What games are you running on Vista?

I am planning on making the switch to Vista once some DX10 games start trickling out so I can tap into my 8800GTX. My question is what games have people been running on Vista lately and have you had any issues (besides issues related to bad GPU drivers)? I just want to know if some of my older games like the CoD series, Half Life series, Far Cry, etc will work. If you do have Vista, please just list any of the games you have installed and if you have any problems. Thanks!

 

I've run Half Life 2, and F.E.A.R. both without any problems at all.

 

HL2 and CS:S works fine in Vista, I game in XP though because Steam doesn't recognize me in Vista and will periodically boot me

 

Half life 2 and Cs

 

I'm going to just dual-boot for XP games...until Vista drivers get better there is going to be some performance loss. And when I'm playing Oblivion at 18-25fps on beautiful settings even a few percentage points of lost power mean the difference between playability at the settings I want or sacrificing eye-candy.

 

That is a good idea. Thanks for the replies everyone. Seems like I should be good with some games anyway.

 

I agree with night, you will notice alittle degradation in FPS until the offical drivers are released, I didn't notice really any difference in F.E.A.R. though.

 

I get better FPS in Neverwinter Nights 2 than in XP. Probably due to the design issues that have plagued this game since it's release. Nice still tho...

 

So far I've tested Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Oblivion, Far Cry, HALO, Supreme Commander, and they all work with no problems or additional tweaking required. I haven't really compared them to performance on an equivalent system, since the laptop came with Vista preinstalled, but they all seem to run just fine (A8Js).

 

Gotta love paying to be a beta tester, eh?

 

I have Vista Ultimate on my laptop, and I've run Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life 2. All run with reduced performance, HL2 especially. I'd say there is a 15-30% performance decrease, depends on the game.

 

Hey Chaz you dual booting? I'm wondering 'cause when I'm in Vista and launch Steam (which is installed in my XP partition), I get booted because I can't be authenticated.

 

Wait - 15-30% would mean that Vista's gaming performance is worse than Linux's?

 

I'm not dual-booting, Vista only. I was able to connect to Steam fine. The performance hit I got in Vista makes me want to dual-boot though.

Erm . . . ? Compared to XP that is the performance decrease I see.

 

Aye, and 20% is the normal hit I take going from XP to Ubuntu for games.

 

This with the latest Catalyst drivers?

Also, yeah if you just upgrade to Ultimate, you won't have account verification problems with Steam as all those sneaky files and registry entries they put in your OS is carried along in the upgrade.

 

Good to here games are working out for most people. Steam issues don't really surprise me. Who doesn't have problems with Steam? The only thing I like about Steam is that it updates games for you. Sounds like I will be dual booting when I go to Vista then, but I think I am going to wait until summer probably. Thanks for all the input!

 

WoW
Star Wars: Empire at War
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War
Civilization 4 and Warlords Expack (had to install lastest patch to get it to work)
Medieval II (before I removed it)
Vanguard (before i removed it)

 

Actually, I didn't do the upgrade; I formatted and then installed. I don't like doing upgrades, it makes me think my drive is 'unclean.'

Yes, that performance with the latest 7.1 Catalyst driver suite for Vista. Hopefully the performance gap will be narrowed in future driver releases.

 

I ran guild wars on my laptop running vista ultimate. It might have taken a performance hit, I dunno. There seemed to be a bit of texture uglyness between the tri-filtering bands (x1300, latest drivers).

I definetly wouldn't recommend vista to anyone planning to game on it.

 

I'm testing vista on my desktop only right now. NV drivers are terrible at the moment, though everything is more or less playable. I had major crashes and BSOD's for awhile, till I disabled my audigy 2 and went with my onboard AC97, creative has left everyone in the lurch, even XFI owners.

Surprisingly some old games like Wing commander Prophecy and secret ops run quite well, even with a Glide wrapper, Thats a series that needs to make a comeback in major way.

 

Hmm....looks like currently I will be really shafted for my desktop right now then between the 8800GTX and the X-Fi card. Seems like most the other software I will need is available in some form or another: RAID drivers, wireless on my mobo, etc. Thanks.

 

Dell Inspiron 6400, Vista Home Premium 32bit, 2Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 256MB ATI X1400 GPU, 160HD 5400RMP SATA HD

I play Football Manager 2007 and Company of Heroes. Football Manager works amazingly well. I have about 22 leagues from 11 countries selected. Company of Heroes works fine as well, but I have everything on lowest settings just to keep things stable.

 

NBA Live 07 works well on vista Home