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GAMES INCOMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS 8

We have many old games. Unfortunately some games are not compatible with Windows 8 while others of the same period are. For this reason we suggesting dual boot.

We have another list of games with known issues from Windows 7.

Generally recent games should be OK with Windows 8. Older titles are the ones most at issue.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Anomaly: Warzone Earth
• Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead
• Bastion
• Battlefield 1942
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• Battlefield 3
• Batman: Arkham City
• Batman: Gotham City Imposters
• BioShock
• BioShock 2
• Bulletstorm
• Call of Duty: War Chest
• Civilization V
• Combat Arms
• Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
• Crysis 2
• The Darkness 2
• Deadspace 2
• Devil May Cry 4
• Dirt Showdown
• Doom 2 for Windows 95
• Dragon Age II
• The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
• Fallout
• Flat Out Ultimate Carnage
  • may work with XP SP3 compatibility mode
• F1 2011
• F1 2012
• Gears of War
• Gothic 3
• Gothic 4
• Halo 2 for Windows Vista
• Hard Reset
• Just Cause 2
  • Steam version seems to work ok
• LA Noire
• Mass Effect 3
• Minecraft
• Metro 2033
• NecroVisioN
• NecroVisioN: Lost Company
• Need for Speed: Hot Persuit
  • may work with XP SP3 compatibility mode
• Rainbow Six: Rouge Spear
• Rayman: Origins
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
• Rift
• Sleeping dogs
• Sniper Elite V2
• Soldier of Fortune
• STALKER: Call of Pripyat
• Star Wars: Battlefront
• StarCraft II
• Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
• The Sims 2
• Taito Legends 2
• Total War: Shogun 2
• Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
• Unigine Heaven 2.0
• Vindictus
• World of Warcraft

THIS LIST ASSUMES NO IT SKILLS SO ANY ERROR ARISES IT IS LISTED

This list is larger than we have noted with earlier versions of Windows.

All of our games are the CD/DVD version, except for Rage which is the sole game we have only the download version from Steam. Steam download versions of the games seem to be working so we believe the disk checks and DRM are at issue.

STEAM

We have only a limited number of games using the Steam DRM. Downloaded versions of the games seems to be less problematic. Many games now on Steam originally shipped on CD/DVD and virtually all of our games are the original CD/DVD version.

LIVE

Download the new Live client package first before installing any Games for Windows Live titles.

We have several Games for Windows Live titles.

NEXON

Nexon is a Korean gaming operation that offers a few free to play titles. Unfortunately it seems that the whole lot are incompatible with 8. We are hopeful that the company is able to identify the problem and make updates available.

STARFORCE

Older games that use the Star Force DRM are showing problems. We have investigated the issue and noted no support for old games on their web site. Today, we have not seen any new games using Star Force due to problems.

TAGES

The Tages DRM does not work with Windows 7 or higher. Tages has an update. Both x86 and x64 are available.

GAMES WITH ISSUES

We have now identified several titles that will not work with Windows 8 that otherwise work OK with Windows 7.

Most of the issues seem to be due to DRM schemes. There are dozens of them in use and it seems that they are at issue most of the time.

An idea is to try the XP SP3 compatibility mode. Sometimes that can get an older game to work.

UPGRADE

Microsoft has indicated XP users and up can upgrade to 8 for $40 from release day through the end of January 2013 from windows.com. We recommend buying the upgrade but of you are using a lot of older games you may want to hold off an until SP1 is released before trying it out. For this reason we suggesting dual boot using a larger hard disk as needed.