Re: Game loading

As a few people have mentioned, the game will run on Windows 8.

If you are having trouble running on Windows 8 make sure you run Origin as Administrator during install of SimCity and then run SimCity as Administrator when the game is installed.

You can do this by right clicking on the shortcuts (set up shortcuts on the Dashboard screen you can swict to in Windows 8) and selecting Run as Administrator.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Can-SimCity-run-on-windows-8/td-p/729132/page/2

I hope this helps.

REO