Hello everyone, I wanted to share my opinion about some of the games that I bought.

I really love GOG and bought a shitload of games, I just love those old games but seriously. I bought now 4 games.

Cossacks Anthology
NOX
Age of Wonders
Baldurs Gate

Most of the games do not work on my laptop even after endless tinkering. I got BG and AoW to work now, by tinkering with all kinds of options and searching everything online.

But my last 2 purchases were Cossacks and Nox and they do not work at all. I know it is an issue with Laptops with Win7 64 Bit. But it seems like there are no reliable solutions for the issues. I spend a shitton of time to fix the issues.

Mostly the graphics do not show up or are messed up, not the psychedelic colours but simply the frames are so broken. The mouse doesn't work either. It is literally unplayable. Of course I looked up some fixes and mailed the GoG support. But I get no reponse whatsoever.

I bought these products and they simply do not work, this is unacceptable. Seriously. I know it is not the direct fault of GOG but they should provide some kind of information, perhaps that the products do not work on those systems or add some fixes. This is really frustrating and I want GoG to adress this issue.

I like to support GoG but this is just plain annoying. Maybe anyone could help.

what laptop?

My specs are:

Aspire 5750G

Intel Core i7 2Ghz
Nvidia Geforce GT 540M 1760 MB Ram
6Gb DDR3 RAM
640GB HDD
Windows 7 64 Bit


And please spare me with a suggestion like "Update your graphics card with a new driver!"

Every computer/laptop is different. From the hardware to the software. All you can really do is tweak it or ask for help.

The only time I can see it being GOG's fault, is when it fails on a LARGE majority of systems.

I agree, but there are really a lot of people (Not a large amount) but still some that experience this issue, all the games with this issue have some topics about this in their particular community section.

Sure hardware is always different, but there is not indication whatsoever that there might be problems. One of GoGs main feature is that they optimize these games for newer systems which is one of their main selling aspects. (at least for me)
Therefore I am a bit disapointed.

I do not want to blame GoG, but I feel ripped of.

Are you installling the games to C:\Program Files (x86)?

If so, try installing them elsewhere. Maybe the stupid UAC is messing with things.

Did you -

Check to see if you had the latest video drivers installed.
Click here for ATI
Click here for Nvidia
Click here for Intel

Install the latest version of Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime

Turn off UAC
Install as an admin (right-clicked the setup.exe and clicked "Run as an administrator" on the resulting dialog)
Install in a directory located on C drive rather than in Program Files (create directory, click Options button on first GOG installer dialog and point to new install directory)
After install, right-click the game short-cut, click Options, click Properties, click the Compatibility tab and check-mark "Run this program as an administrator"

Well, I read about that.

Some suggested that I should run the installer as administrator and choose a different directory. But it did not work. But I will try again just to know it for sure.

Thanks anyway, your advice is welcome! I did all those things already. Also one of the link doesn't work. Thanks anyway :D

The GOG version of Baldur's Gate is running heavily modded on my much weaker laptop (Samsung N145 with Intel Atom N455 CPU and Intel GMA 3150 graphics), so I'm surprised that it doesn't run on your machine.

Maybe the system is too modern and powerful?

I do not think so, most of these issues are because of the laptop. Somehow the visuals are corrupted due to the screen. It is something about the screen configuration. Something about the display.

For instance I tried once connecting my laptop to a tv using an HDMI cable. Then I ran Cossacks and it just ran fine. Really odd.

The only other suggestion I have is to disconnect from the internet, disable your Firewall and AV. Try the games. If they run enable the firewall or AV program. If it runs enable the last program. This would tell you which was blocking the disk read/writes.

I have had to make some of my game.exe's trusted programs in my firewall . . most I don't but it is worth a try in your case as well. My AV program has not affected my games but some have said their AV program has blocked game read and writes.

Pay attention to the last paragraph and make sure you are running the 266.58 drivers

Hope this helps

Verdict: Gaming Performance

Basically, we can agree with the earlier conclusions of test systems with Nvidia's Geforce GT 540M. Nvidia bids a strong midrange graphics card that proves to have enough performance reserves to supply smooth frame rates in high details even in most current games. AMD's HD5650 or HD6550 can even partly be surpassed marginally, whereas each and every game or benchmark will sometimes prefer the one and sometimes the other graphic solution.

Ultimately, the individually used driver also plays a significant role for performance. For example, we received our test system with the Nvidia 285.xx graphics driver which resulted in repeated crashes (for example, the graphics driver failed at the start of Crysis). All benchmarks and gaming tests ran without problems after updating it to 266.58. You can find the latest graphic drivers on Nvidia's homepage.

I already did that.

Updating graphics driver makes sense at first, but it is not the issue.