Whats Happened to Games for windows?

Diagro · 29 Dec 2012 at 10:09

Hey

I have windows 8 now and would very much like to play Batman or Dark souls...

But unfortunately I cannot use Games for windows live on windows 8 and thus i cannot play these 2 games.

Does anyone know a work around for this?

Mattyjw · 29 Dec 2012 at 10:14

You might need to download an update that's hidden around the xbox site because microsoft hate pc gaming.

Diagro · 29 Dec 2012 at 10:24

fixed it.

had to copy all Xlive stuff from sysWOW64 to system32 and it works fine now lol

MeMeMeMe · 30 Dec 2012 at 08:54

Is this normal? You cant run Games for Windows Live on Win8 without manually copying files about?

ColEx · 30 Dec 2012 at 09:00

MeMeMeMe said:
Is this normal? You cant run Games for Windows Live on Win8 without manually copying files about?

Games For Windows Live works fine on Windows 8, no idea what the OP has done to make it not work.

Sleepery · 30 Dec 2012 at 09:44

Yeah, it has to be the OP's fault. It's not like GFWL was ever a badly programmed annoying obstructive mess, is it?

DJDaz · 30 Dec 2012 at 13:06

Works fine in Windows 8 for me

bobuk · 30 Dec 2012 at 13:14

Got a problem with Bioshock 2 on steam, that won't run on Windows 8 either. Anyone got any ideas on that ?

Confused · 30 Dec 2012 at 13:31

You need the latest GFWL client - the ones that come via Steam are the older version.

Uninstall any GFWL client you've already got installed, and download the installer from here: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/LIVE/PC/DownloadClient

This should be version 3.5.0089.0 - the version with Batman Arkham City is 3.5.56.0

caz32 · 30 Dec 2012 at 13:32

Same happened to me with Street Fighter, had to uninstall the GFWL that the game installed and then download the GFWL client off microsofts website and it worked

Diagro · 30 Dec 2012 at 13:43

The fix i did was to correct the bug that exists for games such as dark souls and various others.
The bug happens when you don't use the correct installer

but it works now so all is good