Will all our games play on Vista?

[stwils]

We all know some of our most cherished old games will not play on Windows XP.

What about Vista? How many games will not play on Vista?

stwils

 

[Maniacal]

I suspect that any game that can't play on XP won't be able to play on Vista.

 

[Padma]

And possibly even some that *do* play on XP (but hopefully not many/any).

 

[dragokatzov]

Shoulden;t be a big problem, DirectX 10 will be backwards compatable with DirectX 9,8,7, and a few others
of cource, there will be a few exceptions
I suspect MS will work in some emulation to enable older programs to work on a Vista Box

 

[Maniacal]

They didn't for XP, why would they for Vista?

oh, and for the record, I never found the "configure for win98" etc helpful. Only the change to 16bit colour one.

 

[Abaddon]

most things ran if you told thme to run "in windows 95 mode" i found.

 

[History_Buff]

Indeed. Some of them ran rather poorly (I don't think I ever got my Red Alert sound to work right), but it ran.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

As computers get powerful enough to run Vista, so will it be cheaper to use emulation. That's why it's more worth to use DOS Box rather than have a separate DOS partition on your drive.

 

[GenMarshall]

As computers get powerful enough to run Vista, so will it be cheaper to use emulation. That's why it's more worth to use DOS Box rather than have a separate DOS partition on your drive.

Thats basicly true for any NT-based Windows. (Windows XP, 2000, and Vista are examples of NT-based Windows)

 

[Heretic_Cata]

And possibly even some that *do* play on XP (but hopefully not many/any).

I've read on a forum that they found out a lot of games didn't work on the beta version of Vista; most of them being new games. Microsoft said they are working on sorting the compatibility problems out.
Of course this is Microsoft we're talking about; so that could mean:
a) we don't care
b) we will try to fix it, but there is a high chance we won't be able to do that, so why try at all.
c) nobody uses computers for games nowadays
d) what problems ? everything is perfect

 

[GenMarshall]

Well, after hearing that. I am sticking with the XP twins (XP-tan and Homeko)

(BTW, I am not acting cute. I am serious that I am sticking with Windows XP)

 

[Padma]

That's the same decision (in spirit) that I made several years ago, when I refused to "upgrade" to XP. I stayed with Win2K until I found I was booting into Linux more than Windows. The rest is history.

 

[Maniacal]

That's the same decision (in spirit) that I made several years ago, when I refused to "upgrade" to XP. I stayed with Win2K until I found I was booting into Linux more than Windows. The rest is history.

History, aka half your posts about linux. I'm just teasing you.

 

[sliph]

I was involved in several Vista betas and tried most of my games to make sure any issues could be fixed by final release. Compatibility is actually quite good. Games that I've tried (yes, I'm opening up my CD binder just to type this up for you guys):

- Civilization 4, including Warlords
- Civ2: MGE
- Civ2: ToT
- Civ1 - Installer crashed at very end, game ran fine otherwise.
- SimCity 4
- SimCity 2000
- SimTower
- Age of Empires 2, including Conquerors
- Warcraft 3, including expansion
- Rise of Nations
- Age of Mythology
- Diablo 1
- Diablo 2, including expansion
- Dungeon Siege
- Baldur's Gate 2, including expansion - Bad performance in 3D mode, but this was using beta ATI drivers that I believe lacked an OpenGL ICD.
- Baldur's Gate 1, including expansion
- Neverwinter Nights
- Quake 2, 3, 4
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Alice - Massive texture flickering; unplayable.
- I think I tried Alpha Centauri; can't recall
- Soldat
- Some racing game from SourceForge - It crashed on startup due to wanting to write to Program Files; running elevated solved the problem.
- Guild Wars
- Half-Life 2
- Ski Free
- Flight Simulator X demo

I installed Vista on a 20 GB partition and dual booted with XP. Any performance difference with XP was negligable. I built my machine several years ago (Athlon 2700+, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB). It can run full Aero at 1920x1200.

As you can see, the only serious issue was Alice, which I suspect is a graphics driver issue. None of the games required administrator privileges to run (except perhaps HL2, I can't recall); Vista automatically redirected games saved in Program Files to the user's folder. I didn't encounter any CD protection issues either.

Edit: Wanted to clarify "negligable performance difference": I'm sure measuring FPS would yield some difference due to beta drivers, but it wasn't noticeable from playing those games.

 

[GenMarshall]

History, aka half your posts about linux. I'm just teasing you.

Well, he is a Linux fanboi (or in this case Linux fangrandpa)!

I was involved in several Vista betas and tried most of my games to make sure any issues could be fixed by final release. Compatibility is actually quite good. Games that I've tried (yes, I'm opening up my CD binder just to type this up for you guys):

I installed Vista on a 20 GB partition and dual booted with XP. Any performance difference with XP was negligable. I built my machine several years ago (Athlon 2700+, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB). It can run full Aero at 1920x1200.

As you can see, the only serious issue was Alice, which I suspect is a graphics driver issue. None of the games required administrator privileges to run (except perhaps HL2, I can't recall); Vista automatically redirected games saved in Program Files to the user's folder. I didn't encounter any CD protection issues either.

Edit: Wanted to clarify "negligable performance difference": I'm sure measuring FPS would yield some difference due to beta drivers, but it wasn't noticeable from playing those games.

Still does not convince me to upgrade up to Vista. Eventhough my laptop can handle it, there are some issues that are just too much of a headache to tackle with .

 

[sliph]

Well, he is a Linux fanboi (or in this case Linux fangrandpa)!


Still does not convince me to upgrade up to Vista. Eventhough my laptop can handle it, there are some issues that are just too much of a headache to tackle with .

I happen to like a lot of Vista's features, but I agree that if there's nothing compelling, then by all means stick with what you have. With that in mind, what issues are you having?

 

[GenMarshall]

I happen to like a lot of Vista's features, but I agree that if there's nothing compelling, then by all means stick with what you have.

I already have DesktopX and Yahoo! Widgets that run my widgets, Object Dock as my shortcut dock (Simmilar in kin to the MacOSX's dock), Iconpackager to modify my icons w/o messing with the shell, and Windowblinds to change my GUI. I just see Vista just having more bells and wistles (and bigger boobs than XP-tan (OS-tan inside Joke))

With that in mind, what issues are you having?

Lets see, ran the wizard to check and came across that I need to uninstall some programs as well as upgrade many of the hardware drivers that I have .

 

[Padma]

I happen to like some of Vista's features too. But I've had those in Linux for over a year, now ...