How to tell which games I can play on Vista?

[frontpage]

There are a few games I am trying to play in a Vista VM:

• Street Fighter Series (USA) : Capcom : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Home Alone : Sega : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
• LazyTown Champions and LazyTown Festival (2009, PC) : Compedia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

But how do I know I can play them?

My question is, for the future, how do I tell if I can play specific games in Vista?

 

[lmacri]

Hi frontpage:

You'll have to check the minimum system requirements for each game yourself. For example, the link you provided for https://archive.org/details/lazytown-champions-and-lazytown-festival states "A computer that is running on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 and up".

Also see the section titled "Games" in WinClient5270's Last versions of software for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (last updated 09-Oct-2022) that is pinned at the top of the Windows Vista board of the MSFN forum .

 

[frontpage]

Hi frontpage:

You'll have to check the minimum system requirements for each game yourself. For example, the link you provided for https://archive.org/details/lazytown-champions-and-lazytown-festival states "A computer that is running on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 and up".

Also see the section titled "Games" in WinClient5270's Last versions of software for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (last updated 09-Oct-2022) that is pinned at the top of the Windows Vista board of the MSFN forum .

Thanks for your response.

 

[Joadix100]

As a rule of thumb, pretty much any game from 2012 (end of mainstream support) or earlier can run on Vista, also, many games launched previous from Vista´s EOL (2017) can run on Vista, but not all, since 2018 games are loosing support for Vista faster every year.Of course this is not a hard rule, for example FIFA 15 is the last FIFA that runs on Vista natively.
Some games also ran on Vista when they came out but lost support for Vista later with some updates, Tom Clancy´s Rainbow Six Siege could run on Vista up to and including Operation Health latest patch (V2.2.2.1) since then, its only Windows 7 and up and its likely to loose Windows 7 support soon.