Eroge on Windows 8

selgon1234

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #1

Is it possible to play eroge on windows 8? I tried several times, but it didn't work. Maybe I'm missing something.
By the way, I got windows 8 64bit.

 

nawi

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• Sep 19, 2013

• #2

hmm...just installed Guilty game in windows8 64 bit...and it works fine...the patches

work well too with the help of daemon tools lite and directx..

 

Vivid

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• Sep 19, 2013

• #3

I have windows 8 64bit and so far all the eroge I've downloaded have worked fine.

 

pichu655889

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• Oct 31, 2013

• #4

Windows 8 works fine with the games I have... maybe you could try running your games in compatibility mode?

 

selgon1234

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• Nov 6, 2013

• #5

Hi.
I actually found out that I didn't switch to Japanese regional settings (or whatever it is called). I'm very embarrassed by this and I'm very sorry for troubling you very nice people.
Thank you.

 

pichu655889

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• Nov 6, 2013

• #6

No problem, enjoy your games! And there's no need to be embarrassed :)

 

pumasrevenge

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• Nov 6, 2013

• #7

Although the problem is solved already, there are some eroges which aren't compatible with Windows 8 in the slightest. The good thing is, that this only applies for older ones which were developed in times of Vista. The newer ones should work fine with Windows 8.

I installed Windows 8 directly after the release and I tried over five older eroges in the first week, but just two worked on Win8 (even with compatibility mode). But since Win8 is out a year already there should be a lot less problems with the older ones as well. Some developers even released a new version of the eroge which works on Win8 or they released a patch to make it work :)