This list is an updated version of my previous list, with reccomendations updated to reflect the new GameTap Player. Also, this list excludes all retro games played through the web browser. Finally, when possible I include tips and tricks to getting specific games running at their best.

This list assumes that you are:

1. Running Windows 7 Final (Results From Windows 7 Beta or RC are marked as Untested in Windows 7).
2. That you have installed PhysX, Games for Windows, Tages, OpenAL & Rapture3D (Rapture3D is optional), MSXML 4.0 SP3, MS C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable (x86), MS C++ 2010 Redistributable (x86), and used the DirectX Web Installer, which will install the older DirectX files needed for many GameTap games to run, but missing from Windows Vista and 7 (see the thread potential-fix-for-people-having-trouble-launching-games-t38232.html for more info).
3. That you do not have any compatibility settings enabled for the GameTap Player
4. That you have allowed the game to download completely.

Games Confirmed To Work

1. A Farewell To Dragons*
2. Agatha Christie: Evil Under The Sun*
3. Age of Booty*
4. Age of Mythology: Gold Edition*
5. Alien Shooter: Gold*
6. Ankh 2* (The startup time is really long, and the first time you go to a new area it takes a while to load).
7. Ankh 3*
8. Armada 2526*
9. Art of Murder 2*
10. Ascension to the Throne - Valkyrie* (If the game has an error preventing it from starting, try deleting "graphic.cfg" in the AttT: Valkyrie directory, this file is automatically regenerated if missing).
11. Assassin's Creed*
12. Aura 2*
13. Beyond Good & Evil* (Disabling "HW Vertex Rendering" and setting Shadows to low fixes most of the flickering issues)
14. Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII
15. Blood Bowl
16. Bloodrayne II
17. Broken Sword: Shadows of the Templar - Directors Cut*
18. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway*
19. Call of Duty 2
20. Call of Juarez 2
21. Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena* (you must set the game's exe to run in Windows Vista SP2 compatability mode)
22. Cities XL 2011*
23. Cities XL 2012*
24. Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword
25. Civilization IV: Colonization*
26. Clive Barker's Jericho
27. CoH: Tales of Valor
28. Cryostasis (you may need to roll-back your PhysX drivers to version 8.0.9)
29. Damnation*
30. Dawn of Magic 2*
31. Deus Ex: Invisible War*
32. Dimensity* (Warning: Unpatched)
33. Disciples 3*
34. Dirt 2
35. D.N.A.*
36. Edna & Harvey*
37. Electra*
38. Elements of War*
39. Evil Genius*
40. Faery: Legends of Avalon*
41. Fallout*
42. Fallout 2*
43. Fallout: Tactics*
44. Fahrenheit*
45. Flatout 2
46. Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich* (Do not alter any graphics settings other then resolution)
47. Freelancer*
48. Freight Tycoon Inc
49. Frontlines: Fuel of War*
50. Fuel
51. Ghost Master
52. Ghostbusters*
53. Gothic 3
54. Gray Matter*
55. GREED: Black Border* WARNING: unpatched, the 1.3 patch works on the GameTap version, simply unzip into your GREED directory to apply.
56. GRID
57. The Guild 2* (If you get a blank screen with sound, Alt+Tab out of and back into the game)
58. H.A.W.X.*
59. Heroes of Hellas
60. Hitman: Contracts
61. Hospital Tycoon*
62. Imperium Romanium Gold
63. Infernal*
64. Jewelcraft
65. Just Cause*
66. King's Bounty: Armored Princess
67. King's Bounty: The Legend*
68. Legend - Hand of God*
69. Lesure Suite Larry 9*
70. Lost Horizon*
71. Majesty 2 - Battles of Ardania*
72. Men at War - Red Tide*
73. Mini Ninjas*
74. Mount & Blade*
75. The Next BIG Thing*
76. Operation: Flashpoint*
77. Overlord*
78. Overlord 2*
79. Perimeter*
80. Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones*
81. Prison Tycoon 4
82. Prison Tycoon 5*
83. Project Eden*
84. Project: Snowblind*
85. Psychonauts*
86. Railroads!*
87. Rainbow Six Vegas 2
88. Rayman 3
89. Republic*
90. Rise of the Argonaughts*
91. Rise of Nations: Gold Edition
92. Rogue Trooper*
93. Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum
94. Royal Envoy II*
95. Runaway: A Road Adventure*
96. Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle*
97. Runaway: A Twist of Fate*
98. Sacred Gold*
99. Sam & Max (All of them)*
100. Second Sight
101. Serious Sam 2
102. Shadowgrounds*
103. Shadowgrounds: Survivor*
104. Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Persian Carpet
105. Sid Meier's Pirates!*
106. Sniper - Ghost Warrior*
107. Space Colony
108. Space Force: Captains*
109. Spellforce 2 Gold*
110. Starscape*
111. Star Wolves 3 (I highly reccomend that you apply the dialog fix here. Failure to do so may leave you unable to complete the game)
112. Still Life 2*
113. Street Fighter 4
114. Supreme Commander*
115. Titan Quest Gold*
116. Tom Clancy's End War*
117. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
118. Trine*
119. Tropico 3
120. Tropico 4*
121. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty*
122. Twin Sector* (In some places, the floors were transparent)
123. UFO: Aftershock*
124. Unreal Tournament 2004
125. A Vampyre Story
126. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade*
127. The Witcher*
128. Zeus: Master of Olympus*

Games That Do Not Work

1. CivCity Rome
2. Dark Horizon* (Produces an error saying that it can't find playvideo.dll right after the first loading screen)
3. Dead Reefs* (Black Screen on startup)
4. Far Cry 2 (Fails to launch)
5. Heroes of Might and Magic IV
6. Heroes of Might and Magic V (crashes soon after gameplay starts)
7. Pharoh Gold Edition (Severe issues with game speed)
8. Stronghold Crusader* (Fails to launch)
9. Stronghold Deluxe* (Fails to launch)
10. Theif: Deadly Shadows* (Crashes when loading the first mission).
11. Wheelman* (Fails to launch)

A big thank you to cardboard, Skaven55, Tolyngee, tedneweb, metaviio, kultrva, shawnasativa, thecomputergamer, and ghost3600 for contributing to this list!

If you notice an error in this list, or would like to contribute to it, please post a response or PM me.

Nice post

This is a possible work around for far cry 2,

Open up the far cry 2 folder - C:\GameTap\Games\farcry2fe\bin

Then go to Farcry2Launcher - Click on file then select FarCry 2.

You should now be prompted to update the Tages drivers click yes - this will update and then should ask you to enter the activation key, You can get this from your Mygames and underneath the play button where far cry 2 is listed.

Enter key and go.

Overlord 2 - I have no problems with at all, try reinstalling the Physx drivers again as I know someone had the same problem but reinstalled these and it worked.

Also check the post in the General forum similar to this.

Thanks

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Listing is incorrect. Having played the game for some time, I can tell you that it indeed launches under Windows 7.

NOTICE - Depending on your graphics card, you may need to disable fog for the best visual effect.

metaviio wrote: Overlord 2 - I have no problems with at all, try reinstalling the Physx drivers again as I know someone had the same problem but reinstalled these and it worked.

I just figured out the issue, I needed to install the DirectX 9 SDK. After that, Overlord 2 started working. Just curious, but are DirectX files stripped out of games in the same way that PhysX is? I've never had this issue with non-GameTap games.

An update to your list:

Working games on my Win7 64-bit rig with no problems:

Fahrenheit
Flatout 2
Freight Tycoon Inc
Freelancer
Ghost Master
Imperium Romanum Gold
Prison Tycoon 4
Sherlock Holmes - Mystery of the Persian Carpet
Star Wolves 3
Street Fighter 4

Games with issues:

Pharaoh Gold - The speed of the game is way off. At default speed, everything goes too fast. If you slow it down even to 90% , the game pauses.

These are the games I've tried so far since the update. I'll post more as I play them.

kultrva wrote: Games with issues: Pharaoh Gold - The speed of the game is way off. At default speed, everything goes too fast. If you slow it down even to 90% , the game pauses.

I could be off here, but I wonder if setting CPU affinity might solve that...

Tolyngee wrote: kultrva wrote: Games with issues: Pharaoh Gold - The speed of the game is way off. At default speed, everything goes too fast. If you slow it down even to 90% , the game pauses. I could be off here, but I wonder if setting CPU affinity might solve that...

That's a good idea. I'll try that as soon as my account is in working order again and post the results.

I need someone to try testing The Guild 2 to see if the lack of visual content (audio still works) in the opening cutscene is local to my computer. Also, does anyone have thoughts as to how I should classify games that have this or similar problems? Should I create a new list of partially compatable games?

I like your lists, so I'll provide some feedback. I've put at least a few hours into the following under Win 7 64...

GRID - no issues.
Heroes of Hellas - no issues.
Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 - no issues.
Rayman 3 - no issues.
UT2004 - constantly opens in a window, but that's the only issue, and alt+enter fixes it quick.

I'll add more as I keeping playing.

Some games work on some rigs and not others. My mostly identical rig can run some things my brother's can't (like UFO: Aftershock).

CSQcoa wrote: Some games work on some rigs and not others. My mostly identical rig can run some things my brother's can't (like UFO: Aftershock).

I'm intrigued, you say the computers are "mostly" identical? How are they different?

tedneweb wrote: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Listing is incorrect. Having played the game for some time, I can tell you that it indeed launches under Windows 7. NOTICE - Depending on your graphics card, you may need to disable fog for the best visual effect.

For duel-core CPUs you are correct, however, my new AMD Phenom II X4 is not recognized as a supported CPU type.

CSQcoa wrote: Some games work on some rigs and not others. My mostly identical rig can run some things my brother's can't (like UFO: Aftershock).

I use this list to see what can work on GT with Win 7. I don't wanna waste bandwidth on a game that can't possibly work. Hopefully no one is reading this list like it's some sort of guarantee.

subsider34 wrote: CSQcoa wrote: Some games work on some rigs and not others. My mostly identical rig can run some things my brother's can't (like UFO: Aftershock). I'm intrigued, you say the computers are "mostly" identical? How are they different?

Graphics cards. Kaw's met with an untimely (and smoky) demise.

An update: I can't get Fable TLC to run on my computer. I've tried everything that I can think of and it always crashes when starting a new game. Perhaps this should be added to your list.

EDIT: Fuel also works fine on Win7 64bit.

kultrva wrote: An update: I can't get Fable TLC to run on my computer. I've tried everything that I can think of and it always crashes when starting a new game. Perhaps this should be added to your list. EDIT: Fuel also works fine on Win7 64bit.

Hmmm...looks like they didn't fix that problem when they upgraded it to Yummy (Fable: TLC also wouldn't work on Vista or 7 before it was converted either). Glad to hear about Fuel though.

I had problems with "Dirt 2" on Win7 64bit. Had to install the OpenAL sound drivers, even though I do not have a Creative board. Looking at older threads, missing OpenAL drivers could be a common problem, and one more thing to make sure you have installed.

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip

That said, I've been unable to run CoH - Tales of Valor on Win7.

thecomputergamer wrote: I had problems with "Dirt 2" on Win7 64bit. Had to install the OpenAL sound drivers, even though I do not have a Creative board. Looking at older threads, missing OpenAL drivers could be a common problem, and one more thing to make sure you have installed. That said, I've been unable to run CoH - Tales of Valor on Win7.

Ok, I just checked out OpenAL, and the current driver status looks complicated. Apparently it was open-source until version 1.1 at which time it became the proprietary Rapture 3D OpenAL. At the same time some dedicated developer forked OpenAL into OpenAL Soft which supports the newer systems but is not compatable with Ogg Vorbis or MP3 extentions (which may or may not be used in GameTap games). Finally there's the last OpenAL implementation. So I have to ask, which one did you install to get Dirt 2 working? If you could provide a link that would be awesome.

Age of Mythology will not download.

VicariousNarok wrote: Age of Mythology will not download.

Ya, they're working on that. I think it's an issue for all OSes...

subsider34 wrote: So I have to ask, which one did you install to get Dirt 2 working? If you could provide a link that would be awesome.

If there's confusion over which one to use, I'd use the one on the download page, as it's the one that GT supports you use. If you can't get it to work, they're going to tell you to install it either way.

I found the OpenAL from this Gametap thread:

http://www.gametap.com/forum/post144422.html?hilit=OpenAL&sid=a7a499a339a2679a15315215a7344e1e&sid=42ec8f5dfff3324be8b499cba35981ea#p144422

Direct link for Driver:
http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip

thecomputergamer wrote: I found the OpenAL from this Gametap thread: http://www.gametap.com/forum/post144422.html?hilit=OpenAL&sid=42ec8f5dfff3324be8b499cba35981ea&sid=5c9feecfc673e1cbdebd8aa67934f9c3#p144422 Direct link for Driver: http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip

Thanks! That was just what I was looking for.

Rise of Nations Gold works fine in 7 after installing MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3. It appears to be the only one that supports anything past XP (not including weird versions of Windows.) Here's the exact file I used: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/d ... laylang=en

Before installing this, it'd be a good idea to uninstall any msxml installations you may already have. Despite not listing Windows 7 as a supported OS in this download, I can assure you that it worked for me. (No surprise there, 7 is really similar to Vista in a lot of ways.)

Also, Age of Mythology Gold downloads now, just worked here. AoM Gold also wouldn't run until I installed the above file.

shawnasativa wrote: Rise of Nations Gold works fine in 7 after installing MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3. It appears to be the only one that supports anything past XP (not including weird versions of Windows.) Here's the exact file I used: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/d ... laylang=en Before installing this, it'd be a good idea to uninstall any msxml installations you may already have. Despite not listing Windows 7 as a supported OS in this download, I can assure you that it worked for me. (No surprise there, 7 is really similar to Vista in a lot of ways.) Also, Age of Mythology Gold downloads now, just worked here. AoM Gold also wouldn't run until I installed the above file.

Awesome! Thanks for the info!