XP games to Vista

[AshT93]

Will any of the games that are released for Windows XP editions be able to be
played on the new Windows Vista editions (like The Sims 2)?

[Andre]

Games which to use OpenGL libraries WILL NOT play on Vista.

The Vista recognize DirectX games ONLY.

Doom 3, Quake 4, Pray and so on are NOT Vista compatible.

[MAX]

Hi Mark,
i have a new computer
D940 3.2ghz
2gb int
2 SATA HD
Nvidia 9700GTX
1disk is XP and the other is Vista
i did the same with XP and it works fine
on this site i found something obout user rights
I think that it may by the problem
MAX

[Nerkixxx]

battlefield2 on vista64 rc1.
When i press setup.exe it shows up:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/308/untitledjq2.jpg
I tried compatibility methods, but nothing...
Any suggestions?

[zero lime]

The Sims 2 works fine on Vista, aswell any of the expansions.

[Botleyboy]

Yes HOWEVER I own the following games for my pc and i own the windows vista
home premium:

Sims 2: Works fine when compatabillity set to run as admin and XP
" " " " " University: Same Applies
" " " " " Night Life: Same Applies
" " " " " Open for Bussiness: Same Applies
Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition: Works fine when set to run as an admin
Micrsoft Flight Simulator 2004: Works fine
Age of Mythology: Works fine when Compatability set to run as XP

My pc has the following specs:

AMD athlon 64 processer 3500+
2.20 GHz
Ram: 1022mb (1gb)
System: 32-bit Operating System

P.S the sims 2 on my pc is fine however when trying to run the pc game with
all the expans installed it takes ages to load and freezes ocasionally for
5mins.

[Helltrum]

hey i have a list of games/stuff i wanna know if theyll work; i cant get win.
vista yet
Rakion
Gunbound
Gunz online
macromedia flash maker 8/anything flash
Tibia
GTA Vice City
GTA III
Lego Racers
Lego Racers 2
WoW
warcraft 3 <with expansion>
Diablo Hellfire
Diablo II: LOD
Fable: The Lost Chapters
multi theft auto<a mod for vice city; san andreas; and gta3>

oh and can u get on the internet on win. vista? i havent heard any info on
that

[Tblomega]

paul smith had a huge list of games listed 1 of witch was final fantasy XI i
must say im a royaly addicted ffxi'er(not proper english but it works) scence
upgrading to RC1 i installed it got a window saying known copatability issues
click 4 fix click to run anyway or cancle i cheacked for a fix could not find
1 tried to run anyway crashes imediatly even b4 pol splash screen (if u play
ffxi u know what pol is if u dont dont worry bout it). i upgraded to vista
RC2 nomore pop up known error window but it still crashes straight up i have
tried everything i can think of besides using azarils windower to launch ffxi
the only thing that i know that works its VMware (witch is as good as
formatting & putting xp back on witch is what im tring to avoid i wanna keep
my vista but i must say im addicted & if i can find a work around vista jus
might get the boot!) so mr. paul smith if u were able to make it work plz
tell me how!!!??


Tblomega-Fairy - WHM 73(was 75 but mission & no exp can do that to ur level)

[P]

guys guys, i have a

AMD athlon 64 3500+
geforce 7600GT
2gb ram

after installing vista i tryed installing my geforce's drivers, i use 91.X
if i remember right, however the drivers arnt recognized by the os, after
rebooting its like i didnt install the drivers at all, when i go to
properties>display settings>advance> i dont see the aditional nvidea tab with
all the options, i tryed unistalling the drivers, and installing the latest
drivers from nvideas site that didnt help either, also tryed the windows
vista compatible nvidea drivers and didnt work 2.
I also tryed runing counter strike 1.6, but it starts up and crashes
immidiately after 3 seconds.
so i was wondering if any1 had the same problems (with the drivers, and
runing games like cs) and can help me out.

thnx

[KiLotr]

Actually... on quake 3 the sensitivity is not the only issue... probably on
most of the games based on this graphic engine u will find that the gamma
setting from the game, is not changing anything...

[metallhd]

I have 2 games that still won't work after installing the Jan 5 nVidia driver
to the
RTM version of 32 bit Vista released November 18

NFS Carbon Collector's Edition DVD does NOT work arrggghhhhhh
also Star Wars Battlefront II fails, both these games ask for the "correct"
DVD and EA will not support Vista at all, don't even bother

what really bugs me about Carbon is that every other NFS game I have works
flawlessly . . .

[tannerator]

For the love of god i can't get battlefield 2142 to play! it loads up fine
but when i try to play the game i.e join a server, the game just crashes to
windows. I just don't understand it.

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Have you seen today's Windows Update deling with compatibility issues
on a long line of programs including games?

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

I found the updates when I ran Windows Update manually and when I got
the list, double clicking on one to see the details.

I don't do games so can't help you about your other question. I know
that MS Streets & Trips gives the option of keeping the maps on the CD
or transferring them to the hard drive but I don't know what games do
-- I would think it would affect speed to much to run from a CD or DVD.

[Criddle]

When i run Sims 2 as an administrator on my vista basic it comes up with
compatability problems, tried to change to XP but no luck and am unsure of
how to download and use patch at sims website as it doesnt ask me if i want
to save to disk. Wondering if you have any ideas on how i would do that?

"zero lime" wrote:

> The Sims 2 works fine on Vista, aswell any of the expansions.