Can you play older PC games on Vista

Hey guys I plan on building a gaming pc by the middle or the endof the summer hopefully a few months ago when I was on gametrailers I remember someone was saying that you couldn't play old pc games on vista and I got a little worried but I haven't thought about asking people that actually have experience with it until now so will vista play games as old as 2000?

Just get Vista 64-bit, It's compatible with almost everything. (I've NEVER run into a compatibility issue with it, it's been GREAT.)

With 32bit Vista, I've gotten problems with a bunch of early 2000 games, just look around to see if what you want to play is stable.ryokinshin6x3

Thats why you buy 64-bit Vista! (As said in an earlier post by me.)

This is before game development even thought of 64bit, how does that make it better? A bunch of programs today don't even run on 64bit properly.

What's windows 7 and will Halo 2 play on it?

What's windows 7 and will Halo 2 play on it?

gamestop27

This is before game development even thought of 64bit, how does that make it better? A bunch of programs today don't even run on 64bit properly.

ryokinshin6x3

Thanks alot for the info.

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]

This is before game development even thought of 64bit, how does that make it better? A bunch of programs today don't even run on 64bit properly.

SLUSHiNaToR

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]With 32bit Vista, I've gotten problems with a bunch of early 2000 games, just look around to see if what you want to play is stable.dared3vil0

Thats why you buy 64-bit Vista! (As said in an earlier post by me.)

windows 7 has XP mode, where it will run applications in the native XP enviroment. very helpful for really old gamesferret-gamer

Well I'm gonna list a viewgames I have My eyes set onand could anyone tell if there will be compatipibility issues :

Halo:Combat Evovled

Half-Life:Counter Strike

Counter-Strike Condition Zero

Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition

Counter-Strike Source

Splinter Cell Espionage Pack

Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition

Swat 4-The Stetchkov Syndicate

Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Anthology

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"]windows 7 has XP mode, where it will run applications in the native XP enviroment. very helpful for really old gamesmagicalclick

Well I'm gonna list a viewgames I have My eyes set onand could anyone tell if there will be compatipibility issues :

Halo:Combat Evovled

Half-Life:Counter Strike

Counter-Strike Condition Zero

Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition

Counter-Strike Source

Splinter Cell Espionage Pack

Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition

Swat 4-The Stetchkov Syndicate

Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Anthology

gamestop27

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]With 32bit Vista, I've gotten problems with a bunch of early 2000 games, just look around to see if what you want to play is stable.dared3vil0

Thats why you buy 64-bit Vista! (As said in an earlier post by me.)

I have 32bit Vista, I played lots of old games just fine. ....altho, better off wait til Windows7 comes out.

trying to remember if I ever bumped into a game that WOULDnt run on Vista (I also has the 64 bit)

well... diablo 1, fallout 1, bg2 and iwd 1had to be in compatability mode, which is no biggie.

Ah wait... Carmageddon 1 diddnt run all too well (it ran but crashed often) Other then that I can play anything from Duke Nukem 3d and X-Com Defence, up to the games out now, without a hitch.

Must admit that my games library is only about 60 games ( which is fairly small compared to alot of people here) but I never really have to consider if old games wont run.

Its pretty game specific, but if you plan on playing games that old I would stick with xp.

Games like halo pc run really terrible on vista.

Just get Vista 64-bit, It's compatible with almost everything. (I've NEVER run into a compatibility issue with it, it's been GREAT.)

dared3vil0

Maybe with games, but I have a bunch of XP programs that don't work with Vista. (Nero 6 for instance...)

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Just get Vista 64-bit, It's compatible with almost everything. (I've NEVER run into a compatibility issue with it, it's been GREAT.)

Netherscourge

Maybe with games, but I have a bunch of XP programs that don't work with Vista. (Nero 6 for instance...)

Almost every old game I have works with Vista.