# Good Strategy Games For Window Vista **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 18, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448 "2009-07-18T16:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/1 "2009-07-18T16:18:33Z")
Can you guy recommand me some good strategy games that work on Window Vista? A lot of fun games like Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, and Civilization IV doesn’t work on Vista. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/2 "2009-07-18T16:25:53Z")
CIV 4 doesn’t work? Did you run the full install, including DX9? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/3 "2009-07-18T16:43:10Z")
And did you try running in, what’s it called, “run as administrator” mode? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/4 "2009-07-18T17:37:35Z")
No I haven’t tried installing it however on the back of the package it says it’s requirements are for only Windows 2000 and/or XP. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/5 "2009-07-18T17:41:26Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > No I haven’t tried installing it however on the back of the package it says it’s requirements are for only Windows 2000 and/or XP. That’s because it predates Vista. It should run in Vista. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/6 "2009-07-18T20:07:46Z")
I can confirm that Hearts of Iron 2 and Civ 4 both run just fine on Vista. So does Rome: Total War. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/7 "2009-07-18T22:25:01Z")
As does Medieval Total War 2. ---
**Author:** ![Prox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Prox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prox)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/8 "2009-07-19T00:47:56Z")
Civ 4 works fine on Vista. I was just playing it, as a matter of fact. It doesn’t need to be run in compatibility mode or anything, either. ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_Goodfellow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Robin\_Goodfellow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robin_Goodfellow)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/9 "2009-07-19T02:49:01Z")
Most games were published before anyone even knew about Vista. Vista doesn’t use a reliably different architecture, so it’s usually possible to get a game running, by either Running as Administrator or right-clicking the program and selecting a Compatibility Mode. Play around with those, or just go through with the install and see what happens. In rare cases, you can google “Game Name + Vista” and there may be official or fanmade patches so the game will run more smoothly. But while we’re doing suggestions 😃 Sins of Solar Empire, Demigod, and Red Alert 3 are all fantastic strategy games. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/10 "2009-07-20T04:52:37Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > Can you guy recommand me some good strategy games that work on Window Vista? A lot of fun games like Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, and Civilization IV doesn’t work on Vista. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: **Europa Universalis III** runs fine on Vista. It’s advisable to install it outside the system directory path, in a new directory such as c:games\eu3 or whatever, to avoid UAC and file permission issues. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/11 "2009-07-20T23:55:14Z")
[Sword of the Stars](http://www.swordofthestars.com) will run just fine under Vista. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/12 "2009-07-21T00:18:18Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > **Europa Universalis III** runs fine on Vista. It’s advisable to install it outside the system directory path, in a new directory such as c:games\eu3 or whatever, to avoid UAC and file permission issues. So does EU2. In fact, I got dollars to bet Eu will run on Vista just fine, since I believe it has the same architecture (but updated map, graphics, events, and rulesset). ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/13 "2009-07-21T23:32:45Z")
EU2 on Vista requires you to rename the AVI sub-directory so that the intro videos don’t run, and also preferably run it in XP-compat mode, but yes it runs too. I have no idea about the original EU under Vista. While we’re at it, EU3 also runs on Windows 7, with a few tweaks. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-strategy-games-for-window-vista/503448/14 "2009-07-23T10:17:48Z")
I also run \*\*Civ4 on Vista \*\*- and multiplay it across both my network (with a Windows machine) and across the Internet. I didn’t do anything special to run it except download the patches. **Civ4 : Colonisation** also works perfectly well (it does say on the box that it works under Vista).