Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

Nikumba · 1 Oct 2012 at 12:13

Nelly said:
If they can fix the majority of games that have problems, I'll probally switch, plus a few revision of hardware drivers too.

Curious which games you are having problems with?

bulb66 · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:01

This might have been answered elsewhere but....

Can I upgrade (for the £25 offer) from a Windows 7 OEM license (purchased from OCUK)?

I also have another PC in the house with an OEM license can that get the same offer?

Thanks

James

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:10

bulb66 said:
This might have been answered elsewhere but....

Can I upgrade (for the £25 offer) from a Windows 7 OEM license (purchased from OCUK)?

I also have another PC in the house with an OEM license can that get the same offer?

Thanks

James

Yes it has in this thread, yes to the upgrade and yes to getting the same offer on the other PC (providing it's XP, Vista or 7)

bulb66 · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:49

ChileanLlama said:
Yes it has in this thread, yes to the upgrade and yes to getting the same offer on the other PC (providing it's XP, Vista or 7)

Thanks

Now to plan my new build around Windows 8 release

prescott28 · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:09

Nikumba said:
Curious which games you are having problems with?

I was wondering this too. Nearly all the games I play are Steam ones and the only ones I couldn't get to work were the ones the use Games for Windows. I expect that this will be fixed, if it is problem at all, with the release version we are getting this month.

Nikumba · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:12

The only game I have had problems with is Company of Hero's that runs in a window for some reason?

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:46

Nikumba said:
The only game I have had problems with is Company of Hero's that runs in a window for some reason?

It often did that on Windows 7 for me too

But I can confirm that CoH works and plays flawlessly on Windows 8.

Try ALT+ENTER and it should go fullscreen, or check that you haven't got it set to windowed in the settings.

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:48

prescott28 said:
I was wondering this too. Nearly all the games I play are Steam ones and the only ones I couldn't get to work were the ones the use Games for Windows. I expect that this will be fixed, if it is problem at all, with the release version we are getting this month.

You never replied to your other thread on this, what games are you suffering problems with Prescott? The GFWL fix I've mentioned works on most for me, but if you can give specifics I can see if I have the same games and same problems

Nikumba · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:48

ChileanLlama said:
It often did that on Windows 7 for me too But I can confirm that CoH works and plays flawlessly on Windows 8.

Try ALT+ENTER and it should go fullscreen, or check that you haven't got it set to windowed in the settings.

Tried and checked still no luck, I am not too bothered as its an old game, though I did notice the demo of the new UFO game was in window mode, but could be the ATI driver or something.

Will worry about it once I have bought the full retail version

Kimbie

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:50

It's more likely the ATI drivers, I play CoH a lot and it's been exactly the same as on Windows 7 for me.

Good luck though

prescott28 · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:42

ChileanLlama said:
You never replied to your other thread on this, what games are you suffering problems with Prescott? The GFWL fix I've mentioned works on most for me, but if you can give specifics I can see if I have the same games and same problems

Whoops, sorry.

I had been trying to run "Sleeping Dogs", "Dead Rising 2, Off the record" and "L A Noire" none of these would work in the Release Preview I was trying. I downloaded Microsoft Flight so the GFW ought to have been the most recent.

I am back on Windows 7 at present - after all its only 3 weeks or so until we get the release of Windows 8 so I was hoping Steam might have sorted things in time for the release.I'd be grateful for any advice, though.

Nelly · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:46

Nikumba said:
Curious which games you are having problems with?

prescott28 said:

I was wondering this too. Nearly all the games I play are Steam ones and the only ones I couldn't get to work were the ones the use Games for Windows. I expect that this will be fixed, if it is problem at all, with the release version we are getting this month.

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Maybe I am shooting myself in the foot, but I haven't even tried Windows 8 yet lol.

Not having Start Menu is kinda putting me off, maybe I should just jump in, I've managed to errr'm find a UK version of Windows 8 RTM... I could always activate it once I bought it come October 25th.

Their is a list of games not compatable here, not sure how good the list is >> http://www.hardcore-games.tk/wp/old-games-no-win8.php

Anyone got LA Noire? See if that works, if possible?

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:46

No problem

I have Sleeping Dogs, but not the others, and that works fine. Didn't know it was GFWL!

When you downloaded MS Flight, did you run it and sign in? That's worked for me, but on the previous builds I did the manual GFWL install and that worked too (though I didn't do the uninstalls first).

I'm on the RTM now so that might be some of it...might be worth resurrecting your other thread when you get the final version and help one another with issues/workarounds. Everything seems to get lost pretty quick in this thread

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:49

Nelly said:
Maybe I am shooting myself in the foot, but I haven't even tried Windows 8 yet lol.

Not having Start Menu is kinda putting me off, maybe I should just jump in, I've managed to errr'm find a UK version of Windows 8 RTM... I could always activate it once I bought it come October 25th.

Their is a list of games not compatable here, not sure how good the list is >> http://www.hardcore-games.tk/wp/old-games-no-win8.php

Anyone got LA Noire? See if that works, if possible?

If it's an unknown source I'd be tempted to either try the Enterprise Trial or just wait. Without frigging it you need to enter the 8 or 8 pro key at install anyway.

That list isn't accurate, I know some of them work though don't have them all. Though I suspect some of them are on there because they need a GFWL manual install to work.

Nelly · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:52

ChileanLlama said:
If it's an unknown source I'd be tempted to either try the Enterprise Trial or just wait. Without frigging it you need to enter the 8 or 8 pro key at install anyway.

Damn, so in other words their is no 30 day activation period like Windows 7?

ChileanLlama · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:59

Not unless you modify the installer, as it uses the key during install to decide which version of Win8/8Pro and feature set are enabled.

Nelly · 1 Oct 2012 at 16:13

Nelly said:
Damn, so in other words their is no 30 day activation period like Windows 7?

ChileanLlama said:

Not unless you modify the installer, as it uses the key during install to decide which version of Win8/8Pro and feature set are enabled.

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Oh! I don't like that at all lol, so no early access for me anyway, I'll have to just source it when it's released on 25th Oct then, thanks for the info.

bulb66 · 1 Oct 2012 at 16:47

Was just downloading the iso for the 64bit ver and got to 3.1GB of 3.3GB and i closed chrome by mistake

Going to wait until trw once i've had my Fibre BB installed

Nelly · 1 Oct 2012 at 17:15

bulb66 said:
Was just downloading the iso for the 64bit ver and got to 3.1GB of 3.3GB and i closed chrome by mistake

Going to wait until trw once i've had my Fibre BB installed

Although I use Chrome as my default browser, it's the only thing I hate about Chrome, for downloading large files I just use Firefox, Internet Download Manager is good as well for an accelerator.

Their maybe be a decent Chrome Download Manager extension out there, I never bothered to look.

bulb66 · 2 Oct 2012 at 15:47

Well after my stupid mistake yesterday of closing chrome before it had finished downloading (having waited over an hour to download it) I've now had fibre installed downloaded the iso in 14 min and i'm running Windows 8 now :-)