mahlers: I am a little worried that this site's games might not work, having a file missing or what.. to all those who have downloaded games, how was the experience? I see a ton of games that I would like to have and under 10 bucks sounds like a steal.
thanks
I managed to install and run games easily and without problems that didn't run on Vista before and in one case I was finally able to play a game that I didn't even get to run on Win98 before although it should have. The files are all complete and up to date, no worries there. I have no experience with Win7 but a friend of mine was able to run some of the GOG games on Win7 that weren't even listed as compatible.
Usually all games work fine. Sometimes there might be a problem on your end and you might have to do some tweaking but you'll probably manage to run them with the help of the GOG community (the official support currently isn't as quick and thorough as it could be, but there are lots of people here on the forums who will try to help you, if worse comes to worse).
My experience so far:
- I had to download a dll and drop it in the folder of my Syberia & Syberia 2 installation in order to run them because the original dll on my computer obviously didn't match the required one. Very easy fix, once I learned about it.
- I had to tweak the graphic card options of Beyond Good & Evil and adjust the resolution so it would run smoothly.
- I had to find the right resolution for Psychonauts to minimize the issue with cutscenes being out-of-synch (my graphic card is pretty lame, other people I know didn't have that problem on their superior Win7 computers)
- The FMV videos in Gothic weren't playing (black screen, only the sound audible), it could be fixed by changing the game's ini.
- Arx Fatalis had the same known issues here than everywhere else until Arkane Studios provided a new patch. GOG patched the version available here and now everything works fine for me. That's customer service for you. :)
Apart from that, all other games I purchased worked perfectly (and I'm quite content with the ones listed above now, too).
BTW, in the highly unlikely case that a file *should* be missing or there's any other problem on the end of the provided files here, GOG will remedy that once they learn about it and you will get what you paid for. In that regard the support is quite reliable, I think.