Can you play old games on vista?

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#1 gotcha455
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My new PC will have Vista, canI play the older games on it? I.E Halo, Far Cry, Mafia, GTA's etc.

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#2 jak522
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yea you can some may be buggy though halo runs fine though
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#3 Bibone
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ya you should be able to. i was able to put aom on a vista machine, and it worked fine for me.
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#4 EternalMax
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i heard that there's a slight performance drop on older games, like CS....but if your getting a new pc you should be able to get insane framerates anyway on older games......
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#5 endtype
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I played Halo and Farcry fine
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#6 EternalMax
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as long as your new comp has decent parts you shouldn't experience any problems.... so yea....your pretty much only limited by your hardware....
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#7 nicelf
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Changing compatibility into Windows 98 mayfix your problem

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#8 inyourface_12
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some games have issues but they are supposed to be fixed with sp1
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#9 EternalMax
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some games have issues but they are supposed to be fixed with sp1inyourface_12

hey yea! when is that bad boy coming out?! i heard that there wasn't much of a difference, but that don't matter to me....

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#10 givemethepatch
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Here's an oldish website with a decent list of games that work with vista from back in the day

http://www.thinktechno.com/2007/03/13/list-of-vista-compatible-games/

Also, I've had luck with running compatability mode for games that fail the first try on my Vista laptop.

Good luck!