No FPS Game works on PC?

[GrandMaster]

I know I come here often requesting help, though these are forums not a help desk (heh) I appologize, I'll try and be on more often, and maintain activity; I just have a lot going on in my life right now. Here are the games I tried to download:
Black Shot
Blacklight Retribution
America's Army 3

Games I want to download:
Age of Conan
Edem Eterma;
Born to Fire

Games I Have:
Halo CE
Need for Speed World
Star Wars the Old Republic (sort-of)
World of Warcraft (Rarely played)
Minecraft

The Games I tried to download ALL failed, and I did allow them to complete updates and install and all that, but it didn't matte; none of them worked. Why?

-Computer-
OS: Windows 8
Build: Dell Inspiron 660S
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330S CPU @ 2.70GHz
RAM: 8GB (7.44 Usable)
System Type: 64-Bit

[LiNuX]

Where are you downloading them from?

And since you have Windows 8, you should know that there are a lot of issues with that OS so that might be the problem. I can't confirm since I haven't upgraded to that yet.

[paecmaker]

There can be lots of things,

have you checked the firewall?
is your connection steady?
Does any of the games work with windows 8?

[GrandMaster]

Through early tests general Windows 7 Apps work on Windows 8, I thought I had a steady connection but it can -very rarely mind you- be a little annoying when it comes to maintaining connection. I downloaded from the official source.

[CraeSC111]

According to this post on the steam community website:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/13140/discussions/0/882966056384815634/

The game America's Army 3 has compatibility problems. There is a proposed fix in the thread so you might want to try that with all of the games you can't get to work

[Trunks]

I had a few issues with games not installing as well. After you download the game, there should be an option to install in compatibility mode with windows 7 or just right click, go to properties and click the compatibility mode tab.. If the game installs, make sure you also change the compatibility mode for the .exe file for windows 7 before you play.

If you still can't install it, chances are the game is not compatible with windows 8, just have to hope for an update. It's always a good idea to check the forums for each of the games to see if anyone has made a mod for it to run on windows 8. Good luck to you.

[ROFLBRYCE]

To be fair, I couldn't get Blacklight Retribution running on Windows 7 either. Lots of problems kept popping up, but they *are* worse now that I'm on Windows 8. It is still a new OS and there's always functionality bugs for the first little while, like there was with 7. Might not be able to play the games for a while, but you will be able to soon.