"Good Old Games"

Giles_Habibula · 2012-02-07T19:28:39.000Z

scharmers,
Another addition for your list:
Sniper Elite - Berlin 1945
The GOG version works beautifully with no modifications on my Win7 64 bit quad-core system. I’m not up on any community patches or whatever else might be available for it. All I know is that it runs beautifully, and looks identical to my retail disk release on a Win XP system.

Nikolaj · 2012-02-08T02:14:54.000Z

I don’t really have anything to add, but I’d like to say that that’s an awesome list, Scharmers. Thanks.

scharmers · 2012-02-08T10:51:22.000Z

Glad this helps some folks. Brian, I know you have a bunch of GoG games not on the list, so chime in :)

BrianRubin · 2012-02-08T11:04:15.000Z

Gimme a couple of days, I’m swamped. :)

JustinFletcher · 2012-02-08T12:35:54.000Z

If the Thief II movies don’t work, I’d consider that a **. It’s not gameplay, but it’s part of the original experience that doesn’t work “out of the box.”

scharmers · 2012-02-08T12:44:38.000Z

Justin Fletcher:

If the Thief II movies don’t work, I’d consider that a **. It’s not gameplay, but it’s part of the original experience that doesn’t work “out of the box.”

True enough, but it seems like everyone but me and another tiny subset of users is able to grind through enough workarounds to get the movies to work – the only thing I’ve haven’t tried is downloading the KLite or whatever codec pack, because I’ve had filters from that pack kill other videos in the past. This is probably the step I need to take to get it to work :)

Chuck · 2012-02-08T14:53:53.000Z

From day one, I’ve had to use various methods to get the Dark Engine games to display the movies.

None have been difficult, all of them worked.

With GOG’s Thief Gold, I simply run it as an admin. and problem solved.

Maybe GOG could send out techs to peoples homes and fix it for them.

scharmers · 2012-02-08T14:55:37.000Z

Chuck:

From day one, I’ve had to use various methods to get the Dark Engine games to display the movies.

None have been difficult, all of them worked.

With GOG’s Thief Gold, I simply run it as an admin. and problem solved.

Maybe GOG could send out techs to peoples homes and fix it for them.

Maybe you could come out and fix it for us, Chuck.

Demorve · 2012-02-08T17:43:37.000Z

scharmers:

Hmmm. Let me take a look at those, and I’ll even try kicking cycles down to like 500 or something. Would be interesting if DOSBox wouldn’t slow down enough to handle the game. The only other thing I’ve seen like this would be the Wing Commanders where one cycle setting just doesn’t work for the whole game.

Thanks for looking into this, I’m just wondering how many other people experience this? I’d play Starflight 1 on my android tablet, but I haven’t figured out how to get the access code thingy’s to work on my tablet.

JustinFletcher · 2012-02-08T18:18:45.000Z

Chuck:

Maybe GOG could send out techs to peoples homes and fix it for them.

Or they could just tell people about the fix as I’ve suggested instead of making them figure it out for themselves. It’s as simple as a README.txt.

Demorve · 2012-02-08T19:06:46.000Z

I thought the whole purpose of gog was to sell old games that worked, but then I’ve always been a bit naive.

Nesrie · 2012-02-08T22:01:12.000Z

Demorve:

I thought the whole purpose of gog was to sell old games that worked, but then I’ve always been a bit naive.

I thought the same thing. Then I began reading some of the GoG boards on games like Dungeon Keeper 2. These kind of lists are certainly appreciated.

intruder · 2012-02-09T00:44:32.000Z

Interstate '76 is also known to not work (see GoG forums for reference).

Kelan · 2012-02-10T04:55:38.000Z

My wife had problems getting Sanitarium to work properly. It would crash so much she couldn’t play it. There appears to be a possible fix on the forums, but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet.

Rock8man · 2012-02-10T05:04:08.000Z

I have the CD version of Sanitarium, and I had similar problems with it back when I last tried it a few years ago, on Windows XP. They’re just unexplained crashes to the desktop. Was the game just really buggy maybe? Or is it compatibility issues? It was impossible for me to tell personally at the time.

anonymgeist · 2012-02-10T20:09:34.000Z

The 7th Guest runs fine for me on Windows 7 x64, but it doesn’t appear to be alt-tab friendly. Worth the $8 just for the soundtrack.

Warren · 2012-02-11T11:13:36.000Z

Maybe it’s just a bias in what I’ve noticed, but the titles in this weekends Topware sale seem to be on sale quite quite often. At this point, after a couple of years of frequently being on sale, it’s hard to imagine that anyone that has any slight interest in the titles hasn’t already picked them up. I’m missing the point of having the same set of titles go on sale at reduced price so often rather than some titles newer to the service, assuming the point of a sale to be to capture sales by interesting potential buyers at a lower price that would otherwise not buy. The well on interest in the selection for this weekend sale seems like it would already be tapped.

Equisilus · 2012-02-11T11:58:24.000Z

I didn’t have any issues with the GoG release of Sanitarium, playing on Win7 x64.

thither · 2012-02-11T13:21:52.000Z

Sanitarium also worked fine for me on two different PC’s in Windows XP 32-bit. Possibly a GPU driver issue?

Gunny · 2012-02-11T13:44:02.000Z

Well, one thing to note; GOG’s site says the games are comp. with XP and Vista. Nothing about 7.