Rage crashes at start after upgrade to Windows 8

Post » Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:10 am

I can no longer play Rage after I upgraded from Win7 64 to Win 8. Rage crashes immediately upon start, goes to a black screen, and boom, crash to desktop.

I am running Catalyst 12.11 drivers. Worked fine for me under these drivers on Win7.

I already tried deleting Rage from my harddrive and reinstalling it. Same deal.

Anyone else having this problem on Win 8?
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JeSsy ArEllano
 
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Post » Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:46 am

Probably. Rage was not developed for W8. A number of games don't work right on that OS. Probably driver issues. With every OS, there is game pain for about the first 3 or so months as all the issues get discovered.

It is entirely possible that some games, not saying this one as I don't know about the W8 success or not yet, may just not work on that OS. It might make sense to have a dual boot rig, one on your older OS and one on W8. Put the games that work on each OS. While it is a pain to choose the OS at boot, it is much less of a pain than trying to get some games to work on a new OS, at least in the first few months.

You need another physical drive for the most elegant dual boot, but it can be done with partitions on one drive.
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Post » Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:46 pm

I'm not going to bother with a dual boot setup. Win8 seems to run everything else just fine. Besides, I only have a 90G SSD so I'd have to dual boot to 2 drives.

I'm hoping Bethesda (or ATI) issues a fix so the game runs properly under Win 8 eventually. All the other games I've tried seem to run OK.
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