I have been playing through Wing Commander Prophecy, one of the very few space combat games I haven't gotten around to playing. The game runs brilliantly under XP, but the cutscenes between missions and the conversations with other members of crew out of combat that provide the back story are hopeless because they run far too fast.
Its not a bad game, but it is tireing without the backstory because I am just jumping into missions and kill stuff without context.