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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 08, 2015
With Win10 introduced into QA process - is anything going to change as far as XP support is concerned?
Posted July 08, 2015
Well done GOG. Thanks!
Posted July 08, 2015
very nice! hope microsoft provide an worthy upgrade.
Posted July 08, 2015
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tfishell: Best of luck and keep up the good work GOG! Making older games compatible is still - for better or worse - one the number one reasons (at least according to places like Reddit) people buy from you.
Really? Didn't know that.
Actually I find reddit quite, humm, panfletary. In almost everything. They're important, I know, but nah, not for me.
And the sun don't shine on me only so, who cares? :(

But seriously, I think most of us in here do care for GOG's (and already proven to be) outstanding support for old games, re-releases, re-packaging oldies, making games available in numerous platforms, digital premieres and so on.
And now they even publish, holy moses! :)
Post edited July 08, 2015 by vicklemos
Posted July 08, 2015
I'm stuck on win 7, only 3 steps behind win 10:)
I'm afraid that testing on more systems means less releases of "new" classic games.
Posted July 08, 2015
Still using Win7, so I don't care .
Posted July 08, 2015
Probably not gonna switch for a while, but still, these are the kind of things that make me live GOG.
Posted July 08, 2015
I have 100+ games on Win 7 and only ones that don't work are Icewind dale 2 and Dark Reign.I have tried every workaround there is,no luck.Hope this will change with Win 10
Post edited July 08, 2015 by RottenRotz
Posted July 08, 2015
Will Desperados 1 work?
Posted July 08, 2015
This news really makes me happy, way to go GOG!
Posted July 08, 2015
Cool to see you're on it.

But in all hnesty, MS is so keen on forcing that OS on everyone of their clients, there shouldn't be any issues...
Posted July 08, 2015
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triple_l: windows 10 has forced auto-updates for newer features without letting users have a saying
basically any new feature microsoft chooses in the future you will be forced to accept
If that decision is definitive, it's a deal breaker for me.
I don't want a sudden MetroUi2 next year (or worse).
Posted July 08, 2015
I'll let the guinea pigs... err, I mean "early adopters" try it out before commiting to it.
Posted July 08, 2015
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RottenRotz: I have 100+ games on Win 7 and only ones that don't work are Icewind dale 2 and Dark Reign.I have tried every workaround there is,no luck.Hope this will change with Win 10
Icewind Dale 2 works on Windows 7 without any issues, maybe it is something with your drivers and not the system. Albeit this is really strange, IWD2 does not even have 3d accelaration that other infinity engine games had.
Posted July 08, 2015
Personally, I can't wait for Windows 10 to finally be released. (I have an MSDN Subscription, so I can install the Pro version without forced updates)

I wonder how games that currently have to use Glide Wrappers will work. If there are any built in tools to fix that. They would sell so many more copies if they developed stuff like that.
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