Windows 8 Older game issues

whyscotty · 20 Jan 2013 at 15:19

Installed windows 8 on Friday and all went well,
in all honesty quite impressed with it.

Everything works well if anything it seems quicker than windows 7(placebo maybe)

However, I can no longer play any of the Crysis series.

Tried all different resolutions,single screen, eyefinity , drivers basically your normal tricks etc.

I've posted here as I'm presuming it's a windows 8 issue

Any and all help appreciated

mraerosmith1981 · 20 Jan 2013 at 15:21

No problems with the crysis series here bud

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Jan 2013 at 15:29

I had a problem when I tried Red Alert 2 on Windows 8. It didn't want to play at all.

whyscotty · 20 Jan 2013 at 15:31

mraerosmith1981 said:
No problems with the crysis series here bud

Thanks, from what I've read it seem to be hit and miss issue.

Was hoping someone had a similar prob and could steer me in the
right direction

Elevon · 20 Jan 2013 at 15:35

whyscotty said:
Thanks, from what I've read it seem to be hit and miss issue.

Was hoping someone had a similar prob and could steer me in the
right direction

Try this http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/91762/crysis-crashes-on-windows-8-pro-what-to-do (few different options to try).

whyscotty · 21 Jan 2013 at 11:16

Elevon said:
Try this http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/91762/crysis-crashes-on-windows-8-pro-what-to-do (few different options to try).

Tried them still no joy

Elevon · 21 Jan 2013 at 13:48

whyscotty said:
Tried them still no joy

Could be a driver issue since it should run fine http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/win8/CompatCenter/ProductDetailsViewer?Type=Software&Name=Crysis&Vendor=EA&ModelOrVersion=1&Locale=1033&BreadcrumbPath=crysis&tempOsid=win8 .

Have you tried usual things like run as admin in compatiblity mode and xp/vista or win7 mode etc...

kitch9 · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:11

whyscotty said:
Installed windows 8 on Friday and all went well,
in all honesty quite impressed with it.

Everything works well if anything it seems quicker than windows 7(placebo maybe)

However, I can no longer play any of the Crysis series.

Tried all different resolutions,single screen, eyefinity , drivers basically your normal tricks etc.

I've posted here as I'm presuming it's a windows 8 issue

Any and all help appreciated

I couldn't play Crysis in Windows 7 either as it kept forcing my monitor into 24hz and thus a black screen.

Crytek was oblivious to it and ignored.