Windows Vista
Software entity
Runs natively on Windows Vista and is supported by the developers/publishers on it.
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Alternate name: Windows NT 6.0
OpenGL Video Overlays (not OpenGL in general) and mixed rendering (such as GDI and OpenGL together) supposedly became impossible because of changes to how Vista driver model works or other new limitations on the OS. Games using either of these may thus be forward incompatible with Vista (likely they don't advertise Vista/7 compatibility anyway).
Backwards compatibility:
* DOS : poor, through NTVDM; high resolution modes unsupported and screen updating is limited; 16-bit support non-existent on 64-bit versions.
* Win95 : none?
* Win98 : poor?
* NT4 : ?
* Win2k : full?
* WinXP : full
DirectX:
* Vista shipped with DirectX 10.0
* Win 7 shipped with DirectX 11
Windows Server 2008 belongs to same family but is not intended for gaming. Server 2008 R2 is Win 7 equivalent.
* DOS : poor, through NTVDM; high resolution modes unsupported and screen updating is limited; 16-bit support non-existent on 64-bit versions.
* Win95 : none?
* Win98 : poor?
* NT4 : ?
* Win2k : full?
* WinXP : full
DirectX:
* Vista shipped with DirectX 10.0
* Win 7 shipped with DirectX 11
Windows Server 2008 belongs to same family but is not intended for gaming. Server 2008 R2 is Win 7 equivalent.
The first Windows Vista video game was released in 1997.
Ubisoft, Paradox Interactive and Telltale Games published most of these games.
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By year
| A | 2002 - DirectX 9 released |
| B | 2006 - DirectX 10 introduced |
| C | 2007 - Vista released |
| D | 2008 - DirectX 10.1 introduced 2008 - Vista SP1 released |
| E | 2009 - DirectX 11 introduced 2009 - Windows 7 released |
| F | 2012 - Vista's planned end of support by MS |
| G | 2014 - WinXP planned end of support |