{"id":1532,"date":"2012-09-08T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2012-09-08T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:42:41","slug":"ancient-game-plays-better-in-windows-8-than-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1532-ancient-game-plays-better-in-windows-8-than-windows-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Ancient game plays better in Windows 8 than Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 runs the 1999 game Age of Empires II better than Windows 7, which curiously messes up the screen graphics unless you terminate the Windows Explorer process \u2013 a fact that I noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/44-fixing-age-of-empire-2-graphics-in-windows-7.html\" target=\"_blank\">December 2010<\/a>. Here is the game in Windows 7:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image5.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\"><\/p>\n<p>and in Windows 8, without fiddling with Explorer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image_thumb14.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"314\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that the game runs better in Windows 8 is probably due to some obscure bug-fix, though I like to think that somewhere in the development team is a fan of this old but excellent game (it is great multi-player) who decided to make it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 runs the 1999 game Age of Empires II better than Windows 7, which curiously messes up the screen graphics unless you terminate the Windows Explorer process \u2013 a fact that I noted in December 2010. Here is the game in Windows 7: and in Windows 8, without fiddling with Explorer: The fact that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1532-ancient-game-plays-better-in-windows-8-than-windows-7.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancient game plays better in Windows 8 than Windows 7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,97],"tags":[1161,999],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-windows","tag-age-of-empires","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}