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Windows 7 / Vista 64 Bit – Program Compatibility List
Filed Under 64 Bit Computing, Microsoft, PC Games
***April 2010***
What Is Windows 7 / Vista 64 Bit And Can I Run It?
The transition from 32 to 64 bit hardware happened pretty quickly and mostly nobody noticed. AMD was first out of the gate with 64 bit processors and today its very difficult to buy a new piece of hardware that isn’t 64 bit capable. The problem now isn’t “if” your new hardware is 64 bit, the real question is will it be compatible with a 64 Bit OS. Since the release of Vista Service Pack 1 I have decided to run Vista 64 bit full time with the intention of reporting my findings here. I’m a power user who likes to push hardware as much as possible so naturally games and benchmarking tools make it to the top of the pile when I install new programs on my OS. Here is a comprehensive list of everything I use on a daily basis and have tested to be compatible with Vista 64.
Why Would I Want To Run A 64 Bit Operating System?
- To take full advantage of 64 Bit CPU’s
- Allow for additional Ram above 4GB to be recognized. Remember even graphics card memory can cut into the 4 GB total.
- Wide scale 64 bit adoption will be required before developers can code for it. Game consoles could soon outpace PC performance because they can evolve into 64 Bit environments more freely then Windows.
- Windows 7 will likely be the last Microsoft 32 bit OS
- Most 32 Bit programs are still compatible in 64 bit and those that aren’t can run in virtual machine environments.
Test System
- Asus P5N32-E SLI Ultimate Gaming Motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor 2.40GHz, 8MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB, Kentsfield, Quad-Core, Socket 775
- 4 GB Corsair Dual Channel TWINX PC6400 DDR2 800MHz E.P.P. Memory
- 2 EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS Video Cards – 640MB GDDR3, PCI Express, SLI, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HTDV, Video Cards
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI Sound Card
- Intel PRO 1000 PCI-e x1 Desktop Gigabit Network Adapter
Software Compatibility
The Products Below Have Been Tested By Me And Appear To Be Compatible. Some Of These Programs Are Open Source And Can Be Downloaded By Clicking The Links.
Productivity Applications
- Microsoft Office 2003 & 2007 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Publisher)
- Norton Internet Security 2008
- Adobe Reader (Reads’s .pdf files)
- Windows Live (Writer, Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery)
- Firefox
- BurnAware Free Edition (CD/DVD/Blue Ray Burning Version 1.2.9)
- Filezilla FTP
- PCMark 2005 (Benchmark Utilities)
- iTunes (64 Bit Version Now Available and works with all iPods)
- Batch Image Resizer
- Batch File Renamer
- Handbrake (Video Encoder)
- Winrar (.zip, .rar compressor, decompressor)
- Sync Toy (File Synchronization) **IMPORTANT** Read Compatibility Fix Here
Games
All Games For Windows Branded Products Tested On 64 bit OS
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Alan Wake
Alone in the Dark
APB
Bee Movie Game
Bionic Commando
BioShock
BlackSite: Area 51
Blood Bowl
Borderlands
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
Clive Barker’s Jericho
Codename: Panzers Cold War
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Conflict: Denied Ops
Crysis
Damnation
Demigod
Devil May Cry 4
Disney-Pixar’s Ratatouille
Dragon Age
Empire Earth III
Empire: Total War
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
Football Manager 2008
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Gears of War for Windows
Halo 2 for Windows Vista
Hellgate: London
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Kung Fu Panda
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Legend of the Crystal Skull
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Lost Planet: Colonies
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Deluxe Edition)
Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Standard Edition)
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration
Microsoft Plus! Pack
Microsoft Train Simulator 2
Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
Orange Box (Half Life, Half Life 2 + Episodes & Team Fortress 2)
Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising
Race Driver: Grid
Rail Simulator
Rise of the Argonauts
Rogue Warrior: Black Razor
Sega Rally Revo
Shadowrun
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Gold
Sins of a Solar Empire
Space Siege
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
Spore
Star Wars Empire at War: Gold Pack
Stranglehold
Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Supreme Ruler 2020
The Club
The Crossing
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
The Witcher
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Viva Piñata for Windows [37]
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm
World in Conflict
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault
X³: Terran Conflict
Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals
Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania
Zoo Tycoon 2: Zookeeper Collection
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How do you know Empire: Total War works on Vista 64 bit? They released the system specs yesterday and stated minimum requirements were XP 32 or Vista 32. Does it definitely work on Vista 64 too? I hope so, that’s what I run!
Does Grand Theft Auto IV work well with vista 64?
I’m quite late for this thread but…
You listed Company of Heroes as being compatible with Vista 64, however, in the Vista compatibility page of Microsoft, it’s marked as “?”, meaning, Microsoft doesn’t know for sure if it’s compatible with their Vista 64 OS. Moreover, I read several forums and the info I get are conflicting: some say COH would work well with Vista 64, while others say it doesn’t. Now I don’t know which to believe.
Any ideas?
Follow-up question:
And how about Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne?
Thanks.
hey, can’t seem to get football manager 2008 to work on my 64-bit vista home premium with 4gb ram. installed but says errors after installation and upon opening game, displays a white screen. I need help. PLEASE!
I’m trying to install Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm on my vista 64bit system. I downloaded it direct2drive. Unfortunately, when i click on the setup application, I receive the following error:
The version of this file is not compatible with th eversion of Windows you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.
I’ve been looking around forums for months. Someone, please help!
Richard
I just bought DragonAge-Origins by Bioware – neither the guy at GameStop or even BioWare’s website could definitively tell me that the game would work… of course I WAS informed that if the seal was broken it cannot be returned, so I could try to install it on my own, but at MY risk. Thanks a bunch!
Star Wars Empire at War: Gold Pack just installed on WinVista64 Home Premium, comes up with error not designed to run on Windows….