Vista Compatibility List
This page is here as a list of games that are compatible with Windows Vista.
Feel free to edit this page and update the list as you please.
There is a Starforce update for Vista available for download here
Many games will run better or in fact run when they would not previously run after DirectX 9.0c has been installed on your Vista system. So try to keep your DirectX 9 up to date. To start off you should grab the latest redistributable from the Microsoft website, do not try and use the web updater as it will not work on Windows Vista. The August 2007 redist is available here
Colour | Description |
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Untested | |
Working | |
Mostly working | |
Lots of problems | |
Doesn't run |
Game | x86 | x64 | Game Explorer | Notes |
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Age of Mythology | ||||
Alpha Prime | Game has alot of 3D sound driver issues on vista but game runs great otherwise | |||
America's Army | If you click 'Run Program as Administrator' under 'compatibility' | |||
Armed Assaut | ||||
Battlefield 2 | ||||
Battlefield 2142 | ||||
Call of Duty 2 | ||||
Cold War | ||||
Company of heroes | ||||
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | ||||
Colin McRae: DiRT | ||||
Counter Strike: Source | ||||
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic | Resource hog; crashes when closed - runs very well with 4GB ram on 64 bit | |||
Day of Defeat: Source | shows retail box in Game Explorer | |||
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition | ||||
Drakan | Works ok but frequent crashes | |||
Dungeon Runners | ||||
EVE Online | ||||
Everquest II | ||||
Evil Genius | ||||
Dungeon Siege 2 | ||||
F.E.A.R | ||||
F.E.A.R Combat | ||||
Ghost Recon - Advanced Warfighter | ||||
Ghost Recon - Advanced Warfighter 2 | ||||
Gothic 3 | ||||
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Original version without patch | |||
GTR 2 | ||||
Guild Wars | Game Explorer adds 2 links in, 'Eye of the North' and 'Factions' Don't worry as Guildwars runs of 1 exe no matter what | |||
Half life 2 | Game Explorer adds many links to all most installed Steam games and doubles some up | |||
Halo: Combat Evolved | ||||
Indigo Prophecy | ||||
Lord of the Rings Online | Disables Aero whilst playing in windowed mode | |||
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition | ||||
Men of Valour | ||||
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance | ||||
Need For Speed: Carbon | works without updating to latests patch, As of the 1.3 patch; the 'movies' directory needs to the moved or renamed (which, unsurprisingly, will disable all in game movies) | |||
Need For Speed: Most Wanted | ||||
Neverwinter Nights 2 | Use the latest update to resolve several issues | |||
Oblivion - Shivering Isle | ||||
Operation Flashpoint | ||||
Overlord | ||||
Phantasy Star Universe | ||||
Project Snowblind | ||||
Quake 2 | ||||
Quake 4 | 1.3 patch, Low quality Graphics in Vista | |||
Race - The WTCC Game | ||||
Raiden 3 | Graphic corruption on player's ship | |||
Rise And Fall: Civilizations At War | Starforce prevents game from loading including the OS (last good config to fix) | |||
Rise of Legends | ||||
RoboBlitz | ||||
RollerCoaster Tycoon | Latest Patches applied | |||
Scarface | (ATI) Latest Drivers needed.(finally no graphic corruption)/(Nvidia rumors still corrupted) Game is buggy anyway like extremely slow mouse | |||
Scrapland | Use a No-CD or (Update Starforce)? to get it to run as this games Starforce version isn't compatible with Vista. | |||
Silverfall | ||||
Sim City 4 | ||||
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | This is due to Starforce | |||
Stalker | High resource usage compared to XP | |||
Starcraft | ||||
Starship Troopers 2005 | ||||
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords | ||||
Supreme Commander | ||||
Test Drive: Unlimited | ||||
The Matrix - Path of Neo | ||||
The Secrets of Atlantis | ||||
The Ship | ||||
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne | ||||
Trackmania Nations ESWC | This is due to Starforce, Starts loading drops back to desktop with the Starforce patch | |||
Trackmania Sunrise Extreme | Update Starforce drivers, Game used from a already installed copy in XP will try a fresh install in Vista | |||
Trackmania United | Fully vista compatible on box | |||
Two Worlds | ||||
Warcraft III | ||||
World of Warcraft | For NVidia cards, use drivers 162.22 and later |