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General discussion (archive)Announcement: GOG.com Now Supports Windows 8 Officially!(158 posts)(158 posts)
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Posted November 26, 2012
90% of GOG.com games officially supported in Windows 8

A lot of you have been asking recently if we’re going to support Windows 8 officially. Our answer has been, “let’s wait for the release of the OS and we’ll look into it and see.” Well, Windows 8 has been out for a while, and as such we’ve had time to look into it. We have good news, and we bet you’re never gonna guess what it is!

Windows 8 support? Oh. Wow. Yeah. Good guess. How did you--wow. That was a good guess.

So as of today we're adding official Windows 8 support for most of the games in GOG.com catalog. There are currently 431 titles fixed, tested, and reported to be working properly under Microsoft's new OS. Note that most of these have not had the master builds updated, so you shouldn’t need to redownload the installer or anything. Some of the titles, our build ninjas performed their usual magic on, and they’ll work now in Windows 8--and we’re even adding Windows 7 support to a few. We’ll also be adding more Windows 8 games as time goes by and we’ve got time to apply some fixes to more of the classic games in the catalog.

We’re bringing the best games in history to the new OS, If you’ve got any questions about it, let us know in the comments below.
Posted November 26, 2012
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Herbman: Hmm Gothic works fine here, right off the bat. Haven't tried any of the other ones in your list, but I have never had an issue with any game in Win 7.
That's what GOG says, not me, I just enlisted which games don't have "7" on their gamecard.
Posted November 26, 2012
I'd imagine most of the games already "worked" on Windows 8 (since it does have full backwards compatibility with Windows 7 programs) but it's nice to know that it is official supported now in case I need technical support on a game.
Posted November 26, 2012
Wow so quickly? Thanks gog.com Now all those games I bought can run fine on my netbook that has the trial on it ^^
Posted November 26, 2012
That's great. Thanks ^^
Posted November 26, 2012
Speaking of Microsoft, vote for their games on the wishlist:

Age Of Empires + The Rise Of Rome
Age Of Empires II: The Age Of Kings + The Conquerors
Age Of Empires III + The WarChiefs + The Asian Dynasties
Age Of Mythology + The Titans
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Banjo-Tooie
Battletoads
Battletoads (Arcade)
Battletoads & Double Dragon
Battletoads In Battlemaniacs
Black & White + Creature Isle
Black & White 2 + Battle Of The Gods
Blast Corps
Close Combat
Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far
Close Combat III: The Russian Front
Conker: Live & Reloaded (remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day)
Crimson Skies
Deadlight
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Fable II
Fable III
Freelancer
Fury³
Gears Of War
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Hellbender
Hydro Thunder Hurricane
Impossible Creatures
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Iron Brigade
Jet Force Gemini
Jetpac
Kameo: Elements Of Power
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct 2
Mark Of The Ninja
The Maw
MechCommander 2
MechWarrior 4: Vengeance + Black Knight + Mercenaries
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle For Europe
Microsoft Flight
Microsoft Flight Simulator '95
Microsoft Flight Simulator '98
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century Of Flight
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Microsoft Pinball Arcade
Microsoft Space Simulator
Microsoft Train Simulator
Midtown Madness
Midtown Madness 2
Monster Truck Madness
Monster Truck Madness 2
Motocross Madness
Motocross Madness 2
Ms. Splosion Man
The Neverhood
Outwars
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
RalliSport Challenge
Rise Of Nations + Thrones And Patriots
Rise Of Nations: Rise Of Legends
Shadowrun (2007)
Splosion Man
Starlancer
State Of Decay
Sudeki
Toy Soldiers
Urban Assault + Metropolis Dawn
Viva Piñata
Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise
Zoo Tycoon + Dinosaur Digs + Marine Mania
Zoo Tycoon 2 + Endangered Species + African Adventure + Dino Danger Pack + Marine Mania + Extinct Animals
Post edited November 26, 2012 by Barry_Woodward
Posted November 26, 2012
Nice to see the support and since I am still on Vista, I expect that I will be playing these GOG games for years to come. ;-)
Posted November 26, 2012
good news for those with the OS, i just hope you make news posts to say as an when a title supports 8 and the ones with new 7 support too
Posted November 26, 2012
Man, first Stranger's Wrath HD upgrade and now this? GOG is full of good news today!
Posted November 26, 2012
Nice, But only 1% is using Win8 :P

This sums Win 8 up perfectly
"Windows 8 on mobile devices and tablets is akin to Dr Jekyll: a tortured soul hoping for redemption," wrote Nielsen in an online article. "On a regular PC, Windows 8 is Mr Hyde: a monster that terrorises poor office workers and strangles their productivity."
Posted November 26, 2012
Good news for all those now on windows 8.
Posted November 26, 2012
Can we get a working DosBOX config for Shadow Warrior in Windows 8 then? sofar its broken on every system I've tried but on Xp, 7 even server 2008 (i was bored in lab today) it works but not on windows 8...


Shadow Warrior MAGIC PLEASE, lets get this working! I want some WANG!
Posted November 26, 2012
That's great news. How can I tell at a glance whether I need to download a new installer or update for a particular game?
Posted November 26, 2012
Good for you Gog, but I totally do not care the least bit about that OS! :P
Posted November 26, 2012
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mezron: That's great news. How can I tell at a glance whether I need to download a new installer or update for a particular game?
if they touched any of the files your name (upper right on home screen) will have a green number buy it.. over over your name and it'll show you have a game update...
Posted November 26, 2012
It would be interesting to know how many games actually needed tweaking.

Unless there weren't any update notifications, none of my games needed an update.
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