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General discussionNews: Getting Ready for Windows 10!(263 posts)(263 posts)
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Posted July 08, 2015
Windows 10 is coming on July 29th and we are as ready as can be!

You have been asking on our forums, and now we are here with the official word! We're getting ready for Windows 10 and putting our QA Team at full capacity to test the games we (and you!) are looking forward to play on the upcoming OS.

Currently, we are very optimistic about July 29th and hope you will make a near-seamless transition to gaming on the newest version of your Windows operating system.

GOG.com has always been about making sure our releases, especially the classics, are tested and playable out of the box on modern computers.



When GOG.com launched in 2008, Windows XP was by far the most popular operating system among gamers. Ever since then we've meticulously tested our entire library to introduce Day 1 compatibility with every new Windows release. We've done it for Windows 7, we've done it for Windows 8 - now we're doing it all again for Windows 10.

So far, things are looking great. We're encountering very few problems and most of those are either resolvable on our end, or likely to get fixed as Windows 10 nears release. In fact, many games that had issues on operating systems newer than Windows XP once again won’t suffer any hiccups on Windows 10. The OS is still a work in progress, so while anything can happen until the release date we're confident for the future. This is the smoothest transition to a brand new system that we've ever worked on.

Some games may need a patch to run perfectly smoothly, but don't worry - they will be available on the site, and if you use GOG Galaxy, your games will be ready to go automatically.
Posted July 16, 2015
Good to hear!!!
Posted July 16, 2015
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hedwards: Personally, with my current rig, I mostly just run Windows in a VM. Which works for anything that doesn't require a real graphics accelerator. Hopefully at some point Virtualbox will get a proper accelerator.
As I recall, There are 3 options for as close to bare metal acceleration as you can get:
1) ESXi Server + Windows client with experimental 3D features enabled (you must dedicate at least 12 to 128 MB of RAM for this, as I understand, depending on your desired resolution). I've not heard how suitable for gaming this is, and my boss won't let me try games on the work servers.

2) Hyper V Server with Windows client (I haven't verified this) and something called RemoteFX. Judging by the light reading in there, the RemoteFX requires a Nvidia Quadro or AMD FireGL enterprise level graphics card. So, it's not meant for gaming, it seems to be meant for a mini computer serving a bunch of thin client workstations that might to CAD or Solidworks or 3D animation - something like that. Also requires the processor to support certain VT-x extensions

3) Xen with 3d acceleration... I've heard that this breaks security rules, but in the interest of getting people to use the Hypervisor, they're willing to allow you to enable it. The specific distro I've heard of is QubeOS Release 2 (beta), and there's a tutorial to enable it. You must also have a certain kind of processor technology VT-x and something else.

4) Lastly is a wildcard, something
Posted July 16, 2015
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noncompliantgame: Best to just stick with win7. :-)
Even Windows 8 performs better than Win 7. DX12 will likely make both obsolete unless you're happy sitting with just dx 9 and 11 games.
Posted July 16, 2015
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noncompliantgame: Best to just stick with win7. :-)
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ander01se: Even Windows 8 performs better than Win 7. DX12 will likely make both obsolete unless you're happy sitting with just dx 9 and 11 games.
Not really that concerned about having the latest and the greatest. And second hand is generally best when it comes to certain consumer durables - such as PCs. Starve the system. ;-)
Posted July 16, 2015
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hedwards: Personally, with my current rig, I mostly just run Windows in a VM. Which works for anything that doesn't require a real graphics accelerator. Hopefully at some point Virtualbox will get a proper accelerator.
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PincushionMan: As I recall, There are 3 options for as close to bare metal acceleration as you can get:
1) ESXi Server + Windows client with experimental 3D features enabled (you must dedicate at least 12 to 128 MB of RAM for this, as I understand, depending on your desired resolution). I've not heard how suitable for gaming this is, and my boss won't let me try games on the work servers.

2) Hyper V Server with Windows client (I haven't verified this) and something called RemoteFX. Judging by the light reading in there, the RemoteFX requires a Nvidia Quadro or AMD FireGL enterprise level graphics card. So, it's not meant for gaming, it seems to be meant for a mini computer serving a bunch of thin client workstations that might to CAD or Solidworks or 3D animation - something like that. Also requires the processor to support certain VT-x extensions

3) Xen with 3d acceleration... I've heard that this breaks security rules, but in the interest of getting people to use the Hypervisor, they're willing to allow you to enable it. The specific distro I've heard of is QubeOS Release 2 (beta), and there's a tutorial to enable it. You must also have a certain kind of processor technology VT-x and something else.

4) Lastly is a wildcard, something
For most things Virtualbox works just fine, but yeah, for things like gaming you really do need something along those lines. The main downside is that even when they work, you're subject to the normal effects of changing the hardware in a way that you're not with a regular VM.

Still, I'll probably give it a try. It's not like I need an activated copy of Windows for gaming.
Posted September 25, 2015
Dungeon Keeper 2 and Star Wars: Rebellion aren't working properly with Windows 10. DK2 crashes and is now not wanting to start up on mine

And Rebellion..... god, shit is all messed up now... colors are funky, things are flipped upside down...

Can you please look into this?
Posted September 25, 2015
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Freelancer1989: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Star Wars: Rebellion aren't working properly with Windows 10. DK2 crashes and is now not wanting to start up on mine

And Rebellion..... god, shit is all messed up now... colors are funky, things are flipped upside down...

Can you please look into this?
We are fixing games as fast as possible but what really helps is a well-written support ticket so we can have some more information about your system :)
Posted September 25, 2015
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Freelancer1989: Dungeon Keeper 2 and Star Wars: Rebellion aren't working properly with Windows 10. DK2 crashes and is now not wanting to start up on mine

And Rebellion..... god, shit is all messed up now... colors are funky, things are flipped upside down...

Can you please look into this?
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JudasIscariot: We are fixing games as fast as possible but what really helps is a well-written support ticket so we can have some more information about your system :)
My PC is an ASUS Desktop PC CM5675 Series
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz
RAM: 6.00 GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Runs on Windows 10, everything currently fully updated

As to actual problems with the games, Dungeon Keeper 2 would crash and stop working when I would hit the esc key to bring up the menu and or after a time of about 20 - 40 minutes of game play. And now when I try to launch it, the screen will go black like it's going to launch, but then just come back to my desktop

Star Wars Rebellion on the other hand, the color is all messed up, there is a lot of blue color over most things, especially the ones that should be red, like the Rebel symbol, icons are completely flipped upside down and with the fleet selection, completely on the wrong part of the screen. I'll try to provide an image so I can give you a clearer idea of what exactly is happening
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