"Good Old Games"

Mighty_Ponygirl · 2010-09-28T06:29:11.000Z

I bought Planescape years ago and never finished it. I enjoyed it, but I kept fucking up my game. Hours and hours in and I’d paint myself into a corner.

Finally, earlier this year, I pulled out my CDs and downloaded the gibberlings 3 hi-res mod, and tried playing again. I got all the way to the fortress of regrets and then there was some glitch (probably video drivers) and I couldn’t finish.

I am really interested in finishing this game. This might be my first GOG purchase if they’ve really optimized it.

Rock8man · 2010-09-28T06:40:58.000Z

Mighty Ponygirl: Did you install the fixpack before playing? I linked to the installation guide in the other thread I just made, which includes installing the fixpack to fix the remaining bugs in the game. There aren’t many, but it sounds like you ran into one of them, so it’d probably be a good idea to install the fixpack this time if you didn’t last time.

Also, I’m in a similar boat. I loved Planescape, but I never finished it. Both times I tried, Real Life got in the way and I had to stop playing games for a few months. And when I got back to having free time again, I didn’t want to just jump in the middle, but I wanted to wait before starting over.

BrianRubin · 2010-09-28T06:41:43.000Z

While I still have my disks, I’m totally buying this. This is one game I’ve wanted GoG to have since the beginning. Great job, guys. All is forgiven now. ;)

Rob_Merritt · 2010-09-28T06:44:15.000Z

Brian Rubin:

All is forgiven now. ;)

Not here. Its going to take something like Tie Fighter or the DVD version of Overseer before I’ll consider being a gog customer again and even then, I probably won’t.

BrianRubin · 2010-09-28T06:54:36.000Z

Understood, Rob, though I believe their “closure” hit you harder than it did me, understandably so.

On another note, if they get Tie Fighter, I’ll have their babies.

Dan_Theman · 2010-09-28T07:02:07.000Z

Brian Rubin:

Understood, Rob, though I believe their “closure” hit you harder than it did me, understandably so.

On another note, if they get Tie Fighter, I’ll have their babies.

Oh, I’d be ecstatic over a Tie Fighter release. Yet here’s the weird thing about GOG and all these fantastic releases for me:
I want them (again).
I’m going to get them (again).
But I’m not buying them right now because I’m playing other games and they’re not on a special sale.

Mighty_Ponygirl · 2010-09-28T07:05:23.000Z

I had run a few fix packs, including an nVidia driver fix pack.

My hope is that GoG might have further optimized the program.

Ergryspeerdt · 2010-09-28T07:17:17.000Z

As I understand it, this is the vanilla 1.1 version, gog haven’t done anything to it besides the installer.

It runs great for me on win7 64, except that it ‘stops responding’ when I quit which is slightly annoying. There are some other fan patches and things here that I’ll try later.

EDIT: Ah there is now a proper thread

Paul_cze · 2010-09-28T07:19:50.000Z

It seems ini tweaks are done by gog, and nvidia fix is already inside as well.

Crater · 2010-09-28T08:09:49.000Z

What can change the nature of a failed PR stunt?

peacedog · 2010-09-28T08:25:41.000Z

Time.

scharmers · 2010-09-28T09:00:39.000Z

Updated my journal.

John_Many_Jars · 2010-09-28T15:37:39.000Z

I’m not so sure the PR stunt failed.

BrianRubin · 2010-09-28T15:39:43.000Z

John Many Jars:

I’m not so sure the PR stunt failed.

I think I agree.

JustinFletcher · 2010-09-28T20:26:06.000Z

I’m pretty sure it didn’t.

aphoristic_gamer · 2010-09-28T22:33:00.000Z

What, the fix is supposed to be integrated? It lags like hell on my m11x with Nvidia drivers. It did that too with the early Geneforge games. Time to switch to Intel.

ZekeDMS · 2010-09-29T00:33:46.000Z

I’m not so sure the stunt worked as much as forgiven. They got silly when making an upgrade, but gave us Baldur and Planescape.

Sharpe · 2010-09-29T10:08:42.000Z

So I got Age of Wonders and started it up - looks great so far and even runs in 1920x1080 res. However, I get this screen flicker every couple of seconds that is very annoying. Not sure what causes - maybe the game is not running 60 Hz like my flatscreen monitor?

Anyone have any experience with this or any ideas on fixing it? I’d like to try the game but the flicker makes it unplayable (it is headache-inducing within 20 seconds or so).

I’m running Windows 7, Nvidia GT220 card, 1920x1080 res on a 60 Hz Dell monitor. Any help appreciated.

Sharpe

peacedog · 2010-09-29T10:11:28.000Z

Sharpe:

So I got Age of Wonders and started it up - looks great so far and even runs in 1920x1080 res. However, I get this screen flicker every couple of seconds that is very annoying. Not sure what causes - maybe the game is not running 60 Hz like my flatscreen monitor?

Anyone have any experience with this or any ideas on fixing it? I’d like to try the game but the flicker makes it unplayable (it is headache-inducing within 20 seconds or so).

I’m running Windows 7, Nvidia GT220 card, 1920x1080 res on a 60 Hz Dell monitor. Any help appreciated.

Sharpe

Poke around on the GOG forums. I’ve found them very helpful in the past.

krise_madsen · 2010-09-29T10:34:04.000Z

John Many Jars:

I’m not so sure the PR stunt failed.

Brian Rubin:

I think I agree.

Justin Fletcher:

I’m pretty sure it didn’t.

gog.com has a good and fairly unique product, and (or so I gather) rather good service, so they’d probably enjoy increased business around the out-of-beta relaunch, no matter how they announced it. However, that doesn’t mean that the PR stunt wasn’t ill conceived and poorly thought through.