Windows 7: Windows 7 Game Compatibility List

Dark Nova Gamer · 19 Sep 2009

Note

Please read the following carefully!

Please read the entire list carefully before listing a game to make sure it is not already listed.
If listing a game as working, please detail whether it was tested on 32-bit, 64-bit or both.
If listing a game as 'Requires tweaking!' or 'Not Working!' please describe what is needed to get the game working, or what the problem is.
A special thanks to Geralt and his team for compiling the latest list.
A very special thanks to Johngalt, who has maintained this thread for quite some time now.

Warning

Do NOT start discussions in this thread!

Working (32-bit) ONLY!

AI War: Fleet Command
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood
Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30
Dark Sector
Darkest of Days
Devil May Cry 4
Gears of War
Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault (Directors Edition)
Mini Ninjas
NBA Live 2010
OpenTTD
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Shadowgrounds Survivor
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Silent Hill Homecoming
Silent Hill
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation
Starscape
The Wonderful End of the World
Tropico 3
World of Goo
Zoo Tycoon 2
Zuma Deluxe

Working (64-bit) ONLY!

Aion
Airfix Dogfighter
Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter: Vengeance
Alpha Prime
Anno 1404
ARMA 2
Arx Fatalis
Assassin's Creed
Astro Avenger
Audiosurf - (Steam)
Ballistics
Bandits: Phoenix Rising
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
Battlefield Heroes
Battlefield Vietnam
BattleForge
Bioshock
Blue Mars
BMW M3 Challenge
Braid - (Steam)
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Cave Story Deluxe
Colin McRae DiRT
Colin McRae Rally 04
Colin McRae Rally 3
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour
Command & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer: Renegade
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Commandos: Strike Force
Company of Heroes
Counter-Strike 1.6
Crysis Wars
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
DarkStar One
Dead Space
Defcon
Domo
Doom 3: Ressurection of Evil
Doom 3
Dragon Sky
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Dungeons and Dragons: Eberron Online
Empire: Total War
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enter the Matrix - (Patched)
Eternal Lands
Evil Genius
EVONY
Far Cry 2
Football Manager 2007
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Galaxy Online
GTR Evolution
Guitar Hero III
Guitar Hero World Tour
Half Life 2
Half Life 2: Episode One
Half Life 2: Episode Two
Hearts of Iron III
Heroes of the Pacific
Hitman 2
Hitman Blood Money
Hitman Contracts
LaTale
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Live For Speed
Luminary
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Medieval II: Total War
MegaTen
Men of War
Mirror's Edge
Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships
Need for Speed: Carbon
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Nexuiz
Order of War
Parabellum
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Nights Deluze
Plants vs. Zombies
Portal
Postal 2
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Project Torque
Quake III Arena
Quake
Race Driver: Grid
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum Edition
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
rFactor
Ricochet - (Steam)
Risen
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Saiya
Sam & Max: Season One
Serious Sam II
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine
SimCity 3000
Star Trek Elite Force II
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Star Wars: Empire at War
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Starport: Galactic Empires
Street Fighter IV
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress Classic - (Steam)
Test Drive Unlimited
The Last Remnant
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
The Matrix: Path of Neo
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
The Secret of Monkey Island - (Steam)
The Settlers II
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
Titan Quest
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tomb Raider II
Tomb Raider II: Golden Mask
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artefact
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation: The Times Exclusive
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Torchlight
Trackmania Nations Electronic Sports World Cup
Trackmania Nations Forever
Trackmania United Forever
Trine
Turf Battles
Twelve Sky
Twelve Sky 2
Unreal Tournament 3 - (Steam)
Uplink
Warcraft III (All Variants)
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 2
Wolf Team
Wolfenstein (2009)
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
X³: Terran Conflict
X3: Reunion
xFactor
Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Working (Both 32-bit and 64-bit)

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!! - (Steam)
Age of Empires (all variants)
Age of Empires II
Age of Empires III
Aliens vs Predators
Boiling Point: Road to Hell
Borderlands
Burnout paradise
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Civilization IV (All Variants)
Counter-Strike - (Steam)
Counter-Strike: Source - (Steam)
Crysis Warhead
Crysis
Day of Defeat - (Steam)
Day of Defeat: Source - (Steam)
Deathmatch Classic - (Steam)
DemiGod
Deus Ex
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Diablo II
Dragon Age: Origins
Fable I
Fable I: The Lost Chapters
Fallout 3 (Retail & Steam)
F.E.A.R
F.E.A.R: Extraction Point
F.E.A.R: Perseus Mandate
F.E.A.R 2
F.E.A.R 3
FIFA 10
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XIV
Gothic 3
Grand Fantasia
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Guild Wars
Half-Life - (Steam)
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch - (Steam)
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source - (Steam)
Half-Life: Blue Shift - (Steam)
Half-Life: Source - (Steam)
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Homeworld 1
Left 4 Dead
Lord of the Rings Online
Mafia
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mafia 2
Medal Of Honor - Open Beta
Need for Speed: Shift
Need for Speed: Undercover
Neighbours From Hell
Neighbours From Hell 2
Opposing Force - (Steam)
Plantasia
Portal
Portal 2
Prototype
Quake 4
Resident Evil 5
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Settler IV
Sims 2
Sims 3
Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment
Sins of a Solar Empire
Spore
StarCraft II
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Supreme Commander
Test Drive Unlimited
Tibia
Westward
World of Warcraft
Worms Reloaded
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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Requires Tweaks

Area 51
- Run in XP SP2 Compatibility mode. (Thanks to Diosoth)
Barkley Shut Up and Jam!
- Run in fullscreen only otherwise text will be jagged. (Thanks to Diosoth)
Blood II: The Chosen
- Run installer in DosBox. (Thanks to Zidane24 & DarkNovaGamer)
Captian Claw
- Run installer in DosBox. (Thanks to Rathori)
Crysis Maximum Edition
- MAY require a -dx9 command switch to work properly. (Thanks to Grimhowl)
Crysis Warhead Maximum Edition
- MAY require a -dx9 command switch to work properly. (Thanks to Grimhowl)
Command and Conquer 95
- Set Affinity in Task Manager to use one CPU core, kill explorer.exe before running the game to fix color corruption. (Thanks to Rathori)
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
- Set Affinity in Task Manager to use one CPU core, kill explorer.exe before running the game to fix color corruption. (Thanks to Rathori)
Diplomacy
- Run in Windows XP SP2 Compatibility mode. (Thanks to Maxik)
DungeonSiege
- Must use a graphics card driver without "Transform and Lighting" (Thanks to Bluemond)
Fallout 1
- Kill explorer.exe before running the game to fix color corruption. (Thanks to Rathori)
Fallout 2
- Kill explorer.exe before running the game to fix color corruption. (Thanks to Rathori)
Grand Theft Auto 1
- Run in XP SP3 Compatiblity mode. (Thanks to Rathori)
Hitman: Codename 47
- Run in OpenGL mode. (Thanks to Rathori)
Max Payne 1
- No sound in cutscenes. (Thanks to Rathori)
Need For Speed: Underground 2
- Run as administrator with autosave off. (Thanks to dw96)
Neverwinter Nights 1
- Run as administrator. (Thanks to WolfSoul)
Red Faction 1
- Requires PureFaction Mod to run, also requires Vista Compatibility Mode. (Thanks to Rathori)
StarCraft I
- Kill explorer.exe before running the game to fix color corruption. (Thanks to DarkNovaGamer and Zidane24)
Sudden Strike: Arms for Victory
- Patch the game with the latest available patch. (Thanks to Darkpowder)
Theif Gold
- Set Affinity with Task Manager to run game with one CPU Core. (Thanks to Rathori)
X3: Terran Conflict
- Requires latest patch (2.3). (Thanks to Eliah)

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Not Working!

Astro Avenger II
- No information provided by Rathori.
Colin McRae Rally 1
- No information provided by Rathori.
Colin McRae Rally 2
- Crashes on car tuning screen, no found fix. (Thanks to Rathori)
Fuel
- No information provided by Chupitos.
Hard Truck: The Road to Victory
- No information provided by Rathori.
King of the Road
- No information provided by Rathori.
MapleStory
- numerous BSODs reported
Quake II
- Crashes in OpenGL mode, crashes if switched from Software to OpenGL mode Severe color corruption in Software mode. (Thanks to Rathori)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Crashes on launch. (Thanks to Rathori)
Star Wars - Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
- No information provided by ScourgeDL.
The Simpsons Hit & Run
- Load times make the game unplayable. (Thanks to Diosoth)
Thief I: The Dark Project
- Incompatible (32-bit ONLY), No information given by Gornot.
Thief II: The Metal Age
- Incompatible (32-bit ONLY), No information given by Gornot.
Thief III: Deadly Shadows
- Incompatible (32-bit ONLY), No information given by Gornot.
Ys VI Ark of Napishtim
- Unable to load game, unable to install patches and translation packs. (Thanks to Diosoth)

kingant · 20 Sep 2009

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RTM Build 7600.

Works Perfect (No Issues):

- Spore
- Resident Evil 5
- Grid
- Wolfstein
- Dawn Of War II
- Empire Total War
- Grand theft Auto IV
- Call Of Duty World At War, Singleplayer
- Demigod

Works, Some Issues:

- Age Of Empires I, Rise Of Rome: Random Freeze, i have to reset my cpu. I have tried run as administrator, all compatibilities but the freeze still occurs randomly.
- Call Of Duty World At War, Multiplayer: Crash to Desktop, Random. Sometimes it works for many hours without issues. Sometimes after one or two rounds it crash back to desktop. Unhandled Exception.

holo88 · 20 Sep 2009

confirmed working on x86

Counter-Strike : Source
Left 4 Dead

both may require to add the "-dx9" command to the start parameters, to fix lag.
(probably applies to other 'Source' based games as well)

johngalt · 20 Sep 2009

OK, added those in.

Kingant, which wolfenstein? (and you spelled it wolfstein)

Holo - I can confirm L4D on x64 too.

Zidane24 · 20 Sep 2009

I can confirm that both GTAIV and Spore work on x86

silent785 · 20 Sep 2009

Resident Evil 5 doesn't work for me. I get an error saying I'm missing WMVCore.dll...
Tried this on Windows 7 x64

Vipermk2 · 20 Sep 2009

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RTM Build 7600.

Works Flawlessly

Tomb Raider Anniversary
Resident Evil 5

skunksmash · 20 Sep 2009

i installed ''Resident Evil 5'' on my 7600 RTM last night...... fully functional on DX10 mode, i gotta say this game is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!

its a work of art ''graphically'', but game-play is a little wooden.

but IT WORKS.....

mickey megabyte · 20 Sep 2009

i've got rtm x64, and i always have uac disabled...

working fine (no tweaks needed but i always have uac disabled, so...)

defcon
company of heroes
braid (steam)
settlers ii
empire total war (steam)
left for dead (steam)
bioshock
tf2 (steam)
hl2 and episodes (steam)
portal (steam)
secret of monkey island (steam)
hearts of iron 3
medal of honor airborne

working after tweakage

battlefield 2 - i had to manually install punkbuster services
fallout 3 (steam) - some issues linked to creative alchemy (i think)

(thanks a lot john and Geralt for maintaining this list)

Ether · 20 Sep 2009

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory works with no problems