Guild Wars 2 and Windows 8

[CelestialCat]

If you like me and have been interested in Microsoft's new OS, Windows 8 (to be released to shops in October 26th) then you'd be wondering if Guild Wars 2 would run on the new Windows 8. The reason one would ask if it will work in the new Windows 8 OS is because Microsoft has been locking down more parts of the OS to make it more secure against viruses and hackers and this has cause a number of programs to no longer work, such as another MMO I play which I won't name.

Now it didn't worry me much about Arena Net's games not working on Windows 8 but other programs and games I've found to have been made by lazy or bad programers which did things that do not work in Windows 8 such as placing dll files in the windows folder, saving data in the program's folder instead of the AppData and other outdated and lazy / bad programing habits.

So I'm happy to say Arena Net's Guild Wars 1 and 2 work on Windows 8 and you can make a shortcut on the Metro to load both of them from. Best of all since there has been a cut down in the resources used by Windows 8 over previous OSes (including Windows XP) Guild Wars 1 and 2 both run even better.

So don't worry Guild Wars 1 and 2 will both work in Win 8 and you'll be able to join us when Guild Wars 2 releases.

[Dagnis Profile]

Would you say windows 8 runes smoothly compared to w7?

[CelestialCat]

Windows 8 has had a lot of it's resource usage cut over that of Windows 7 so it would run better on tablet machines and phones. So yes you will notice an improvement in performance with a lot of programs including word.

Also Windows 8 has had some improvements to it's resource usage and performance in the way it handles it's resource usage so their is also in improvement in performance because of that such as those that take advantage of the DX11.1 which so far Guild Wars 2 doesn't take advantage of. Thou ArenaNet has said on their Facebook page "We will be evaluating supporting DX11 post launch" so GW2 may yet use some of the fancy new DX11 stuff