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Any sane person would think, “hey, I’ll just buy Dark Souls and get this thing up to date, right?” No. ![]() However, Games for Windows Live does not work on Windows 8 no matter what you try. Windows 8 is making many services built-in and it is headed in the right direction as far as Microsoft-branded products and clients go. You never know if you’re on the right version until things stop working. Right now it feels like an offline PSP where you have to buy the newest game for the latest firmware. With Windows 8 rapidly approaching, one has to think that Microsoft is planning to actually make Games for Windows Live a built-in service. At least Dark Souls has the decency to just crash on you and not let your hopes sit there waiting for a response. In fact, many people couldn’t even get get a blank screen when launching these titles. Fable 3, Dark Souls, you name it and people were having plenty of issues launching these games. Recently, though this problem has been around for a while now, a new version of the Games for Windows Live client came out but it wasn’t included in any of the games people bought. Playing a Games for Windows Live game recently? Microsoft must be doing something with this thing to make it such a pain to get setup. Update 1-8-2013: If this fix does not work for you, check this one out.
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