Games that dont work on Win 7 64bit ?

[Peppered]

So far I found that Call of duty World ot War dosent work. I belive this is because punkester dosnt work on Windos 7.
Anyone else having problems with any games on win 7. I just oreder a new I7 system, mobo, cpu, ram and vidieo card and the Windows 7 pro upgrade.

Hoping I wont run into many other issues with games.

 

[Gamingphreek]

A game should not, in any way, be incompatible with an OS (With the exception of when we switch from DOS/Win9x Kernel to the NT Kernel)

Call of Duty and Punk Buster should both have no problem running on Windows 7 - are both applications up to date? What doesn't work on it?

 

[Scotteq]

It's a problem with PunkBuster, not Windows 7. PB doesn't recognize the 64 Bit OS, and prevents the game from running.

There's a fix for 32 bit:
http://www.sevenforums.com/gam...23-punkbuster-fix.html


And a procedure for 64 bit:

I was unable to play BF2 and BF2142 on beta build 7000 and 7100 started messing with it again a few days ago. I was unable to run my games until I did the following below. I hope this works for you guys. I tried everything I could think of to install and run my games. None of the web fixes or work arounds I found worked for me

1. Place your game disk in your cd/dvd drive once it loads Don't choose the auto install instead open the folder to view the files using windows explorer.

2. Once the folder opens look for the game's Setup application. Right click on it and choose properties. Click on the Compatibility tab and check Run this program in Compatibility for Windows XP SP3. Also check mark the box for run this program as an administrator. Click Apply then ok.

3. Now double Click on Setup and install your game.

4. Once the game installs Click on Compatibility and check Run this program in Compatibility for Windows XP SP3. Also check mark the box for run this program as an administrator Click Apply then ok.

5. If your patching the game do the same thing again for the patch. Right click on the Setup for the patch and choose properties. Click on Compatibility and check Run this program in Compatibility for Windows XP SP3. Also check mark the box for run this program as an administrator Click Apply then ok. Then double click and install the patch.

6. Go to Evenbalnce and downloaded the pbsetup. Create a folder on your desktop and name it whatever you want. Once it's extracted do # 2 & 3 again. Right click on pbsetup and choose properties. Click on Compatibility and check Run this program in Compatibility for Windows XP SP3. Also check mark the box for run this program as an administrator Click Apply then ok. Then install PB by double clicking and install the patch.

7. Once PB loads add your games and upload any new updates for them. Don't do anything else for PB. I didnt !

Try running your games and see what happens. Following these steps is the only way I got my games to work without getting kicked out of the servers with a API error(s) I've been playing for two days now without any problems.

 

[ImDonly1]

There are numerous fixes available to get PB working on Windows 7/Vista. I had to do it for Battlefield 2.

Scotteq you don't need to run everything in compatibility mode for BF2:

Link http://www.neowin.net/forum/lo...index.php/t731816.html

Most problems are Punkbuster related with Call of Duty. EvenBalance does not plan on supporting Windows 7 until it becomes retail hence the trouble for now.

 

[Intexity]

Mine CoDWaW ran smoothly, but think i right clicked in ran it as administrator. also am using the rc 7100 64 bit build...

 

[StinkyPinky]

I've run Baldurs Gate, Planescape, Arcanum (needed tweaking but worked), and Deus Ex ok. These games are a decade old.

All modern games should work, and if they don't then I suggest the problem is on their end.

 

[Intexity]

just got done playing warcraft III and all was good except for as the game was loading it seemed there were trouble satisfying the resolution (weird flashing black screen sorta...) but once the game started their were no issues. probably cause the game doesn't support 1440x900.
edit-just like to add the release date is 2002 for wcIII

 

[coolVariable]

AoE2 gets the toxic grass error which (unlike in Vista) cannot be fixed with alt-tab, compatability mode, etc.