Windows 8 and gamers

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by Beio, Nov 11, 2012.

  1. Beio

    Beio MDL Novice

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    I read a post some time ago about it here, but it looks like it disappeared... basically my fifa 13 which worked smoothly on win7 is now not playable on win 8 (it starts, I can play but keep on laggin' and freezin').

    Anybody knows how to solve this? In that post somebody suggested a solution... couldn't find anymore..
     
  2. pisthai

    pisthai Imperfect Human

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    Unfortunately those Topic were delete on request of the former member GameDev include all of the post include those from other members.

    Hopefully someone could answer your question, I couldn't I'm not a gamer. Sorry.
     
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  3. Pr3acher

    Pr3acher MDL Member

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    Maybe you could update your drivers ?
     
  4. Beio

    Beio MDL Novice

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    already updated to the latest nvidia drivers... weird fact: most of the time it lags, but sometimes it goes really fast (faster than the normal game, like super-accelerated) so I suppose it is a compatibility issue, not a video driver problems or the game wouldn't go so smooth occasionally...? Just my thought...
     
  5. robonzio

    robonzio MDL Junior Member

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    Do you have a second video card in your system onboard?
    If so try to open the Nvidia Control Center choose "Manage 3D Settings" > "Programm Settings" > add "FIFA.exe" and choose and change "automatic selection" to your Video Card
     
  6. Dolorous Edd

    Dolorous Edd MDL Expert

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  7. Smorgan

    Smorgan Glitcher

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    #7 Smorgan, Nov 12, 2012
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    Windows 8 gaming

    Ok you need to install the basic Direct X 9.0c Audio dll's directly into the System32 directory if I'm not mistaken since I have successfully modified my copy of Server 2012 to play pretty much any games.
     
  8. Beio

    Beio MDL Novice

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    even if I installed direct x 10.1?

    already tried all the listed solution above this one :( maybe the drivers aren't optimized yet from nvidia. I have to try with another game to see if it lags like fifa 13...
     
  9. pisthai

    pisthai Imperfect Human

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    YES, you should install DirectX 9c beside of other DirectX versions. It's need by many games
     
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  10. Beio

    Beio MDL Novice

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    tried...
    not solved yet o_O
     
  11. ThEEviL

    ThEEviL MDL Novice

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    Download the game again from origin this fixed the game for me after i installed windows 8.
     
  12. Beio

    Beio MDL Novice

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    that was the first thing I did...
     
  13. Smorgan

    Smorgan Glitcher

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    Perhaps I wasn't clear last time you need to insert the Direct X 9.0 C files into the system 32 manually.

    This includes Xinput.dll and Xaudio.dll at the very least. I had a torrent (scary I know) that had these graphic dll's in it which I manually inserted into the system32 folder which fixed the issues I was having with Orgin saying license invalid.
     
  14. Beio

    Beio MDL Novice

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    tried that too... not solved. I've given up. :(