Hello folks,

I got a problem with the gog.com confgurator. If I run the programm - the Graphic mode setup.exe, change something like resolution for example and want to save it, it says "Error: Game not installed". But the Game (Wing Commander 3 and Crusader: No Remorse) is installed.

Is there a fix or something for this?

PS: Sorry about my bad english :(

Are you running the program from the game folder or the start menu shortcut?

I was running the programm from the game folder. Now I have tried the shortcut in the menu..now it goes.

My fault..sorry.

Actually, it's GOG's fault for not fixing that.

I'd guess it's due to the application being generic and is used across all their games, it takes an argument that tells it where in the registry to look up information regarding the specific game you want to configure (or start in the case of gogwrap.exe).

Rather than building a slightly modified application for each game (yes, so the only difference would be the value of a single variable), they have one that can be used for any of their games and as such just copied to a new game package instead of being compiled anew, as long as it's told which game to look up.

Look at the attached screeenshot for example. I used the gogwrap bundled with SimCity 2000 to launch Fallout, Fallout doesn't even come with GOGwrap, since it works well enough without it.

sooo what is the solution to this?

If the game does not already come with Graphic mode setup
Make a shortcut to any "graphic mode setup.exe" and append a space and GOG's game identifier to the end of the path, after the final ". (So it looks similar to: "C:\Games\GOG.com\Screamer\Graphic mode setup.exe" GOGTYRIAN2000).

The identifier for each game can be found in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GOG.com\ and is in the form GOGGAMENAME (for example: GOGFALLOUT, GOGSCREAMER). The entries beginning with GOGPACK are not the ones you're looking for.

... and ask GOG to include a Graphic mode setup with ever DOSBox game.

... on the other hand, if it does
Make a copy of the shortcut placed in the start menu and place it wherever you'd like to have it.

In both cases
DON'T launch the application directly.

[Edited out]

Misread your post.

By default, each game comes with its own copy of DOSBox.

Unless GOG has changed anything in the last year or so though (I don't remember when was the last time I checked), you can go into the installer options and manually specify another DOSBox install to use - as long as the other DOSBox install is the same version as the one the game uses (the game installer doesn't recognise higher versions and doesn't accept lower).

I'm not sure "litter" is the word I'd use though, since it doesn't install anything outside the game's directory, so each game is still very much self-contained, just that the total size is increased by a few MB with the included DOSBox.

Every GOG game comes with its own version of DOSBox.

Since DOSBox is still in development (or at least was, I donÄt know the current status), trying to make all games run with a single DOSBox installation was too risky. Either you'd risk breaking old games by installing an updated version of the emulator, or you'd have to keep using the same (outdated) version of the emulator forever, or you'd have to run hundreds of games through the test lab whenever DOSBox is updated.

You can copy the files into your own DOSBox installation if you want. Some games supposedly come with game-specific fixes, so it won't work for all of them. And the configuration of DOSBox can be a bit of a hassle.

I'd love to see some data backing this claim. People use it a lot, but I'm not really sure where it came from.

For every GOG I've played, I have used the latest DOSBox (0.74, I believe) instead of whatever was bundled with it. Never ran into a problem.

Me neither, therefore the "supposedly". I would love to see hard evidence too.

It's not a bug, the shortcut contains arguments. If you go into the DOSBox folder in one of these releases and run DOSBox, the game won't start. It's exactly the same.

EDIT: Just realised how decomposed this thread is, damn necromancers!

It is the same as with all sites which sell DOSBox games (DotEmu, Steam, GamersGate etc.): each game uses its own copy of DOSBox.

There are arguments both for and against using separate, self-contained, DOSBox "installation" for each game. In my opinion the arguments for separate DOSBoxes are much stronger than for trying to use a common DOSBox installation for all GOG DOSBox games.