Grand Theft Auto III
Plays great!
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Plays great!
Guild Wars
Plays great!
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Plays great!
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Plays great!
Half-Life 2
Almost! We could get past the splash screen to the loading screen, but then the game crashes back to the desktop. It shouldn't be impossible to fix since Lost Coast worked perfectly.
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Plays great!
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
We could launch the game, but it only loads up the taskbar and a black screen which stays there permanently until you open the task manager and kill the task.

516 Comments

  • silencers3

    Posted Aug 10, 2008 8:06 am PT

    anyone know if final fantasy 11 works please message me on my gamespot account please i cant seem to get it playing...........

  • kingcranium

    Posted Jul 3, 2008 4:50 pm PT

    BF@2142 works

  • blittle

    Posted May 30, 2008 8:12 pm PT

    Perhaps it is time to update this list?

  • LucienValentine

    Posted Mar 17, 2008 3:06 am PT

    World of Warcraft runs slower than on my old XP machine (lower frame rate despite being on a substantially more powerful machine) and also crashed from time to time (kicks me out of the game with a 'fatal exception' error). Not impressed!

  • dabomb691

    Posted Oct 29, 2007 5:20 pm PT

    BF2142 doesnt work

  • Koinuyayhigh

    Posted Aug 6, 2007 8:43 pm PT

    I can't get oblivion to work when I click on it it says Nixadapterdesc::getdevicecaps()failed Can someone tell me how I can fix it? and it says that wow needs directx 9 but it isn't compatible with vista....-.-

  • danzoid_101

    Posted Jul 29, 2007 2:39 am PT

    fable and empire at war work fine

  • Mavus1

    Posted Jul 22, 2007 12:10 pm PT

    does fable work?

  • zooz12

    Posted Jul 12, 2007 8:59 pm PT

    tazmarie wrote:
    "I have doom 3 and it doesn't play in windows vista"


    Why not? for me it plays great!

  • tazmarie

    Posted Jul 12, 2007 10:22 am PT

    I have doom 3 and it doesn't play in windows vista

  • crave4more

    Posted Jun 14, 2007 1:48 am PT

    has anyone tried system shock 2? i can get to the menu, change all the options and then go to start a new game and i get full loading screen then a black screen.... real annoying

  • LordSephiroth34

    Posted Jun 9, 2007 3:50 am PT

    I wonder how battle for middle-earth 2 (also the expansion) and the 2 empire at war games are played

  • lax007

    Posted May 1, 2007 11:38 pm PT

    Does anybody knows will battlefield 2142 work on vista ultimate 64bit

  • killerofzombies

    Posted Apr 17, 2007 2:36 pm PT

    Does anyone know if halo 2 will come out for the xp as well, like another version?

  • KAHUNASEAL21

    Posted Mar 28, 2007 6:55 am PT

    does metal gear solid 2 substace works with vista?

  • Urban_Shark

    Posted Feb 17, 2007 7:41 am PT

    Hi

    To get Battlefield 2 to work online right-click on BF2.exe and then click run administrator. This also works on Star Wars Galaxies. This also may work on other games.

  • pomerleau187

    Posted Feb 7, 2007 8:46 pm PT

    cant get Battlestations: midway to work on vista yet , the game loads up but after 10 secs of playing the game it crashes anyone hav any ideas on how to fix it ?



    Running 2 gig ram 7900 gtx nvidia

  • midn8t

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 6:02 am PT

    battleifled 2142 dose not work, loads up then crashes flat out broken says game error is battlefield 2142 has stopped working please search for a fix.

  • franc0-shade

    Posted Feb 2, 2007 9:16 am PT

    I had the same issues with Half Life 2 also.

    Shame, I really wanted to get back into it!

  • woodz2222

    Posted Jan 31, 2007 2:28 pm PT

    H i all i have just been looking at the games that are vista compatible and i couldn't help notice that it says that RISE OF NATIONS is not compatible it says on here that the game loads up, shows the introductory video, but then crashes back to the desktop i have a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX XXX Edition 768MB gDDR3 graphics card installed so anyway i went and bought windows vista ultimate today and i installed it and i then installed RISE OF NATIONS and i ran the game and it worked fine the only problem is that the sound on the game is jumpy and i checked my sound card and it was all working correctly as i had music playing so the game oes work for me on windows vista ultimate and therefore must work with windows vista afterall i can pove what i am saying if you want evidence of the game working on windows vista

  • AdamK47

    Posted Jan 29, 2007 11:52 am PT

    supergamer1289, look at the date the article was written. This compatibility test was from beta 2 of Vista. Game compatibility has gone way up with the official release of Vista.

  • supergamer1289

    Posted Jan 26, 2007 6:47 pm PT

    Sigh, Gamespot did not do a very good job in testing these games out. I recommend this website:
    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1969005,00.asp

    Here is how too fix battlefield two:

    The solution is simple enough: right-click the BF2 icon, choose Properties, and then in the Compatibility tab check the box that says "Run this program as an administrator." After doing this, we encountered no problems joining any server.

  • senjutsu

    Posted Jan 17, 2007 9:12 am PT

    WHAT?

    I mean, at LEAST HL2 should work if they want me to install it, and prey too!!!!!!

    If they cannot make they work for the release nobody will install their crap...

  • Glordit

    Posted Jan 4, 2007 2:03 am PT

    well looks like Vista is ready, cept for some.... wiat HF2 wont work... it... can't be... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  • Shadowfire14

    Posted Dec 6, 2006 3:08 am PT

    i hope that bf:2142 works as well as halo and the ce version.

  • Leon243

    Posted Dec 1, 2006 10:27 am PT

    I hope halo 1 works in the windows vista

  • CaptainLam

    Posted Nov 30, 2006 10:28 am PT

    Vista still needs more work to be done to support the best games out there. Until there is proof that Vista can run current and recent games, it would be best to stick with XP. Vista wouldn't be much without our favorite games.

  • toamax2

    Posted Nov 25, 2006 7:09 am PT

    douse splinter cell 3 work

  • halofreak3487

    Posted Nov 4, 2006 10:35 am PT

    forget vista, i'm just waiting for directx 10 cards

  • Shadow230990

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 1:56 am PT

    The Doom³ engine IS functional, but has some really weird ass shadow errors and super-low quality textures.
    Halo 1, despite having a "known compatibility problems" dialog, works perfectly, even online!

  • lesner87

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 10:22 am PT

    they will need to come up with something before retail version of vista is released!

  • bigelf72

    Posted Sep 19, 2006 11:56 pm PT

    hmm....Alchohol 120% wont work....alright...im going back to win xp screw vista for now.

  • bigelf72

    Posted Sep 19, 2006 11:53 pm PT

    I'm on 32-bit Vista Rc-1....I'm having issues....some one tell me what to do to fix em.

    World of Warcraft gets these lag spikes every 15 er so seconds that i never got on xp and i dont get them on my laptop.
    Fear gets these lag spikes every 15 er so seconds that i never got on xp and i dont get them on my laptop
    Albatross18 doesn't work
    I have ff7 for pc...ill install it right now to see if it works...ill post back in a few

  • neerajkumar_4

    Posted Sep 17, 2006 4:11 am PT

    interesting.........!!!

  • themacintrasher

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 2:50 pm PT

    if anyone knows how to use halflife 2 on vista i'd love 2 know

  • Raventhorn

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:04 pm PT

    I have Vista RC1 installed and am going through every game I have (which is large list) and reporting to MS what works and what does not...cannot speak for FF7 since I dont have it, but here is a list of games that I have seen work:

    Battlefield 2 (which failed for a while to even install in older betas).
    Everquest 2 ( although one of the expansions had graphic lockups but still installed ). Had problems updating the Launcher....MS knows and is fixing.
    Oblivion (runs smoother than a baby's rump).
    The Movies
    Guild Wars

    Games that failed:
    IGN's downloader....go figure.
    Company of Heroes Single Player Demo (looks for DX9 files!?).

    If you want to find out if a game is running, email my account and I will let you know if I have it and if it works with RC1. Remember it is RC1...and having been a Microsoft employee...I can bet they will have one more RC before launch and that they are HOT for fixing compatibility issues.

  • softcloud

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 8:47 am PT

    Will FF7 for PC be compatible with Vista???????? Somebody HAS to know!!!!

  • applehazelnut

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 10:33 am PT

    You have to turn off DEP (data execution prevention) in Vista in order of Act of War to work in Vista RC1

  • lt_nick

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 12:54 pm PT

    remember the power of emulation maby some smartass can make an 32 bit compatibility emulator so u can run all ur win32 compatible games (sorry for my bad english....reason: im dutch and 15

  • foxer_2005

    Posted Aug 26, 2006 2:17 pm PT

    BTW I tried Act Of War - Direct Action on my Windows vista beta 2 -Build 5384 and it didn't work. But on my XP it works fine.

  • SciFiShooterGUY

    Posted Aug 23, 2006 9:15 pm PT

    I hate beta OS's. I just don't trust them enough to use them. And to hear that it's just theory that all my current games will run on Vista, Pffft... Forget about it, I will wait a few months for firm proof of that.

    Ok, what I really want to know is where can I find a list of games that are going to be for the Vista OS, that will also run on XP?

    Like, for example Crysis and Hellgate, are rumored to be Windows Vista games. But wont they run on XP? Yeah I know there is much better graphics with Vista DirectX10. But I like the way DirectX9.0c looks just as well. I'm already impressed with directX 9.0c compatibility. I don't need to be impressed even more, just yet, for a while.

    Well, there is one solution I guess. Buy a seperate Hard Drive for Vista.

  • foxer_2005

    Posted Aug 23, 2006 4:25 pm PT

    Most of them new games like Prey!

  • Prowler_88

    Posted Aug 23, 2006 4:39 am PT

    Haha kevinr100

    It's INPUT, not IMPUT

    Put up with the l337 speak mate...We are on a gaming website after all.

  • The1stFishBone

    Posted Aug 22, 2006 3:27 pm PT

    battlefield 2 doesnt run period, that means nothing. id games are open gl. so dont expect them to run. surprised about hl2

  • kevinr100

    Posted Aug 21, 2006 8:42 pm PT

    Jeez - I just read all of the posts and the main thing that strikes me is that just below this imput is a SPELL CHECKER. Bad spelling & leet speak just helps to show your lack of education (to whom it may concern).
    ps. other nationalities excluded (non english speaking).

  • drakem

    Posted Aug 21, 2006 6:19 am PT



    all the problems are the 64-bit drivers and hardware, not all of the 32-bit hardware will be useful for windows vista. Start to save some money to upgrade your computer.

  • jaflash

    Posted Aug 20, 2006 3:14 am PT

    i thought vista made gaems work 6 times faster according to microsoft my windows xp service pack 2 computer with intel celeron 2.6 ghz and 512 megs of ram and ati saphire x1600 pro card can work on vista but i think it would take hours to load even with all the fansy stuff off

  • _IRONBERG_

    Posted Aug 19, 2006 5:40 am PT

    hmmm... I got Half Life 2 to work on my vista beta.

  • recalcitrant1

    Posted Aug 18, 2006 1:15 am PT

    Of course the visuals are going to look and run gash Drowninginjello. It's designed for directx10, which you don't have, and its designed for cards with directx10 drivers, which you also don't have.

    You're obviously too young to remember the uproar over switching from dos to 3.11, to win 95, to xp.

    It's called "progress".

  • genm79

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 8:08 pm PT

    Question..... Does Final Fantasy XI runs on Vista?

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