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Haven’t purchased anything from gog yet, but I’m thinking “backing” up several classics and getting them optimized for modern versions of windows to boot.

A question I have is if anyone knows how “updated” the site is? One of the games I have been considering is giants, however the page says it is only compatible with win XP and Vista. I’m running Win 7 64 bit currently. I think I’ve seen a product review on gog stemming from 2008, thus before the release of windows 7 (right?). Could that mean that that page has simply not been updated yet to correctly reflect that giants works under win 7?

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I don’t think GOG makes claims about Win7 compatability for any of the games in their catalogue. But the general rule is that if it works on Vista, it works on 7.

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Really? I didn’t perform a check regarding win 7 compability, but other games I was interested in (baldurs gate/total annihilation) do say that they work under windows 7.

But then again if the odds are good that it works under win 7 if it works under vista then I might try it anyways.

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They updated many games with note that they work on XP/Vista/7 32-64, but Giants is not one of them.

That said, on the gog forums there is very recent thread asking the very same question, and answers are positive - Giants should work perfectly on Win 7.

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Thank you for that information.

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here is the thread btw
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/giants_citizen_kabuto/windows_7

also contains link for unofficial patch (have not tried it yet myself though)

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I guess the website is down because I was on Chrome and about to purchase baldur’s gate and I hit the confirm button the website stopped working. And I checked IE8 and it doesn’t load at all now.

Maybe it’s a sign I shouldn’t play BG again heh

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works perfectly for me in firefox, I am in the process of re-backing all my games (I already had backups, but I am making new ones in case they were updated to have win7 compatibility). Although I can download only 6 files at the same time from gog, so it takes a long time (some 80+ games…)

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I just checked it on safari on my phone and it works there… weird. Guess I’ll have to download firefox haha

UPDATE: Now it’s officially some kind of glitch. I have tried this on IE8, Chrome, and Firefox. I load the page fine and then go to login to my account and it loads up a white screen and I can no longer see the front page of the website again. I also cannot download the game which apparently I did purchase! Annoying.

UPDATE 2: I can use the site map to navigate to certain pages but when I get to my games and go to download baldur’s gate I get the white screen again.

Anyone else having these issues?

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Yep. Firefox just won’t download anything. Hogs RAM to over a gigabyte then freezes. Chrome works fine though.

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Optimize is not the word here. There are a lot of tools to create websites and debug these websites with things like Firefox and Chrome. There are some for IE, but not as good.

Normally a website is done 2 times. First is done for standards. Then is patched to work in IE. The “done for standards” can be put in quotes, since is done for standards testing in browsers like Firefox and Chrome. So, cough, first work in these browser, and may finnaly work in IE in a later date.
IE is a pain in the ass, because is full of bugs and problems, incompatibilities and stuff from CSS3 that is not supported. Make you want to murder his devs every fucking day. You want to really kill these people. Yo do really hate then, because supporting IE is soo a horrible pain. HORRIBLE

So, maybe some things in IE are not supported, because the IE team never implemented it, or support it, or just not work, or … If some poor soul is still browsing with IE, his computer will be full of bugs and spyware, and the browser will crash for “no reason”. Anyway.

So, yep. Is very weird wen a website is not released testing it with IE. Normally testing it with the fucking retarded IE is part of the job. Akin cleaning the cesspool if you are soldier, I suppose. You do it, because is your job, but you want the IE team to die in a fire.

tl;dr
IE has not enough tools to debug as good like the others browsers, and is outdated and dont support a lot of CSS3 features, like the other browsers, simply dont support all the modern things.

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So, this RPS post got me thinking… where does GOG go after they’ve filled their game wish list?

One answer might be consoles, as emulation for everything up through the SNES is pretty easy it seems, but then they’d be lobbying for games I’m sure Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony want to keep exclusive to their platforms and their own marketplaces. Obviously, they can’t force other publishers so we might see some from the likes of Sega (like the collections on Steam).

What do you guys think will happen?

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Planescape? Woot!

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Finally something worth registering for!

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GOG wins the internets again.

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I don’t have the WOOOOOOOO! guy handy, but he goes here.

I’ve been scared of my Torment discs giving up. This is absolutely what I’m getting wait does it come with the soundtrack?! YES! Okay, I’m buying this right now.

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Awesome. Plus bonus: Another game besides Final Fantasy X that me and Matt Bowyer agree on!

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That makes two out of what, twenty? We really need to work on that game-exchange program. Maybe you’d love Rogue Galaxy and Star Ocean 3!

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boughted and downloaded within 3 minutes of seeing it there

yeah my clicking and speed downloading skills are ninja like

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We’re trying here, folks!