Do new games playable in Windows 2000?

[rml]

I do not play games but I remember that games does not play well under NT 4.0 in the old days (NT 4.0 is the old days )

How does games play in system running Windows 2000?

Any Expert opinion?

 

[911paramedic]

Some work well.
Some don't work.

You need to check the box or a game review site to know.

 

[RSI]

Umm yeah, local Win2K expert here... games run fine in Win2K. Just out of curiosity, what OS do you use?

It depends on the game. Old dos games will not run, or at least there is a very low chance of it working. Most if not all new games will run perfectly under Win2K and WinXP. I believe WinXP has slightly more compatibility with dos stuff.

 

[rml]

I use Windows 2000 myself. But I have never bought any games or download one in the last few years. However, I am using a GeForce 2 GTS just writing code and answering e-mail.

 

[Spike]

I would not say they run perfectly under win2k. I am a hardcore gamer and after buying a vopy of win2k from the MS employee store this summer, I was kinda dissapointed. Most games ran OK, but in all of them I lost some framerates. Oh, the games only really make it up to the OK level if you have service pak 2 installed, before that most wont even run. It may depend on the types of games you play, but thes ones I had preformance drops in were Max Payne, CS, Half-life (I know, pretty much the same as CS), AOE2, and RTCW (MP demo 1 at the time). Now with winXP I can play games about as well as 98, in fact, I get within 1-2fps of 98 on older games and 5 or so fps faster with newer games. 2k is very good as a productivity OS but is only so-so as a multimedia OS. AS for the lastest games (GO, RTCW retail, DAOC, etc...) I am not sure as I switched to XP and have not really looked back

 

[Gunbuster]

<<Do new games playable >> Most play just fine

 

[KokomoGST]

Bigbigbig majority of new games out there are playable in Win2k... if it's the "next hot thing" in gaming, it will support Win2k since most new games use either DirectX 7/8 or OpenGL... both of which Win2k supports. Any games that don't work well (Pools of Radiance *AHEM*) can pretty much be assumed not be of a decent software quality.

In fact, I can't remember an award-winning game of this year that didn't support win2k... Ghost Recon, Medal of Honor, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Civ3, Wizardry8, Diablo 2:LOD, EverCrack, etcetcetc. all of them run and run just as fast (if not sometimes faster) than in 98/ME.

 

[Derango]

NT-Compatible keeps a user created list of programs that do and do not run on NT4/win2k/XP. If a game dosen't run, there's sometimes some tips listed with the games entery that explains how to get it working.