Vista Nvidia Game Compatability Thread

[gL1tch]

Just thought I'd start a thread that tracks which games are working in vista with nvidia drivers!

Deus Ex - Works as a normal user with 100.59

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Works as admin user with 100.59

CS:S - Works as a normal user with 100.59

FEAR - Works as admin user with 100.59 but AF and AA have to be controlled by the game and not by the NV Control Panel or I get the black screen.


Please post your games working with Vista and what drivers you are using!

[sunn]

GTR2 - 100.59 - Good

GRAW - 100.59 - Good

as admin user, CSS works fine? mine sucks as too does DODs unless i take AA off

[nodo]

World of Warcraft - 100.59
Call of Duty 2 - 100.59
Warcraft 3 - 100.59
UT - 100.59
UT2004 - 100.59
Doom3 - 100.59
Dreamfall - 100.59
C&C Generals - 100.59
Americas Army - 100.59 (except Punk Buster!!!)

[mickfarr]

Track Mania United - 100.59
Test Drive Unlimited beta - 100.59
The Ship - 100.59

Nice thread, should be made a sticky, very usefull!

[nicugoalkeper]

Originally Posted by Archer1978

Nice thread, should be made a sticky, very usefull!

Yes make it a sticky!!

[akaliel]

8800GTX + Vista + 100.59:

Company of Heroes: Lots of texture corruption on ultra settings. Can clean up 99% of them by reducing to High and disabling Post Processing.

Oblivion: Runs fine at great performance so long as I don't install any high res texture packs. Artifacting occurs if using high res texture packs.

NWN2: Space Invaders attack the Forgotten Realms in outdoor scenes, and indoor scenes too although only if I have an object selected. Don't laugh. Here's a screenshot:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?a...e=post&id=3642

See... Space Invaders!

[Hitman-47]

Lineage 2: do not work! Do not start!!! I have all try compatibility mode, administrator...

[jgdsl]

Fear- It Runs At 20fps Max With Any Vista Driver I Install But I Am Using 100.59 At The Moment (the Game Is Unplayable)

Half Life 2- It Runs At 60fps But Drops To 10fps And The Game Freezes Every 60sec Or Whenever It Wants To (the Game Is Unplayable)


Every Game I Have Tryed Does Not Work Right In Vista But If I Try The Same Game In Xp It Work Flawlessly. I Think The Problem Is In The Driver And Not My Card As I Have Called Suporrt And They Say The Same Thing. I Am Very Upset That Nvidia Has Not Been Able To Bring Out At Least One Fully Working Driver.

If Anyone Has The Same Card As Me A 7950gx2 And Is Get Poor Proformace Plz Post Or Let Me Know So I Can Know For Sure Its Not My Card Thats Messed Up

I Do Not Understand How Everyone Else Cards Are Running The Games Without Any Problem.

[akaliel]

I know, so many people on the official NV forums keep yelling at a few of us to shut up when we complain about problems we're having. I feel like the only one who's getting texture corruption with my 8800GTX in Vista. I even asked Nvidia. After a couple days of waiting they responded and told me that they don't provide support on their web page for anything except Purevideo and DualTV tuners. I could barely believe my eyes when I read that. I told XFX what Nvidia said to me and their tech just said, "Ya they don't provide support." Anyway, I'm off topic. Sorry.

[Terrorizor]

maybe because you only have 1 gb of ram in vista? i cant stand winxp with 1gb of ram

[jgdsl]

Originally Posted by Terrorizor

maybe because you only have 1 gb of ram in vista? i cant stand winxp with 1gb of ram

are you saying that cause i only have 1gig of memory that might be why my game are running so slow i also thought of that but when i called my cards tech support he told me yeah but not so much to the point that the game would be unplayable

[Terrorizor]

not THE cause im sure,but im also sure it probably doesnt help small freezes and jerks in game on a system demanding os

[loathsome]

All of the below games works flawlessy with the 100.59 release and NVIDIA GeForce 7900GT
Rainbow Six: Vegas 1.04
Hitman: Blood Money
Prey
Just Cause

[Unearthly]

Supreme Commander Beta running very well using 100.59. Only running a bit slower than XP (have to turn AA down from 8 to 4 at 1920x1200).

[makotech222]

Gothic 3 + Silverfall DONT WORK. frozen screen at startup

w/ 7900gt

[gL1tch]

For the people having issues with certain games have you all tried both running the game as an admin user and setting the nvidia control panel to let the application decide which IQ settings to work? I found that each game ran much better when letting the game decide what quality to run AA FA etc.

[Norvekh]

Half-Life 2 is a bit of a mess right now. 64-bit mode is unplayable as it is horribly jumpy and just an overall mess. However, forcing 32-bit mode makes it rock-stable. To do that change the launch options and add "-32bit" (without quotes). Thus far all of my games over Steam work perfectly with 100.59 and Vista-64 except for HL2 64 and Lost Coast 64. Apparently Valve knows of the problem and fixed it for some users but others are still having issues running in 64-bit mode with many getting extreme lag and others getting DLL errors.

For me the working Steam library list is:

Half-Life 2 (32-bit only)
Half-Life 2 Lost Cast (32-bit only)
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Codename Gordon
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Source
Dark Messiah Single and Multi
Darwinia
Day of Defeat
Deathmatch Classic
Garry's Mod (retail)
Half-Life
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Half-Life: Blueshift
Half-Life: Source
Opposing Force
Prey
Ricochet
Team Fortress Classic

Other games that work:
Age of Empires III (Windows says it doesn't but I had no problems)
Sim City 4 and Sim City 4 Rush Hour

Games confirmed NOT to work:
Phantasy Star Universe: due to GameGuard not working in 64-bit
Phantasy Star BlueBurst: again, due to GameGuard non-functional in 64-bit

[SUD@RAZ]

Originally Posted by jgdsl

are you saying that cause i only have 1gig of memory that might be why my game are running so slow i also thought of that but when i called my cards tech support he told me yeah but not so much to the point that the game would be unplayable

vista is a memory hog 1gig is not going to help you much with vista

[sava700]

so far BF2 is working but I had to sell my soul to the Devil to make it work with punkbuster!!

[scoutingwraith]

Warhammer 40K works good in Vista.


Going to try the First Decade games to see of they work

[turbotoes]

guildwars + 7600gt + vista + 97.46 = no problems

now running an 8800gts

fear runs great
jade empire dito
oblivion dito
double agent bit crashy ( same as under xp)

[maikai]

EQ2 (Ever Quest 2)100.59 64bit
works but for some reason the launch pad wont work, keeps preparing to download updates, then just cancels it.
have to go into the game directory and launch the application from there

[KEZZA]

so far for me.....

Bf2 runs but is jerky and just not right lots of pauses and stuttering sounds(tried all settings etc but no avail)

bf 2142 havent tried it since 100.30 but it ctd,ed all the time..

Rainbow six vegas ran well (1280 * 1024 hdr enabled max everything)

Battle Stations Midway runs very well(looks nice and smooth fsaa works from within game settings)
Hate to say it but im going back to XP Pro(gunna miss Aero and the nice lil icons(Love The Icons)

Side note Msn Messanger crashes alot for me(weird) and my hdd is always geeting a thrashing for some reason(fresh install of vista x64 as of yesterday)

I thought Dow 40k didnt run on vista at all???

[KEZZA]

Originally Posted by sava700

so far BF2 is working but I had to sell my soul to the Devil to make it work with punkbuster!!

Would sell my soul to make it bf2 work on vista but i traded my soul to the Wife so i could get the 8800gtx