Borderlands 2 on Windows 8 - WFT?!!

[wax lyrical]

...obviously I meant WTF in the title!

My first ever PC game for YEARS! Bought as a download from GAME and it won't work on Windows 8!

Anyone have a solution? Laptop is an Asus N56VZ, so plenty powerful to run the game. Shall I just refund it and buy the PS3 version?

All advice appreciated.

Edited by wax lyrical on Sunday 23 December 17:14

[EDLT]

It should work on Windows 8, is it crashing or just not starting at all?

[WhiteBaron]

The biggest reason I love console gaming - I feel for you OP, 'computer says no' just pissed me off too much.

[wax lyrical]

I can't even install 'Steam' or the game!
Blood pain in the @rse!

EDLT said:

It should work on Windows 8, is it crashing or just not starting at all?

[stargazer30]

sorry Op the convo went something like this..

MS: Okay anything on Win 8 needs to be certified by us and we want to charge a fee for every game you sell.
Valve: WTF? you guys don't own the PC architecture?
MS: But we have the monopoly on PCs so play ball or else
Value: hmmmm, well F**K you guys were off the Linux...
MS: Ha ha guys better enforce that secure BIOS "feature" that'll kill the linux folks off :evil laugh:

That's why Steam won't work.

[wax lyrical]

Thanks! You'd think the w@nkers would put a warning somewhere about lack of compatibility with Win 8!

[3sixty]

stargazer30 said:

sorry Op the convo went something like this..

MS: Okay anything on Win 8 needs to be certified by us and we want to charge a fee for every game you sell.
Valve: WTF? you guys don't own the PC architecture?
MS: But we have the monopoly on PCs so play ball or else
Value: hmmmm, well F**K you guys were off the Linux...
MS: Ha ha guys better enforce that secure BIOS "feature" that'll kill the linux folks off :evil laugh:

That's why Steam won't work.

http://bgr.com/2012/12/03/windows-8-steam-usage-su...

One of the 4.69% here disagreeing with you. The amount of bks spouted on here grows by the hour

[Tycho]

Steam works fine on my Win 8 PC. Just installed it like normal. What errors are you getting?

[wax lyrical]

May have been a gremlin! Managed to set up my Steam account and am currently downloading Borderlands 2. Will keep you posted!

[voyds9]

Tycho said:

Steam works fine on my Win 8 PC. Just installed it like normal. What errors are you getting?

+1

[stargazer30]

MS backed down then? Either that or the win 7 backward compatibility made it good. Its not b*****s though Value is starting to look at linux now are they are peed off with winblows though.

[RobDickinson]

stargazer30 said:

MS backed down then? Either that or the win 7 backward compatibility made it good. Its not b*****s though Value is starting to look at linux now are they are peed off with winblows though.

Nope MS didnt back down. What you missed was that 'metro' apps have to be sold via the windows store. This excludes steam from selling metro games/apps directly. Aka eats steams lunch for this bit.

The normal standard steam desktop client and games works (or should) like it always has.