Windows 8 Compatibility

[Velhart]

The tablet interface for Windows in my opinion is a complete unorganized mess. I have a hard time turning on my 360 because of the new, horrid interface they use. I understand being hip and flashy, but the interface looks like something a 3rd grader made with construction paper.

Some may like it, but I find it unbearable.

[Kerwin]

This thread is now a Linux thread.

[Dragon]

This thread is now a Linux thread.

That's cool w/ me... it'd be the best thing ever if game developers worldwide quit supporting DirectX and started supporting OpenGL so their games could run on Linux. >,<;;

[Bizzy]

I been reading up on Windows 8 and I decided that this is the first version I will pass on. I gotten 98, me, xp, vista, and now 7. Out of all these XP and 7 were the best. I like having the boot up screen and the start menu. I don't know why microcrap would remove these. I have had no problems with 7, so I'll stick with that.

[Valandor]

Actually W8 includes a new way of handling Stereoscopic 3D that is native to the system, this will help GPU driver programmers improve 3D support for the ones of us that have 3D HDTVs (just like DirectX improved gaming back in the day it was released) and hopefully overall performance with the new WDD 1.2, being 30% (or more) efficient just by getting rid of the Aero interface and other useless stuff is also a plus IMHO.

[prymortal]

The Release Preview of Win8 made available today supports FFXIV without any issue, after a few hours of running it today.

The fact that it seems identical to Windows 7, other than the ridiculous metro Start Page, means this may come as no surprise to some. I can't quite work out why it took an hour to 'upgrade' my Win7.

Just thought I'd make mention in case any folk were considering trying it out.

Good to know i ran Win 8 CP & it had major network probliems with anything on the net wanted to take 7 days to download the ff14 updates..... good to see they fixed that reported probliem.

[Alhanelem]

Original design of Windows? Windows 1 couldn't even support overlapping Windows.

I lumped 3.11-prior together here, as microsoft has. If you include versions prior to 3.11, there are really 10 major home-use versions of windows and they should be calling the current one windows 9 and the next one windows 10. The mark of a real versions shift is at the point of the switch to the NT/95 style itnerface.

I'm running it in Windowed mode and it crashes with that stupod device lost error message everytime I try to run an executable.

I already explained how to solve that problem above if the crash is because of UAC prompts.

On windows 7 I deactivated UAC, but Windows 8 needs it activated or a lot of stuff doesn't work anymore.

Disabling UAC is a huge security risk. It's like telling someone the root password in linux. Most UAC crashes can be solved by disabling the "dim the desktop" (secure desktop) feature.

When you disable UAC, *ALL* programs run with administrator rights. "You want to rob my house? here's the key!"

[Dragon]

No. Metro is overall a better interface. Explorer is clunky. Face it... most everything people use is located via a shortcut on THE DESKTOP. Metro simplifies this.

I don't agree. Explorer is useful as it is on Windows 7 for K/M, MetroUI is not.

The Metro interface is presently used on the Xbox360 as it's primary UI and the Xbox360 does not use a touchscreen interface. And I hate to break it too you a tablet with a touchscreen UI isn't much different than desktop mouse driven UI.

They're made for different userbases. Not to mention for the Xbox 360, you're not using a K/M, but a gamepad. For one, a touchscreen UI makes it more efficient to just click with your... fingers! Imagine that. Secondly, the K/M userbase has a much larger screen.

[Delsus]

Pretty much every program that is compatible with Windows 7 should be compatible with Windows 8, at least that is what I saw from the developer preview ages ago (still have to download the consumer preview.)

And another note, if Microsoft really do force us to use the metro interface, its just another reason to go to linux, atm my only reason for not switching to linux full time is compatibility of Windows, well I could use wine, but atm my laptop will not use the propriotory graphics drivers properly because of my BS hybrid graphics, if it did I would be on linux now and playing FFXIV through wine.

Microsoft's ideas of "we know how everything should be, and everyone else is wrong" and no options for customisation is what will kill them, Linux would be ahead of Windows now if everyone programmed for both of them I can gurentee it.

[Dragon]

Pretty much every program that is compatible with Windows 7 should be compatible with Windows 8, at least that is what I saw from the developer preview ages ago (still have to download the consumer preview.)

And another note, if Microsoft really do force us to use the metro interface, its just another reason to go to linux, atm my only reason for not switching to linux full time is compatibility of Windows, well I could use wine, but atm my laptop will not use the propriotory graphics drivers properly because of my BS hybrid graphics, if it did I would be on linux now and playing FFXIV through wine.

Microsoft's ideas of "we know how everything should be, and everyone else is wrong" and no options for customisation is what will kill them, Linux would be ahead of Windows now if everyone programmed for both of them I can gurentee it.

Agreed.

The only reason I don't use Linux is because game developers for the most part won't support OpenGL, the key ingredient needed for Linux compatibility (I believe). Linux is just the superior product in every other way.