Works perfectly here. Did you get it from Steam?

90% of the "Will not run in Win7" problems is due to the way UAC is set up. Most games (especially the older ones) use the game's directory for saved games and modified values, and since they are installed (by default) in the Program Files (x86) directory, a non-admin user cannot write there, and the files are moved to the virtualstore directory instead. So most of those problems can be solved by installing them in a non-UAC controlled folder, or (a very bad idea) turning UAC off.
Additionally, if you have Win7 Pro or Ultimate (or Enterprise, which is basically Ultimate with another activation method), you can get Windows XP mode directly from microsoft, which is a pre-configured virtual machine with a good (though not perfect) integration with Win7.
So far (and I mean from the Win7 open beta), I haven't had any problems with any software I wanted to run, though if you have worries about specific titles, we can look into them more closely.
So, bottom line, 90% of the "will not work in win7" problems is actually user error, 9% is incompatible hardware, and about 1% is incompatible software, though the numbers are my personal experience only.

I actually have that configuration on my new computer, wherein I can either start my PC with XP or Win7. I've found that NWN2 & KOTOR2 won't work & I suspect that the configuration is the culprit, perhaps b/c of the need to download updates from the official sites to get them working, and the PC doesn't know if it's to store the data in XP or Win7. I can't be sure of it though.

I've tried & found that BG1 + TotSC & BG2:SoA + ToB work fine despite that configuration.

So having both OS's installed isn't fool proof either?
Because that was the option that I was going to try if I became dependent on Win 7 to access more powerful components.

See, what I'm thinking is that MS knows a lot of people use their PC for gaming so they should've been more focused on the gaming aspect in Win 7 but I fear that they may, instead, have designed Win 7 to discourage PC gaming in hopes to chase everyone towards thier XBox.

Actually, my case was slightly different from bladeofBG's so I might not be able to help there, but for my part, I did get both OSes installed on one HD after spending a day to realize that WinXP and Win7 do NOT want to share the same MBR by default -- they'll just keep overwriting the other during installation. I tried using a 3rd-party Windows-compatible utility but that didn't work, so I ended up using this old-school boot manager that took control of the MBR and allowed me to specify exact locations for the partitions and crap.

And that did work, but I guess something I did also prevented my WinXP and Win7 from being able to access each other's partitions at all. Even with 3rd-party partitioning utilities, I couldn't "fix" the partitions to work with each other without reinstalling an OS and messing with the MBR again, still without a guarantee that everything would work this time. So I was stuck in a situation where my 320GB was split into 200GB when I booted Win7 and 120GB when I booted WinXP.

I did not want to spend a third day trying the same BS over and over until I got everything exactly right, so, yeah, I ended up getting rid of everything and installing a clean copy of WinXP. Oh, that and also because the wireless USB network adapter I found apparently never got a driver update for Win7.

Maybe someone did it correctly real easy-like, but yeah these are the reasons why I recommend not trying dual-boot on single HD..

I don't think you need to worry about Win7 being hard-coded against gaming, though. I really love the OS, it's just that it's sometimes too..... new. :)

It doesn't matter where you're finding these Googled threads, it doesn't change the fact that most of them are unfounded conclusions. JMich's post is exactly on the money : the vast, vast majority of these problems are actually caused by hardware problems, driver issues and software issues...NOT Windows 7. There are very few games that flat out refuse to run in a Win 7 environment.

Of course, your later assertion than Win 7 is a conspiracy by Microsoft to force gamers to buy a 360 shows everyone where your mindset is yet again...since I seem to remember you also throwing on your tinfoil hat and protesting that .Net frameworks are nothing more than access portals for MS programmers to break in to your machine and delete and install whatever they want.

.NET seems to be more of an all-seeing eye than anything.

Either way, with all hardware issues finally fixed and only having to work around SSE2 and game pad mapping strangeness, I'm personally not racing to Win 7 to open up a whole new can of worms and questions on myself again.

"Is it be the win 7?? Might be broken RAM...or possibly my haircut."

and that's fine...if what you've got is working for you, awesome. Just don't confuse unproven allegations with actual evidence.

Agreed and on the same note I can't promise that everyone's entire current working game collection will still work with Win 7.

Here's the biggest thing to consider - when upgrading a new OS like Win 7 everyone promoting the OS is going to trip over themselves to make absolutely sure that most popular game titles are up and running on it.

So when it comes to Mr Same Guys, who all watch the Same Guy American Idol shows and all play the same Same Guys sports - they make up the majority of wallets.

So, for the most part everyone is going to be running around making sure that all of the top twenty Mr. Same Guy games are operational.

When it gets to the smaller demographic who have collected fifty odd games that no one has ever heard of it results in a question in a Win 7 forum that will either get no reply and sink quickly or get addressed with a snarky comment like "What kind of idiot would want to play a game like that anyway?"

So people will fire off tech support mails to Mr. No Reply or Mr. You'll Have to Write to Somebody Else.

Then finally call Mr. You Have to Give Me Your Credit Card Number Before I Talk To You and then give up and toss themselves out a Win 7 window.

Of course this isn't tested fact but based on past experiences I've had it would follow suite and leaves me suspicious like I am now.

Also not to go too far off topic and I'm not saying that this turned out to be the fault of the OS.
But as for fandom and pretension preventing decent tech support I thought this was hilarious.

I forget which game it was but I was reading a thread in a forum where some kid was claiming crash on start up and someone goaded him for his system specs.....but it wasn't for purposes of genuine tech support but more expecting to clown him for attempting to run a uber powerful game on old obsolete hardware.

The kid with issues immediately replied that he had a top of the line PC running Win 7 and the rest of the thread was ghost town until the topic fell off the page. XD

And you have yet again gone flying off the rails. I don't even know what the point of those posts is, to be honest. More examples which in no way offer anything conclusive about supposed Win 7 related game issues. Huzzah.

So the ultimate HONEST response to someone asking if they're game collection will run in Windows 7 is "No one really knows."

Because Joe could say that he got all 20 of his games working in Win 7 but those twenty games might all only be variations of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.

The only solution resides in the individual themselves when deciding if they would rather have access to all the newer games risking possibility that some of the older games might not work or taking into consideration how much they have now, how much they invested in it and if they are ready to risk having to let go of it to move on.

I'm not totally anit-MS - I haven't gone scramblilng fo Ubutnu, MAC or Linux and praise Win XP to the stars I just know that others patriotism has often times left me empty handed without resolution - ie; being shit out of luck with a new game purchase because I'm the only person in existence to dare to own a not-as-popluar game pad.

Go check that Win 7 thread on here again - some kid requested that GOG intentionally start programming their releases to disregard Win XP. LOL! How would that fix Win 7?

Please, people! Why do I have to be Arian too? I look much better as a brunette!

I didn't discover GOG until after I upgraded to Windows 7 and I've barely had problems with any games.

I would say that best overall strategy for someone clinging desperately to old software would to be to try and hold out as long as they can to see if a major Win 7 SP gets released which will implement a much stronger backwards compatibility with XP.