Sent this message:
"I'm sorry but is quite obvious that this game was not properly tested for modern computers. There are tons of bugs with this game, most of them were fixed by the community. Even with the 6 page topic with solutions the game still does not work correctly. There are still issues with the framerate in this game, this breaks the game in many ways. Wonky AI and broken weapons are the most notable. It seems as if almost everyone who has purchased the game has had a hard time gettting it work even slightly. This shows that this game was obviously not playtested enough. This very dissapointing as before I recognised GoG for games that work on modern systems. Now I'm not so sure, and will wait to see what community says about the compatability of the game in the future. I was thinking about buying the game for my friends as well, but I cannnot when the game is in a state such as this. On behalf of the community, stop ignoring us please. Please acknoledge the problems at least. Say if it possible to fix this issues or not. Apologies if you are actually working hard for a fix."
They replied:
"Hello,
I assure You that we are not ignoring the problem. Interstate '76 was a
very difficult title for us because we didn't have any support from the
developers and, at the beginning, the game was completely unplayable so
we have had to start working from scratch. However, on supported OS's(XP
and Vista) we have managed to get the game running. It was tested on two
modern configurations(both testers finished the game).
However it turned out that Interstate '76 has many more bugs on other PC
configurations that we were not aware of and we are currently working on
fixing them. Our users have managed to find fixes for most of the new
ones so the forum is a great place to find a solution to any game issue.
GOG is still a very little company that is still in beta so our testing
and troubleshooting capabilities are limited, however for 5.99$ you get
not only the game but also our full technical support.
One more thing I would like to add is that the Interstate '76 was a
best-seller for some time but despite that, and the number of reported
bugs on forum, the support requests were relatively rare so it seems
that majority of our customers didn't have any problems with this title.
Thank You for Your feedback!
Regards,
Paczyk
GOG.com"
So I guess I'll just wait around until a fix comes out...*sigh*

Thanks much for posting. Good to know.
GOG has my faith again. :)
Sucks it's given so many people problems. But yeah obviously many of us should've contacted support, otherwise it just takes longer to get fixes.
Still gonna wait on a new upload before I buy.

I regret buying this game and it really soured me on GoG.

I've tried I76 it on 7 different XP boxes(SP2 on 4 of them, SP 3 on 3 of them) and 5 different Vista 32 boxes. The only problems I've encountered are the wobbly wheels and Napalm weapons not working. Other than that, everything has been working Perfectly fine.
I want to know what the hell you people are doing or what sort of fucked up setup you have. In my main box I have: XP Pro SP2, Athlon 6400+ X2, 4GB of ram with 2 Geforce 9800GTX+ in SLI. I have no problems other than wobbly wheels.
I've got a 4 friends running I76 over IPX with Vista32 right now and no one has any problems, not even wobbly wheels. Their rigs are all Core i7s with Radeon HD 5870s or Geforce GTX 295s. You can't get much more "modern" than that.
The only person who had any problems with I76 NOT running was also having major window vista issues aswell. Once he reinstalled Vista, I76 worked flawlessly. Check your damn system before you start trying to pin all problems on GOG. It's not their responsibility to make sure your system is running correctly. If you didn't try I76 on a clean Installation of windows, then you have no right to complain or spew this crap about GOG not doing their job.
Seriously people, I bet not one person who had problems tried reinstalling windows on a spare Harddrive to see if it was problem with their system settings. As much as you may think your system is A-OK, chances are tons of settings are wonky as fuck and its a miracle windows even loads up.

Yes but that isn't a perfectly working game as it was advertised. Those are two very important problems which affect gameplay.

After giving up trying to find anyone on the internet who may have gotten I76 to work on a x64 system, I found a new update to the I76 wiki which talked about the GOG release.
Sufficing to say I bought it at once seeing that it was 'made compatible' with vista x64.
While I was downloading I found this forum and the problems countless people are having.
I have not been able to get the game working properly, even using the suggestions in the workaround thread.
Please please pleeease GOG make this game work!! I want to be able to play it again SO badly. The worst problems I have along with the crazy motion-sickness inducing gameplay is the really fkd up textures.
Windows Vista x64
ATI HD5850
i7 920 @ stock
6gb RAM

Have no fear, we get the full technical support from gog! Thank you for the full techical support gog!

So what you're saying is that other than two game-breaking issues, the game is working perfectly fine for you. Um, yeah...

Either you work for GoG or you have too much time on your hands.

Nice to hear a response.
I'm not going to razz on GOG too much, the game most definitely works, albeit imperfectly. But I've had the wobbly wheels issue, as well as cars jarringly bouncing (perhaps due to the wheels issue), and for me, these issues are too headache inducing to ignore (perhaps if I play longer I'll get past the wheel issue?). Compared to the incredible port jobs of 4 other games I've bought, it was definitely a disappointment though.
Unfortunately, I can't even boot the new copy of Another world I just bought either, as it crashes 100% on boot, so I'd recommend trying the demo on the developers website before buying that as well.
Hope they get this stuff solved though.GOG is a great site, hope they can start correcting some of the issues. Perhaps they should take advantage of that 'Beta' status there, and start getting some of us to test new games for them, before they launch.

That's a great idea.
As for Gog's false advertising and doing wrong by everyone, that's just stupid. I'm sure some of you guys complaining aren't 12 and realise that sometimes this stuff happens. Get over it, wait for some fixes, and enjoy life.

As you don't forfeit the right to complain when you reach adulthood I assume that was a flame.
GoG isn't a religion it's a business if they cock up they deserve a kicking just like any.
Don't hold your breath on fixes, remember they don't have access to the code and even if they did I doubt the business model currently budgets for code fixes.

That response is above and beyond what you'd get from any other similar service though. Gotta give 'em that.

At the very least I am hoping they come out with a fix for the looping music in the game. Everything else works fine for me.

It seems to me that the only games that GOG gets to work fine on modern machines are the ones I already know how to get to work on modern machines.
I wish they could come through on the ones that are more difficult I am sure they would be much higher yields in sales as well.
I know Interstate 76 is troubling to run on a modern system that is why I came here to see if the answer could be found. Now after some reading I am scared to spend the money. Heck if vmware could stretch to the resolution of my host while in 3d mode I would just use that and the isos I made from my original game disks.
Its nice what they tried with this site, but I fear by the time they get it all figured out something better will already be available.
Aberran

But I can understand spending any money on something that doesn't work would make one rather upset. Its just as useful as if they had lost the 6 dollars somewhere, with the addition of some extra disappointment.
Failing to live up to expectations is failure no matter how much they ask for forgiveness; the company is still accountable for putting a broken product on the market.
Aberran