
If 8.1 ever becomes unviable for me I'll likely migrating to a non Microsoft OS like some form of Linux in the future. Data privacy and Microsoft's terrible Windows Update policy regarding that OS are just a couple of factors. It brought along the graphical and audio technology for many of the most stunning PC games that weve played over the last few years. There's a lot of issues I have with that OS. DirectX has gradually evolved since then and its eleventh version, DirectX 11, released in October of 2009 is used on Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 8 and 8.1, and Windows 10. Eventually though I may attempt updating my current 7 install to that. I'm really only still on 7 currently because I have tons of apps I installed over the years that I'm just too lazy to reinstall + there's a few things that will probably not work in 8 that I may still want to use. You can install some third party tools to make the GUI (like the start menu) look more like 7's. (Windows update on 8.1 is more like 7's). (Age of Empires Definitive Edition is one example of a game that will run in Windows 8.1 but not Windows 7).Ĩ.1 is closer to Win10 but without the terrible Windows Update BS that Win10 has. I suggest you at least upgrade to 8.1 even if it turns out if your game(s) still wont' work.

Dont' recall if DX12 ever got support in Windows 8.1.
