Posted December 12, 2015
I have Creatures 1 and Creatures 2 installed from the gog installer. Both games allow me to add official cobs from things like the Christmas packs, but trying to inject any community created cob crashes both games.
I was able to modify the original installers for breeds to install to the correct place (since gog for some strange reason designed this to break all of that), but a few community breeds don't use an install.ini inside the installer that I could modify so I can't install them at all. Trying to import a creature for even an official breed that I haven't installed before trying to import crashes both games.
I have the original discs, but I cannot seem to even install Creatures 1 in windows 7 even with windows compatibility mode set for both the autorun.exe and install.exe files.
I think it is really strange - and sad - that gog designed this game to have absolutely no compatibility for an entire community of products. Certainly there must be some way to correct it all? Why would they do this!? I never had this problem with the freeloader installer, but unfortunately I can't find my old backup of their release of the game and their website doesn't even exist anymore.
I also have creatures 3 with all the metarooms I can't even find anymore on an older computer, but I won't even try the gog version of Creatures Exodus unless I know there is a way to make it work.
I contacted support about this directly, and they just told me I should install gog galaxy. As if I will be stupid enough to add another layer of incompatibility especially when it looks like I will have to modify their install paths and rearrange folders to get anything to work at all.
I was able to modify the original installers for breeds to install to the correct place (since gog for some strange reason designed this to break all of that), but a few community breeds don't use an install.ini inside the installer that I could modify so I can't install them at all. Trying to import a creature for even an official breed that I haven't installed before trying to import crashes both games.
I have the original discs, but I cannot seem to even install Creatures 1 in windows 7 even with windows compatibility mode set for both the autorun.exe and install.exe files.
I think it is really strange - and sad - that gog designed this game to have absolutely no compatibility for an entire community of products. Certainly there must be some way to correct it all? Why would they do this!? I never had this problem with the freeloader installer, but unfortunately I can't find my old backup of their release of the game and their website doesn't even exist anymore.
I also have creatures 3 with all the metarooms I can't even find anymore on an older computer, but I won't even try the gog version of Creatures Exodus unless I know there is a way to make it work.
I contacted support about this directly, and they just told me I should install gog galaxy. As if I will be stupid enough to add another layer of incompatibility especially when it looks like I will have to modify their install paths and rearrange folders to get anything to work at all.
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