Windows 8.1

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 00:20

It seems upgrading to Windows 8.1 has broked some games for me

Anyone else

(Sorry if this is a repost)

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 00:24

Only some games - Sleeping Dogs, for example. ARMA3 and BF3 work fine... weird

I get an error involving D311.DLL

"The procedure entery point CreateDXGIFactory2 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Windows\System32\d3d11.dll"

P.S. I did the upgrade via an ISO

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 00:50

Yeah wish I never upgraded now. I was enjoying Sleeping Dogs too

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 02:16

Werewolf said:
Could it be you need to rereun the game installer or reinstall direct-x?

My guess is that the update has changed some direct x related files so the games aren't finding the versions they expect.

Done both mate! Every other games works - even BF after a PB reinstall - but Sleeping Dogs just won't run. Shame. Maybe I should wait for a patch from Square Enix

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:15

ThundyCat said:
You tried reinstalling sleeping dogs?

Yes mate, I have reinstalled twice; one to the same and one to a different folder, just in case. Oh well

Witcher1979 said:
It removed one of my drives from index options so the drive was not indexed and shares would not show on that one drive, only empty folders. Tried everything but could not get it back, went back to Win 8 Will wait a month or two before going back to 8.1

Did you have to do a full reinstall to achieve this?

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:35

Games that are fine:
ARMA 3
BF3
Metro LL

Not fine:
Sleeping Dogs
GTA IV

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:42

Hey Kun

Yes, my first Google led me to the fact SweetFX doesn't work at all with Windows 8.1 CJ is working on it, I am told. However I have removed for both SDs and BF3 and only the latter works now

And yes, BF3 looks awwwwwwwfffffffffuuuuuuuuuullllllllllllllllllllll without SweetFX

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:51

ThundyCat said:
After googling the issue some users have mentioned downloading the web installer version of DX update?

Done

and didn't work mate

BaDBoY_uK · 20 Oct 2013 at 13:04

~>Dg<~ said:
if you on 8, 8 is almost perfect dont upgrade to 8.1 !

Agree with this. Stick with 8 for now

BaDBoY_uK · 21 Oct 2013 at 22:17

Giggz said:
Have you tried running the games in win 7 or win 8 comp mode?

I have and same issue

BaDBoY_uK · 22 Oct 2013 at 14:43

I think I may go back to Windows 8

Getting this artifacting in BF3 now (SP tested and MP)

BaDBoY_uK · 23 Oct 2013 at 09:34

Back on Windows 8 now. Will test BF3 and report back

BaDBoY_uK · 23 Oct 2013 at 11:04

gareth170 said:
just tried Sleeping Dogs and it works fine. in fact all my games work

Yeah, Sleeping Dogs works on Steam on W8.1. Had to verify cache etc

~>Dg<~ said:
im gunna test bf4 first then probably go back to win8.0.

Not a bad idea. I will await your feedback and maybe install W8.1 again

For now the artifacting seems to have stopped - touch virtual wood (that's what she said)

BaDBoY_uK · 24 Oct 2013 at 00:17

gareth170 said:
on 8.1 did u try running at stock for BF3? because has it's a new OS you may need to redo your OC's. or it could be just a bug in the graphic driver.

Going to stick with 8.0 for now mate and upgrade again when the issues have gone or new AMD drivers are released