How Do Older Games Fare With Windows Vista |
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Will they do it again? The short answer is no. At least not as badly as before. Reports from different reputable sources, including the folks at Gamespot, seem to agree that at the current stage in its development video card driver issues prevent a full assessment of the situation.
Even with immature drivers causing problems for a few games, many games work with very little extra effort. Since Windows Vista will come with both DirectX 9.0L and DirectX 10 backwards compatibility is increased considerably; giving gamers the option to continue growing their collection of games instead of throwing it out.
In a test of 35 games that were made between 2000 and 2005 only 12 of the games failed to work at all under Vista. The remainder of the games worked without too much hassle save a few driver related issues and some that needed tweaked settings in order ot run properly. Above and below are the results of testing using Vista.
Via Gamespot
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I had a vista beta installed about a year ago, maybe a year and half and bf2 worked just fine, even multiplayer. Well, I guess it was that early that too much of xp's code was used and thus it ran ok.
if you can get a crappy ol' macintosh to run win XP surely you can get vista to emulate XP in a similar manner
*****ing sucks about Baldurs Gate though.
First poster, ***** off mate. Vista only just been released for BETA.
lol yea first poster is a noob who thinks he is the sh1t
#4,5 are u stupid...... i had Vista liek a year ago, there are things such as NON public betas.... like the very early builds..... there have been like 7 differant builds of Vista Beta before now......
And the reason y punkbuster dus not work it because it has not been updated to recognise Vista and therfor thinks you are hacking or doing something dodgy and boots you.
did it to me a cupple of times.
***** your couch *****A LOL