Hi people,

this is serious (unfortunate timing, posting this on 01/04),

I have recently purchased serveral oldies for some nostalgia feels. There is something wrong with every single one of those games.

Let's start with Pharaoh. I get to perhaps 7th or 8th city, game starts freezing. I google the problem, sure other people experience it too. Number of issues, direct x can be corrupted, try reinstall, try this or that. After 1 hour trying im done with this. Feel cheated, definitly not starting from the beggining.

So I move on, next game i bought Worms World Party. Start the game, kinda slow, realy slow after a while especially when fire thing from barrels burns and spills around. I google again, and ofcourse known issue. There is a huge performance problem with gog version of worms world party. Number of lengthy solutions presented, some people claim nothing can be done unless you have a moster of a processor 4ghz + on a single core. Works a bit better on very low resolution but looks like crap... Ok...

So I move on, install dungeon keeper the original version. Again performance problems, a bit of googling, known issues again, vein bursts in my left eye. This I manage to get to a semi working state with increased cycles and frame skips (stuff from dosbox), but in very big battles in further levels its still super slow.

So I move on, install arcanum, works at the start but seems slow during combat, very slow after a while. So I google again. Performance problems on windows 8.1, known issues, lengthy fixes found in forum that include dll file replacements from 3rd parties and installing mods from 3rd parties...

This brings me to my conclusion.

Have you no shame to sell people this broken versions ? When I spend the money is it to much that I expect these games to work "out of the box" without me spending hours tinkering to make them work ?

I strongly recommend that anyone thinking about buying some classics from gog google extensivly forknown issues on his platform.

Very dissapointed gog, you are in the penalty box.

I never knew about that Arcanum problem, does the unofficial patch fix it?

HoMM 3 also has a crashing problem on multi-core processors as I remember, but it can be fixed by setting the exe only to use 1 processor. Not sure if the problem still exists.

All of those games, and I mean ALL OF THEM (we seem to have same taste) work great for me.

Has it occurred to you that maybe the games aren't what is broken?

Good for you. They don't for me. And since these issues are mentioned on gog forums and some in known issues in support pages I doubt the problems are on my side. Some of this stuff has something to do with win 8.1 that I unfortunately use but it's no excuse.

@Crosmando

Perhpas it does I havent checked everything yet. But it's not the point. The point is, money changed hands and I don't feel like i should have to do any extra work to make the games run smoothly.

i never played any of those games so idk what to recommend about them - but i strongly recommend jerk muter to stop making tinye talk to you

Your forum title was kind of arousing... have you never been in trouble for it? Are you like... a preferential case? I may get a rager, depending on the answer.

Unfortunately that's next to impossible when it comes to PC gaming. There are millions of possible setups and configurations and not even new games will run on out of the box on every system. And we are talking about games that were never meant for running on new machines and OS.

I'm sure GOG is doing their best and so far the only game I ever had problems with is Screamer (and I own a lot of games here). If you still have problems, you should contact support and they will either help you or give you your money back.

i don't know what you're talking about

well I mean, you're allowed to have naughty taboo words in your title and not get into trouble... surely there's a secret to it.

First off; Sorry to hear you are having problems, that sucks especially if you are like me and money is an issue.

I suggest also contacting support about your issues, they may have a solution to your problems.

I would also check your computer, make sure you have no viruses or malware hiding around, make sure drivers are up to date.

Dying hardware could also explain the issues you are having.

but whatever is the case, sorry you are experiencing these issues.
I don't agree with your post per say, but I can sympathize with your frustrations.

Have a nice day.


PS fellow goggers.

He has the right to vent his frustrations, while his post is harshly worded and "penalty box' is a tad silly, dont be too harsh on him. remember we are community.

before moderation came to this forum, tinye had a title "FU.CK CHRISTMAS" ok? so why is he allowed to fuck christmas and i'm not allowed to fuck a simple woman? i'm getting jealous! :'(

I've read in the caesar forum about third game also freezing after reaching a certain time in game in one particual stage.

That's what consoles are for. PC gaming has always had extra work. The configurations are not standard. If all your games are not running well, then it points to an issue with your machine. But DOSBOX games should work every time. If you have any issues with DOSBOX games, then I really suspect something is wrong with your machine. Every DOSBOX that I tried to put on my toaster of a laptop has run without issues. I have never seen a DOSBOX game fail to run for me.

But you are right. Some games in the gog library do not work well on some Win OSes. In some cases, you need to get a directx DLL or run with dgVoodoo or DXGL. It pisses me off too when I need to that. But that's just how PC gaming goes. OS changes, and sometimes breaks backward compatibility.

I can see the OP point, if he is a new customer he most prob wont come back to this site for games. The whole point I buy copies of games here that I already have elsewhere is for no drm and because they are supposed to work here . I have found several games that I couldnt get to work and was surprised when I looked up on forums and saw this was known and common problems (only game i can remember off the top of my head without digging into my library is myst, riven)

I can only advise the OP to read the GoG game forums and see how many 'wont run' threads are going on before buying. This can be hard to remember to do when wanting to buy on a fast sale, impulse buy etc but that is the only way I can think of to make sure the game really works for most people. even with my own history of broken games, I feel GoG is still the best at putting out working games, unlike my steam library which has a whole slew of broken games.

Basically what PaterAlf said, I'll just highlight the refund part again...

Contact Support. If it has been less than 30 days since you bought the game, and you and Support work together but are unable to get the game working, you are eligible for a refund. If it has been over 30 days since you bought the game, Support can still try to help you even though you aren't eligible for a refund.

Also, just in case you aren't aware, GOG isn't "Good Old Games" anymore, it's just GOG (or Gee Oh Gee) now.