Old School games for Vista

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Mad_Vision

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Any of you guys play old PC games on Vista 32 or 64? and how is it? I want to built a new gaming PC, but not sure which Vista I should use. These are the games I am concerned about:
Unreal Tournament
Medal Of Honor
Deus EX
Serious Sam
Command & Conquer
Daikatana
Half Life ect.

Im getting tired of my current gaming PC freezing up and I don't think I want to stick with it trying to figure out the problem, specially on the TF2 lagging. Going to sell everything and build a new gaming system. Thanks
 
i havent had any problems running older games on Vista 64 Ultimate.
sometimes you might have to run it in compatability mode and choose XP if you are having any issues.
 
I haven't run into a ton of trouble running games on vista. I can tell you that Half Life and Deus Ex work on it fine. Though the only old game I've really played on vista was Starcraft, which works wonderfully. Most of the time it's either you have to set compat mode or change priveleges (run as admin, etc). I think compat is probably safer overall though.

As an aside, you're concerned about Daikatana?

I suppose that must make you John Romero's bitch.
 
You should be OK on most games unless your trying old DOS games and then your S.O.L. Dual boot is the way to go on older games.
 
always wanted to meet the person who bought dikatana

as for the others i have all but the old dos C&C and they work just great in ultimate x64
 
Biskquik said:
I haven't run into a ton of trouble running games on vista. I can tell you that Half Life and Deus Ex work on it fine. Though the only old game I've really played on vista was Starcraft, which works wonderfully. Most of the time it's either you have to set compat mode or change priveleges (run as admin, etc). I think compat is probably safer overall though.

As an aside, you're concerned about Daikatana?

I suppose that must make you John Romero's bitch.
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Well Daikata is the only game I haven't yet played, yup, all these years sitting on storage, that wont make me John Romero's bitch, specially getting the CD for free, I assume you hate that guy which I can care less about. Please next time provide good info on what I was asking for (which you did, until hate got involved) and lets talk about old school games.
 
I have Medal of Honor: Allied Assault installed on my Vista 64 PC, and it runs fine. Although I do get frequent nVidia driver errors in MOHAA and other Quake 2 engine-based games.
 
Mad_Vision said:
Well Daikata is the only game I haven't yet played, yup, all these years sitting on storage, that wont make me John Romero's bitch, specially getting the CD for free, I assume you hate that guy which I can care less about. Please next time provide good info on what I was asking for (which you did, until hate got involved) and lets talk about old school games.
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I'm sorry if I offended you. I was just merely alluding to the magazine ad for Daikatana seen Here

Daikatana is an famous (or imfamous) example of a game that was overhyped that underdelivered.
 
The only trouble I've had with running older games on Vista is that the third-party OpenGL driver I was using with UT didn't work, so I had to switch to the D3D8 driver instead. Aside from that, I haven't had any issues.
 
Fallout works for me as well as Diablo II + LOD. Those are the only old games I have on my notebook though.
 
Sobek said:
Fallout works for me as well as Diablo II + LOD. Those are the only old games I have on my notebook though.
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Thanks for this. I didn't install Diablo II on my PC because I wasn't sure if it would work or not, that and I didn't want to dig out the CDs from a box somewhere.
 
I know for a fact that the original UT works. You have to move the Game Speed slider way down to like 40% though. At 100% it's rediculous.
 
Mad_Vision said:
Unreal Tournament
Medal Of Honor
Deus EX
Serious Sam
Command & Conquer
Daikatana
Half Life ect.
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You call that old school? Here's what I call old school (on the PC):

Jazz Jackrabbit 1
Jill of the Jungle
Commander Keen series
Wacky Wheels
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Descent
CARNAGE

And no, most of them don't run in Vista :(
 
Foladar said:
Thanks for this. I didn't install Diablo II on my PC because I wasn't sure if it would work or not, that and I didn't want to dig out the CDs from a box somewhere.
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It will only work if you download the newest patch (Vista Specific) from Blizzard's website.
 
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