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Winders 8?

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Submitted by techiem2 on Thu, 2013-09-26 17:29

Has anyone tried to get DS1 and DS2 running under Win8 yet?
I'm about to upgrade my laptop drives and I'm trying to decide if I should bite the bullet and start learning 8 since I'm starting to have to support it, but I want to know if I'll be able to run DS1 and DS2 under it and how painful they will be to get working.

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Submitted by Lady Femme on Thu, 2013-09-26 18:07

the only compelling reason to get win8 while upgrading laptop drives is for >2tb boot drive support. but since the largest size laptop drive is still 1tb, it makes upgrading to win8 rather moot.

also, i heard win7 x64 has problems saving chars in ds2. darkelf is affected by this bug. not sure if it carried over to win8 but its sure going to be a killjoy...

i suggest u just install win8 on one laptop that u dont use often and just use it for learning win8 and light work.
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Submitted by PhoeniX on Thu, 2013-09-26 20:11

I have had no problems with DS1 or DS2 running win8, LoA however will not install properly.
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Submitted by techiem2 on Fri, 2013-09-27 05:13

Interesting. I guess I'll have to give it a shot and see what happens.
I guess DS2/BW is the more important one at this point anyway what with the DS1->DS2 conversion and such going on. hehe.
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Submitted by sjr on Fri, 2013-09-27 09:04

I installed ds1 and loa on a windows 8 machine and it was a 50/50 proposition if it would run, though if i kept trying it would eventually. For some reason when I installed the abstraction siegelet I was able to get it to run everytime. For all versions I could get error messages when starting but if you clicked ok/continue a couple times it would then either start or do nothing and have to start over.
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