How's gaming on Windows 8?

sygnus21 said:

x BlueRobot said:

My friend has played Sims 3 on his Windows 8 laptop with no problems at all :)

Alejandro85 said:

Windows Blue (or BSOD) seems to be the same kernel too (it's version number is 6.3), so I guess it would not break a significant number of things.

I wouldn't except Microsoft to improve their kernel, Windows Blue is more of Service Pack for Windows 8.

Well I'm not interested in playing the Sims. In fact, the question has nothing to do with my laptop as I'm not really interested in gaming on it. I was just interested in the general gaming aspect of Win 8 on a desktop. Especially if I decide to replace Win 7 with it.

And I basically have no issues with 8, in fact I like it. But.... I need to see what Blues offers before I replace my desktop OS with it.

With that I was just interested in the gaming aspect of it.

Since you have 8 on your laptop, you get to preview blue from what I understand. I would download it, and try it on your desktop to try.

Here you go...

The first pic is of the games I currently have running well on Windows 8. You'll notice that some are quite old, so compatibility isn't really a problem

The second is of the games I have running in DOS-Box on Windows 8. Yep, a 3.1Ghz quad-core fooled into thinking it's a Pentium 120...

Win 8 actually performs very well as a gaming OS. I must admit I was surprised, as the betas weren't very good at all.


Wenda.