Anyone here with Win 8 experience?

[Barney Fife]

I have a desktop and a laptop both with Win 8. The laptop came with it installed and the desktop is an upgrade from Win XP Home.

The laptop plays all but two or three of my older 32 bit games.
The desktop wont play practically any of my games.

I'm not sure why.

[orchard]

Was the desktop 32 bit or 64 bit?
Did you run the compatibility test tool?

After upgrading my laptop from xp-win8, I had to reinstall a couple of programs.

[NorCalXJ]

Win8 probably doesn't support them.

[SWalt]

I have windows 8 on both my computers....its great if you like a cell phone format




But try the compatibility wizard....it worked 1 time for me......didn't work the other times. Or just click on properties and change it to a past windows OS

[MA2]

Install Classic Shell, for the old style menu.

I will prob. not touch Win8 (same went for Vista), I tend skip an upgrade.
Still on XP, and 7 on the laptop (still dislike 7).

[soul]

If it was working on Windows 7 it will work in Windows 8. Try right click on executable > Properties > Compatibility mode and select earlier version and try.



The other issue in some cases is DEP restriction, the game can be configured in the system settings as exception for DEP. This is enhanced security mode, which is enabled by default causing issues with some applications.



All in all it is a great OS and much improvements over Windows 7. Pick up some mouse, keyboard tricks and you will be more productive.



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[Barney Fife]

I've tried all the standard compatibility stuff, these progs work fine on my win 8 laptop, but not on my upgraded win 8 desktop. Laptop is 64 bit, desktop is 32 bit. All the progs worked fine on the desktop before the upgrade and I reinstalled them from scratch, but each has issues and can't get them to run.

I'm wondering if it's a win 8 video driver issue.

[oldsmoboat]

nvm

[walterwhite]

Check to see if your desktop Hard Drive is formated NTFS or FAT32?

Older XP system hard drives were formatted using FAT32. I am not sure why your games wouldn't work but at least it is something you can check.

[clsA]

I recently installed Quake - Quake II and Duke 3D on my windows 8 system and they run extremely well (128gb Solid state HDD + 8gig ram + Geforce 470) These games never seen it so good .

I'm not sure what you have going on ...maybe a backup and clean install instead of an upgrade may help.

[soul]

Try two things, one is run the setup in compatibility mode by right click on setup.exe and selecting compatibility option The second most common issue is DEP setting, which can be disabled for this particular program. Win8 is fully compatible with 7, so it will work







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[the86d]

Always do a clean install of Windows, never upgrade.

You might notice some more issues start to creep-up too, like every "upgrade" of M$ products.