Compatibility Updated
An update – OH SHIT! Haven’t written since November… BUT… I got more games. This is all under Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit, running the latest nForce and Forceware drivers with a GeForce 8800 GTS and a Core 2 Duo e4300 (overclocked to 3.0 GHz).
- America’s Army
- Archlord
- Assassin’s Creed
- Battlefield 1942
- Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome
- Battlefield 2
- Battlefield Vietnam
- Battlefield Vietnam: WW2 Mod
- Bioshock
- Caesar IV
- Crysis
- Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
- DEFCON
- Doom (download and put DPlay.dll in the directory)
- Doom 2 (download and put DPlay.dll in the directory)
- Doom 3
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Duke Nukem 3D (yeah, you heard me right.)
- Fable: The Lost Chapters
- Far Cry
- F.E.A.R.
- F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point
- F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate
- Final Doom (download and put DPlay.dll in the directory)
- Flyff
- Gears of War
- Ghost Online
- Grand Theft Auto
- Grand Theft Auto II
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
- Guild Wars: Prophecies
- GUN
- Gunbound Revolution
- Half Life
- Half Life 2
- Half Life 2: Episode 1
- Half Life 2: Episode 2
- Half Life: Blue Shift
- Half Life: Opposing Force
- Halo
- Halo Custom Edition
- Halo 2 (who would’ve guessed…)
- Hitman – Codename 47
- Hitman – Silent Assassin
- Hitman – Contracts
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
- Maplestory (don’t hate – I’m Asian.)
- Max Payne
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
- Nine Dragons
- Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
- Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus (they work. really.)
- Outlaws (OLD. Very old)
- Peggle
- Portal
- Prey
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Psychonauts (yes, I OWN a hard copy)
- Quake (uses WinQuake)
- Quake II
- Quake III Arena
- Quake 4
- Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
- Resident Evil 4 (download and put d3dx9_30.dll in the directory)
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Rock 24 (Half Life 2 Mod)
- Sam and Max Season 1
- SimCity 3000
- SimCity 3000 Unlimited
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Soldier of Fortune
- Sword of the New World: Granado Espada
- Tales of Pirates Online
- Team Fortress
- Team Fortress 2
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal
- The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Thief: The Dark Project (even more surprising than the second)
- Thief II: The Metal Age (a 16 bit classic… working on VISTA?! Oh my.)
- Thief: Deadly Shadows
- Tomb Raider: Legend
- Unreal
- Unreal II: The Awakening
- Unreal Tournament
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Wolfenstein 3D (use DOSBox)
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- World In Conflict
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Dude – I’m with you on the whole Vista pwns as a gaming platform bandwagon.
I just finished the demo of crysis and plan on DLing the retail version soon.
My rig is pretty much the same as yours but I’m using AMD instead of Intel…was just a price thing.
Athlon X2 64 6000
8800gts 320mb
4GB ddr2-800mhz ram
Vista Ultimate 32bit
One problem – I tried installing and running doom2 (from original cd) but get an error trying to run it. I put that dll file in the directory, but that didnt seem to help. Any ideas?
Gonna try Wing Commander 3 too.
Nice Blog.
Ciao
Hmm…
Usually the DPlay.dll file fixes all of the issues that the original Doom engine had with the software DirectX 9.0L. Other than that, have you updated your OS with all the gaming hotfixes? Auto-updating doesn’t usually do the trick for those. I’ll try to get a listing of the most critical ones up soon, so check back in a bit.