Windows 8 and CloD (Merged Threads)

[Buffin]

Originally Posted by louisv

Well, Clod will most probably be integrated to the sequel which will certainly be Win 8 compatible.

I hope so. Thanks for the reply.

[Verhängnis]

Sorry but I'm doubting they are going to invest money or effort into W.8 compatibility especially given the global response and backlash from gamers and studios alike and not to mention the fact they are bothering to fix reverse compatibility with DirectX 9. At least let them fix the damn engine first...

[Troll2k]

Granted no flight sims were tested but they never are.So I guess the results should be taken with a grain of salt.

Except for any incompatibilities it looks like a push to me.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ance,3331.html

[FG28_Kodiak]

The problem seems to be a .Net 4.5 incompatibility, for example i've downloaded and installed the Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktops which also uses 4.5, after installing i lost the Cockpits in Cliffs of Dover .
Normaly it's on Microsoft to fix that problem in their .Net 4.5 implementation.

[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

The problem seems to be a .Net 4.5 incompatibility, for example i've downloaded and installed the Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktops which also uses 4.5, after installing i lost the Cockpits in Cliffs of Dover .
Normaly it's on Microsoft to fix that problem in their .Net 4.5 implementation.

The thing is that .NET 4.0 and .NET 4.5 do not go side by side, and installation of .NET 4.5 affects .NET 4.0 runtime. It is supposed to allow running both 4.0 and 4.5 targets, and provide fixes for some issues of 4.0. Everything looks fine, except that those fixes are only given with 4.5, which requires Vista or later OS. This potentially introduces different behavior for 4.0 target running on XP (or Vista/Win7 without 4.5 installed) and 4.0 target running on Vista/Win7 with 4.5 installed or on Win8. It is a compatibility mess.

In anyway, I have .NET 4.5 on my system for some time, and CoD works fine for me, so I don't think that .NET 4.5 guilt is proven. I also tried CoD on Win8 today. All prerequisites were met, but CoD simply continued to exit without any messages. Process monitor did not show any abnormal events as if CoD exited on its own will. Maybe it is just something like blunt if (x<y) {die();}.

[mcdaniels]

...same expirience here... also looked at it with procmon. Would be really nice if the devs would spend some comment on that.

[jojimbo]

the devs have a responsibility to apply a patch for win 8 compatibility, its not a microsoft problem. out of all the games i played on win 8 (almost all of them) the only one not to work is CloD.

i hope win8 support is in the next patch, cheers guys

[mcdaniels]

...but will there be a "next patch" ? I think I ve read bout the last official patch was also the last one for CloD.

@Blacksix: Is there a chance that we (CloD) get a patch to get Win8 compatibility fixed?

[roystonellis]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

So is Clod compatible or not with w8 ?
I am thinking of buying a license of Windows 8

ive lost sli cliffs of dover, but windows 8 is a must for 25 squid, ill strip my external hard drive reload vista 64 and load all that plays up on w 8.

[ATAG_Doc]

I am so glad you guys installed Windows 8 for me to test. I will hold off on spending the money and wasting time with it. Much appreciated.