.
 
Rise of Legends does not work on my machine. Qosmio G35-AV600. Starts the
game but errors later during play.
 
David Schottenstein,

We have been having issues with out games for a while on windows vista they
seem to run faster on WINE

David Schottenstein
 
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