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Originally Posted by VaporPunk
I had a mixed experience trying to run legacy games on 7, something I rarely encountered with XP. Still, games designed for 7 run well, no complaints and far less time spent getting things to run properly/optimized.
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
Mixed experience here too. I have a few golden oldies I'd love to be able to run under Win7, but which plain refuses either to run, or to run with any kind of stability. Still, if I was really bothered I could dual boot with WinXP, but I'm not, so I don't. Too much hassle for a couple of games, even if I loved them dearly back then.
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Windows 7 shipped with DirectX 11, and games made for XP were made for DirectX 9. Dx11 is supposed to be backwards compatible, but as usual with computer, how they are supposed to work and how they actually work aren't always one and the same. A lot of compatibility problems with XP games in 7 can be removed/resolved by running both the installer and the game in compatibility mode for XP SP2, and having Dx 9 installed.
Just in case anyone was wondering.
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