Post more specs e.g. CPU, RAM Seems strange that you can't play it, I run off of Intel HD4000 graphics. However I do know of something that just maybe the problem, I have Windows 8 too and it does this thing called automatic maintenance and it is a pain for gamers with windows 8 as it takes up 99% - 100% Disk, my suggestion is looking up how to disable it (I can't remember :P ), it should be worth a shot, if it doesn't work then I don't know what causes it then.