[The Silent Warrior]

Planning to install Windows 7 beta and wondering will your games run on this new OS which is released for testing purpose only? The short answer is, mostly, yes. ExtremeTech spent the last week installing and running through 22 different games, of varying ages, going back as far as Quake II. They also ran some of the newest, hottest titles, including several using the Games for Window logo program, which is supposed to be a sort of "Good Housekeeping" seal for PC games.

Games that Worked
Freespace 2
Mechwarrior: Mercenaries
Age of Wonders
Civilization III
Civilization IV
Mount and Blade
Red alert 3
GRID
Sins of a Solar Empire
Company of Heroes
Neverwinter Nights 2
Ghost Recon 2
Titan Quest
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Games that Worked, with Issues
Quake II: Frame rate issue because of OpenGL driver.
Left4Dead: It works like a charm but once you exit Left4Dead, there are some corruption of the Windows desktop.
Freelancer: Connecting to a multiplayer server is problematic.
Guild Wars: Guild Wars doesn't show up in the Games Explorer. It is available from the Start Menu, as well as a desktop shortcut, and runs without any other issues.
Age of Empires III: If you don't install the 1.11 patch, the game runs, but with severe graphics corruption in the game screen.
Fallout 3: Installation problem. Read this for the solution.

Games that Fail
System Shock 2
Falcon 4: Allied Force

Windows 7 beta performs better than Vista but still can't beat XP. Check this thread.

[Vaer0]

well Simcity 4 dont lol

[dreezone]

GTA4 works fine...

[PimpPharaoh]

i have problems with COD4
stutters during single player, but multi is fine

[CAS91572]

World of Warcraft works!

[RickSOLET]

For installing GTA IV you have to right click on setup.exe and change the compatibility to Windows XP SP2. Rest everything works fine.

[InlineSkate]

You know making comments comparing beta's to released os's

Like "Its better than Vista but still can't beat XP"

Just opens you up to flaming.

[Guvna Guy]

Of course it won't run quite as fast as XP, 7 has more features and the Aero uses more resources. If your computer can't run 7 though then it's just time you got a new one lol.

[henrydtv]

anyone tried halo?

[The Flashing Fish]

Guvna Guy, on Jan 28 2009, 03:35 AM, said:

Of course it won't run quite as fast as XP, 7 has more features and the Aero uses more resources. If your computer can't run 7 though then it's just time you got a new one lol.

Well....

You would be right about Aero to some degree, except when gaming, Aero is disabled, and Windows 7/Vista revert to the same desktop rendering engine XP uses.

Honestly though, if you could get DX9/10 into DOS (as well as many of the same .dlls and framework that the games require), I would expect DOS to outperform XP, Vista, well, pretty much anything that has a GUI. Hell, I would expect Windows 3.1 to beat XP, or Windows NT 3.1.

[Yui]

Rising force did not work,RO, L2, neither Vanguard and other old games. I wich they work on that

[electricshock81]

Gears of War, The incredible Hulk, Iron man and Crysis work Fine, no issues.

[Merforga]

They should have tried more popular games (WoW, COD4/5, CSS, BF2/2142, GTA4, TF2, etc). I already know the results for all mine, but other rigs may give other results.

[pm_41]

World of Warcraft runs fine in Windows 7 too!

[AMIRZ]

Yes some adult/porn games work fine too!