Caution if you are thinking of installing Vista in a computer with an AGP video bus, It seems it causes what the industry is calling an "error 53" fault on some motherboards and will not turn the AGP port on.

And once you get error 53, your video will disappear into Area 51.

heeheeeheeheeeheee

inferno

Just to add to your list:

Broken Sword: Secrets of the Ark. It installed with no problem and I have played part of it, saving and reloading with no problem.

Runaway: A Road Adventure----- Just installed and am playing it. Loaded fine, when I went to play it a box came up saying there was an incompatability and would I like Windows to fix it. I said yes and it did (bless it's little heart); now plays, saves , loads, perfectly. What a fun game, glad I also have Runaway II to play later.

Thanks Orchid Girl

Well it will if you live in Nevada

But you can generally find it hiding out at the Ale-E-Inn.

Hi All. Good grief. I haven't a clue what everyone is talking about. I know nothing about the computers system. I believe I have the opportunity to upgrade to Vista. (pc only 4 months old) It appears by these posts that it might be a mistake. Is that the majorities consensus?

I don't think I'll be upgrading for at least a year or so.

But I have to say that I had a week setting up my Mom's new rig --- with Vista Premium and I have to say I liked what a experienced.

inferno

I'm interested in your results w/the sacred rings. I get black screen with a frozen game cursor. I have found a fix for walking stutter in the Awakened in the New Orleans segment if it is an issue for you. Let me know.

Chuck

Just bought a New Packard Bell with Vista Premium this weekend and Love the OS. Still keeping my XP Computer though.
I have loaded and tested the following and they all play without having to go into Compatability or any other type of Directory for installing..
All these work okay.....

Syberia Collectors Edition
Aura
Uru Complete Chronicles
Myst 3 Exile
Myst 4 Revelation

Have the Nvidia Graphics on this new one.

1Gb of Ram really needed for playing Games, any less and you will run out of Memory fast.

A External Seagate 350Gb Hard Drive arriving tomorrow....thank goodness I now have a Flat Screen or would be pushed for space.

"Walter"...City of Lincoln

Just thought id add these game to list.These games work fine using Vista Home Premium

Scratches
Wanted The Westerner
Barrow Hill
Syberia 1 + 2
Carte Blanche
Sacred Rings
The Cameroon Files Loch Ness
The Cameroon Files Pharoahs Curse

Still Life (Win98/Me Compatibilty Mode) This works tested myself the game now loads up as it should.

I got a lot of adventure games these are so far the ones which ive tested

thanks mathall1 I've added your work to the list on the first page

inferno

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I've also started a darksider list as well

inferno

No Probs i ll try out some other adventure games later on including


Echo The Secret Cavern
Secrets Of The Da Vinci Code
Keepsake
Darkfall
Ankh
Secret Files Of Tunguska
Return To Mysterious Island
The Longest Journey
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
The Egyptian Prophecy
Moment Of Silence
Agatha Christie Then There Were None

Bone Out from Boneville ( works no problems.Installed by right clickin and choosing run as administrator to install )

Bone The Great Cow Race (Same as BOFB works no problems)

I shall update this post later and add results next to each

Using a Vista Laptop:

Safecracker 2006
The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy
Dungeon Siege II with add-on

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened installed but was not playable using the mouse, it was jumpy and not under control.

Al Emmo would not install

For general software compatabilty list, including games:

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List

I can confirm the title Paradise works.The title made by Benoit sokal.Played 10 mins and going well

The Longest Journey wont work on Vista Premium...it gave me the message that it couldn't find Win 32, the only thing that I could do was to uninstall it. I did try all the compatability but to no avail.

Be carefull with Syberia 1 and 2....I installed the Collectors edition and after I installed it it seemed to work ok but I uninstalled it and put it on my Main Hard Drive ( I had it on my External Drive) It installed again ok on the "C" Drive but would not accept the KEY....it gave the message that "I did not have the authorisation to access the System Registry".

"Walter"

Running Vista Home on a Dell Dimension 3100C so grateful for your list of compatible games.
Before I revert to XP, could you please confirm that Vista Home does not have a 'compatability mode'
Despite 4 pages from Microsoft on 'games which do not run' the report on a trial game was :'This program requires d3drm.dll' which is no longer included in this version of Windows'.
Does this suggest the higher versions of Vista do have this compatability?

Higher versions of Vista? If you have Vista Home Premium, that's all you should need for playing games. If you're missing a dll file, you may be able to download it from somewhere. That works with XP, though I don't know if it would work with Vista.

Might be just me but i found games to run better in windows vista basic than Home Premium.As a example Still life adventure game runs without any problems from a upgrade from xp.Unlike Home Premium which is also installed from a upgrade of xp this isnt the case.Still life runs on home premium but soon as it gets to first discussion with Gus the cop the dialogue box freezes and goes no furthur.This in compatibility mode.Im sure it didnt do this in Vista Basic and played just like on a xp machine

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I sympathise with you over Vista Premium...It appears to be a very unforgiving OS....I bought my Machine with Premium preloaded on 16 March and so far 3 days later I had to take it back to the store and they re-installed the OS..there were corruptions and 64 Problems when we did the Diagnostics...3 Days ago the darn thing kept freezing and Packard Bell in conjuction with PC World pointed to a site for me to make a Diagnostics Disc.....did so and it appeared that the Software is again unstable...

They are sending me a set of Recovery/Vista Premium Discs free of charge.

If this does not solve the problems then I will investigate removing the Vista and installing XP.
My Hard Drive bursts into life for no apparant reason and nothing showing on the screen except for the Desktop......the Drive runs for over 30 minutes without me being able to use the Damm machine......the only solution is to switch it off........I suspect that the Screen Saver and Power Saver have something to do with it as I have switched them off and Fingers Crossed it is OK.

"Walter"
Getting more disenchanted with Vista Premium by the minute

Walt,
That could very well be a hardware problem and not a Vista problem. Try using scandisk (surface scan) and see if it finds bad sectors on the hard drive. And use memtest to test the RAM (and motherboard).
http://www.memtest.org/

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Hi Jenny.....Have a Diagnostic Disc for Hard Drives etc and I got a "Passed" for all....There isn't a Scan Disc in Vista Premium.....
After I gave the results of the Diagnostics Test to the PC World/Packard Bell help they seemed to aggree that it was a Software Problem....When I get the full set of Disc they are going to take me through the safe method of installing them...
Must admit that with the Screen Savers and the Power Savers switched off all day and evening I have had NO problems.
Thanks for the sugestions.
"Walter"....
Feeling not quite so Bullish at the moment.

Just an update 4/5/07 I took a quick look on Dell site to see where they had 49 xps machines with media center xp. almost all were xps 700 710 and 210 models, no 410 or 900 series available. I selected Scratch and Dents and Canceled orders ( Dell says these are machines that were ordered, never booted up and the order was canceled for whatever reason.) They claim S&D's and Canceled categorys are new machines. There we only 8 xps machines with xp-pro all 700/200 xps series. Various configuration. Many were cheap of course they do not include the monitor. So if you are looking for an xps for gaming without vista time is running out.

Did not check refurbs, consider those a gamble but they do carry the new machine warrantee.

try installing to "documents" in this case. The permissions are different.

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All you have to do is add the file to the game folder --- I had this very same issue with
TLHOD - Beyond the Spirit's Eye Demo
*must be installed in C:Users/User's Name/Documents"* and an additional .dll file must be added as well...Tested by Inferno
you can find the file here:
d3drm.dll

One might also place the file in the Windows/system32 directory --- but many games which utilize this file may crash --- it's better to place it in the game folder. --- don't ask me why...

inferno

If, as has been suggested by many, that Vista does have a compatability mode (in all versions?)why has no one been able to tell us how to action it?
It is now suggested that it is 'hidden' in All Programs!
Can anyone enlarge on this, please?