Also, LOTR2's new CD version doesn't seem to work for me, the "menu" comes up with conquer Germany or England and Wales, but clicking either just makes the game close to desktop...

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You do realise that damn near every game commercially available adds some form of registry entry, right? Hell, most software does.

The only exceptions I can come up with are games running in DOSBox and those dinky little standalone flash games.

And which rootkit/trojan/DRM system does that, hm?
Actually, here's an entire thread dedicated to methods to resolve the issue with ddraw. None of them even need registry fixes or killing explorer!

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/directdraw_fix_configurations/page1

I'm referring to the registry entries for fixing games with palette issues, the registry entries force the game to run in compatibility mode with DirectX, yes?

And it's not really an issue of "other games do it", I just think GOG should use other methods instead of putting registry entries into installers.

And I think killing other functions of Windows is an extreme option which is worse that a registry entry by far.

And if you're going to claim "it's not really an issue of "other games do it"", then it's not really an issue if rootkits/trojans/DRM do it, either.

Hence your entire argument collapses into a pile of "I don't like it, so don't do it" with no good reasoning. Especially since people clearly don't have issues with other games doing it.

Anyway, it's a moot argument. I've already pointed out that there are dll wrappers. In fact, I believe Fallout 1 already uses such a dll wrapper in the GOG release! So, not much of a stretch to include a similar fix for other ddraw games with palette issues.

Don't have this game but is nice to see an old game in my country's language, years ago very few developers launched games with this idiom in oficial form...

Ekhm...This week on gog? Did someone overslept (again) or it's a new secular tradition that we should go directly on youtube?

Yes, is a brazilian-only site. Years ago, basically the only publishers who released officialy some games in brazilian portuguese were EA and Microsoft, but we had some non-oficial translations too (made by the brazilian distributors, but this normally caused problems because they normally needed custom patches too...)

Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption got a silent v2 update

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