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by stephen_g 337 days ago
Depends on your definition of 'run' - for example, old games (pre DirectX 9) now run through an emulated DirectX layer (they removed the native implementation in Windows 8), and it makes the games perform much worse on modern machines than they used to run on decent machines back in the day.

There are some reimplemetations like dgVoodoo2 and DXWrapper but they can be pretty buggy.