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I recently had to get a new PC a HP with windows 8

I installed CS with 1.04 through the desktop and didnt have any problems playing games.

Then yesterday after some routine windows security updates whenever I tried to open or start a game its come up with Error486.

I uninstalled and then reinstalled game and 1.04 patch but still nojoy

Any ideas ?

Can you tell where the computer installs it to? Are you able to access regedit, and see where it references to? I don't have win8, so not much help, just know for sure that 486 is a registry error.

Thats odd Laza, as I have just installed it on my Win8 laptop and played it without any problems.

Im not that PC savvy anymore Warhorse and have only just started exploring window 8 myself but search around later

Toni mine was working fine for first week or so until after some updates.

Ok, hope we can get you back up and running!

Thanks for all help guys, updating to windows 8.1 solved the problem

I upgraded to 8.1 as soon as possible as well, even having installed Classic Shell to get rid of the Metro user interface already with 8.0. I continue to use Classic Shell with opting to turn everything Metro off.

Windows 8.0 with its Metro User Interface... What a