AtrocityExhibition wrote:
But you're trying to play relatively old games on a brand new operating system, which is positively asking for trouble.
When is an 'old game' old ?
I already have both games for my xbox - just for a few quid i thought i might as well pick it up on the PC as well and for the laptop I thought i could play them if i was not at home.
Fallout 3 came out in October 2008 so its 4 and a bit years old
Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition came out in April 2010 so its nearly 3 years old
I wouldn't consider either *that* old , and given the laptop is not a 'gaming machine' I wouldn't dream of going near something new because it would simply be unplayable
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
As a gamer there's no way I'd even entertain the possibility of moving to Windows 8 yet, even if I loved it pieces (rather than wishing I could nuke the entire bastard OS from orbit, just to be sure).
New laptop and it came with Windows 8 pre-installed , yes I could nuke it , gather up the drivers and put Windows 7 on it but thats a lot of work for a machine that i'm using for other things and that i just wanted to play some games on
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
I stuck on XP for years rather than risk problems with Vista, I only made the move forward when Windows 7 was well established.
Same here , although I tried Vista and 7 when they came out
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
An operating system is a platform to run other things on, why move to a wobbly new untested platform when you want to play years old games on it?
See above - i'm using the laptop for other things - games was a nice to have , not the purpose of the machine - I also disagree that Windows 8 is 'wobbly' and the issues that i've given would both affect it even if it was an absolutely *perfect* OS , the SF4 issue is that Steam is setup to download the wrong stuff so you need to manually rip it out and put the right stuff on manually first - from what i can tell Fallout3 doesn't like new hardware and is incompatible with a lot of stuff so you need to manually fiddle it to ignore those things - neither is related to the stability or not of Windows 8
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
I'm not saying some people don't have problems playing games on their PC, because they clearly do, but the examples you've given there zaphod were 100% avoidable if you hadn't jumped head-first into using a brand new OS.
I disagree - The fixes I was following for Fallout 3 are for Windows 7 users as well and as mentioned the machine I have came with Windows 8 pre-installed - for a 'new' user your actually suggesting that they wipe the OS on their machine and buy an old one to put on so they can play games - that doesn't seem very practical ?