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[BSim500]

Does anyone know why DX8 games worked properly on 8, but not on 10?

"Because Windows 10". As someone who also plays a lot of older games, W7 to W10 has been a far bigger PITA than XP to W7 ever was to the extent I couldn't be bothered with all the extra hoops and downgraded "re-upgraded" back to W7. Eg, No One Lives Forever wouldn't run full-screen. Forcing it gave a new weird 30fps cap that never existed before. Disabling it gave chronic tearing and weird movement stutter (due to VSync not working). The workaround which consisted of borderless window + frame-rate cap in MSI Afterburner, "technically worked", but despite supposedly running at a solid 60fps, it never actually felt as smooth as W7 full-screen. And that was the pre Anniversary Edition which from what I've heard is causing even more problems, even for newer games. Good luck if you can get it to work.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I know Windows 10 doesn't support real old dx games, like dx 5. Honestly Windows 10 feels like it runs games better to me but I only have played a few and the oldest was Supreme Commander F/A. When I say better it feels like it loads faster and fps feel more consistent for me. I don't have numbers but I have noticed improvement.
This thread should be interesting.

 

[Fallen Kell]

This is one of the reasons why I havn't taken the free "upgrade" to Win10. I would much rather keep my Win7 Pro license as a Win7 Pro license and I would buy a Win10 license, and run the Win7 in a VM (or Win10 in a VM)...

 

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[Bryf50]

This is one of the reasons why I havn't taken the free "upgrade" to Win10. I would much rather keep my Win7 Pro license as a Win7 Pro license and I would buy a Win10 license, and run the Win7 in a VM (or Win10 in a VM)...

The upgrade didn't actually invalidate your old licenses. At least in my experience, I was able to reactivate my Windows 7/8 licenses on other machines after I upgraded to 10 with them.

 

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