The exact expiration date wasn't known. What was known for a long while, is that Piranha Bytes owned the Gothic IP and that Nordic only held the distribution rights, which would eventually expire. Seems like Nordic's distribution rights have finally expired (or are close to expiring in other stores).

Same here, tried many different combinations with no positive results. There must be something wrong with the build that doesn't like Win7 64. After I uninstalling 1.5, I went ahead and reinstalled 1.4, which I never had an issue with at all. Until then, that might be the only option. Obviously that's going to do shit for people that do not have the 1.4 installers though.

You might want to report this in the "what did just break" thread.

It creates a desktop shortcut that refers to the Galaxy version.

Hmmm...I've just tried Single Player of 1.5 on Win7 64Bit and had no problems.

I'm not sure I follow. The launcher only creates a shortcut?
Perhaps I should just install it and try.

See my previous post above.

The game installer creates a desktop shortcut which points to the Galaxy client (not directly to the game executable). The Galaxy client will then launch the game with Galaxy support (for multiplayer).

The desktop shortcuts created by the installers of games which are not currently Galaxy enabled will point directly to the game executable.

Here's what happens with the new installer. When you install the game, it also comes bundled with part of the Galaxy client that is responsible for the multiplayer. The start menu shortcuts generated by the installer are preconfigured to launch alongside the Galaxy component. You can bypass the launching of the Galaxy component, either by running the game's executable directly from the folder or editing the shortcut to link only to the game's executable. At any rate, since the new update was mostly about incorporating Galaxy support for Rise of the Triad, there are suspicions that it might have caused the game to stop working (at least Geralt_of_Rivia thinks so). For me, it still works the same as before (Windows 7 64-bit user here).

Thank you, WinterSnowfall and Grargar. I think I got it now.

From MaGog's logs for 18 April:

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 1 of 5) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.1.0.6.exe; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:18:32 GMT; 788,984)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 2 of 5) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.1.0.6-1.bin; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:34:32 GMT; 1,565,218,688)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 3 of 5) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.1.0.6-2.bin; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:34:45 GMT; 1,566,000,000)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 4 of 5) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.1.0.6-3.bin; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:36:17 GMT; 1,566,000,000)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 5 of 5) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.1.0.6-4.bin; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:34:17 GMT; 1,182,729,062)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Universal update (patch 1.4) (patch_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.1.4.10.exe; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:11:32 GMT; 1,208,306,680)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 1 of 3) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.3.0.18.exe; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:16:35 GMT; 59,167,160)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 2 of 3) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.3.0.18-1.bin; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:46:40 GMT; 4,194,304,000)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Rise of the Triad (2013), downloadables, Windows installer, English (part 3 of 3) (setup_the_rise_of_the_triad_2.3.0.18-2.bin; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:33:29 GMT; 2,271,233,509)

Going to try updating my graphics drivers and see if that makes a difference. Otherwise I am at a loss to why I am having issues with this build when the previous versions worked just fine.

How does the error manifest? Does the game crash or do you have an error message? Maybe it is because of previous versions that you had installed. I never before had ROTT installed on my PC before.

No direct error, it just locks up my pc during the level 1 intro. Sometimes it will move on to gameplay after a long while and actually start the level, but that is flawless like running the previous versions when it gets to that point. I've also noticed audio glitches with the storyline intro and level intro which may or may not tie in with the issues I have been having. It might have something to do with the graphics drivers because the resolution seems to go funky when it locks up. Going to try updating drivers here and there, I know that the in-game graphics options bare no difference at all. So looks like I'm just going to have to keep trying different things until I hit upon the correct combination.

For me the game simply crashes at the start of the first level. The version before worked fine.

I have the latest graphics driver and I had ROTT installed before but I made sure to delete the old config and save files.

From MaGog's logs for 18 April:

NOTE! ADDED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, French version update to 6052 (patch_shadowgate_2.0.2.4.exe; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 19:43:31 GMT; 95,820,456)

NOTE! CHANGED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, Mac OS X installer, French (shadowgate_french_2.2.0.8.dmg ***TO*** shadowgate_french_2.3.0.10.dmg; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:12:25 GMT ***TO*** Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:07:01 GMT; 1,011,334,104 ***TO*** 1,011,334,369)

NOTE! CHANGED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, Linux installer, English (gog_shadowgate_1.0.0.1.tar.gz ***TO*** gog_shadowgate_1.1.0.2.tar.gz; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:16:53 GMT ***TO*** Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:18:52 GMT; 1,003,152,461 ***TO*** 1,003,152,323)

NOTE! CHANGED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, Linux installer, French (gog_shadowgate_french_1.0.0.1.tar.gz ***TO*** gog_shadowgate_french_1.1.0.2.tar.gz; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:16:48 GMT ***TO*** Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:19:05 GMT; 1,004,085,331 ***TO*** 1,004,086,436)

NOTE! CHANGED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, Linux installer, German (gog_shadowgate_german_1.0.0.1.tar.gz ***TO*** gog_shadowgate_german_1.1.0.2.tar.gz; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:17:40 GMT ***TO*** Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:19:18 GMT; 1,003,441,717 ***TO*** 1,003,441,729)

NOTE! CHANGED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, Linux installer, Italian (gog_shadowgate_italian_1.0.0.1.tar.gz ***TO*** gog_shadowgate_italian_1.1.0.2.tar.gz; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:16:52 GMT ***TO*** Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:33:18 GMT; 1,003,383,656 ***TO*** 1,003,383,439)

NOTE! CHANGED FILE Shadowgate, downloadables, Linux installer, Spanish (gog_shadowgate_spanish_1.0.0.1.tar.gz ***TO*** gog_shadowgate_spanish_1.1.0.2.tar.gz; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:17:14 GMT ***TO*** Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:33:04 GMT; 1,003,550,792 ***TO*** 1,003,551,157)



[Don't really know what this is. Don't remember this being mentioned by anyone. The added patch is apparently the same one removed on 9 April, except that then it was called "Patch 5937". See http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post7064]