Guess some people already told you... you talk to much and it is usually "killing" a lot of stuff.

Anyway, yes, (both) games are not working for me. The ratings are pretty good... so i wonder how is it possible. Are they all running it on a Windows XP or is there a good mod available? No hint from the forums...

Ok, Ground Control 1 actually got an easy fix, simply by adding a DLL, so it works now. Ground Control 2 is still broken...

I was trying alot now but can not get it to work, and had to reboot the system several times because of all the freezing... soon gonna use my Notebook for all this "abuse"... i worry it will damage my OS.

Some other user said:

°°°°°°Ground Control 2 won't launch
Title says it. Remembered an old game I loved and I've been spending all day trying to play it. I found the old physical disk only for me to realize my new pc no longer has a disk drive. So i tried steam but game wont launch. Now im trying gog and once again game wont launch. Would love any help!°°°°°°°

Solution:
°°°°°°°°°°°°Originally posted by Vanomas#1:
Bruteforce it. Compability - win95, run as administrator. Try open it 40-50 times. That all

LOL... It's weird but works...
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John Hannibal Smith [has Ground Control II] 15 May, 2024 @ 3:12pm
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OK...at least games never lack to entertain me, not even if it goes very bad or wrong.

It does feel like GOG isn't doing their job properly, granted they never talk about this so we can only speculate, but it's weird they can't bring more games here, popular and somewhat old indies like Hades or Subnautica should be easy to get, and some of the triple As that had their DRM stripped already seem like obvious picks... yet weeks go by and we only get shovelware crumbles

The fact that christmas went by without a surprise release was shocking to me, I think the last unannounced (and good) game that we got was The Talos Principle 2.. back in september

Sometimes i doubt they even try... most likely because "low on coins" and they worry they can not afford it and/or simply to less sales.

However... it is still one of the biggest miracles how they got Sony to release several high rated franchises here.

Besides, Hades never got any DRM attached... i can run it without any client at all.

Ground Control 2 will become uninstalled... i lack the time to deal with it, and it seems to be broken pretty bad; because no one can so far provide a clear and easy solution. At least the first title is working now, already a big win for less than one buck.

They shotdown the System Shock fans, who had already preserved the games and even improved both games. Then after stealing mods and implementing them half assed. Broke them at launch on gog. Pretty much giving the fans the middle finger.

That was the beginning of the company.

I would have been impressed if gog staff cobbled together the fans that gave life to the games. While having them do a remake, if inclined and funded.

Indeed:-

ScummVM = "All this hard done by the hard work of 147 contributors across 8,493 commits has resulted in us being able to preserve Blade Runner, starting from ScummVM 2.1 released on Oct 11, 2019"

Nightdive = "Hey guys, we just released a very blurry overpriced Blade Runner EE on June 23rd 2022, and took down the original from sale after "borrowing" a lot of its code. It's great that we're gonna get free marketing for being such great 'preservationists' in 5 years time, eh?"

Another example - On April 2nd 2019, The 7th Guest was removed from the store and The 7th Guest 25th Anniversary added in its place. Plot Twist - Mojotouch's 25th Anniversary Edition literally uses the same ScummVM (as the original they simultaneously removed), they just added a couple of language / subtitle / soundtrack files (that could have easily been added to the normal ScummVM version as they have to other games like Broken Sword, Toonstruck, etc) then hid it inside a Windows Presentation Foundation wrapper to make it look less obvious...

^ It may not be GOG's choice to remove original versions (that's usually the publishers decision), but at the end of the day all the time original versions keep "disappearing" due to Remakeitus, it's very hard to see this as anything other than a shallow PR gimmick. The people who truly deserve the credit for making thousands of old PC games playable are the DOSBox / ScummVM / GZDoom / NewDark / dgVoodoo2 / OpenMW, etc, coders, not those who simply sell / repackage someone else's work. And the sad truth is the only people capable of retaining original versions post-remaster are pretty much everyone else (museums, Abandonware sites) except for-profit stores constrained by publishing agreements.

Yeah, that bait & switch crap is already obnoxious enough by itself, but using fake Windows wrappers around ScummVM games means you if you don't already own them then you can't buy the old versions (because new versions tried to erase them from history) but you also can't buy the new GOG versions to play them on say Android phones / tablets / Chromebooks anymore (because ScummVM doesn't see the intentionally obfuscated files / original DOS .exe may be missing), making the "enhanced" Windows-only ones more like downgraded crippled versions for cross-platform users. "Game Preservation (tm)" at its 'finest'...

Steam is not any different, They got more shinys but at the same time a huge load of rubish, Even Steam was turning down games... not unknown there. Not because a game is crap, instead if a game is "politically not correct".