Posted April 01, 2017
low rated
Hi people,
this is serious (unfortunate timing, posting this on 01/04),
I have recently purchased serveral oldies for some nostalgia feels. There is something wrong with every single one of those games.
Let's start with Pharaoh. I get to perhaps 7th or 8th city, game starts freezing. I google the problem, sure other people experience it too. Number of issues, direct x can be corrupted, try reinstall, try this or that. After 1 hour trying im done with this. Feel cheated, definitly not starting from the beggining.
So I move on, next game i bought Worms World Party. Start the game, kinda slow, realy slow after a while especially when fire thing from barrels burns and spills around. I google again, and ofcourse known issue. There is a huge performance problem with gog version of worms world party. Number of lengthy solutions presented, some people claim nothing can be done unless you have a moster of a processor 4ghz + on a single core. Works a bit better on very low resolution but looks like crap... Ok...
So I move on, install dungeon keeper the original version. Again performance problems, a bit of googling, known issues again, vein bursts in my left eye. This I manage to get to a semi working state with increased cycles and frame skips (stuff from dosbox), but in very big battles in further levels its still super slow.
So I move on, install arcanum, works at the start but seems slow during combat, very slow after a while. So I google again. Performance problems on windows 8.1, known issues, lengthy fixes found in forum that include dll file replacements from 3rd parties and installing mods from 3rd parties...
This brings me to my conclusion.
Have you no shame to sell people this broken versions ? When I spend the money is it to much that I expect these games to work "out of the box" without me spending hours tinkering to make them work ?
I strongly recommend that anyone thinking about buying some classics from gog google extensivly forknown issues on his platform.
Very dissapointed gog, you are in the penalty box.
this is serious (unfortunate timing, posting this on 01/04),
I have recently purchased serveral oldies for some nostalgia feels. There is something wrong with every single one of those games.
Let's start with Pharaoh. I get to perhaps 7th or 8th city, game starts freezing. I google the problem, sure other people experience it too. Number of issues, direct x can be corrupted, try reinstall, try this or that. After 1 hour trying im done with this. Feel cheated, definitly not starting from the beggining.
So I move on, next game i bought Worms World Party. Start the game, kinda slow, realy slow after a while especially when fire thing from barrels burns and spills around. I google again, and ofcourse known issue. There is a huge performance problem with gog version of worms world party. Number of lengthy solutions presented, some people claim nothing can be done unless you have a moster of a processor 4ghz + on a single core. Works a bit better on very low resolution but looks like crap... Ok...
So I move on, install dungeon keeper the original version. Again performance problems, a bit of googling, known issues again, vein bursts in my left eye. This I manage to get to a semi working state with increased cycles and frame skips (stuff from dosbox), but in very big battles in further levels its still super slow.
So I move on, install arcanum, works at the start but seems slow during combat, very slow after a while. So I google again. Performance problems on windows 8.1, known issues, lengthy fixes found in forum that include dll file replacements from 3rd parties and installing mods from 3rd parties...
This brings me to my conclusion.
Have you no shame to sell people this broken versions ? When I spend the money is it to much that I expect these games to work "out of the box" without me spending hours tinkering to make them work ?
I strongly recommend that anyone thinking about buying some classics from gog google extensivly forknown issues on his platform.
Very dissapointed gog, you are in the penalty box.
