COD: Black Ops 2 won't run on Windows XP

by Ben Salter Featured 4 Comments 9 Votes 487 Views 04/09/2012 Back to News

It will come as a surprise to some, and as the logical evolution to others ahead of the release of Windows 8 later this year. Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will not support Windows XP.

The second most popular Windows OS hasn't been favoured by developers for a while, but has still been supported in some capacity by many games.

"Since we upgraded the engine to use DirectX11, Windows XP is no longer supported. It requires Windows Vista or later," said Activision in a statement.

It becomes the first game in the series not to support XP.

By Ben Salter

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Had to happen at some point.
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Really not many (if any) reasons to be running XP over 7 these days anyway.
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xp is such an ugly OS =/. Don't know how people using it haven't managed to upgrade in the past 10 years
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Windows 8 is out, I suggest not upgrading from XP to Windows 7, though... But I've had games that don't work on XP either, only on other previous OS's... :D
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Can someone please tell the guy to the left to shush?

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