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Wasila

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Hey,

I'm considering an upgrade to 7 and have a large collection of older games which I'm hoping will run on Vista.

Firstly, will XP games like Simcity 4 and Civilization 4 work with 7 (without XP Mode)?
Secondly, will ANCIENT games like Championship Manager 3 & Settlers 3 (which both predate Windows 2000) work? I know that the former works with Vista's Compatability mode, but do they work with 7's?

Thanks,
Wasila
 

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I can confirm about Civ IV, i've played that one without problems,
for other ones, some of the guys around here may have answers for you.
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Simcity4 definitly works on windows 7.
For the others, I don' t know so maybe someone else on the forum will be able to help you for those.

Best,
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Games that predate Windows 2000 I can guarantee will need a compatibility setting. For MS-DOS games, you can use DOSBox.
 

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But is a compatibility setting all it needs? Are the compatibility options actually any good/do they work? I don't want to get 7 Pro so I'm trying to avoid XP Mode.
 

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Compatibility setting usually does allow you to run the game. Albeit it might be buggy, but at least it will run.
 

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If they are dos games, then Id also recommend DOSbox to run them in.
 

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