I have windows 8 and till the moment all of the games I have played have worked just fine
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You don't own a whole lotta games though. I need a bigger test pool.
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Then look at my list, I have quite a few. I haven't had a single problem. Pretty sure almost every game that works on Windows 7 works on Windows 8, and anyone who says a game doesn't work on it has some other Win8-unrelated error, or is referring to a super early version of Windows 8
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Its funny because most games people say don't work, work fine for me.....
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Exactly. A lot of the people who say this and that doesn't work, have probably never used Windows 8. They just watched a few videos of idiots bitching about it, or they saw a bunch of people bashing it on a forum, and decided to jump on the bandwagon because it's the "cool" thing to do.
I used Windows 7 on my laptop, and when building my desktop, Windows 8 was the cheapest OS at the time. I was skeptical about buying it because of all the hate, but I'm glad I got it. It's almost identical to 7, and has quite a lot of improvements.
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I've had no trouble with my games. The only thing that wouldn't run was The Sims Medieval, after they patched in a new form of DRM incompatible with Win 8. It was fixed by applying the crack.
Edit: Also, don't listen to half the shit you read about Win 8. Most of it is people jumping on the bandwagon, with no evidence to back up their false claims. Win 8 is just as good, if not better, than Win 7. It works just as good, and adds quite a lot of features.
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I haven't had any issues running Borderlands. The only major game to give me any problem so far is Bioshock 2. It crashed randomly. The Doctor Who games don't run at all, though I doubt many care about those. Other than that everything I've thrown at it run fine.
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far cry with 64 bit OS unless patched, day of the tenticale, double dragon, oregon trail II, yukon trail, amazon trail, travelroma USA, dino park tycoon, king's quest, and other legacy windows games. Most of these games run fine on windows XP so there is no reason for microsoft not to support the games on vista, 7, and 8
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Many of the said games worked for me in compatability mode. Its not Microsoft job to make all games compatible, many developers are lazy
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far cry demo from nVIDIA's website has issues, everything in-game is blue and white. requires the 64 bit official patch to run properly
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Actually, all legacy 16-bit games can't run under a 64-bit OS (even 64-bit XP) because of the CPU itself, not the OS. Once the CPU is in 64-bit mode, it can only run 32 & 64-bit code. If you want to play Days of the Tentacle, King's Quest and a lot of these old adventure games, you should give a look at ScummVM or even DOSBox for the rest of the oldies. If you're hellbent on playing those under Vista/7/8 then get a 32-bit OS.
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All of them from what I can gather, it seems people saying such and such title isn't working refer to this
Windows 8 is super similar to Windows 7, its based of the same core, pretty much everything that works on 7 will work on 8, honestly when 7 came out there was a bunch of people saying "such and such doesn't work, terrible OS", when XP launched the same happened, etc...etc....
Some people have issues running certain games based on hardware, drivers, etc...thats much more common and I am pretty sure thats whats probably happening to those folks.
Windows 8 is a faster Windows 7 with a new coat of paint and a couple extra functions/features.
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Windows Store will destory Win 8, if it hasn't already... Metro has killed it. It's an User Interface walk-around nightmare. You don't seem to understand, it's might be Win 7 with extra features, but those features are just builtin bloatware, spyware, microsoft payment transactions, cloud network and alway online feature to easily allow for future hacking.
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You have no clue what you are even talking about...
Metro is fine, its not Microsoft's fault you can't learn or take 30 minutes to get use to it, most people I talk to that have actually used it for a bit grow to like it better. What bloatware? The couple apps that come preinstalled and can be uninstalled within literally 3 minutes(They can be uninstalled from the start menu itself rather easily).
Lol Spyware....are you even serious? Payment transactions? What are you talking about, do you meant the store? The one thats totally optional? Kinda like Androids store? Yes...
Always online? Guess you didn't check settings, since you can turn that off with one button and never have to log in again.
Stop bashing what you don't know....makes you look like a tool and someone who read a couple bad opinions on 8 and has never actually used it and is just saying all this to seem cool...
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It doesn't even take 30 minutes lol.
And to add to this, most of the complaints I hear about Metro (or Win8 in general) come from people who are using either a) a pirated copy, or b) used a beta / old enterprise version of Win8. The problems were never apparent on the retail copy of Win8.
Also, if people want to avoid the store - or any online "crap" - just make a local account. No need to tie it to a Microsoft account.
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I could ask you how much Microsoft is paying you? lol
I'm not bashing the entire OS, just certain areas - I have a MSDN subscription (won, not purchased) so had acessed to all Microsoft products including their OS. Plus, I know a Microsoft Staff member who's worked on them. I still consider Vista and Win 8 to be stepping stones rather than real Operating Systems. I understand they will iron it out with patchs over time and maybe then it will become acceptable, but for the moment it's not...
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Actually I sorta hate Windows as a whole, I much prefer Linux but sadly games are not its strong suit, neither is a couple programs I need to use for work like Photoshop, why does everyone go to the "LOL YOU MUST BE BEING PAID BY SAID COMPANY LOLOL" comment always, I mean its so cliché at this point...
Guess thomas404, Corinne, and everyone else that isn't bashing 8 is being paid also, man Microsoft was be putting in a nice chunk of money for this sort of advertisement.
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Yeah....what? I have everything on High and don't have this issue at all.
(Maybe it was an error a bit ago, drivers might have fixed it but I had 0 issues on High recently)
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Bioshock 2 I think had a problem but there is a fix for that only thing I read. All my games work fine...
Windows 8 is better and runs my games better, only thing I can say about games and win 8.
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Atom Zombie Smasher didn't install right on Windows 8 for me. Something was causing a fetal error, and since it installed fine on my laptop I didn't bother to try and sort it out. That's the only one so far.
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NONE every game that i have played on W8 works except for Bioshock which has also been buggy for W7 but I have got it to work. That is the only game that I have had a problem with
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Bioshock works for me no problem on W8. Good thing because it lagged like nobody's business on my laptop:)
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Getting Windows XP nowadays is a bit odd, 7 or 8 would fit better in a newer laptop honestly, most likely though laptops sold now will have 8, I could be wrong though, haven't looked into it lately but there is no reason for him to buy an OS on top of buying a laptop...seems like a waste of money.
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Oh you're right. Thought it was this year, haven't really looked into it for a while, my bad. But still, is it really worth it for a mere 7-12 months of usage?
But additionally, people asked the same thing about Windows 7. Bottom line is that anything that works on Windows 7 works on Windows 8. I have tried countless games, on two different PCs both running Windows 8, and none of them have had any issue running anything. The games were also of various age, dating back to the late 1990s, such as Dungeon Keeper 2 and Red Alert - these had to be run with compatibility settings, as with any other recent OS.
At worst, updating from Win7 to Win8 will require you to update your drivers to a Win8 standard. If there is no update for it, then it's not Microsoft's fault, but rather the driver's manufacturer.
This includes Borderlands 1, which the OP ran on a non-retail OS. And just for the record, it ran just fine.
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You're implying that the OS becomes immediately unusable after M$ drops support. But anti-virus programs will still support it for many years. It's the second most used OS, with a massive market share, so unlikely to be dropped by any sensible software developer any time soon.
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I was talking about non-game software, should have made that clear.
I know game companies like to let go of XP for no logical reason, but that doesn't really affect the truly massive number of good games with XP support that already exist. And everyone has a backlog. So sticking with XP is a good way to make time for all the games you've wanted to play for years instead of constantly being drawn to the new and shiny and probably-not-much-better-than-stuff-already-in-your-backlog.
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Borderlands 1 runs fine on my Win 8 machine. In fact it fix a little problem in Win 7 where it can't display Steam in game overlay, now in W8 it works fine. Also almost all games on my Steam library has no problem.
As many others has telling you, W8 not much differs from W7 on its core, really. If you are experiencing some problems make sure you have installed all the runtimes and DirectX 9 Redist.
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I just played Borderlands a few weeks ago on a Win8 machine and it ran with no issues. The only game I haven't been able to run so far has been Just Cause 2.
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Just Cause 2 works just fine for me on Win 8, had to verify the files through Steam before it would launch as I had an old installation from Win 7. This goes for all the Steam games I had installed, most worked but some required verifying the files otherwise I only got a black screen.
So far the only "prolem" I've had with Win 8 and games have been getting GFWL to work for those games that use that (had to download an older version of GFWL and install and have that update itself), feels kinda ironic that Microsofts own old game software have issues with their new operating system.
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What does your Just Cause 2 do when you try to run it? Mine works fine, but crashes after a while/
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linux games, aswell as most console titles, some might work but require an emulator to do so.
Other than that you can always play some cardgames, or even boardgames on your laptop, but depending on its size it might be too small for anything with dice.
But you won´t know unless you try. ;-)
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Actually, Linux games usually have a Windows version, so they will most likely work fine with Windows 8.
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i've encountered a single game that doesn't run in win8 that runs in win7: mashed. it's pre-2000 though.
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Getting a laptop with win 8. I want to know what games don't work with it. I know that the release candidate couldn't run Borderlands 1 so I'm a little wary.
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