Recently Micrsoft made the Windows 10 Technical Preview (think 'Alpha') avalible: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso I have professional interest in the future of the OS series. So naturally I got a iso. I did not have a real computer (partition) free to install it, so I just made a VM Ware Virtual Box VM set to the Windows 8 settings (the closest approximation to Win 10). This was okay for most of my testing purposes. Then I decided to try out how well PA runs on it (despite a VM being not the most ideal place for any game). I needed: 1. The current VM Guest Additions/VM Ware Tools. This includes the specialised VM Graphics driver wich is a lot faster then conventional simulated GPU's since it can actually use the host GPU for some work. 2. The trusty old "DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)" - for some odd reasons you need it on every computer with Windows Vista or later. Otherwise old and new games alike will behave wonky/just won'tr work. Even steam makes it a habit to install them along with every game they distribute. I got quite far actually. I got the game installed and even started. However I then ran into a variant of the dreaded black screen bug: I could hear the intro video playing and could cancel it via Esc (as I could not see it). I could see the menu cursor and could hear when my mouse cursor went over a start menu button and even how the clicks were registered. But otherwise my screen stayed black. I asume that the black screen bug is directly related to the VM SVGA drivers. While they are "better then nothing"/windows default drivers, they are not really on par with any real current driver. I did not even expected them to be able to start the launcher, much less the game at all (I asumed they would trip over lack of OpenGL support way before then). Even getting this far is very good. Wich also means that for a proper, non-virtual installation the game might just run fine. Has anybody else made forrays into running PA on a Win 10 Tech Preview?
I started with a VM to check out the features, then went for a native install dual booting 8.1 and 10, both 64 bit. Running PA on 10 is just fine as far as I can tell, haven't noticed any difference to running it on 8.1. There's another thread somewhere of someone else having done the same thing saying it works fine 10 is not using DX12 yet so when it comes to gaming it's pretty much the same OS for now.
