Will Your Games Run on Windows 7?

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Jan 2009 19:22 UTC, submitted by Jeremy13

ExtremeTech installs and launches 22 popular game titles - both old and new - to see which ones run on Windows 7, and which ones don't. And then there are games which do run but not without issues. Either way, the article provides gamers a glimpse into how Windows 7 affects gaming performance and if your favorite gaming title will run or not. They conclude: "We encountered relatively few problems, even with some of the older games. And given how sleek Windows 7 feels compared to Vista, we're looking forward to moving to the new OS as soon as it's released."

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Another Game for the test

by Phloptical on Tue 27th Jan 2009 01:09 UTC

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2006-10-10

GTA - Vice City runs swimmingly in Win 7.

EVGA nForce 680i
Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.13GHz
2GB DDR2800
GeForce 9600

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Still..

by phanboy_iv on Tue 27th Jan 2009 17:32 UTC

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2007-09-25

Seems 7 inherits it's old-game compatibility from Vista, meaning my old Win95/98 games won't do quite as well as my current XP.

When will MS forgo the hacked-in compatibility layers and ship with optional "compatibility VMs?"

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RE: Still..

by PlatformAgnostic on Tue 27th Jan 2009 18:00 UTC in reply to "Still.."

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2006-01-02

It's usually not necessary. Most programs only require modest "shims" to work properly again. These shims do not affect runtime performance for non-shimmed apps since they are injected at runtime right at the interface between the application and the OS by the DLL linking mechanism.

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Windows backwards compatible or not?

by Kebabbert on Tue 27th Jan 2009 18:49 UTC