Hi,
There are complaints about some games not working, for example LA Noir. Some problems can be fixed, some were from the pre-release version of Windows 8 and have been fixed already, but I imagine some (older, for a flexible definition of "old" :p) games might not get fixed at all.
Only time will tell if there will be such cases; i just wanted to point out the risk. That's moot now, as DeeBye has bought it already, and hopefully he won't run into any compatibility problems.
That will be interesting to see. There are applications which won't work very well with the Metro concept, for example anything where you want to have multiple windows open at the same time, so I doubt the desktop will get removed anytime soon. (Caveat: I never saw Metro and can only speculate from what I've read about it)
-Kylearan
(11-03-2012, 02:03 AM)FoxBat Wrote: I'm skeptical and my google-fu is failing. There are alot of device manufacturers not updating their drivers for windows 8, but I don't know much about game software problems. It's really not all that different from 7 underneath the horrible start menu.They have made several changes to the kernel, mainly for security reasons, that aren't visible to the user immediately. I have no idea how the impact on existing software is, but I would imagine it could interfere for example with advanced copy protection schemes.
There are complaints about some games not working, for example LA Noir. Some problems can be fixed, some were from the pre-release version of Windows 8 and have been fixed already, but I imagine some (older, for a flexible definition of "old" :p) games might not get fixed at all.
Only time will tell if there will be such cases; i just wanted to point out the risk. That's moot now, as DeeBye has bought it already, and hopefully he won't run into any compatibility problems.
Quote:The future is unfortunately Metro so I have to recommend Win 8 so you at least have access to it. While it is nothing but a nuisance, the desktop is on it's way out [...]
That will be interesting to see. There are applications which won't work very well with the Metro concept, for example anything where you want to have multiple windows open at the same time, so I doubt the desktop will get removed anytime soon. (Caveat: I never saw Metro and can only speculate from what I've read about it)
-Kylearan
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