Does anyone know if Gog will ever patch Gangsters to be win8 compatible? This is such a great game and I refuse to upgrade if this isnt compatible.. Has anyone contacted them or start a petition or something? If not we should start.

Hi,

I asked the support the same question about a month ago and the short answer is no.
We really should start a petition, I for one would surely support it.

Well, same here

to get around the issue i installed VMWare (virtual machine) WorkStation and installed windows XP . installed it on there and fired away............ VMWare Workstation is free for consumer level from their website.

So many gog games just don't work properly with win 8. I understand it is a newer os but you would think they would dedicate some time on getting current products to work on win 8.

I just installed it on my Win8 laptop and none of the text loads correctly into the fields and selections so I can't navigate or choose to set up the parameters of the game any different than the defaults. And when I do get the game going the mouse cursor jumps and switches to the pocket watch loading cursor whenever I'm looking over the city map to plan the week. This sucks : / Great game, but I'm also wishing they'd release a patch to make it Win8 compatible. I'll have to look into the VMWare Workstation alkil suggests.

Just bought this game and yes it does not work well with Windows 8

This is total rip off..

Yep. I was excited as hell about this game and no text on menu screens and super laggy mouse/interface once I finally navigate to the actual game. I wish they would fix it. I used to love this game back in the day.

Why didn`t I check the forums first before coming here? I can`t believe GOG let the game go out like this knowing it doesn`t work right on modern Windows. I don`t care how cheap it may be- We spent money on this so GOG should have made sure the game works!

I can't believe you didn't look at the game page: Works on: Windows (XP, Vista, 7)

GOG never said it works on Windows systems above 7.
I love people who blame GOG for their failure to read properly.