Gaming on Windows 11

dbartenstein · Oct 10, 2021

Sprenon said:
GOG's on my list of things to do. Did you know that GOG now sells a lot of older star trek games that are now playable on modern machines? IE: Bridge Commander & such.

And the classic RPGs I love, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights.....

Sprenon · Oct 10, 2021

dbartenstein said:
And the classic RPGs I love, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights.....

Ahh yes... Baldur's Gate... The only one that I know of that you can actually convince a whole bandit camp that you're their leader, and they fall for it... lol

ShamrockRig · Oct 10, 2021

Been enjoying the bf 2042 beta, Ran sweet as a nut for me :)

Dru2 · Oct 10, 2021

So far it looks like everything Windows 10 game wise is also good on Windows 11 :)

I'm running 3 game platforms - Steam, Origin, Ubisoft (Division 2), thus far no issues :)

Ruben · Oct 11, 2021

Dru2 said:
So far it looks like everything Windows 10 game wise is also good on Windows 11 :)

I'm running 3 game platforms - Steam, Origin, Ubisoft (Division 2), thus far no issues :)

I see you are still flogging a dead horse... TD2 :wink:

retiredat44 · Oct 17, 2021

IL-2, DCS, TeamSpeak. So far, so good, also have some other VR titles for my Oculus.

Ben Hastings · Oct 17, 2021

Far Cry 6. Pretty smooth considering that it has yet to receive its first patch. Crashed 2-3 times in 52 hours played. Probably not Win 11 related.
I'm waiting for the first Direct Storage game. Any news on that?

ShamrockRig · Oct 17, 2021

Ben Hastings said:
Far Cry 6. Pretty smooth considering that it has yet to receive its first patch. Crashed 2-3 times in 52 hours played. Probably not Win 11 related.
I'm waiting for the first Direct Storage game. Any news on that?

Id imagine the developers for the games will announce that, None of the current big games support it that im aware of. News on it will be specific to each game/developer

AddRAM · Oct 17, 2021

Sprenon said:
On Steam, I've tried Ultimate Fishing Simulator, Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2 (BETA), Fishing Adventure, and Fishing Planet. No issues at all
installing, configuring, or playing them.

I think you and I would get along great :wink:

The next best thing other than being out on my boat would be out on a boat on my computer :)

Ghot · Oct 17, 2021

I installed all of my games (old ones) on a storage drive.
I just have the shortcuts on the desktop.

And like mentioned above, I did an In-Place upgrade to get from Win 10 to Win 11, so even those shortcuts came along for the ride. :)

For the occasional game that stores the saves on the C:\ drive... I just used Karen's Replicator. I then created a "job" in Karen's to copy the Save files to a storage drive, also.

Like... Tower of Time (2017)...

AddRAM · Oct 17, 2021

Same here, that way after I clean installed 11, all I had to do was point the client at my games drive, and it finds the files.
Everyone who doesn`t do that, needs to learn to do that, if possible.

Dru2 · Oct 17, 2021

Looks like we won't be getting a gaming forum seeing this thread has now moved to the apps and software forum

Feuer · Nov 7, 2021

Most of old games requires these dll libraries;
Open DirectPlay Turn Windows Features On or Off in Windows 10
Install Visual C++ Visual C++ Redistributable Runtimes All-in-One (July 2021) Download
Install DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) Download DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) from Official Microsoft Download Center
Install .NET Framework 3.5 Install .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 10

If you want to play 16bit games on 64-bit windows
otvdm Release v0.7.0 · otya128/winevdm

Flash games .swf files
Flash Player projector Adobe Flash Player - Debug Downloads

Hemimax · Aug 29, 2022

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Sorry if I am off topic but I am planning to move over to W11 very soon so all this information much appreciated. Just trying to get all the gaming hardware up to date before I hit it with the software. Had planned all this a while back but I got a little disgruntled with the crypto miners. Good news is Nvidia pricing has been dropping fast all Summer and should bottom out this year, so thanks for all the great comments and see ya soon.

jsalpha2 · Oct 30, 2022

Ghot said:
I'm running three old games. They work fine.
Icewind Dale II, Microsoft Links 2003 (golf), and the original Zelda.

I just finished Tower of Time... a 2017 game.. no problems.

Microsoft Links 2003 (golf) can I run it without an optical drive? I used to love playing it on Win 98

dbartenstein · Oct 30, 2022

Been replaying Dungeon Siege and it's DLC: Legends Of Aranna. Incredibly replayable after 20 years. Would be lovely to have these remastered to current graphics....

Ghot · Oct 30, 2022

jsalpha2 said:
Microsoft Links 2003 (golf) can I run it without an optical drive? I used to love playing it on Win 98

Yeah you can...

LINKS 2003.7z

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Ghot · Oct 30, 2022

dbartenstein said:
Been replaying Dungeon Siege and it's DLC: Legends Of Aranna. Incredibly replayable after 20 years. Would be lovely to have these remastered to current graphics....

Good Old Games (GOG) has it for $5

Dungeon Siege Collection

Dungeon Siege Collection includes: Dungeon Siege Dungeon Siege II Dungeon Siege III Dun

www.gog.com

GOG games will all run on modern computers.

I recommend the OFFLINE installers.

Ghot · Oct 30, 2022

Old games I currently have installed...

Original ZELDA
Links 2003
4x4 EVO
4x4 EVO2
Divine Divinity (GOG)
DOOM 1, 2, Plutonia, TNT and all the Master levels
Icewind Dale 1, 2
NOX
Simcity 2000

These are the games I own on GOG (some were free giveaways).
The ones with the RED dots are great games....

GOG games will all run on modern computers.

I recommend the OFFLINE installers.
Fortunately, GOG doesn't require a client to run their games.

MisterEd · Oct 30, 2022

Other old games are hit and miss on whether they will work on Windows 10 or 11. Sometimes fixes are developed so an old game will work with Windows 10 or 11. This could be from individuals or even the original game developer.

One game that didn't work without workarounds on Windows 10 was GTA IV & GTA EFLC. Rockstar provided a free upgrade that combined both games into GTA IV the Complete Edition. This works on both Windows 10 and 11. Note the original two games required the game DVDs to be mounted to play the games. Of course GTA IV the Complete Edition did not require that since it was a digital download.

Games that require the original CD/DVD to be mounted to play the game are another matter. I know it is considered taboo but the only solution I have found is to use a NoCD fix for the game. I see nothing wrong with doing that because I own the games that I do that with.

Note this is only a problem with the older games I have. Most of the newer games I have are either digital downloads or come on DVDs but don't require the DVD to be mounted to play the games. Once the games are linked to my game accounts the original game install media is no longer required unless I want to reinstall the games offline.

I just tried to install Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2. I then added the fixes I used to get it to work on Windows 10. Unfortunately, it did not work with Windows 11.

Quake III: Arena runs fine on my laptop with Windows 11 Home. I installed it from its original CD running on my desktop. It didn't require the setup CD to run.

Unfortunately, running the setup CDs on my desktop to install on my laptop did not work with Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005). It came on 4 CDs. I ended up creating ISO files for the 4 CDs and mounting them one at time on the laptop as required for the installation. Running the game requires the 1st CD to be in the CD drive. The game did not accept mounting the ISO for the 1st CD. Since the laptop doesn't have a CD drive I had to use a NoCD fix to work around that.