For the record, I have windows 8, 8.1 I believe I'm not really sure lol. (I'm a mac person, I just bought a nice gaming computer to play all my games on and still have a lot to re-learn about windows). But The Sims 1 works perfectly fine on my computer (after some tweaking with the screen resolution, etc). Each game I've installed has had issues at first, but mostly because of my resolution or graphics card (since lots of games don't recognize it). I haven't found a game yet that doesn't work on Windows 8 yet and I play a lot of old school games like Pharaoh, School Tycoon, Sims 1, as well as the newer games. Good luck!
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