Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

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Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by WeGotDeathStar » Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:55 pm

Wondering if Windows 8 can screw up the performance of the game.

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by FortyTwoAxes » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:57 am

It works fine on win 8 64bit, you should be fine

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by Luna » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:14 am

I absolutely hate Windows 8. I've got Windows 7 on my laptop, and I'm not going to update it anytime soon.

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by Joel70 » Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:44 pm

Im running it with Win8 on one PC, Im using Stardock Start 8 which gives me a Win7 desktop and Win8. I can only get the same FPS as I did b4 with windowed mode,
I have a high-end gaming rig and get only 30 fps with full screen. I checked several of my GPU benchmark progs such as Uniengine and I get the same result as prior to
my win8 upgrade (250+ FPS at times). I run other games that are more demanding such as Arma 2 and get similar FPS as before, I can only imagine Starport is the problem.

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by VanadiumDragon » Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:05 am

pshhh sge doesnt work well with windows 95 XD

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by -notorious- » Sun May 12, 2013 3:36 pm

Windows XP! Ftw. Actually.. Mac OS X

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Re: Does SGE work ok with Windows 8?

Post by Caia » Mon May 13, 2013 5:49 am

Joel70 wrote:Im running it with Win8 on one PC, Im using Stardock Start 8 which gives me a Win7 desktop and Win8. I can only get the same FPS as I did b4 with windowed mode,
I have a high-end gaming rig and get only 30 fps with full screen. I checked several of my GPU benchmark progs such as Uniengine and I get the same result as prior to
my win8 upgrade (250+ FPS at times). I run other games that are more demanding such as Arma 2 and get similar FPS as before, I can only imagine Starport is the problem.

MJS
I very much doubt Starport has been optimized beyond what was needed in order to make the game playable. That's not a knock against Toonces. Merely that once the graphics/FPS became playable there were all sorts of other things to worry about. I wouldn't ever expect it to be upgraded unless Toonces took a few months (or longer) to redo 98% of the graphics engine.

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