Well, it depends on what old games you do have. From what I have on Steam, Bloodrayne 1 is rip, even with gog version, Fallout 3 obviously and that's about it.
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Randomly bluescreen? Windows 10? Check your hardware, thats not w10.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install/windows-10-games-compatibility-list/a31335a8-730f-4ac9-8c19-7c8c3a664ced
https://hardcoregames.azurewebsites.net/games-incompatible-with-windows-10/
https://support.gamehouse.com/hc/en-us/articles/217219267-Games-that-are-not-compatible-with-Windows-10
edit: http://www.ntcompatible.com/compatdb/lists/games_windows.html
fixes/workarounds: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Every of this list is more than 2 years old. -.- Thats not really helpful. Also I dont know any game which dont work on windows 10. I tried many games and everyone worked fine.
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The way I read it he's on 7 at the moment and trying to decide whether to reinstall 7 or go to 10.
That said, any flavour of Windows can get itself tied into knots. Doesn't have to be a hardware fault if there's a bluescreen on it. In fact, in my limited experience with it, 10 is harder to fix than 7 if it shits itself.
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I honestly still prefer Win10 than 7 when I mass manage PCs/laptops in my environment. 10 rarely encounters problem even when I try to be lazy and don't even maintain them. In a very rare case, I only need to use built-in refresh tool and it's good to go.
Even when I mass upgraded 7 to 10, it was hella smooth unlike when I mass upgraded XP to 7. =\
People often complain about driver issues, but hell man I haven't even seen any driver issues thus far. 10 can use 7's drivers just fine.
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Actually random BSOD may happen on W10 on 100% fine hardware. It's nothing unusual, Microsoft already made dozens of patches for such cases (some related to new Windows Update behavior, some to hardcoded dates, ...), still quite some to go... and well, patch fixes one bug but may trigger cause for another one or two :). Default behavior causes system to auto reboot just after that, also they replaced the colours and messages but it's still in there.
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I have the same issue, but I've reinstalled Windows and I even switched versions multiple times, however I still get a blue screen from time to time. I think it has to do with my hard drives or something because when it boots back up it doesn't detect Windows on any of my drives and I have to reconnect them to get it to recognize Windows.
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This topic is very, very relevant to me. I didn't install Win 10 yet because at the start of 10 there were some old games that didn't work. But now the time has passed and me thinks that most kinks are worked out by now and most of the old games do indeed work. But I could be wrong. I don't know.
ATM I'm still running Win7 just because I don't want to lose access to (many) old games on Win 10. So, are there still problems with Win 10 and old games? Is there reliable and valid info out there?
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So, are there still problems with Win 10 and old games?
No? And there was never problems. I use w10 since start and could play all games. Which old games you mean? Maybe I could try some. (if I have it)
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There was a point where, by my experience, Win 10 had notable compatibility issues; earlier on, there was a point where it seemed that maybe a good third of my game collection (which then was far more oriented toward older games) couldn't run properly. However, subsequent Win10 updates, driver updates, and individual game compatibility fixes seem to have corrected the issue for most games- it's been about half a year since I've encountered a game with an issue (and all the ones I had issues with seem to have resolved them or have had workarounds figured out).
These days, as far as Steam games go, you probably have far more to worry about from shoddy console ports than you do from unresolvable backward compatibility issues. Movac does a good job of covering the general gist of what you still need to consider, just below. :)
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Well, there's no really reliable info out there... with general refit of system every half a year list would have to point specific W10 distribution like 1511, 1607, 1704 and so on. Also if/how game works depends on system configuration and other software in the system - ometimes games work just after reinstall but after installing other programs and configuring system the they are "no go".
Generally for compatibility I'd suggest VM with older system.
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The only one I found so far is Midnight Outlaw: Six Hours to Sun Up (but you wont miss much, since it's a crappy port, even if I enjoyed it).
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Games that use SecuROM or similar old-fashioned DRM systems will break. I'd say you'd be justified in downloading a crack if you run into that.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 11 uses SecuROM and can run just fine with no tweaks on my Windows 10 x64
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Win 10 works better with older games than Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 put together.
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Generally most of problems with old games are problems with system configuration (this includes also environment variables), sometimes missing old libraries (drivers) or not fully incompatible new ones (so generally it's all about available and used APIs). Other problem might be some other programs causing problems for older games when they run in background (aka binary compatibility).
Generally you can reconfigure your system and install few older sets of redistributable packages and everything should be about fine. As you can see by comments - some games works for some people on Windows 10 some don't. It's all because of different configuration and different software people have. The simplest workaround of your problems might be using virtual machine with older system (just system + game) for playing older games :) VMware Player (better performance) or Virtualbox (better options) should be about fine.
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Hogs of War(?)
It's good with my guide on Win7 but don't work on 10
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Only game I've run into that won't run on WIN10 is Arx Fatalis http://store.steampowered.com/app/1700/Arx_Fatalis/
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that don't run? Any fan fixes?
That's the reason why i don't change to Win10....Many good games don't work.
Or must be fixed by fans...(good alternative)
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hmm...but i love and prefer originals. :D
It worked good in Win7 so, it's good for me atm.
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Arx Libertatis is an improved open-source engine that runs well on Win 10.
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Get win 10, its a little hard at first but you will get used to it.
Also, most things work better.
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Having an error with my computer that makes it randomly blue screen if it has been on for close to a day and apperantly the fix is reinstalling windows. Thinking of using win7 as i've done for ages but i might get win 10 for the sake of it.
But here's the problem! I know win10 doesn't like a lot of older games and i do own a few on steam. Is there any list for this? If i don't have a lot of the games i might just go for win 10 but if the ammount of games is too high for me i might just reinstall win 7.
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