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As our catalog gets bigger and better every week, it’s easy to lose track of some of the awesome games that we have to offer. We’ve been running one day “Gaming Gem” promos for a while now to highlight some classic titles that don’t get the love of some of our best-known blockbusters like Baldur’s Gate or Duke Nukem 3D. To celebrate summer, for the next two weeks until July 25th, we’re going to run a Gaming Gem promo every day, so you can rediscover these lesser-known classics! Grab that plastic toy shovel and dig out gem after gem over the next 18 days. We think every game we’re going to be offering on our Summer GOG.com Gem Extravaganza will be an excellent title, and we hope you give them all a try.

How does the conceived nick strain? The fun stare embeds the design. The digital digest joins the spit past the executive negative!

What’s that, you say? We’re sounding a bit crazy? You’re probably right. Either that, or we’re writing a description for a game about being crazy. It’s anyone’s guess what’s happening. Wifflebats!

Actually, we’re taking our one-day promos to the next level.

Our very first promo is for the unparallelled Sanitarium. A frightening look into the mind of madness, you find yourself continually wondering, as you make your way through the five worlds that your insanity takes you to: is this encounter real, or only the product of a fevered imagination? You are a recent victim of a car crash, and one who has complete amnesia. You awaken in an insane asylum, and immediately you must fend for yourself in a world gone mad—unless it’s you who’s gone mad, and the world is just a reflection of that.

With a gripping, haunting story and a graphics engine that has stood the test of time (the graphics look rather like the Infinity Engine games), Sanitarium is one of those games that grabs hold of you and just doesn’t let go. Give it a try on GOG.com for just $3.99. This offer expires tomorrow, when we’ll have another hidden gaming classic on sale, so check back in to see what game we’re offering then for your hassle dashes inveigle marpuk snozznozzle.

Madness!
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mystral: No UK time is not GMT
I'm well aware of that and never claimed otherwise, if you read my post.

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mystral: Just because Greenwich happens to be in the UK does not mean they make time standards.
If you'd have followed the link I provided (wikipedia), you could have read that:
'As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT (...) this practice (....) eventually led to GMT being used worldwide as a reference time independent of location.'

I'd call a world wide reference a standard.
But enough of this from my side, back to the real subject of the thread...

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mystral: Sanitarium works fine on Windows 7 for me, and for plenty of other people as well (see the Win7 thread on the forums)
Argl! Thanks, going to read that now.
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Antimateria: Perhaps I'll buy this.. But, I think I'll wait and see what's in steam tonight. Steam sales have left me pretty dry.
I always thought because of perspective that this was some kind of rpg.
lol
redeemed..


I also managed to royally screw up the quote.....
Post edited July 08, 2011 by reaver894
Also, Sanitarium works fine on Windows 7 for me, and for plenty of other people as well (see the Win7 thread on the forums) so please don't make sweeping statements like that just because it doesn't work for you.
Ehm... In the first page of the game they don't provide anything (only Win XP & Vista are indicated) and some people told me about some problems (crashes) with that OS. "Some" people and not one... and it doesn't "work fine", not at all.

With Vista I've never found any problem.
Post edited July 08, 2011 by AaronAmoth
Sanitarium is good choice, but not for me. Thanks anyway, I hope there will be something for me tomorrow.
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reaver894: After the complaints of code fetching things im hoping this works
Thanks a bunch!
Phew, was trying not to get an error and having to repeat the process of putting the characters in the right order, while still in a hurry to get it before everybody else! :p

Now I guess I'll go and find out if the game works for me on Win 7x64 ;)
There are fixes to get this game running on W7 32bit / 64bit both.

For me the solution was to use CPUGrab to slow down my processor, which proved to be idiotically easy.

There is a thread regarding problems running Sanitarium on newer machines here on GOG.com. I found it via google search.

So, if you want the game, get it. It is not a big deal to get it running properly.
Madness? THIS. IS: SPARTAAAAAA!!!!
got it... love it... (recommend it)
Also, Sanitarium works fine on Windows 7 for me, and for plenty of other people as well (see the Win7 thread on the forums) so please don't make sweeping statements like that just because it doesn't work for you.
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AaronAmoth: Ehm... In the first page of the game they don't provide anything (only Win XP & Vista are indicated) and some people told me about some problems (crashes) with that OS. "Some" people and not one... and it doesn't "work fine", not at all.
Not working for some people while it works for others doesn't equal to the game not working at all on Windows 7, which is what the person I quoted implied.

All it means that the game is not guaranteed to work on that OS, and that you should keep that in mind when buying it. For 4$ only, if you like adventure games, it's worth the risk imo, but others may disagree.
My credit card is overheating... And it's NOT weather-related...
Only thing you will be shivering from in this game is the fear from crashing at the next interaction....
i found something

edit: redeemed by confusion.
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mystral: Not working for some people while it works for others doesn't equal to the game not working at all on Windows 7, which is what the person I quoted implied.
The person you quoted is me :D
Ok, maybe it's better: On win7, Sanitaium SHOULD not work fine... yes, it's better.

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mystral: All it means that the game is not guaranteed to work on that OS, and that you should keep that in mind when buying it. For 4$ only, if you like adventure games, it's worth the risk imo, but others may disagree.
I quote.
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AaronAmoth: The person you quoted is me :D
Ok, maybe it's better: On win7, Sanitaium SHOULD not work fine... yes, it's better.
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im confused at what are you saying here. why it should not work fine? it might not work fine but it should work fine...