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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 6093378" data-attributes="member: 7808"><p>I can't speak to all of the games you mentioned, but I pulled out an old copy of Diablo over the weekend and found that it worked just fine in Win8. But you do have to be running as an administrator (it failed from my Guest account that has no permissions). I was also able to get Unreal to run, a couple of other pre-XP games. I think you may just be dealing with permissions issues; the actual compatibility seems perfectly fine. If you'd like to post screen shots of any of the errors you've seen in Diablo (since it's the only one on your list I can test), I'd be happy to take a look and see if I can help you ID the problem.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Frankly, I blame non-conformance with security settings on a publisher, not the OS. But regardless of where you want to place the blame, you can usually override the safety settings without too much difficulty. If you have any problems that can't be overridden by running a program as an Administrator, just turn off the Data Execution Prevention. Details can be found here: <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-Data-Execution-Prevention-settings" target="_blank">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-Data-Execution-Prevention-settings</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 6093378, member: 7808"] I can't speak to all of the games you mentioned, but I pulled out an old copy of Diablo over the weekend and found that it worked just fine in Win8. But you do have to be running as an administrator (it failed from my Guest account that has no permissions). I was also able to get Unreal to run, a couple of other pre-XP games. I think you may just be dealing with permissions issues; the actual compatibility seems perfectly fine. If you'd like to post screen shots of any of the errors you've seen in Diablo (since it's the only one on your list I can test), I'd be happy to take a look and see if I can help you ID the problem. Frankly, I blame non-conformance with security settings on a publisher, not the OS. But regardless of where you want to place the blame, you can usually override the safety settings without too much difficulty. If you have any problems that can't be overridden by running a program as an Administrator, just turn off the Data Execution Prevention. Details can be found here: [url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-Data-Execution-Prevention-settings[/url] [/QUOTE]
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