"Good Old Games"

flyinj · 2011-04-08T14:33:56.000Z

Equisilus:

I picked up King’s Bounty: The Legend during this weekend sale. I had, quite literally, bought it when it was released, walked out of the store reading the box, then returned it immediately when I saw that it was 32-bit only, fearing that there was some copy protection or other factor that would make it play poorly on 64-bit systems. While I don’t know if that’s been settled, I care a lot less about $5 than I do about the full price game and can deal with any issues, although GoG states that it works with Win7 x64.

Something different to play soon, at least.

You do realize that 95% of all PC games released in the past four years are 32-bit only, right?

BrianRubin · 2011-04-08T14:34:58.000Z

Equisilus:

…then returned it immediately when I saw that it was 32-bit only, fearing that there was some copy protection or other factor that would make it play poorly on 64-bit systems…

No offense, but do you realize how totally crazy that sounds?

flyinj · 2011-04-08T14:36:17.000Z

Brian Rubin:

No offense, but do you realize how totally crazy that sounds?

I do!

intruder · 2011-04-08T14:39:05.000Z

I think I never had any issue with games since I run Windows 7 64 bit.
Some applications acted up but never games as far as I can remember.

BrianRubin · 2011-04-08T14:39:29.000Z

Also, is it wrong that I always think the guy on the front of the Realms of the Haunting box is Edward James Olmos?

Equisilus · 2011-04-08T14:44:52.000Z

flyinj:

You do realize that 95% of all PC games released in the past four years are 32-bit only, right?

Brian Rubin:

No offense, but do you realize how totally crazy that sounds?

Haha. Sorry, I didn’t mean to say 32-bit only in the sense that it runs a 32-bit executable. I mean they stated on the box that it was only supported on 32-bit OSes. I’ll edit the previous post to make that clear.

Too, I’ve been playing all games on x64 systems since Vista was released, so I’m well aware that 32-bit executables run fine on it. The issue was that this was, I think, the only game I had looked at buying which specifically states 32-bit only OSes in the specs. If I recall correctly, even today there’s still talk about problems running this game on 64-bit OSes (there are threads on GoG about it, at least).

Spect · 2011-04-08T15:43:13.000Z

Man, I can’t remember if I ever played Realms of the Haunting. Even after looking at the screen shots. The box looks familiar though…

Alistair · 2011-04-08T16:00:14.000Z

I played it in 96…? And it had great atmosphere at the time, but even then it had painful controls :(

aphoristic_gamer · 2011-04-08T17:44:01.000Z

Save doesn’t work in Realms of the Haunting. When I save, I find that my save is never there when I come back…

aphoristic_gamer · 2011-04-08T22:50:18.000Z

Now this is weird as hell. I played my Rayman, and my saves disappeared.

I looked at the folder, and saw that it was set to read-only. How could this happen?

Is this because I use an individual user account instead of the administrator account?

I just tried it, saving works when playing in the administrator account, although the read-only setting of the folder is reactivated every time I attempt to disable it.

How could I make it work? Perhaps it would work better if the program was installed out of the Program Files path?

Disconnected · 2011-04-09T10:00:04.000Z

Aphoristic gamer that and similar weird and annoying issues will continue to plague you when you use Windows, without carefully avoiding the kind of workflow the OS is designed to make appear attractive. So yeah… Install stuff in c:\games\ or something. Also, disable UAC.

Nitram_Draw · 2011-04-09T11:20:59.000Z

Disconnected:

Aphoristic gamer that and similar weird and annoying issues will continue to plague you when you use Windows, without carefully avoiding the kind of workflow the OS is designed to make appear attractive. So yeah… Install stuff in c:\games\ or something. Also, disable UAC.

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and am just experiancing the UAC for the first time. Is it possible to put certain programs on a safe list for it or is it an all or nothing type of thing?

aphoristic_gamer · 2011-04-11T11:44:43.000Z

Damn, Rayman gets really really hard, and fast. After the first two zones the level design gets absolutely brutal. It’s so easy to fall to your death. Not only that but you need to do the levels over and over again so you can free up all your friends from their cages, which is needed to progress further.

It does seem like the levels can ultimately be mastered and completed with much more ease. Although I don’t like all those levels where you must stay on top of a rapidly-moving platform, cloud or something like that.

Panda · 2011-04-11T11:53:36.000Z

UAC is all or nothing, and I would absolutely disable it as the first thing you do upon installing Vista or 7. Also, when a folder appears “read only” it doesn’t mean what it looks like it means. The short version is that it doesn’t matter – I haven’t seen an application respect the read-only flag on a file in forever.

Nitram_Draw · 2011-04-11T12:06:53.000Z

Panda:

UAC is all or nothing, and I would absolutely disable it as the first thing you do upon installing Vista or 7. Also, when a folder appears “read only” it doesn’t mean what it looks like it means. The short version is that it doesn’t matter – I haven’t seen an application respect the read-only flag on a file in forever.

Thanks. Damn I was afraid that was the answer.

Now do I disable it and risk my 13 year old going to some crazy site and getting my new computer terminally ill or do I need to forego playing some of the old classics I so dearly loved?

I hate it when there are only bad choices!

aphoristic_gamer · 2011-04-11T12:25:20.000Z

Panda:

UAC is all or nothing, and I would absolutely disable it as the first thing you do upon installing Vista or 7. Also, when a folder appears “read only” it doesn’t mean what it looks like it means. The short version is that it doesn’t matter – I haven’t seen an application respect the read-only flag on a file in forever.

UAC is disabled in my administrator account. On my user account I can’t seem to be able to have programs write into the program files folder which prevents me from saving. I don’t have the permission to disable UAC with my user account.

Matt_Perkins · 2011-04-11T12:37:02.000Z

why disable UAC again? This is windows 7 we are referrring to, correct?

If this is indeed Windows 7, you should not need to disable UAC. What the reasoning behind needing to disable it?

red_guy · 2011-04-11T13:08:51.000Z

Nitram Draw:

Now do I disable it and risk my 13 year old going to some crazy site and getting my new computer terminally ill or do I need to forego playing some of the old classics I so dearly loved?

Choose door number three. Do not install any GoG games under c:\Program Files, because normal users aren’t allowed to write there.

Follow Disconnected’s suggestion: install everything in a fresh folder like C:\Games. Check that everyone has full control access to that folder. Do not tamper with UAC.

Matt_Perkins · 2011-04-11T13:12:07.000Z

red guy:

Choose door number three. Do not install any GoG games under c:\Program Files, because normal users aren’t allowed to write there.

Follow Disconnected’s suggestion: install everything in a fresh folder like C:\Games. Check that everyone has full control access to that folder. Do not tamper with UAC.

This is GREAT advice and exactly what I do. Disabling UAC seems like disabling virus protection because it can get annoying sometimes…

Nitram_Draw · 2011-04-11T13:37:06.000Z

red guy:

Choose door number three. Do not install any GoG games under c:\Program Files, because normal users aren’t allowed to write there.

Follow Disconnected’s suggestion: install everything in a fresh folder like C:\Games. Check that everyone has full control access to that folder. Do not tamper with UAC.

Thanks. I’ll give it a try.