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I haven't seen anyone ask the question (I did search), and I *assume* the answer is simple and obvious, but I find it best to ask:
What is happening or going to happen with Windows 7 support?
I'm aware that it's just an upgrade from NT6.0 to NT6.1; the graphics and sound subsys experience should be (nearly) identical; and so forth, but I'm sort of looking for a definitive statement, such as: "Yes, we are committed to supporting Windows 7 for all of our games."
Also, a statement such as "all games marked as compatible with Vista 32/64 will work perfectly on NT6.1 32/64" would be very reassuring before I buy these Tex Murphy games. :D
(...this last especially because my experience with NT6.1 x64 is that: there is no Win16 subsys present any longer, and anything or anyone relying on it will get a nasty shock. And I have a couple systems new enough (P-D 820, 4GB) to be more than worth upgrading to NT6.1, but old enough that "Windows XP Mode" will chuckle heartily when I attempt to install it. No VT+ nor TXT nor other fancy acronyms. Not even EIST, I believe.)
(In fact, I would be thrilled to see a statement such as "all GOG products will work perfectly on Windows 7 without requiring 'Windows XP Mode.'" Because XP Mode is a very poor idea.)
I have over 50 games now from GOG and all of them work fine with Windows 7. I would assume given how close 7 is to Vista, support is guaranteed.
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aloishammer: (In fact, I would be thrilled to see a statement such as "all GOG products will work perfectly on Windows 7 without requiring 'Windows XP Mode.'" Because XP Mode is a very poor idea.)

I'll take XP-mode over Windows ME II - Vistaster Edition-mode, any day of the week, and 5 times on Sunday.
Hell, I'ma sticking with XP Pro over W7 for a good while yet...
well i imagine gog will quickly test all the games to see if there are any probs however i doubt there would be any probs
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aloishammer: (In fact, I would be thrilled to see a statement such as "all GOG products will work perfectly on Windows 7 without requiring 'Windows XP Mode.'" Because XP Mode is a very poor idea.)
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Lone3wolf: I'll take XP-mode over Windows ME II - Vistaster Edition-mode, any day of the week, and 5 times on Sunday.
Hell, I'ma sticking with XP Pro over W7 for a good while yet...

"ME II" I'm unclear.
I'm just emphasizing that I'd like GOG product (or, well, anything else) to run (semi-)natively on NT6.1 x64 (allowing for the WOW64 subsys) without requiring the titanic overhead of an entire other operating system that will not only eat resources, but also require administrative attention: tweaking and stripping for performance, AVware, patching, and so forth.
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Delixe: I have over 50 games now from GOG and all of them work fine with Windows 7. I would assume given how close 7 is to Vista, support is guaranteed.

Just so I'm clear, is that x64 or not? I'm hoping XP will be my very last IA32-native OS. Ever. And that I can throw it away very shortly...
Post edited October 04, 2009 by aloishammer
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aloishammer: Just so I'm clear, is that x64 or not? I'm hoping XP will be my very last IA32-native OS. Ever. And that I can throw it away very shortly...

I'm using the x64 version.
All current GOG games should work under 7, the reason it's not announced yet is probably because 7 is not actually released yet.
Some of the games even register themselves correctly to the Games Explorer (some don't even though they do in Vista, because 7 is a tad more specific in its requirements on that part), and they're updating the rest one after another to work equally flawlessly..
Edit: I'm running Win7 RC x64.
Post edited October 04, 2009 by Miaghstir
65+ gog games here, and all of them are working fine on Win7 RC7100 64 bit.
I don't know if changing to the RTM will cause any major issues. I hope not...
Post edited October 04, 2009 by Namur
Windows 7 is Vista. I'm pretty impressed if you manage to find compatibility issues with GOG products.
I'm running Win7 Pro RC x64.
While I have not tired many gog games on it yet, all of them have worked. I agree that I would like to have some word from GOG about win7 support. Its just good marketing, certainly other people have this same question.
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Lone3wolf: I'll take XP-mode over Windows ME II - Vistaster Edition-mode, any day of the week, and 5 times on Sunday.
Hell, I'ma sticking with XP Pro over W7 for a good while yet...
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aloishammer: "ME II" I'm unclear.

That'd be Vista is the bastard offspring of Windows ME (Millenium Edition) : A product so bug-ridden and unusable that even MS disowned it, gave it a complete rewrite and released Win2K. Vista is the second version of ME...just as bug-ridden at release, and nearly as unusable. Service pack 1 cured a lot of issues, but not all. It's an industry in-joke (kind of) to call it ME2...
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aloishammer: "ME II" I'm unclear.
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Lone3wolf: That'd be Vista is the bastard offspring of Windows ME (Millenium Edition) : A product so bug-ridden and unusable that even MS disowned it, gave it a complete rewrite and released Win2K. Vista is the second version of ME...just as bug-ridden at release, and nearly as unusable. Service pack 1 cured a lot of issues, but not all. It's an industry in-joke (kind of) to call it ME2...

Okay. I'd never heard it called "ME II" before. I'm aware of NT6' shortcomings; I'd lean toward a slightly less confusing joke-- I had some, but they're not coming to mind --if for no other reason than I'm finally starting to have some trouble keeping track of what code's used where.
This is why I'm near ready to abandon marketeer names and revert to NT versioning, which Microsoft are helpfully keeping reasonably visible in places like... well, all the About dialogues. Hence NT5.0 (2000), 5.1 (XP), 5.2 (2k3), 6.0 (Vista/2k8), 6.1 ("7"). I'm finding "7" the most objectionable name change thus far because of the irritating temptation (now and forevermore) to confuse it with the actual codebase version.
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Lone3wolf: That'd be Vista is the bastard offspring of Windows ME (Millenium Edition) : A product so bug-ridden and unusable that even MS disowned it, gave it a complete rewrite and released Win2K. Vista is the second version of ME...just as bug-ridden at release, and nearly as unusable. Service pack 1 cured a lot of issues, but not all. It's an industry in-joke (kind of) to call it ME2...
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aloishammer: Okay. I'd never heard it called "ME II" before. I'm aware of NT6' shortcomings; I'd lean toward a slightly less confusing joke-- I had some, but they're not coming to mind --if for no other reason than I'm finally starting to have some trouble keeping track of what code's used where.
This is why I'm near ready to abandon marketeer names and revert to NT versioning, which Microsoft are helpfully keeping reasonably visible in places like... well, all the About dialogues. Hence NT5.0 (2000), 5.1 (XP), 5.2 (2k3), 6.0 (Vista/2k8), 6.1 ("7"). I'm finding "7" the most objectionable name change thus far because of the irritating temptation (now and forevermore) to confuse it with the actual codebase version.

5.2 is also XP x64, if you wish to compete the list. And I believe 6.1 is also Server 2008 R2 (the first release of 2008 was 6.0, yes).
Also, to the poster before you:
Windows 2000(NT5.0) was released before Me(4.90, not NT), Me was a hackjob on top of 98(4.10, not NT) because they realised too late that they couldn't manage to merge the consumer and corporate versions just yet (that's what they did with XP).
Post edited October 04, 2009 by Miaghstir
This has been asked/answered a couple times at least.
You'll be happy to know GOG is currently testing games for Windows 7 and will be offering full support in the future.
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chautemoc: This has been asked/answered a couple times at least.
You'll be happy to know GOG is currently testing games for Windows 7 and will be offering full support in the future.

I do apologise. GOG's forum search returned no results, nor did a quick review of some recent posts.
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Miaghstir: 5.2 is also XP x64, if you wish to compete the list. And I believe 6.1 is also Server 2008 R2 (the first release of 2008 was 6.0, yes).

Hm. I was aware of Microsoft Windows XP64 Professional (the Most Official name before "XP Professional x64," or so I believe), but I hadn't heard that 2k8R2 was using the NT6.1 codebase. That seems likely to cut into what I assume will be called Windows Server 2010's sales.
(Continuing to call the "professional" products "Thing Server 20xx" (or possibly "Visual Studio 20xx") and proceeding to confuse... well, nearly everyone with mass-market names (XP/Vista/7) seems most unfair. I'd never thought of "less confusion" as a feature worthy of extra money before.)
Post edited October 04, 2009 by aloishammer