Are any Steam games incompatible with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1?

[Sunshine & Rainbows]

My old laptop is pretty much broken so I need to get a new one, but I'm concerned about compatibility issues since I already have a bit of trouble running some of my games on Windows 7 as it is. I'd rather just get a new more current laptop with Windows 7 on it, but there aren't a whole lot of options.

Okay, I have an idea what some of you might be thinking, but I'm not going to be playing the more process-demanding games on my next laptop because that's probably what ended up (almost) killing my last one; I plan on getting a custom PC for games like Tomb Raider (2013) and Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition that I'm guessing are very hard on laptops.

[Marble]

So far, I have not found a game that hasn't worked on 8.1. Some require a few tweaks, like setting compatibility mode.

Depends what laptop you get, but Tomb Raider would probably struggle, but should be playable on a standard Intel HD IGP. Street Fighter IV shouldn't have any trouble, though.

Originally posted by Spawk:

Why not just install Windows 7 on your new system? Problem solved, all is right with the world.

Because that's another $80 or so on top of the cost.

A cheaper way is to stick with 8.1 and buy Start8 from Stardock which hides the new interface and brings the Start menu back. This way you get all the under-the-hood benefits of Windows 8 and the desktop-friendly UI of Windows 7.

[Marble]

Originally posted by Spawk:

He's worried about compatibility, not looks.

Originally posted by L-r | Canti:

So far, I have not found a game that hasn't worked on 8.1. Some require a few tweaks, like setting compatibility mode.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

Don't plan on playing many old games on windows 8 or you will be facing many hours of debugging and figuring what on earth is wrong with the compatibility. If you go back farther than 2006 with pc games, you're going to have a bad time with windows 8.1. As long as you're playing relatively modern games, windows 8.1 should be no problems.

[TastyToast]

havent had any problems with windows 8 besides crysis 1. ive got quite a few games.

[SpiritWalker]

Running win8.1 64bit.
Everytime steam updates (not a game update) some games stop connecting. The only way I have found to fix this is to delete the game, delete any game plugins, then download and install the game again. Usually the game works after that. But.... you will get annoyed doing that and end up deleting and never installing again. I did that to bf4 and looks like warface is going the same way. I believe the problem is that steam is 32 bit and not entirely compatable with 64 bit operating systems.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

Originally posted by SpiritWalker:

Running win8.1 64bit.
Everytime steam updates (not a game update) some games stop connecting. The only way I have found to fix this is to delete the game, delete any game plugins, then download and install the game again. Usually the game works after that. But.... you will get annoyed doing that and end up deleting and never installing again. I did that to bf4 and looks like warface is going the same way. I believe the problem is that steam is 32 bit and not entirely compatable with 64 bit operating systems.

64 bit isn't the problem or else more than half of steam users wouldn't be on 64 bit systems. What you're describing sounds more like a network issue. Specifically a router/modem issue. See here for an example http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2229752