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Win7 64bit, i7 2600, GTX 570, 8GB DDR3.
don't buy if you have win7. not entirely sure if steam is not breaking some law offering this up for sale claiming it works on win7
Win XP SP3 on Window 7 64bit works for me.
Unfortunately, holding companies accountable for selling crap that works as intended would just fly in the face of our hallowed "Capitalism" in this country. Maybe someday we will catch up.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/267980/discussions/0/540732347259355557/#p2
( Win 7 7950 )
Update: Now good few hours in, mission 8, no issues at all.
But with games of that era, you have to remember that almost everything, from the setup.exe, to any installer, to the game's main .exe, they all need to be, often, under that compatability setup. That's not a guaranteed solution, but what I'm getting at is research the time period of the ACTUAL RELEASE, and not the Steam Release Date, which is only when it was first offered on Steam. Once you know that, figure out what time period OS was the initial requirement or the main game playing software.
Now, in case some of you don't know this, USUALLY the main game player software is the stable older one at it's most stable or latest state. I've been playing PC games since the 1980's, so I'll basically give you a real quick overview of that history.
Windows 95 was the first real full gameplayers Windows Operating System. Win 95 games came in two main versions. First, were game that actually used DOS under Win 95. Depending on the Win 95 version you had, which had full DOS underneath or didn't, based on installing over DOS or not, you could play the DOS games great or not so great.
The second type of Windows 95 game used Win 95 itself. These are difficult to get running under any other Windows. Sometimes Win 98 or Win 98SE will run them well, sometimes Win XP, but that's usually as good as it gets. If it is turn based strategy or the game looks made up of various windows with an X in a box to close each window, those will usually run in any version of windows since they use almost no special graphical systems, maybe Direct Draw, but not Direct X, etc. Lots of realtime games, such as RTS from this Win95 have problems with computer clock timing in other Windows OS. Some have some kludge fixes, most present issues -- be wary.
Ok, let's move on. Win 98 games will sometimes run under Win 98SE, sometimes not. Most great games of the Win 98SE era run best under Win 98SE. This is a key gaming operating system. A lot of these games will also run under Win XP, but some won't. Usually this is due to an installer that wasn't made to run on it, or some movies not working, but sometimes the resource allocations are just so different that there is no hope. Also during the Win 98 to Win XP switch over, the need for differently written CD drivers and also Hard Disk access to size and clustering changed from one system to I think FAT32, and that can cause issues.
Then the next key gaming software is Windows XP. For anything that doesn't use multicore processors, and anything that doesn't require more than the 2GB memory footprint, this is the ideal software to run, other that the limitations above. It uses less memory and resources than Windows 7, but it isn't quite as good with multicore processors and can't really help you with any software needing over 4 GB, and usually these games actually are 2 GB limited by the way they are created, so that they run on systems with 2-3 GB as well. There are a fair number of great games that only work on Windows XP and not Windows 7 or 8. Many of those have workarounds or can be made to work on Windows 7 as well.
Basically anything DOS can run under DOSBox under any Windows software, so that's all a non-issue now, mostly.
If you have some old computers, especially an old one with Windows XP that runs very well and has a top of the line, for the time, AGP card, keep it with its maxxed out memory as a platform for those games you loved that don't work on Windows 7, or consider multibooting operating systems if you are techy on your newer one.
But think always of the time of the release, act like an active historian, getting some games to work is an adventure, so be like Indiana Jones and use your knowledge of gaming history to your advantage.
This is not a putdown, I'm just trying to give you some quick context. Win 95 games are their own animal and the computer timing is often problematic, less easy to cure than DOS with DOSbox. Win 98 games if not Win98SE are problematic. The SE games tend to work under Win98SE and a lot of them were made. WinXP tends to work on a lot of the Win98SE games and it has a large backlog of games it works well with as well where they won't work anywhere else or not as well -- great for single core and those with a memory footprint under 2 GB. The negative is it can't access above 4GB and it's limited with multicore, find out more on your own on the multicore thing. Win 7 can game quite well, there are tricks, but it won't run every WinXP game even, so it can be tough. Win 8 should run as well, but seems like it really doesn't.
One last key thing, never be afraid to try a method known as a "clean boot". Basically, this is a way of starting up your computer with only the Windows software that you need to get the game going and no more. This is a fantastic way to help with Win98 through WinXP games, and it can help save resources if you have just enough memory for that era of games and later. You can Google the method for explanations on how to do it. Any additional software, even Steam, can be called up by the game itself in general, and if not, you just call it up yourself by activating it. But usually it's a non-issue since a .dll etc is going to call up what it needs from its directory.
In general the following are not in hindsight considered great gaming Operating Systems:
-- Win95, Win98, Windows Vista, anything with Media Center in it, Windows 8. Doesn't mean you can't make it work almost as well, just you bought into the every other version problem where they kludge it in instead of reworking the whole system, and you lose something in the process usually. It's sort of the Microsoft way.
Good luck. Others may have their own ideas. This is just a quick reminder of the history of gaming as a gamer. Best wishes.