Worried about SoD + Windows 8?

Rari

Rari

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So, my laptop running Windows 7 was being replaced this week with basically the same machine (but brand new!) running Windows 8. I've spent the whole time worrying my ass off that Shards wouldn't run properly, especially after all of the terrible tales I've seen in Troubleshooting.

I got the new laptop today. Lazy me, I copied my game folder from one laptop to the other and didn't even bother with a fresh install. I just ran the patcher as administrator.

Works just fine.

Still getting used to the new OS, but I only ever used my start menu for Search and I kept my taskbar hidden already, so I don't see this as being much of an adjustment really. Oh, except its dead silent and cool as a cucumber.

Anyway, just wanted to share a "works just fine" story to help balance out the doom and gloom.

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"Updated" lately from Win98 SE to XP,but it was a step back,plagued now by all kind of small UI bugs like missing target ring,text slightly blurred,chars sharing keyboard bindings etc. etc. - tyvm.
Also why does this pos take 5 times the space on the hd and needs 20k files instead of 4k for
absolutly nothing doing better than Win98SE ?
The thought of being forced one day to use Win8 just makes me shiver.

Oh,let me add.One of my favorite games not running anymore - Crawl,*tile based 2d *.
All kind of issues depending on graphics driver from running ultra slow to crashing with a *blue screen*.
Let me repeat *tile based 2d game crashing to a blue screen* - unbeleivable.
 
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Ulandx said:
"Updated" lately from Win98 SE to XP,but it was a step back,plagued now by all kind of small UI bugs like missing target ring,text slightly blurred,chars sharing keyboard bindings etc. etc. - tyvm.
Also why does this pos take 5 times the space on the hd and needs 20k files instead of 4k for
absolutly nothing doing better than Win98SE ?
The thought of being forced one day to use Win8 just makes me shiver.

Oh,let me add.One of my favorite games not running anymore - Crawl,*tile based 2d *.
All kind of issues depending on graphics driver from running ultra slow to crashing with a *blue screen*.
Let me repeat *tile based 2d game crashing to a blue screen* - unbeleivable.
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Did you really just upgrade from a 15 year old OS (win98) to a 12 year old OS (XP), or are you just being goofy?
 
I'm not disappointed in Windows 7 so far, but I did really like Windows XP. Windows 98 was pretty OK, but Windows XP was definitely far superior by Service Pack 1. I never did bother with further packs. Windows ME and Windows 2000 were abominations and I'll continue disregarding them now. Windows Vista was junk that needed fixing and polish, and Windows 7 is the result of that happening. I see no use for Windows 8 except as a cash grab, and primarily use Windows 7 because it was $10 for me and let me use newer hardware with larger numbers without complaint.

As to your crappy Windows 98 nostalgia: I don't know anyone so broke that they can't afford the hard drive or partitioned space dedicated to their previous Win 98 install. It's a shame you're having these problems when you have such a simple fix to them. Heck, I keep my Windows XP machine around, and can easily just move its hard drive over if I wanted to dual-boot. Please, for the love of Pete, get the needed and simple assistance to not be doing without games like Crawl!
 
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I love windows 7 ^-^ i loved xp but finally upgraded to windows seven last year and i think its far better!
 
I remember it from a group of games called Coffee Break games, before Microsoft acquired and marred it. The original version was noticeable superior as a pinball game, and I have it and enjoy it still, along with the other two tables it came with.
 
Daffie said:
Did you really just upgrade from a 15 year old OS (win98) to a 12 year old OS (XP), or are you just being goofy?
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Some people are still slowly easing themselves into the 21st Century. Windows XP is a good and logical step. Now just one more baby-step into the next century.... should be ready for it in 10 years or so.
 
Marttog said:
Some people are still slowly easing themselves into the 21st Century. Windows XP is a good and logical step. Now just one more baby-step into the next century.... should be ready for it in 10 years or so.
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Sad days. At this point, even most business infrastructures are upgrading to windows 7... Other than UAC and the fact that it uses more resources, I find Windows 7 to be vastly superior to XP.
 
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