Titanfall Won't Require Windows 8 to Run

[Slash2x]

Yeah I would have purchased this but it is on Origin not Steam.... So not getting this game anytime soon. And that makes me a little sad.

 

[Worgen]

I don't understand why anyone thought it might only be on windows 8. It's ea's game, not microsoft's. The only one who would be dumb enough to limit it to only 8 would be microsoft, like they did with halo 2.

 

[TomWiley]

While i dont intend to get this (as i assume its on origin due to its EA status) this is good news. Very few gamers have upgraded to Windows 8 and most others want to avoid it like the plague.

Which kind of confuses me, seeing as it's great for gaming. Much lighter and faster, better direct X support, NT kernel is optimized for multicore threading, requires less memory. All around a better option for gamers.

for me the reason is (as well as most poeple i know) because we have had a terrible time trying to get it to run anything that isnt a windows 8 game.
On my computer i have plenty of old games for XP and older OSs and so have my friends. When a couple upgraded to windows 8 they could just not get these older games to work at all, if the Specs didnt spefically say Windows 8 they couldnt play them. Now i know others have had no problems but when everyone i know has and alot of others on the internet say the same thing it makes me skeptical about upgrading.

Strange...

Windows 8 should have the same compatibility as Windows 7. Technically, everything since Vista (the introduction of the NT kernel) should run without a problem, and if it doesn't, compatibility mode is your friend.

While i dont intend to get this (as i assume its on origin due to its EA status) this is good news. Very few gamers have upgraded to Windows 8 and most others want to avoid it like the plague.

Which kind of confuses me, seeing as it's great for gaming. Much lighter and faster, better direct X support, NT kernel is optimized for multicore threading, requires less memory. All around a better option for gamers.

it is faster but more dumb and forstrating to use most because it was made for tablets and is not great for multitasking. personly i would use 2 screens for window 8.

Well, the only part about Windows 8 that's actually made for tablets is the startscreen, and I haven't had any problem using it with a mouse.

Usually when I want to open a program, I hit windows key, type in the first few letters of said program and press enter. It works exactly the same in Windows 8.

From a power user perspective, you can still customize pretty much everything about Windows 8, as well as opting out of the metro interface entirely, so yeah, I still don't see the problem.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I might pick up Titanfall for PC. Looks pretty damn good, and picking it up for PC means I don't need to buy an Xbox One to appreciate it.

Hope they decide to port Halo 5 to PC as well, therefore giving no one any good reason to pick it up.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I will be grabbing it on PC and I couldn't care less about what OS they might say it's required.

As long as it is a 64bit then it should work on any operating system.