I have Windows Vista Home Premium and I can play StarCraft, but if you have Xfire then you will get these lines on your screen. Sometimes you will get like an unfinished background but when your playing a game you should be fine.
If they don't work and all else has failed there is your little friend virtual pc http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
i ran quake..& it ran fine...so i think any other game wuld run juz fine..moreovr tht ths time microsoft has incorporated a working version of the compatibility mode switch...so i dont think u wuld face a problem!
I haven't tried those two games in particular, but old games seem to work suprisingly well on Vista, I've had less problems with Vista (64-bit Vista) than with XP for old games. I've been playing some System Shock 2 and Duke Nukem 3D (High Resolution Pack) lately, they are running quite well.
Some devs claim Vista compatibility is better than XP in their old games. example: "I should point out that Vista does have one advantage over XP: it seems to be more compatible with the games in our "Free Stuff" area."
DOSBox also works well with Vista for old DOS games.
Hey, sorry for posting I know this thread has been dead for a while, but I have a similar problem. I've been trying to play an old lucas art game called afterlife and its sound is dissapering and cutscenes are freezing . Waht canI do?
Several suggestions were given in this very thread on how to make older games work better. What more do you want? Have you tried running a virtual PC? Have you tried DOSbox?
I run Vista Home Premium, and I've yet to encounter a game that was unplayable. Sometimes the games require a little tweaking, but I've never found myself being prevented from playing an older game (as of yet).
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