Can we still play GR 2001,GRAW and GRAW 2 in the new Windows 10?

[chrisj1968]

Can we still play GRAW and GRAW 2 in the new Windows 10?

 

Hi I'm papa6 and am testing the current released technical preview of windows 10 TP 9726 (realized I'm updated to 9926 as of 1/24/2015). One of the first things was to test out how windows will work for computer games. Will our favorites work or will we have to finally bid farewell to our legacy games and move forward?

 

I'm glad to say that BOTH versions of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter will work without any hitch whatsoever, as far as my testing has been able to reveal. Both games were also patched to the proper and latest versions. One issue I noticed but seemed to lessen was, backing out of the game to go right back in to the game. There still was a noticeable wait. However, in prior windows for me, the time from desktop back into the game was 5 to 10 seconds and in the windows 10 TP, it was generally cut in half.

 

DirectX12. This is the latest iteration of directX for games and these direct versions seem to coincide with each new version of windows. From my testing, the DX12 stack seems to improve gaming even with graphic cards that aren't DX12 compliant. DX 12 will essentially add new coding for new game technologies and eye candy. I won't get into any OS specifics such as the interface, where things are. I was strictly concerned with gaming as to basically get a feel for how will gaming improve or decline with this version of windows. To find your GRAW2 custom level work, you can find it at: C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\GRAW2\data\levels\custom_levels. (this hasn't changed).

GRAW maps you are working can be found at C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter\custom_levels\work\garbanzo beans. (notice it is under virtual store)

 

Frame rates. Frame rates seemed vastly improved as of this writing, my test system is;

 

Toshiba Qosmio X70

Intel