Are Windows 7 games compatible on Windos 8

some yea, but why 8?

Win 8 is based on Win 7, all games should run on it. But I heard that there are some problems with GFWL games.

The vast majority of games will work fine on Windows 8. Out of all my games there's only one (Poker Night at the Inventory) that I can't get to work.

are windows vista games compatible with windows 7

As much as I hate to bring 4chan out of 4chan, they be speakin' the truth.

Doom series don't work on Windows 8 because the DosBox is not up to date

i got windows 8,because i wanted to format my pc,and checked out windows 8,it looked really nice,although the start(Win key) is kinda tacky,other than that it is really nice,thanks for the help anyways

i have win8
everything i tried, worked.
it also have the ability to run on compatibility mode, so no worries

Haven't had any problems with games in Windows 8 so far :)

i think buying multiple OSs are a waste of money unless you get xp pro. Id partition your hd and add xp as a second OS, you need a decent size hd though

Yes.

anyways all windows 7 games should run just as good on windows 8 except borderlands 2, windows 7 is better by 7 percent for nvidia graphics. Also windows 8 supports DX 11.1. And i think but i am not sure, windows 8 conserves batery life better

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-8-gaming-performance,3331-5.html

Many (but not all) Steam games should work under Windows 8, either officially or un-officially. All of the games that I have on Steam work in my Windows 8 laptop.

i RUn WIndows 8,and all games that i have Run without trouble on Windows 8

Don't listen to the people that hate on Win 8, the majority are jumping on the bandwagon. All my games work fine on Win 8 (although I know others have had problems with select games). I never use the metro UI, that thing is useless to me. People complain about the fact there is no Start button, well to be honest I never knew how little I used it until now. If you really want to upgrade, get it. There are a ton of improvements, mainly with Windows Defender, boot times, task manager, etc. I think you missed out on getting it for $40 and if you are using Win 7, I don't think it is worth upgrading it simply because it is a slight improvement but isn't worth the usual price of operating systems as it doesn't improve upon 7 enough for it to be worth around $120.

All my games are runningly fine with win 8 ;)

well,thank you all for helping me ;)

Every game I played after installing Windows 8 works. Please do not comment in Windows 8 before you tried it.

lets cut all the crap, windows 8 is just windows 7 with an added home screen

windos 8?

yes compatible!

Was already answered here dont know why didnt you use search in forum. Yes they are.

Yes. Windows 8 is based on Windows 7. And you will be able to run older games too that didn't even have Win 7 compatibility using compatibility mode and "Run as administrator".

windows 8 is windows 7 optimized, with less driver support, couple of quirks, no start button and a glued startscreen/metro interface.

Most of the games works just like win7, there may be some with problems to start, that will get better in time, if not, you should look for a fix eg: fallout 3 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121103225335AAUT2KI

personally, i tried last weekend to upgrade to win8 (2nd try) but i'm still getting some hard lockups due to probably flash's 'activate hardware acceleration'. I'll try to use it again in a couple of months to se e if updates fix it. Meanwhile i'm back on seven.

There is no noticeable difference in game performance from windows 7 to 8. there is a tiny spike is graphic performance, that most people wont notice unless they test and compare graphic cards.