55 comments so far...

• Andy Said on August 12th, 2009 at 5:04 am:
  

  Tried Unreal Tournament 2004 working a threat.

• fan Said on August 18th, 2009 at 2:33 am:
  

  Street Fighter IV works fine with compatibility set to “Windows XP (Service Pack 3)”, enjoy!…

• John Said on August 25th, 2009 at 10:59 pm:
  

  I have struggled to get Team Fortress Classic working this far. The screen flashes real quick and then it closes. Team Fortress 2 And all the source engine games run fine.

• Tie Said on August 28th, 2009 at 10:21 pm:
  

  Tested and works with no problems:
  - Far Cry 2
  - Anno 1404
  - Call Of Duty
  - Fallout 3

• Bouc Said on August 29th, 2009 at 9:09 pm:
  

  COD4 works like a charm

• Bouc Said on September 1st, 2009 at 12:55 am:
  

  Unreal 3 too

• AsciiWolf Said on September 5th, 2009 at 10:06 am:
  

  Team Fortress Classic works Out-Of-Box on my Server 2008 R2!

• AsciiWolf Said on September 5th, 2009 at 12:21 pm:
  

  Here are some games, I tested:
  Tremulous – works Out-Of-Box
  OpenArena – works Out-Of-Box
  Urban Terror – works Out-Of-Box
  World of Padman – works Out-Of-Box
  Smokin’ Gnus – works Out-Of-Box
  Sauerbraten – works Out-Of-Box
  Nexuiz – works Out-Of-Box
  Mafia – works great after settings compatibility to Vista sp2
  FlatOut 2 – works Out-Of-Box
  Zdaemon (multiplayer DooM) – works Out-Of-Box
  Frets on Fire – works Out-Of-Box
  StepMania – works Out-Of-Box
  Quake 3 (with ioquake3 engine) – works Out-Of-Box
  Steam & Valve games (Half-Life 1 & 2 engine powered games) – works Out-Of-Box
  Unreal Tournament 3 – works Out-Of-Box
  Second Life client – works Out-Of-Box
  Max Payne – works great after applying unofficial patch
  Max Payne 2 – works Out-Of-Box
  ET: Quake Wars – works Out-Of-Box
  WolfQuest – works Out-Of-Box
  Savage 2 – works Out-Of-Box but requires a Administrator rights
  Teeworlds – works Out-Of-Box
  IcyTower – works Out-Of-Box
  ezQuake (Quake 1) – works Out-Of-Box
  Eduke32 (Duke Nukem 3D) – works Out-Of-Box

  Arris: Impressive list, AsciiWolf! I expect xxcom9a will add them to the list soon.

• AsciiWolf Said on September 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pm:
  

  Bioshock – doesn’t work.
  gameux.dll is installed, but Bioshock still doesn’t work because of “Failed to create the GameExplorer object.” error.

• AsciiWolf Said on September 5th, 2009 at 2:57 pm:
  

  Well, after setting Bioshock.exe to Win XP sp3 compatibility mode, the game runs but after loading, only black screen is shown…

• Tie Said on September 12th, 2009 at 3:01 pm:
  

  Dead Space works with no problems

• Kazeta Said on September 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pm:
  

  Street fighter 4 works but you have to enable compatibility for XpSp2. Also the new wolfenstein works and Call of Juarez 2.

• Macias Said on September 19th, 2009 at 11:51 am:
  

  I know that most people know that… But want to say it anyway Windows Server isn’t made for playing games I suggest doing a multiboot installation. On “other Windows” the games will work perfect (I advice Win. XP, but I play almoust all my games on Vista now).

• Macias Said on September 20th, 2009 at 11:42 pm:
  

  I tested NFS Shift (not long) and it should work perfect. I’ll write when I play more and find some “bugs”.

• Dylan Said on September 22nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm:
  

  TFC may need a DEP exception to run properly — it did in Windows 2008 R1. Many older games need DEP exceptions, so if all else fails, it can’t hurt to try.
  (Many people simply disable DEP entirely for everything but the essentials, but I advise against that for security reasons.)
  I’ll test whether or not that fixes TFC and post back if that solves it.

• Simon Said on September 22nd, 2009 at 4:36 pm:
  

  Warhammer Dawn Of War 2 works. By the way: it is a great game !

• Dylan Said on September 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm:
  

  Alright, I got around to shoehorning TFC into working — you need to do one or two things to make it work:

  1. Disable DEP, either for just the hl.exe (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\YourSteamUsername\team fortress classic\hl.exe), this will fix the “screen flash and close” issue.
  However, the menu text will probably be invisible, as it was for me.
  2. If the menu text is indeed invisible, then you’ll have to add either “-d3d” or “-software” to the game’s launch options — I recommend the former, though any machine capable of running 2K8R2 is probably powerful enough to use software mode just as well too.
  For the Steam version of the game, this is done through Properties > Set launch options; for an old standalone version, that would be done by creating a shortcut to your TFC executable and adding either parameter to the end of the Target: box’s path as found via right click > Properties.

• Dylan Said on September 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 pm:
  

  Ah, dang. Can’t edit comments. Addendum to #1: Disable DEP for just the executable, or system-wide. Either works, I recommend the former.

• Kazeta Said on October 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am:
  

  Confirming Resident evil 5, Need for Speed Shi(f)t and Risen that fully work!

• meeeeee Said on October 10th, 2009 at 1:31 am:
  

  Race 07 gtr evo plus addons out of the box or str8 from steam!

  and those using run to get the joystick cpl up if u have them installed they are in devices and printers

• Frigid Said on October 13th, 2009 at 12:03 am:
  

  Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Steam version, works out of the box for me.

  The non-Steam version may have problems with SecuROM.

• AsciiWolf Said on October 16th, 2009 at 6:31 pm:
  

  Earth Eternal – Works out-of-box
  Lineage II – Works out-of-box, but requires Administrator rights
  Fear Combat – Works out-of-box (including sound, which doesn’t worked in R1!)

• Anonymous Said on October 20th, 2009 at 8:33 pm:
  

  America’s Army 2 works

• Jason M Carver Said on October 21st, 2009 at 9:09 pm:
  

  I got this free from Dreamspark so I decided to fiddle around with it and got most of the stuff working. However whenever I try and launch any game under Windows 2008 Server R2 it says failed to initialize DirectDraw on every game whether it be a casual game or not. I realize Intel 945g is not meant for hardcore gaming, I am not using it for that purpose. I managed to get the Windows 7 x64 driver to install with this but I get the same results. It seems DirectDraw is hard coded as disabed somewhere, so I am at a loss , and already checked many leads in google to get nothing. Hopefully someone has a solution out there to get me up and running more then I did previously.

• AsciiWolf Said on October 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm:
  

  Unigine Heaven Benchmark (http://unigine.com/download/) – Works out-of-box

• AsciiWolf Said on October 23rd, 2009 at 7:18 pm:
  

  Well, I noticed, that sound doesn’t work in Unigine Heaven Benchmark on Srv2008R2…

• AsciiWolf Said on October 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm:
  

  Unigine Sanctuary Demo – Works out-of-box, without sound
  Unigine Tropics Demo – Works out-of-box, without sound

• Macias Said on October 26th, 2009 at 3:33 pm:
  

  If a game was working on Win. Server 2008 (not R2) it will work on R2, won’t it? I’m thinking about KOTR.

• Kazeta Said on October 27th, 2009 at 5:17 pm:
  

  Batman Arkham Asylum, Dead Space, Plants vs Zombies and Red faction Guerilla are fully compatible.

• Windows 7 and SOF2 Said on November 27th, 2009 at 3:52 pm:
  

  [...] mode is tested with XP, Vista, etc … SOF2 seems to works on Seven 64bits and 2008R2 64bits : Convert your Windows Server 2008 R2 to a Workstation! – Games Thanks for your [...]

• Tie Said on December 7th, 2009 at 10:56 pm:
  

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 works with no problems
  Dragon Age: Origin works with no problems

• Dant Said on December 10th, 2009 at 4:16 pm:
  

  Dragon Age: Origin worked fine, no problem at all
  Divinity 2: Ego Draconis gave me lock ups at first but that was related with a DirectInput problem with my USB mouse, fixing that fixed the game.

  the problem was with the DINPUT8.dll and disabiling most of the devices under Human Interface Devices fixed it. just so anyone falls under the same problem. the mouse is a Microsoft Sidewinder with the latest microsoft intellipoint drivers

• Joshua Said on December 13th, 2009 at 2:26 pm:
  

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 works perfectly out of the box, as does Left for Dead / Left 4 Dead 2 and counter strike source.

• AsciiWolf Said on December 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm:
  

  Cryostasis – works Out-Of-Box

• AsciiWolf Said on December 13th, 2009 at 10:43 pm:
  

  Audiosurf – works Out-Of-Box

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition (Windows 7) nemokamai studentams · Radiocool.lt Said on December 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pm:
  

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• Daniel Said on December 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 pm:
  

  I can confirm that the following games work on Windows Server 2008 Server R2 setup as a “Workstation”.

  * Unreal Tournament – Game of the Year Edition
  * Command and Conquer – The First Decade (C&C, RA, RA2, RA3, etc.)
  * StarCraft works, but need to use the trick to get the black to work properly (open the display properties dialog).
  * EverQuest – Trilogy
  * EverQuest – Titanium Edition

• Tie Said on December 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm:
  

  Grand Theft Auto 4 works with no problems

• Goriz Said on December 24th, 2009 at 2:57 am:
  

  Torchlight (Rpg game ala diablo) – works fine
  Warcraft3(Dota) – if you play dota – works fine

• RemixedCat Said on January 3rd, 2010 at 3:37 am:
  

  I wanted to input this at the forum for R2, however the captcha field is not showing up on the forum registration, since I have to now login with a new account since my old acct had a theme that was apperantly deleted. Please fix this

  Game that works on R2->Delta force and aliens vs predator expansion packs. perfectly!

  Arris: I updated the forum software yesterday and just fixed the latest problems: reCAPTCHA and missing themes. It should work now, otherwise contact me!

• Karl Said on January 8th, 2010 at 5:14 am:
  

  I’m currently using Windows Server 2008 R2 RC (haven’t gotten around to installing RTM version yet, although I have a key from DreamSpark ready to go). I’ve not had many problems so far, although DiRT doesn’t work properly for me, my specs are as follows:

  * Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.7Ghz
  * Nvidia GTX 275
  * 4GB RAM

  I think you’ll agree it should work 100% fine. This game was working completely at max settings in Windows 7, but in this OS, it lags along ridiculously. You might want to add it to the non compatible list as it isn’t playable. I have been able to play plenty of other games with no lag and I do NOT have Hyper V installed. I’ve tried compatibility mode, but it still doesn’t want to work properly and no amount of changing settings up or down solves the issue. It even lags at the intro video. Obviously caused by a program issue, rather than a graphics related problem.

• CedX Said on January 15th, 2010 at 12:07 pm:
  

  “The Saboteur” works fine under Windows Server 2008 R2 (RTM).

  The installer puts the game icon into the Game Explorer menu (so it actually never appear in Server 2008, you must create the shortcut manually as no entry is created in Start Menu), but GameUX.dll file isn’t required (no error during installation).

  As usual, you must disable Hyper-V to ensure max video performance.

• CedX Said on January 15th, 2010 at 5:51 pm:
  

  “Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box” also works nicely.

• Descalzo Said on January 31st, 2010 at 8:22 am:
  

  WarCraft 3 works, as do the expansion and all updates.

  Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory works.

  Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition works.

  All of these worked perfectly well out-of-box, all I had to do was update video drivers. The ones that came with 2008R2 were not very good.

• Klamatiel Said on February 6th, 2010 at 3:18 pm:
  

  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat does not work. Parental Control Access Restricted

• Anonymous Said on February 8th, 2010 at 1:38 am:
  

  Mass Effect 2 works out of box

• Dave G Said on February 9th, 2010 at 10:26 pm:
  

  Nvidia GTX Drivers?? I can’t find any – even on places like NGOHQ…
  Anyone point me in the right direction?

  Dual GTX295 with the SLI bridge. Windows ‘08 R2

• RemixedCat Said on February 11th, 2010 at 12:27 am:
  

  use the windows 7 x64 GTX drivers. They should work fine.

  Nvidia does not list a server OS for the drivers becuase they do not expect us to use a server OS for gaming. Since R2 is based on 7’s codebase it should be fine. Be sure to use R2 becuase if you use the vista driver it might not have the WDDM update on it. WDDM changed quite a bit in R2. I actually was amazed to see it perform a little faster.

  Good luck

• Dave G Said on February 12th, 2010 at 10:49 pm:
  

  Thanks “Cat”

  I’ve tried just about everything. It seems there is a conflict between the mb and the graphics card. If I add the card, I see a problem “PCI to PCI-bridge” entry in the device manager. So, basically, the card, or part of it, is only being seen by ‘08r2 as a PCI to PCI bridge. I found a related entry out on the web, but the registry fix that claimed to fix the problem was to a dead link.

  I tried updating the driver for the pci to pci bridge entry to the card (a GTX 295) but that hasn’t worked…

  Anybody think of anything clever…?

  System is:

  Tyan MB with 4 socket, hexa-core CPUs (Nvidia 2200 nForce Pro Chipset)
  GTX 295 Video card (THE PROBLEM)
  LSI Raid

  Card does not even appear under Display Adapters… When I disable the unused motherboard graphics adapter in BIOS, the “Display Adapters” section goes away altogether under Device Manager.

  Everything works except seeing/using the GTX and the only clue is the PCI to PCI bridge entry…

  Arrgg…

  Help?

• val Said on February 17th, 2010 at 12:29 am:
  

  Dragon Age Origins is working perfectly

• MSDOS Said on February 20th, 2010 at 4:11 pm:
  

  Worms World Party (Team 17) is displayed in wrong colors when started normally on 64bit version.
  This issue can be fixed by first killing any explorer process and then running the game. A .BAT file with the following lines in it will do the job and after closing the game, it will automatically restart explorer (if necessary, adjust the path to your WWP directory):

  cd “C:\Team 17\WWP”
  taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
  start /w wwp.exe
  start explorer

  This workaround may work with other games as well. I found it on the internet for some other game (i forgot which one).

• Yzangard Said on February 21st, 2010 at 10:24 am:
  

  Star Trek Online is working perfectly as well.

• Windows Server 2008 R2 as a desktop OS « All that is wrong with the world… Said on March 3rd, 2010 at 5:25 am:
  

  [...] All my other applications have worked without a hitch. Firefox, Notepad++, Adboe CS4 Master Collection, MS Office, Daemon Tools…everything works flawlessly. What about games? I play a lot of games, and they have all worked without a hitch on R2. I did have to set MSN to run in Vista compatibility mode to stop it from pinning itself to the tasbar, and go back to the system tray where it belongs. Many games I tried were from a few years ago, as well as the most recent games. Fallout 3, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Aliens Vs Predator(2010), Prototype, Max Payne 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Doom 3, Stalker, Soldier of Fortune 2…they all worked perfectly without any intervention needed. Bioshock has been working mostly without a hitch, however I had to install Games for Windows and set it to run in Vista compatibility mode. The only game I absolutely could not get to run at all was Project IGI 2, which ran fine on Vista. I am 99.9% sure however this would not work on Windows 7 either. There is a great list games and they’re known status of working with R2 here. [...]

• Shane Said on March 6th, 2010 at 1:40 am:
  

  Black Isle’s Icewind Dale II works great in R2! No weird workarounds or fixes were necessary either.

• Brooks Said on March 9th, 2010 at 4:15 pm:
  

  I can install Battlefield 2.But when I start to play I can’t turn left or forward back.
  My OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter,
  ATI 5750, 6G DDR3 RAM
  Is there anyone meet the problem? thanks