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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 27, 2012
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Flaose: Why is it that some games that are compatible with Windows 8 aren't compatible with Windows 7 (e.g. Cannon Fodder)? I thought Windows 8 was basically just 7 with a shell on top.
The kernel - core of the OS is changed and besides MS always had issues with making its software fully compatible with previous versions of their operating systems - i.e. Windows XP and Windows 98, Windows 95 and 3.11, Millennium and XP or Vista. tha't why guys at gog.com have a bit of extra work with all those older releases....
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calvinms: I will keep using windows xp like forever. windows xp is the best OS in the history of mankind. ;)
hehehe... but honestly, thanks to gog you are going to have lots of games anyway to play...
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Barry_Woodward: Speaking of Microsoft, vote for their games on the wishlist:
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deonast: Come on people why the negative votes on that post. Sure you may hate microsoft, but remember there are some good games that came out of their game studios why not want to liberate a few.
Hell if you don't want games from publishers you don't like GOG would only have half as many titles, there are some shitty publishers out there.
Just vote the the good games and settle for that, and let those who want the games DRM free here have a chance.

Negative voting the comment so no one sees it is a dick move in my opinion, there was nothing offensive or objectionable, just your own MS hate. Look I hate MS as much as the next guy, but I'd rather have their games out here than not. Why spoil it for others.
I agree with you mate totally.... Everybody knows Age of Empires series or Flight Simulator, but there is also World of Goo and Mark of Ninja.... Plus anyway, Microsoft is huge company - there are some good people among them anyway.
Post edited November 27, 2012 by xep624
Posted November 27, 2012
Have you checked your power saving settings?

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Licurg: Still not getting Win8.
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timppu: My Win8 Pro installation CD ISO still sits on my hard drive. I was slowly making my system ready to dualboot Win7 and 8, but now I've hit a roadblock because I get some stupid USB 3.0 error when I'm trying to copy (backup) a few hundred gigabytes of files from my second internal hard drive to an external USB hard drive (it seems as if the USB ports reset themselves after either a certain period of time, or file transfers, which interrupts the copying).

Fecking technology, why can't it just work? Especially these fecking USB hard drives seem to cause all kinds of nasties every now and then. I already checked that I have the latest USB 3.0 drivers (from Intel, dated in January 2012), but I noticed my BIOS was not up to date, so I flashed it to the latest version yesterday. Let's see if it helps with my stupid USB 3.0 transfer problems.
Posted November 27, 2012
Well thats no good...
Posted November 27, 2012
Oh snap win 8 support, we're doomed :D

I think Gog can't do much about Linux Support alot of games need to be rewritten for that (No DirectX on Linux)
Posted November 27, 2012
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bloodywing: Oh snap win 8 support, we're doomed :D

I think Gog can't do much about Linux Support alot of games need to be rewritten for that (No DirectX on Linux)
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_games_that_runs_on_linux
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_games_that_are_working_fine_with_linux_wine
Posted November 27, 2012
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Barry_Woodward: Speaking of Microsoft, vote for their games on the wishlist:
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deonast: Come on people why the negative votes on that post. Sure you may hate microsoft, but remember there are some good games that came out of their game studios why not want to liberate a few.
Hell if you don't want games from publishers you don't like GOG would only have half as many titles, there are some shitty publishers out there.
Just vote the the good games and settle for that, and let those who want the games DRM free here have a chance.

Negative voting the comment so no one sees it is a dick move in my opinion, there was nothing offensive or objectionable, just your own MS hate. Look I hate MS as much as the next guy, but I'd rather have their games out here than not. Why spoil it for others.
I think this is because some people are getting tired of seeing whole parts of the wishlist getting posted in threads, not Microsoft hate :)
Posted November 27, 2012
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Barry_Woodward: Speaking of Microsoft, vote for their games on the wishlist:
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deonast: Come on people why the negative votes on that post. Sure you may hate microsoft, but remember there are some good games that came out of their game studios why not want to liberate a few.
Hell if you don't want games from publishers you don't like GOG would only have half as many titles, there are some shitty publishers out there.
Just vote the the good games and settle for that, and let those who want the games DRM free here have a chance.

Negative voting the comment so no one sees it is a dick move in my opinion, there was nothing offensive or objectionable, just your own MS hate. Look I hate MS as much as the next guy, but I'd rather have their games out here than not. Why spoil it for others.
People down-vote the post because it's spam and completely irrelevant to this thread, not because they don't like Microsoft.
Posted November 27, 2012
Great news for me since I recently upgraded to WIndows 8. Haven't had a problem with any of my games so far but official support is great news
Posted November 27, 2012
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timppu: My Win8 Pro installation CD ISO still sits on my hard drive. I was slowly making my system ready to dualboot Win7 and 8, but now I've hit a roadblock because I get some stupid USB 3.0 error when I'm trying to copy (backup) a few hundred gigabytes of files from my second internal hard drive to an external USB hard drive (it seems as if the USB ports reset themselves after either a certain period of time, or file transfers, which interrupts the copying).

Fecking technology, why can't it just work? Especially these fecking USB hard drives seem to cause all kinds of nasties every now and then. I already checked that I have the latest USB 3.0 drivers (from Intel, dated in January 2012), but I noticed my BIOS was not up to date, so I flashed it to the latest version yesterday. Let's see if it helps with my stupid USB 3.0 transfer problems.
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TheOperaGhost: Have you checked your power saving settings?
Yeah:

- I have made it default that the system never sleeps or hibernates on AC power (at best it shuts off the monitor after certain period of time, that's all. I'll save the nature later.)

- I've checked that writing cache is off for the USB hard drives (in Win7 it seems to be disabled by default, which is good)

- I've checked the USB power settings that when plugged in, "USB selective suspend setting" is disabled.

But still the problem persists. After around 50-70 gigabytes of copying files, it seems the USB hard drives or ports are kinda resetted. It acts as if you had just inserted the hard drive to the USB port, gives the autoplay menu etc. At the same time though, even the DVD-ROM drive "clicks" as if it was just started.

Googling for it, many seem to have the same problem with USB 3.0 ports and big file transfers, on various different PCs. I've upgraded the BIOS and the Intel USB drivers to the latest versions that the PC vendor (ASUS) is providing (the USB drivers are from Jan 2012 though).

However, I found a workaround. If I use an USB 2.0 hub (which is connected to one of the USB 3.0 ports), I don't seem to face the problem. Everything just takes a longer time. Dependability over speed.

Too bad I don't have eSATA ports on my laptop, they start sounding like a good idea. USB seems quite flaky for any serious use which requires dependability, like external hard drives.

Anyways, I've now backed up all the necessary files from the internal hard drives, so I guess I'll try installing Win8 as multiboot.
Post edited November 27, 2012 by timppu
Posted November 27, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: I believe rather than flood people with the eighty-something update notifications, the Product guys decided to make this a silent update.
I was just curious how much had to be changed to make it work. Personally I haven't noticed any differences in getting games to run (apart from re-doing some config changes that were lost by the update to Win 8).

But I guess if you ask your coding ninjas they will say it was a "incredibly difficult and complicated task, worthy of a pay-raise" ... ;-)

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TheEnigmaticT: I'll see about getting one of them to post which games were updated; generally, though, i'd suggest this: if it's not working in Win8, try re-downloading it. :P
I was around with Win 95, that is my solution for everything ;-).
Posted November 27, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: I believe rather than flood people with the eighty-something update notifications, the Product guys decided to make this a silent update.
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SimonG: I was just curious how much had to be changed to make it work. Personally I haven't noticed any differences in getting games to run (apart from re-doing some config changes that were lost by the update to Win 8).

But I guess if you ask your coding ninjas they will say it was a "incredibly difficult and complicated task, worthy of a pay-raise" ... ;-)
Well, some games were harder than others. Some of them require a fix that is going to an outside developer to create for us. So I'd say that for the games you've tried, it's probably been pretty easy, but that's not a guarantee for all games. ;)
Posted November 27, 2012
Nice, now GOG.com even supports a gadget-oriented OS like Windows 8 :-P
Posted November 27, 2012
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KingofGnG: Nice, now GOG.com even supports a gadget-oriented OS like Windows 8 :-P
I REALLY hate the people who say crap like this, it's not gadget oriented yes it has a new interface no it's not purely aimed at touch. 99.9% of people never bothered with the startmenu except for the occasional search and just pinned the apps to the toolbar guess what they do exactly the same with 8. It's no different to 7 except you get a slightly snappier system and an app store you can let your parents use without worrying about them getting a virus. And if they do your just hit the "system reset" button and 2-10 minutes later you have a fresh install with a list of all your removed programs including links to redownload them.
Posted November 27, 2012
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wodmarach: ...
I can't help myself but say it - Your Orochi profile picture fascinates me :D.

As for the news, I'm not a Win8 user and don't plan to for as many years as possible but GOG expanding its support and trying to be ahead of its competition is always good.
Posted November 27, 2012
Not the OS announcement I was hoping for.
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