for people that are technet and msdn subscribers.. NO PIRATES....although pirates are cool..

so I been finding that some old games actually run better in window 8 then in windows 7

these games

blair witch games and nocturne. some people with windows xp up to windows 7 complain about the slow menu response.. but in windows 8 the slowness is gone, at lest it is for me.

Fallout 1 and 2. yay I dont have to end explorer to play the games without color corrupting.

command and conquer.. the older ones, same as above for explorer. play greats

diablo 1 plays no problem so far, colors normal.
diablo 2 plays no problem so far, colors normal.

there is more. but Im a busy person and still testing things.

system specs..

intel 2600
nvidia 580 gtx
soundblaster hd
16gb memory

I tried only 2 games and stopped playing completely... but might be the case that I'm on a Netbook (really small and slow) and the games I tried were DOS Games using DOSBox. All of the games were too big for my screen :)

Slightly off topic, but at some point there was a rumour about Xbox & Xbox 360 games playable under win 8. It sounded frivolous to me and since I have not heard anything alike since, I guess it was false. Was it?

I did have a problem with one game that worked on my pc but wouldnt start on a 2011 hp laptop.

it does seems netbooks and laptops are having some issue with windows 8. but it could be just a chip set driver issue..

That shouldn't be the case. If anything, problems may appear with Win32 based games, not ones running in DOSBox. Maybe something else was the problem (and not the OS, since games running in DOSBox should be OS-independent)?

EDIT: All of the games I've tried on the RP have been alright (including a few dozen GOGs).

The DosBox itself was too big in window mode, and in full screen, the game is too huge for the screen (missing some part on the top and at the bottom).

Looks like that Windows Games do run fine (as fine a game can run on a Netbook) :)

change scaler in dosbox conf?