So I'm getting this message when clicking the Battlefield 4 download button within Origin.

And yet I have 64-bit Windows 8, as evidenced below.

Anyone know why this could be?

I don't know, but I can safely say Windows 8 partition was probably a bad decision on your part.

I can't play because Origin tells me that it isn't (as in Origin) installed, yup

Well fantastic. Issues abound.

What partition?

...Are you just trying to say that I should've gone with Windows 7?

@jjweatherman: Never mind, uninstalling/reinstalling Origin and the beta fixed my issue.

Except now I can't get into any games because it's saying punkbuster is failing to initiate

OMG, 7.9 Windows score?

...and here I am at 7.6, like a sucker.

@jjweatherman: Partition is more or less a term for installation of an OS. And yeah, Win7 probably would've been the way to go.

Okay. I usually only hear partition used when differentiating between a multi-partition drive.

And we can agree to disagree about Windows 8, ha.

Man, get with the program. You've gotta be about it or be without it.

On a related note, I noticed that that meaningless score actually goes up to 9.9 now, which makes only slightly more sense.

Punkbuster? Wow, really? Isn't that thing ancient?

@jjweatherman: Arg, but I'm pretty sure my bottleneck is my processor! This i7 2600k still has a few good years left, damn it!

Yeah, no. Pretty sure you can have partitions without an OS on them.

Oh yeah, that's right. It's been a while, my terms are a little rusty.