Okay seriously, will people stop making topics like "Just gotta love windows 8." Not only is it unhelpful, and non descriptive, but it pisses me off because I happen to like Windows 8. It's a perfectly fine OS, and it has a lot of useful features that Windows 7 does not. (but that's just my opinion, and I'd still take Arch Linux over Windows 8 any day of the week)
Anyways, you might want to try running dxdiag, which you can access from the run menu (Windows Key + R). It would be helpful to see what versions of Direct X you have. If you could get some screen grabs of that, that would be fantastic. I typically have this issue in virtual machines where Direct X versions 8 (I think) and lower will not run.