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Im building a rig for my friend in a couple days around windows 8 and i was wondering if the non pro edition came with compatibility mode. he has a few games that he plays regularly (mainly the older battlefields) and we're not sure if they will be compatible with windows 8 64 bit. any ideas?

also, he is upgrading from a 5 year old laptop on windows xp. thanks in advance for any help!

 

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Windows 8 and 8 Pro have compatibility mode. However, you don't have XP Mode like you had in Windows 7 (you can't play games on that in any case). For really old games, I would suggest to use a virtual environment like VMWare.

Please note that Windows Media Center + DVD playback codec pack, is free.... but this is the last day. It's 15$. You need Windows 8 Pro to have this pack. It's a 70$ extra if you come from Windows 8, where it will upgrade your Windows 8 to 8 Pro, and include Media Center and DVD playback codec for it.

Canada: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/feature-packs

US: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs

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With very few exceptions, anything that will run on Windows 7 will run on 8 just fine. Personally I've never seen a case where a 32bit program could not run on a 64bit OS. It can happen, but not really with games.

For example, I've run theme hospital on Windows 8 in DOSbox.

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With very few exceptions, anything that will run on Windows 7 will run on 8 just fine. Personally I've never seen a case where a 32bit program could not run on a 64bit OS. It can happen, but not really with games.

For example, I've run theme hospital on Windows 8 in DOSbox.

I've only seen custom software that is 32 bit and won't run on 64 bit OS.

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ok thanks for the help guys ill go tell him what you've said.

 

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The only old games that is expected to not work, are the ones that are made in 16-bit. 16-bit program support has been pulled from a 64-bit version of Windows. However, sometimes you can find an official or non official patch, where the game has been recompiled for 32-bit.

Usually, if it runs on Vista 64-bit or 7 64-bit, it will run perfectly fine on Windows 8 64-bit.

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