So I finally got the laptop, and the next day right away I upgraded it to windows 8.1. I downloaded the sims medieval, and the pirates and nobles ep from origin and they work perfectly! (I know many people have trouble with those games and windows 8). So now all that's left, is to install the sims 2 and all the ep's. (I have to wait for an external disc drive to be ordered. grr) Now I know these games will work on 8.1, as I have them on my desktop, but I keep getting white flickering, on the screen. I don't know who to blame for that. Is it windows 8.1, or the weak intel hd graphics? Also I got a new 3ds, ant the data does save to the game card.)