Windows 8 Features and Release Date 2012 ... And Then Some

[Flexx17]

Can it run games like MSDOS based games and run .bat files? Are you the only one in Jamaica that you know of that this happens to?

nope all my gaming friends who tried win8 it happen to...but most of them just let me be the beta tester and since i told em bout the issue the backed the hell away from it

[wii.live07]

I wonder if I'll be able to play games based on DOS and just games in particular when the final thing comes out. After all what you peeps doing is essentially a beta with bugs. We'll get to play our games. It would be chaotic if PC gamers can't play on Windows 8.

[Flexx17]

I wonder if I'll be able to play games based on DOS and just games in particular when the final thing comes out. After all what you peeps doing is essentially a beta with bugs. We'll get to play our games. It would be chaotic if PC gamers can't play on Windows 8.

if the final version comes out n it cant play all the games win7 used to then thats an automatic fail

[ShadowWolfe Hellscream]

Who knnows how the Win8 RP install works? I downloaded it and treid to install it over my consumer preview but that doesn't work.
I have a Win7 installation on disk now but that's my main OS so I don't wanna risk RP "upgrading" the os, i.e moving everything and giving me a fresh intsall.
I wanna know if I initiate the RP on my main Win7 os if it'll give me the option to install elsewhere , maybel load from another partition.
This install is different as I don't even know where the RP files where downloaded to. Seems to be all over the filesystem.

[Flexx17]

Who knnows how the Win8 RP install works? I downloaded it and treid to install it over my consumer preview but that doesn't work.
I have a Win7 installation on disk now but that's my main OS so I don't wanna risk RP "upgrading" the os, i.e moving everything and giving me a fresh intsall.
I wanna know if I initiate the RP on my main Win7 os if it'll give me the option to install elsewhere , maybel load from another partition.
This install is different as I don't even know where the RP files where downloaded to. Seems to be all over the filesystem.

yeah man as long as you install like normal just use the other option not the upgrade option

[wii.live07]

What is an epioc fail. If Win 7 and 8 have no need or do not have MSDOS in them and my .bat setup files, games and software work on windows 7 and not windows 8? I thought they were DOS free now as they cut out all of DOS and still able to play Quake 4 and Mass Effect 3. Or would I run as XP mode when i ruight click for that option. Will all the bugs be sorted out with this issue on final release or am I screwed.

[Flexx17]

^ The fail i was talking about is if the games that we play on Win7 cant run on Win8 cause (note some games work but others do not)

[Anthon]

Anybody tried upgrading instead of a fresh install and see if the games work?

[Dre']

Anybody tried upgrading instead of a fresh install and see if the games work?

Upgrading from Developer Preview or Consumer Preview to Release preview, none of the system files or windows folder will be maintain so it doesn't make a difference in the install. however in Windows 7 and Vista there might be a different since it keeps the system files intact and only upgrades the ones needed to be.

[Anthon]

I thought Win8 saved app settings and port apps when you upgrade....