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General discussion (archive)Announcement: GOG.com Now Supports Windows 8 Officially!(158 posts)(158 posts)
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Posted November 26, 2012
90% of GOG.com games officially supported in Windows 8

A lot of you have been asking recently if we’re going to support Windows 8 officially. Our answer has been, “let’s wait for the release of the OS and we’ll look into it and see.” Well, Windows 8 has been out for a while, and as such we’ve had time to look into it. We have good news, and we bet you’re never gonna guess what it is!

Windows 8 support? Oh. Wow. Yeah. Good guess. How did you--wow. That was a good guess.

So as of today we're adding official Windows 8 support for most of the games in GOG.com catalog. There are currently 431 titles fixed, tested, and reported to be working properly under Microsoft's new OS. Note that most of these have not had the master builds updated, so you shouldn’t need to redownload the installer or anything. Some of the titles, our build ninjas performed their usual magic on, and they’ll work now in Windows 8--and we’re even adding Windows 7 support to a few. We’ll also be adding more Windows 8 games as time goes by and we’ve got time to apply some fixes to more of the classic games in the catalog.

We’re bringing the best games in history to the new OS, If you’ve got any questions about it, let us know in the comments below.
Posted December 01, 2012
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nijuu: Lots don't like it. The UI was designed for mobiles/tablets.Not desktops.
The start screen/modern ui, yes. And it doesn't have to be anything more than a full-screen "start menu" if you don't want it to. The desktop is still very much a mouse/keyboard-oriented desktop.

While I'm in no hurry to get the OS (I'm still recent enough with Windows 7 to have today's and tomorrow's desktop applications and games running right off the bat), and while I don't agree with the direction personal computing in general seems to be taking (moving towards tablets and locked platforms), I also do not agree with the idea that Windows 8 in itself is a disaster for the desktop (in my opinion, it's a better 7).
Posted December 01, 2012
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TalezShin: Maybe GoG.com would provide Metro style launchers in future?
It's technically possible but it's a pain to do, by default Metro apps cannot interact with the desktop, as in, a Metro apps cannot launch a desktop games or application.

There are some dirty workaround, like the most common one : create a new dummy URL protocol (like "gog://" for example) and have a desktop application register this protocol, then the Metro apps will be able to call some URL using this protocol, request which will then be transferred to the desktop one. Very similar to what GoG is doing with the downloader's links.

So it's possible but it would require two independent applications being installed on the computer (you cannot have a Metro apps which also install a desktop one) one on the shop and one downloaded separately and of course have Ms approve the Metro apps.
Post edited December 01, 2012 by Gersen
Posted December 01, 2012
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ne_zavarj: off topic

40 million licences of Windows 8 were sold under the first month
My understanding is that these sales have not translated into usage, meaning that much of this number could be sales to manufacturers and not to users. The usage numbers for Win 8 are less than what they were for Win 7 one month after launch.

Also:
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-Windows-8-Sales-Data-Is-In-And-It-s-Horrible-4080412.php

To many of us, this news is unsurprising. Win8 may turn out alright, but I'll be passing on it.
Posted December 01, 2012
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nijuu: Lots don't like it. The UI was designed for mobiles/tablets.Not desktops.
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Miaghstir: The start screen/modern ui, yes. And it doesn't have to be anything more than a full-screen "start menu" if you don't want it to. The desktop is still very much a mouse/keyboard-oriented desktop.

While I'm in no hurry to get the OS (I'm still recent enough with Windows 7 to have today's and tomorrow's desktop applications and games running right off the bat), and while I don't agree with the direction personal computing in general seems to be taking (moving towards tablets and locked platforms), I also do not agree with the idea that Windows 8 in itself is a disaster for the desktop (in my opinion, it's a better 7).
Aside from the disaster that's the UI (still no official way to disable it? ), MS trying to unify desktop/tablets etc, and bootspeed how is it better than 7?.
Posted December 01, 2012
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nijuu: Aside from the disaster that's the UI (still no official way to disable it? ), MS trying to unify desktop/tablets etc, and bootspeed how is it better than 7?.
There was a was to disable it via the registry and get back the normal start menu, but that was back in the developer preview, it has since been removed.

As for "better", two things off the top of my head (I don't use the system, and haven't sat at the test machine at work for a good while, so I don't actually remember more):
* Better multiscreen support (among other things, can show the taskbar on all screens, with a bunch of settings for how it should behave) - this is in quite stark contrast to the tablet-centred "modern ui", as multiple screens are not exactly an issue on tablets and phones (Modern UI is only displayed on the primary screen, the others always show the desktop).
* More efficient UI in Windows Explorer, using the ribbon idea from Office to get more functions with fewer clicks.
Post edited December 01, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted December 03, 2012
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Miaghstir: As for "better", two things off the top of my head (I don't use the system, and haven't sat at the test machine at work for a good while, so I don't actually remember more):
* Better multiscreen support (among other things, can show the taskbar on all screens, with a bunch of settings for how it should behave) - this is in quite stark contrast to the tablet-centred "modern ui", as multiple screens are not exactly an issue on tablets and phones (Modern UI is only displayed on the primary screen, the others always show the desktop).
* More efficient UI in Windows Explorer, using the ribbon idea from Office to get more functions with fewer clicks.
Maybe you shouldn't mention the ribbon. ;) (I like it, personally- but, wow, it caused a ruckus when it came out.)

A few other nice features:
* A much improved Task Manager interface
* Right-clicking on the bottom-left corner of the desktop gives you a power-user's dream menu.
* Cut/copy/paste of large files has been streamlined to work much better than in 7 and the addition of a "Pause" feature is awfully nice.
* Numerous performance improvements and desktop UI refinements.

8 isn't perfect by any means, but the stuff that people complain about most loudly have much less *actual* impact on your day-to-day computing experience than you might think.
Posted December 03, 2012
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jmbpiano: * Numerous performance improvements and desktop UI refinements.

8 isn't perfect by any means, but the stuff that people complain about most loudly have much less *actual* impact on your day-to-day computing experience than you might think.
How about a bloody start button that isn't third party? Is that really too much to ask for? >.< I mean come on...
Posted December 03, 2012
I misread the title as "90% off GOG.com games officially supported in Windows 8". Which was too good to be true.
Posted December 05, 2012
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jmbpiano: Maybe you shouldn't mention the ribbon.
Better was in quotes because of possible differences in personal opinion. And thanks for the additions, I do remember those now that you mention them.
Posted December 05, 2012
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jmbpiano: * Right-clicking on the bottom-left corner of the desktop gives you a power-user's dream menu.
Dear Mother of God.

Where has this been my whole life.

(And what is the ribbon feature. I've been using Win 8 pretty much just as a pimped Win 7, and it was already good. The more I adapt, the better it gets.)
Posted December 05, 2012
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BiosElement: How about a bloody start button that isn't third party? Is that really too much to ask for? >.< I mean come on...
Not third-party, or common enough that it doesn't really matter?

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SimonG: And what is the ribbon feature.
The new style of (tabbed) toolbar, first introduced in MS Office 2007.
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Post edited December 05, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted January 11, 2013
good news I am using window8 good to see that most of the games will be supported for windows 8 one thing at my age boy windows 8 sure can get confusing where oh where is that famous start button. way over where you would never think to look. charity
Posted January 31, 2013
I upgraded my computer, by doing a full install, because I wanted the 64 bit version of Win 8...
Now, I'm trying to re-download WBC3... and it's telling me that there is no app to run gogdownloader !!!

So, what is the problem???
What am I doing wrong???

Does anyone have an idea, how I can d/l the games I paid for, if Win 8 doesn't like the gogdownload???

Thanks in advance for all constructive advice...
Posted January 31, 2013
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danix803: snip
Just download it via browser - turn off gog.com downloader mode.
Post edited January 31, 2013 by triock
Posted January 31, 2013
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danix803: Now, I'm trying to re-download WBC3... and it's telling me that there is no app to run gogdownloader !!!
You'll have to reinstall the GOG.com Downloader (and possibly restart your browser afterwards) for the gogdownloader links to work. It works fine for me on Windows 8 64-bit after doing this.

Alternately, you can turn off downloader mode and download manually through your browser as triock suggested.
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