Games list compatibility

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody!

I’m trying all gamessimRTS that I have on my workstation with Windows Server 2008 R2.

Here is a list (I will update during these days).

Legend: Works – Works with workarounds – Doesn’t work

Operation Flashpoint CWC/Resistance – 1.96 update
ArmA: Armed Assault – 1.16 Beta Note: Patch 1.16 is important for 4GB+ and ATI users
Armed Assault 2
Theatre of War 1.081
Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942
Medieval Total War 1 / Viking Invasion
Stalker Clear Sky Note: Remember to install the last patch
WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs Tiger Note: Too many problems (sound etc etc)…And, the software house that made this game went bankrupt…so no updates.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
[s:2ls4e0ya]Silent Hunter III[/s:2ls4e0ya]
Rome Total War – Barbarian Invasion – Alexander Note: There’s no problem during installation. With Xp x64 / Server 2003 x64 and x86 you had to save cd image and then install. With Server 2008 R2 no problem.
[s:2ls4e0ya]rFactor 1.255[/s:2ls4e0ya]
[s:2ls4e0ya]Red Orchestra OstFront 41-45[/s:2ls4e0ya]
[s:2ls4e0ya]Street Fighter IV[/s:2ls4e0ya] – Set Compatibility to “Windows XP SP3” (source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Team Fortress Classic[/s:2ls4e0ya] (source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Team Fortress 2[/s:2ls4e0ya](source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Far Cry 2[/s:2ls4e0ya] (source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Anno 1404[/s:2ls4e0ya](source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Call Of Duty[/s:2ls4e0ya](source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Fallout 3[/s:2ls4e0ya](source)
[s:2ls4e0ya]Crysis 32-bit[/s:2ls4e0ya] *64-bit unknown
Call of Duty 4
Unreal Tournament 3
World of Goo
Osmos
Dyson
UltraStar Deluxe
Need for Speed – Porsche Unleashed 2000
Monopoly by Parker Brothers
Battlefield 2 (And all expantions ofc)
Battlefield 2142 : Northern Strike
Guild Wars
[s:2ls4e0ya]Bioshock[/s:2ls4e0ya]
[s:2ls4e0ya]Doom 3[/s:2ls4e0ya]

[s:2ls4e0ya]Strikethrough[/s:2ls4e0ya] – On the [r2games:2ls4e0ya]Manual's[/r2games:2ls4e0ya] list

It would be preferred if you could please follow this template so it is less searching (and errors) for game websites, etc.

Game:

Compatible?:

Issues:

Fix:

Thanks.

[Arris]

Nice list with useful notes! 🙂 Keep up the good work!

[ss2man44]

I’d just like to say that Crysis 32-bit works fine.

I couldn’t test 64-bit because, well, it’s a long story why, but I have to install it from an external hard drive and have no actual DVD for the game, so I have to use a no-cd patch and as far as I know, there are none for 64-bit.

Note: I in no way pirated the game. I paid the full $50 when it came out.

[xxcom9a]

Thanks, I added Crysis 32-bit to the list.

I am adding these to the main list. Feel free to make new topics about what works/doesn’t work.

[hsjc]

You can add the following to working list:

World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King:
NOTE: Before I added Remote Desktop Server role, it was running fine. After the change
I needed to run WoW in vista compatibility mode. It also runs fine in this mode.

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

Call of Duty: World at War
NOTE: Vista compatibility mode.

Medieval II: Total War, Kingdom

[xxcom9a]

Thanks. I will add it to the first post so I can add it to the main table later.

[Indrek]

The following games work fine:
World of Goo
Osmos
Dyson
UltraStar Deluxe
Need for Speed – Porsche Unleashed 2000
Monopoly by Parker Brothers

[Krkan]

My first post on this forum yay!

You can add the following games to the list.

Battlefield 2 (And all expantions ofc)
Battlefield 2142 : Northern Strike
Guild Wars

All of these games work perfectly without any need to modify files or anything else.

[xxcom9a]

Thank you both for the additions, I will (hopefully) update the charts tomorrow, been a bit busy.

@Krkan wrote:

My first post on this forum yay!

Welcome! 🙂

[den_zuk]

My game list until now:

Game:Unreal Tournament 2004
Website:
Compatible?:yes
Issues:none
Fix:

Game:Warcraft 3
Website:
Compatible?:yes
Issues:none
Fix:

Game:C&C Generals and Zero Hour
Website:
Compatible?:yes
Issues:none
Fix:

Game:Need for Speed Shift
Website
Compatible?:yes
Issues:didn’t start, send msg that app must to close
Fix:none for now

[JingoFresh]

Game: Doom 3
Website:http://www.idsoftware.com/games/index.php
Compatible?:Yes
Issues:none
Fix:

Game:Bioshock
Website:www.bioshockgame.com
Compatible?:yes
Issues:Unable to create GameExplorerObject error.
Fix:Run in Vista SP2 compat mode

Game:Soldier of Fortune 2 – Double Helix
Website:none
Compatible?:Yes
Issues:none
Fix:

Game:Project IGI 2
Website:none
Compatible?:No
Issues:This application requires DirectX version 8.1 or later
Fix: Trying to find…

Game:Wolfenstein
Website:www.wolfenstein.com
Compatible?:Yes
Issues:none
Fix:

[Chris82]

Grid and Civ IV with all expansion packs works fine too. Also with Hyper-V installed! On Server 2008 with Hyper-V installed there are massive problems with graphics performance which I didn’t have on R2 yet.

[xxcom9a]

Looks like I’ll be busy. Thanks for the updates guys! 😀

den_zuk: Just make a new topic in this forum and maybe someone else can help you out.

[Krkan]

Friend is playing Aion on his Server 2008 R2 without problems, so you can add “Aion” to the list.

[Kelsen]

I don’t play a lot of games, but of the two I still like to spend a lot of time with:

Game: Oblivion
Website:
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None
Fix:

Game: Age of Mythology – Titans Expansion
Website:
Compatible?: Installs fine…
Issues: When executed, does not run, locks computer, requiring hard reset. No error message presented.
Fix: Unknown yet.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
—
CoolerMaster HAF 922 case, Asrock X58 Extreme MB, i7 920, 6GB OCZ 1600 RAM, EVGA GTX260 video, MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64

[Indrek]

Update to my previous post (just to add the websites for the games):

Game: World of Goo
Website: http://www.worldofgoo.com
Compatible?: Yes

Game: Osmos
Website: http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos
Compatible?: Yes

Game: Dyson
Website: http://www.dyson-game.com
Compatible?: Yes

Game: UltraStar Deluxe
Website: http://www.ultrastardeluxe.org
Compatible?: Yes

Some more games to add to the list:

Game: Age of Empires III (incl. Warchiefs expansion)
Website: http://www.ageofempires3.com/age3, http://www.ageofempires3.com/warchiefs
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Throws incompatibility warning at start, but works fine regardless

Game: Civilization IV (incl. Warlords and Beyond the Sword expansions)
Website: http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/home.htm
Compatible?: Yes

Game: Dungeon Siege II (incl. Broken World expansion)
Website: http://www.gaspowered.com/ds2
Compatible?: No
Issues: Crashes before title screen. Running as admin doesn’t help. Neither does compatibility mode (game just exits silently without loading anything).
Fix: None yet.

Game: Fable – The Lost Chapters
Website: http://www.lionhead.com/fabletlc
Compatible?: Yes

Game: GTA San Andreas
Website: http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas
Compatible?: Yes

Game: Neverwinter Nights (incl. Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark expansions)
Website: http://nwn.bioware.com
Compatible?: Yes

Game: Spore
Website: http://www.spore.com
Compatible?: Yes

Game: The Elder Scrolls IV – Oblivion (incl. Shivering Isles expansion)
Website: http://www.elderscrolls.com/games/oblivion_overview.htm
Compatible?: Yes

Game: Warcraft III (incl. Frozen Throne expansion)
Website: http://us.blizzard.com/en-gb/games/war3
Compatible?: Yes

[RemixedCat]

How did you get fable working?! I tried everything and no go! Even tried direct off the disc, made a virtual dvd drive for it, installed with compat. modes, disabled vistual themes, tried installing as compat mode… nothing ever worked. it would install ok but would not load the game. let me know how you got it working so I can get my disc back from my brother whom I let use since I gave up on getting it working.

[Indrek]

I didn’t do anything special to it, it just installed and worked right out of the box.

How far did you get when loading the game? Did you see the intro videos? Did you get an error or something?

[RemixedCat]

not even the intro vids! Double click the game exe and poof it crashes with the usual “fable.exe has stopped responding….” stuffs. Even took DEP off of it, did all the compatibility stuff and nada. even reinstalled. nothing. 🙁 bwe 🙁

[xxcom9a]

RemixedCat, are you on R2 because your signature says Windows Server 2008 x64 SP2? And does your computer meet the criteria for the game (eg: can you run it on a different OS on the same hardware?)

If R2 lets you get the Error details, could you post them? I know on XP if it said “Game.exe has close unexpectedly…would you like to send an error report [Send Report] [Don’t Send] [View Details]” and if you click view details and maybe “To see what this report contains, click here.” or something it may tell you. Not sure if it is in Vista/7 and Server R1/R2.

[RemixedCat]

nah, I’m on R1 SP2…. I have a R2 VM but I cant play games on it since they GFX driver don’t work right for games on VMware. and my R2 VM is a little messed up since I was testing windowblinds and blackbox and other stuff on it. I gotta redo my R2 VM and i haven’t had much time to do it lately. I’ll let you know if I have the time to play with R2 more. I am NOT using it as my fulltime OS for a long time. I am happy with R1 as it is. 🙂

[Indrek]

Have you tried asking in the R1 subforum? I quickly checked the games list there, and apparently Fable works fine under R1, but at any rate you’re more likely to get advice there than here, seeing as most people here run R2.

[Indrek]

Game: Fallout Tactics – Brotherhood of Steel
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Anonymous]

im on R2 x64 and I’d like to add Bioshock to the list 🙂

Game: Bioshock
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Needs Game Explorer addon located here to run: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=595

[Anonymous]

Game: Dragon Age: Origins
Compatible: yes
Issues: none

🙂

[kacperpl1]

Game: Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Compatible: yes
Issues: none

Game: Heroes of Newerth Beta
Compatible: yes
Issues: none

Game: Quake III Arena
Compatible: yes
Issues: none

Whats nice to know is that mohaa works now in R2(i couldn’t find any workarounds and get stuck crashing on start in R1)

[RemixedCat]

Borderlands-Works in R1 and R2 effortlessley!

[Indrek]

Game: Torchlight
Website: http://www.torchlightgame.com
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[James97]

Game: MapleStory
Website: http://www.maplestory.com
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Dungeon Fighter Online
Website: http://dungeonfighter.nexon.net
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None.

[den_zuk]

Game:Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2
Website:http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/agegate.php
Compatible?:yes
Issues:none, working perfect
Fix:no need

[Indrek]

Game: Fallout
Website: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Might exhibit graphics glitches, as a game of such vintage does with any modern OS.
Fixes: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/Fallout_Series/fallout_1_faq/perm=26/#p_b_26

Game: Fallout 2
Website: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout_2
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Same as above.
Fixes: Install killap’s unofficial patch and high-res mod.

This applies to just the GoG.com versions of Fallout and Fallout 2, which is basically the original games with all official patches applied and packaged in a custom installer that’s compatible with modern versions of Windows. The original versions of the games themselves might have more issues.

[nikorl]

@Indrek wrote:

Game: Fallout
Website: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Might exhibit graphics glitches, as a game of such vintage does with any modern OS.
Fixes: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/Fallout_Series/fallout_1_faq/perm=26/#p_b_26

Game: Fallout 2
Website: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout_2
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Same as above.
Fixes: Install killap’s unofficial patch and high-res mod.

Got both Fallouts working without any patches.
Compatibility mode with windows 95.
Resolution restriction to 640×480 and color restriction to 256 ticked.
No bugs or glitches found.

[Indrek]

Ah yes, if you’re content with playing it at 640×480, with 8-bit colours, then the default installation is fine. I prefer my laptop’s native resolution (1280×800) and 16-bit colours, and I now have both working that way, without compatibility mode or resolution restrictions.

[nikorl]

@Indrek wrote:

Ah yes, if you’re content with playing it at 640×480, with 8-bit colours, then the default installation is fine. I prefer my laptop’s native resolution (1280×800) and 16-bit colours, and I now have both working that way, without compatibility mode or resolution restrictions.

There is no restrictions really because 640×480@8-bit is native mode for fallout 1-2.

[Indrek]

But not for your monitor. Or is it?

[Narm]

Game: Quake 4. v1.4.2
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: For the installation, don’t use the auto launch program. Explore the dvd and launch setup.exe

[Dvvarf]

Game: Team Fortress Classic
Compatible?: yes, with workaround
Issues: Screen flashes quickly and then it closes.
Fix: Disable DEP protection for hl.exe (or at all) in Computer -> Properties -> Advanced system settings -> Performance -> Data Execution Prevention (that method also has worked for me with other HL1 Valve titles)

Game: The Saboteur
Compatible?: yes
Issues: none

Game: Starcraft
Compatible?: yes, but menu is trashed
Issues: even in WinXP compatibility mode the colors in menu are some kind of trashed. But in game itself all seems good.

Game: Test Drive Unlimited
Compatible?: yes
Issues: none

[Indrek]

Game: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Website: http://www.eagames.co.uk/game/tiger-woods-pga-tour-08
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Indrek]

Game: Wizardry 8
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Indrek]

Game: Gothic 3
Website: http://www.gothic3.com
Compatible?: No
Issues: doesn’t start, executable just exits quietly
Fix: download and apply the latest Community Patch (http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=3791)

[Anonymous]

Star Wars – Jedi Academy and Star Wars – Jedi Outcast works flawlessly, but why shouldn’t they since they are based of the Quake III engine, and those games work.

Seems good old Unreal Tournament 99 G.O.T.Y works for me here.

Also I want to add that the ScummVM emulator works perfect to (tried the RC and 1.0 version), got Curse of Monkey Island to run perfectly in it.

Xxcom9a: I have edited the tables up until this post. -February 21, 2010

[Indrek]

Game: Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Website: http://www.drakensang.com/index_en.htm
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[AsciiWolf]

Game: FlatOut Ultimate Carnage
Website: http://www.flatoutgame.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None (but you must install Games Explorer using my installer)

Game: WolfQuest: Survival of the Pack
Website: http://www.wolfquest.org/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Indrek]

Game: Divine Divinity
Website: http://www.larian.com/Site/english/divinity/divinity.html
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[AsciiWolf]

Game: DiRT2
Website: http://www.dirt2game.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Indrek]

Game: Neverwinter Nights 2 (including Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir and Mysteries of Westgate expansions)
Website: http://www.atari.com/nwn2
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None. The vanilla game might throw an error during DirectX installation, but you should have the latest version anyway, and the game should play fine.

[Indrek]

Game: Titan Quest (including Immortal Throne expansion)
Website: http://www.titanquestgame.com
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Klamatiel]

Game: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Website: http://cop.stalker-game.com/
Compatible?: NO
Issues: Parental Control error : Access Restricted

[AsciiWolf]

@Klamatiel wrote:

…

Did you install Games Explorer using my installer?

[TinFoil]

Seconding the Call of Pripyat incompatibility. Games Explorer installed perfectly here.

[Klamatiel]

yeah i did. i guess we need a patch/fix for 2008R2’s Parental Controls.
I also tried running in compatibility mode = nada.

[TinFoil]

I had a conversation with a reverse engineering assembly hacker about the Stalker CoP parental check, and I got this working pctrlchk.dll in return! Place it in the game’s /bin folder.

Here’s his documentation on the hack.

At the beginning of the pctrlchk function (100012E0) change

100012E0 >   81EC 30080000  SUB ESP,830

into

100012E0 >   B8 01000000    MOV EAX,1

100012E5     C3             RETN

If you’re curious, that’s basically something like this in C:

int pctrlchk(void)

{

return 1;

}

Problem solved. 😀

[Klamatiel]

well, seems to do the trick but i get an error :

xrEngine.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module “I:gamesStalkerCOPbinxrEngine.exe” at 0023:0040B284, CApplication::load_draw_internal()+1412 byte(s)

i don’t know if it’s from the patched dll or from something else.

[steve-]

Is this crashing for other people as well?

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem, but I can confirm the dll hack works fine. 🙂

[Blameless]

Game: Tribes Next (Tribes 2)
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None
Fix: NA

Game: Dungeons and Dragons Online: Ebberon Unlimited
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None
Fix: NA

Game: Vampire the Masquerade – Redemption (1.1)
Compatible?: No
Issues: CTD when attempting to host LAN games, ALT-TAB issues.
Fix: unknown

[Indrek]

@Blameless wrote:

Game: Vampire the Masquerade – Redemption (1.1)
Compatible?: No
Issues: CTD when attempting to host LAN games, ALT-TAB issues.
Fix: unknown

CTD?

Also, are there any other issues? If the inability to host LAN games or to Alt-Tab out of the game are the only issues, I wouldn’t label it as incompatible.

[Blameless]

CTD = Crash to desktop.

I think there is still a save game issue where save slots cannot be used more than once in game (it will say it saved but doesn’t actually overwrite anything) so when all save slots are full the save games must be manually deleted in explorer to continue to save. I still have to check if compatability mode fixes this problem.

The multi-player issue is a fairly large one as LAN is the only way to play multiplayer at all. The WON service the game depended on for internet games is long dead, so Hamachi or other VPN + LAN is often the only way to play with others.

[Indrek]

@Blameless wrote:

CTD = Crash to desktop.

Ah, of course.

@Blameless wrote:

The multi-player issue is a fairly large one as LAN is the only way to play multiplayer at all. The WON service the game depended on for internet games is long dead, so Hamachi or other VPN + LAN is often the only way to play with others.

Yes, but I assume the game also has a single-player mode? “Not compatible” usually means major issues like the game refusing to start, or even install. Not being able to use a subset of the game’s features that doesn’t necessarily appeal to everyone isn’t, IMHO, a major issue.

[Vince]

Game: GUN
Compatible: Yes
Issues: Must be run as Administrator or it will say there’s no CD.
Fix: None

Game: Need for Speed Shift
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None
Fixes: I Did install the latest DX Runtime which is why it probably worked for me and not others.

[rmxcat]

Aliens VS Predator(2010 Game)->Works on Server 2008 R1 x64 SP2/R2 x64

[Indrek]

Game: Shattered Union
Website: http://www.2kgames.com/shatteredunion
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Hinterland (incl. Orc Lords expansion)
Website: http://www.tiltedmill.com/hinterland
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Alma]

Command and Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 work very well on Windows Server 2008 R2 🙂

[halladayrules]

Battlefield Bad Company 2
Assassin’s Creed II
Just Cause 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

All work on my 2k8r2 workstation.

Also I got Build-a-lot 5 beta to install on Windows Server but I had to disable DEP and run the installation in compatibility mode, then once it was installed I reverted back to normal and ran the game in normal mode and it runs fine!

[Indrek]

Game: Overlord (incl. Raising Hell expansion)
Website: http://www.codemasters.co.uk/overlord/main.php?territory=EnglishUK
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: The vanilla version required administrative privileges and crashed when exiting (but not during playing). To fix it, just apply the latest patch (or install Raising Hell).

Game: Overlord II
Website: http://www.codemasters.co.uk/games/?gameid=2804
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[Indrek]

Game: Silverfall
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[MaLiXs]

Game: S Battlefiesd Bad Comapany 2 ( steam )
Website: http://store.steampowered.com/app/24960/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

the game worked fine !!!

[Wolf]

Game: Trainz 2009 PL
Website: http://www.ts2009.com/
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Wolfenstein 2
Website: http://www.wolfenstein.com/home/agegate?ref=home
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Hotel Giant 2 PL
Website: http://www.hotelgiant2.pl/
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game:Airline Tycoon Evolution PL
Website: http://www.ate.spellbound.de/web/en/overview.htm
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Doom Collectors Edition
Website: http://www.idsoftware.com
Compatible: NO
Issues: Game start as a small screen (black – white) in left corner.
Fix – Run in 256 colors

Game:Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Website: http://www.ate.spellbound.de/web/en/overview.htm
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
Website: http://www.splashdamage.com/
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

[Wolf]

Game: Quake 2
Website: http://www.idsoftware.com
Compatible: NO
Issues: Crash at ID logo
Fix: Use KMQuake : http://kmq2.quakedev.com/

Game: NecrovisioN PL
Website: http://www.necrovision-game.com/
Compatible: YES
Issues: –

Game: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PL
Website: http://www.callofduty.com/codmw
Compatible: YES
Issues: –

Game: Call of Duty 5:World at War PL
Website: http://www.callofduty.com/codww
Compatible: YES
Issues: –

Game: Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2
Website: http://www.modernwarfare2.com/agegate.php
Compatible: YES
Issues: –

Game: PainKiller Black Edition PL
Website: http://www.painkillergame.com/
Compatible: YES
Issues: –

Game: PainKiller Overdose PL
Website: http://www.painkillergame.com/
Compatible: YES
Issues: –

[AsciiWolf]

Game: Mafia II
Website: http://www.mafia2game.com/
Compatible: YES
Issues: None

[rodesiao]

Known by me to work:
– Need for Speed: Underground 2
– Age of Empires III
– TrackMania Nations Forever (partially, video recording does not work)

[kotzlovred]

Game: Half-Life source /steam-client
Website: http://valvesoftware.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Half-Life 2, Episode one, Episode two /steam-client
Website: http://valvesoftware.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Counter-Strike source /steam-client
Website: http://valvesoftware.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: F.E.A.R
Website: http://www.whatisfear.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: F.E.A.R 2 Project Origin /steam-client
Website: http://www.whatisfear.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Metro 2033 /steam-client
Website: http://www.metro2033.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Dead Space, Dead Space 2
Website: http://www.deadspacegame.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

[halladayrules]

Game: Crysis 2
Website: http://www.ea.com/crysis-2
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Cities In Motion
Website: http://www.citiesinmotion.com/
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Toy Story 3: The Video Game
Website: http://www.disneystore.com/toy-story-3-the-video-game-for-pc/mp/1261428/1000369/
Compatible: Yes
Issues: None

[halladayrules]

Man it would be nice to someday organize all this together into some form of database with user input. I was thinking of something you could embed on the website that would allow a person to search for a particular game title relating to their particular system and they would get results pertaining to only their OS. We could have a rating scale of what you thought of the game and whether or not it required a patch. Another good idea would be to add a confirmation option to confirm whether or not the game has worked for several other people. It is possible somebody got it to work, but skipped a step on how they got the game to work (installed C++, directx for example). It would be like a drop down table where you would select your system (2008 32-bit, 2008 64-bit) and a keyword relating to the game… so if you typed in “battlefield” you would query results such as “Battlefield 2” “Battlefield 2142” “Battlefield Bad Company 2” and then compatibility and ratings systems associated with that game. Also another cool idea would be for win2008workstation users to add their own input with new titles/games that would be automatically updated into the database and available for searching if anyone requests it. For example when Battlefield 3 comes out, if I type in “Battlefield 3” in the search box it will query just created moments ago by the win2008workstation user who provided the compatibility review! .. Argh but lots of scripting required. And too much headaches. 🙁

The closest we can get right now is to just manually type in the name of the title in the search box above in the upper right corner of the forum. Be nice to collaborate all of this hard work together but it will probably never happen.

[avdept]

Heroes of newerth (heroesofnewerth.com)
Lord of The Rings Online (Both eu and us versions)
gta4gta4 eflc
mount and blade warband
dragon age 12
crysis 12
brink Doesnt work for me

[mage7]

Please add the following to the compatibility list. (also i noticed the above posts have not been added either)

Game: AssaultCube
Website: http://assault.cubers.net/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

Game: Bioshock
Website: http://www.bioshockgame.com/
Compatible?: Yes, In compatibility mode
Issue 1: Fail To Creat Game explorer object (followed by crash)
Fix 1 : Run in compatibility mode (In my case, Windows Server 2003, Service Pack 1)
Issue 2: Trying to change resolution might crash the game
Fix 2: Edit the default.ini file which should be in your [Bioshock folder]BuildsRelease.
Change the WindowedViewportX, WindowedViewportY, FullscreenViewportX, FullscreenViewporty values to your resolution
Issue 3:Game may not appear in full screen mode properly
Fix 3: Hit alt+enter twice

Following GoldSrc games work fine provided you add hl.exe to the DEP exceptions-list :

Game: Half-Life, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half-Life: Blue Shift
Website: http://valvesoftware.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Game will not launch unless you add hl.exe to the DEP exceptions list

Game: Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (Steam)
Website: http://valvesoftware.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Game will not launch unless you add hl.exe to the DEP exceptions list

Game: Day of Defeat (Steam)
Website: http://valvesoftware.com/
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Game will not launch unless you add hl.exe to the DEP exceptions list

[Kazeta]

It seems that the new games featuring games for windows live do not work, like Fable 3 and Dirt 3. Is there a workaround?
Although the redist package installs fine the game doesn’t recognize the installation of G4WL and wont start at all 😳 (tried with Fable 3).

Also tested and working with no issues;
Alice Madness Returns
Magic The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
Dungeon Siege 3

[Nymphomaniac]

While playing game eg. Dungeon Siege 3 or any others game..
I have a problem with network!.. for example, while playing game, i can hardly access though the internet, also my utorrent download/upload rate drop from 450kbps to around 1-2kbps – -*

just asking if any others having the same problem.

ps: after shut down the game. network (download/upload) back to normal rate

😛

[kji]

Game: Battlefield Bad Company 2
Compatible?: yes
Issues: no
Fix: n/a

Game: Europa Universalis 3
Compatible?: yes
Issues: initial start is really slow
Fix: n/a

Game: League of Legends
Compatible?: yes
Issues: no
Fix: n/a

[halladayrules]

Battlefield 3 Open Beta works fine.

[Enigma]

Just figured I’d pitch in my 2 cents on what games have worked for me on R2, and some workarounds as well. I havent found any games that dont work, so far, R2 has turned out to be a much better gaming machine for my laptop and i have even noticed that in some games my FPS is higher, probably due to how R2 utilizes system resources. But anyways, on to my list:

Final Fantasy VII (Not the Ultima Edition, which is the pirated version, although I suppose it would work too): works, you can try copying the Movies from each disc onto your hard drive and then editing your Registry to reflect the new location (There is also a tool called FF7MovieDir which can change the Registry location for you, i recomend it over manually changing, find it at http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=12305.0), a no-cd patch is also recommended. For increased performance and to play in windowed mode try Aali’s Custom Graphics Driver. You may also need to install the TrueMotion video codec, or just install the K-Lite Codec Pack. Also make sure to update to v1.02. Add ff7.exe and FF7Config.exe to DEP exceptions list.

Final Fantasy VIII: Works without issues, try copying the following files from each disc to hard drive (DISK1/DISK1.PAK, DISK2/DISK2.PAK, DISK3/DISK3.PAK, DISK4/DISK4.PAK, and FIELD.FI, FIELD.FL, FIELD.FS, FIELD2.FS,). No cd crack recomended, update to latest version, and Aali’s Custom Graphics Driver for increased performance and windowed mode. You can also try D3D Windower for windowed mode. You may also get an error like “cant find MIDI device” when starting FF8.exe or FF8Config.exe, i’m not sure how to solve this, but maybe a codec pack will do the job, otherwise the game should start fine with sound working.

Final Fantasy XIV Online: Working, no issues

Fallout/Fallout 2: Working, only issue I have found is that the colors are somewhat messed up/display incorrectly, there is a tool called w7ddpatcher, get it at http://vogons.zetafleet.com/download.php?id=7984&sid=26b2f272041debfdfff191865d415c76. this should correct the color issues, also the installer colors will display incorrectly, this will not prevent install, but you should be able to figure out how to get around this.

Fallout 3 and all downloadable content: Working, no issues

Fallout – New Vegas and all downloadable content: Working, no issues

Fallout Tactics : Brotherhood Of Steel: Working although you may have issues with discoloration, w7ddpatcher linked in this post might help

Age of Empires and Rise of Rome Expansion: Working, no issues, try using the w7ddpatcher linked above to correct color issues, and make sure to patch to latest version

Age of Empires II : Age of Kings, and Age of Empires II : The Conquerors Expansion: Working, no issues, also try using the w7ddpatcher listed above to correct color issues, and make sure to patch to latest version

Age of Empires 3 and Warchiefs/Asian Dynasties expansions: working, but make sure to install MSXML 3.0 Service Pack 3, then use Windows Update to update that, otherwise you will get an error during install. Also, patch to latest version. You may also find that you get no music playing ingame and at the menus (R2 only, Windows 7 isnt affected), try installing K-Lite Codec Pack to fix this

Age of Empires Online: Working, no issues

Grand theft Auto (Rockstar Classics version, free download): Working, download GTA 1 Launcher (http://gzwn.net/gta1launcher/) to fix issue with PLAYER_A.DAT file, otherwise game will crash everytime after first run

Grand Theft Auto 2 (Rockstar Classics version, free download): Working, go to http://www.win2008workstation.com/win2008/get-gta2-working-in-windows-server-2008 for DirectX Fix

Grand Theft Auto 3: Working, apply latest patch, get no cd patch, and copy Audio folder and all other files from the Audio disc to the install directory

Grand Theft Auto – Vice City: Working, apply latest patch and no cd patch, add to DEP exceptions list

Grand Theft Auto IV: Working (although the game is known to have many, many issues regardless of the OS it is running on)

Grand Theft Auto (IV) – Episodes From Liberty City: Working (although the game is known to have many, many issues regardless of the OS it is running on)

Dragon Age – Origins and Dragon Age Origins – Awakening, and all downloadable content: Working, no issues

Dragon Age 2 and all expansions/downloadable content: Working, no issues

Duke Nukem 3D: Working, use eDuke32 to run the game since the executable is 16 bit, also can try DOSBox

Duke Nukem Forever (vaporware for 12 years, lol): Working, no issues

Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D: Working, no issues, except that the 16 bit installer doesnt seem to run on 64 bit Windows (the game itself is 32, only the installer is 16 bit). Go to http://www.markusegger.at/Software/Games.aspx to download a tool that will create a 32 bit MSI installer that will let you install the game. Also update to 1.3 and apply no cd patch

Call of Duty Black Ops (Steam and retail): Working, no issues

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (Steam and retail): Working, no issues

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Steam and Retail): Working, no issues

Portal 2 (Steam and retail): Working, no issues

Civilization 4 and all expansions: Working, no issues

Civilization 5 (Game Of The Year edition) plus all downloadable content (Steam and retail): Working, no issues

Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale (Steam and retail): Working, no issues

Dungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited: Working, no issues

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm: Working, no issues

Warcraft III plus Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne expansions: Working, no issues

Battlefield 3: Working, no issues

Command and Conquer: Tiberian Twilight: Working, no issues

Command and Conquer: The first Decade (which is a compilation of most of the the C and C games): Some of the games have issues running on 64 bit Windows, apply all official patches. Also, apply all unofficial patches that are available (Google to find them), w7ddpatcher can also fix any discoloration issues

The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind plus Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions: Working, no issues

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and all downloadable content: Working, no issues

The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (Steam and retail): Working, no issues

Mass Effect 2: Working, no issues

Neverwinter Nights plus Hordes Of The Underdark, Shadows Of Undrentide, And Kingmaker expansions: Working, no issues

Neverwinter Nights 2 plus Storm Of Zehir, Mask Of The Betrayer, and Mysteries Of Westgate expansions: Working, no issues

Baldur’s Gate plus Tales Of The Sword Coast expansion: Working, no issues

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter: Working, no issues

SimCity 4 Deluxe edition (plus Rush Hour): Working, no issues

Splinter Cell (original): Working, no issues

Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow: Working no issues

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Working, no issues

Well, that’s it for now, if anyone has any questions on what i’ve posted (or disputes to any of my claims), then just post and i’ll try to answer.

I do ask that these games be added to the list with notes, if some of them arent already there. i didnt check the list, this is just an incomplete list of games that i have found to run on R2. I have all of them installed and working properly, have tested as much as i can.

Will update this list if necessary.

[byersjus]

Made a separate topic for it, but I thought I would add it here too,

Batman: Arkham City and a few others that conflict with Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection (SEHOP) need this registry entry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution OptionsBatmanAC.exe]
“DisableExceptionChainValidation”=dword:00000001

Credit over here: http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/forums/showthread.php/10517-Crash-on-launch?p=179953#post179953

You could also disable SEHOP.

[zagnut]

@Kazeta wrote:

It seems that the new games featuring games for windows live do not work, like Fable 3 and Dirt 3. Is there a workaround?
Although the redist package installs fine the game doesn’t recognize the installation of G4WL and wont start at all 😳 (tried with Fable 3).

Game: Dirt 3
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: Game crashes before race, DSS fails to launch (Appcrash)
Fix: Change audio setting from Rapture3D to software. Must disable SEHOP –

Disable SEHOP:

run regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession Managerkernel

remove DisableExceptionChainValidation and DistributeTimers

Notes: Found out about the Rapture audio crash issue on another forum. I’m not sure if it’s specifically related to Realtek sound or if it’s global. Not sure if DEP must be off or not. I disabled it long ago, so I don’t know if having it on would make a difference. I had no problem installing Dirt 3 or any problems with GFWL. But I use an offline profile.

Thanks to Allukend for the SEHOP fix. He also claims it works for Fable 3. Don’t have Fable 3, so I can’t test. I started a separate thread for Dirt 3 – Dirt 3 thread

Game is crashing to desktop upon loading a race.

DISCLAIMER: I will not be held liable, or responsible, for you mucking up your computer by editing the registry. By doing this, you do so at your own risk. Always backup your registry before making changes.

[hackerman1]

Hi !

When trying Medal of Honor, Allied Assault on WS2008-R2 it crashes.
I´ve tried a lot of different settings, Comp-mode for XP, Me, 95…
and yes, running MOHAA as ADMIN.

Details:

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Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MOHAA.exe
Application Version: 1.2.4.190
Application Timestamp: 3cc13232
Fault Module Name: StackHash_8c04
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 3a414d4d
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.274.10
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 8c04
Additional Information 2: 8c04def9a57b0c5a543493f372f3f367
Additional Information 3: 5651
Additional Information 4: 5651cc1199900e92126df173146a158a

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Any ideas ?

Medal of Honor, Allied Assault is listed as working on R2 in the Games Compatibility-thread: http://www.win2008workstation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5471#p5471

Can someone else please confirm that it´s working on R2 ?

I did a search in the forum and found this post regarding MOHAA Pacific Assault:http://www.win2008workstation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3386#p3386

I wonder if that might help….?

[hackerman1]

Hi !

I tried MOHAA on W7:

COMP-MODE 98 /ME

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MOHAA.exe
Application Version: 1.2.4.190
Application Timestamp: 3cc13232
Fault Module Name: HID.DLL
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bd9ec
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00006550
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 2249
Additional Information 2: 224998d17a4571f6228881a5186c809f
Additional Information 3: aa8b
Additional Information 4: aa8be19631205a4afdd377c644b80d26

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COMP-MODE XP

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MOHAA.exe
Application Version: 1.2.4.190
Application Timestamp: 3cc13232
Fault Module Name: StackHash_9b3c
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 746e6555
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9b3c
Additional Information 2: 9b3c9f0122e1fecaaa0cdf9aaf0579ce
Additional Information 3: a502
Additional Information 4: a502ee7355448569216a6fb4925931b7

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It doesn´t even work on W7 !?

Any ideas ?

[hackerman1]

Hi !

After some research i found info saying that installing DirectX 9 and doing some hacking solves the problem.
You need to copy an older version of opengl32.dll from system32 to the MOHAA-folder.
But how to do i get the “right” version of opengl32.dll ?

[Portal2Two]

Has anyone run Myst 5 End of Ages on Server R2? It’s the one I haven’t played since XP and am missing it very much.

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