I was very happy to find this site, I had all these games back in the 90's and was excited to be able to play them again, then I see that Overseer isn't compatible with Windows. Why would Under a Killing Moon and Pandora both be compatible, but Overseer, which is a newer game, isn't?? Not cool, GOG!

It does run on win 8 but on some systems it will not, it all depends on drivers .

I recently completed Overseer (the updated GOG DVD) on my Win7-64 bit with a GTX460 card.

I won't lie, there were some crashes (especially in Alcatraz), but the game has a great auto save mechanic and you never lose much progress when/if that happens.

If you give us your complete system specs we can give an assumption of your likelihood to run the game (the newer the system, the harder it is to get the game to work it seems)

Win8.1.1x64 here doing Overseer just fine without a problem. I've had no crashes of any kind so far--which if memory serves is a record with this game dating back to owning it when it was new...;) Game runs better now than it ever did for me then--and then I owned a Creative Labs DVD player the game specifically supported (not needed today with Win8.1x64 or less.)

First thing...relax...just because a game doesn't specifically state "Will run on Win8" doesn't mean it won't, and often with very little trouble (unless the game uses a 16-bit installer and you are running a 64-bit OS, in which case it won't even install. That is *not* the case with Overseer, thankfully.)

There are several threads in this forum dealing with running the game under Win8. If you have 8.1x64 like me then you will need the following version of ffdshow.exe--which replaces the one Gog currently includes with the game:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/Official%20releases/64-bit/

The game really does run much better now under 8.1x64 then it ran for me when it was new and I was running it on expensive proprietary DVD hardware.

--But you raise a fair point...why Gog doesn't state the game runs fine under Win8x64 is beyond me, because it does...!...;)

If you give us your complete system specs we can give an assumption of your likelihood to run the game (the newer the system, the harder it is to get the game to work it seems)


I have a Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop with an Intel Celeron CPU B820 at 1.70 GHz, 4 GB of memory, and a 64-bit operating system, x64 based processor. I can't find any info on my sound card.

I'm running Windows 8 right now. I could update to 8.1 if Overseer runs better on that.

it's clear it does work on 8.1, but I just can't seem to figure out how. The file posted above was a nice bit of info I didn't have before. Unfortunately in my case, the game still crashes with the generic windows 8 error message as soon as I launch it. One video card, up-to-date drivers and directX. I'm hoping in the many forum topics about this issue an answer can be compiled. I'm even getting mixed answers about which compatibility setting to use.

if it crashes straight away just add overseer.exe to system protection/advanced /performance settings/DEP

Ok, so I gave my system info two days ago, and no help as to whether Overseer will run for me.

Thanks for the help.

Do you know what graphics device you have?
As you can see from Remy_C posts, it seems to be unclear whether you can get it to run on Win8 or not.

As I am still using Win7, I cannot provide any insight on this. Sorry.

UAKM & pandora are dos games & only ran really well under full dos. Now we have dos box they run quite well on the top of windows now overseer was designed to run under windows . At the time of release we were using win 98 now win 8. No-one call tell you if a game will run on your system or not you just you will just have to try it yourself.

I run it both on win 7 & win 8 with no problems other than at times when the video driver has been updated it has problems with graphics. windows update at times will install a new driver & you have go back to a previous one to run overseer. It all depends on programs you have installed on your system & drivers thats why some people have no problems playing it & others do.

PokerLich,

Since only XP and Vista support are on the gamecard, you are probably not eligible for a refund if the game doesn't run on your version of Win 8, so it's ultimately your decision if you will take a 10$ gamble on this or not.

My suggestion is to wait for a sale and try it then (or buy Tesla and request Overseer as the freebie).

I've already pre-ordered Tesla and took UAKM as my freebie. I gave my specs because a poster said they could give me an "assumption of likelihood" of whether I could play it or not, which wasn't forthcoming after I gave that info.

I guess I'll just have to decide if I want to risk $10 or not.

just interested if you downloaded the tesla effect demo to make sure it would play on your notebook as its very basic.

There is one thing that you can try doing, set your compatibility to windows 8 to windows vista, for some odd reason this makes the game work and i just don't understand why but i'm not going to bat an eyelash at the fact that i got something that is listed as not able to work on Windows 8 to getting it working on Windows 8

Lots of Gog games ship by default with certain compatibility options used in the default install that are set by the Gog installer, and it's important to remember that Overseer is *not listed* as "not working under Windows 8." Nowhere does Gog say, "the game won't run under Windows 8." It simply doesn't list the game as being compatible with Windows 8, while not even directly stating that the game *isn't* compatible with Win8...;) (I can see how that would be confusing.) Perhaps the absence of the Win8 logo in the game description simply means that the people at Gog who test the compatibility of the games have not yet tested the game running under Windows 8. That makes a great deal of sense.

Fact: the game runs splendidly under Win8x64; mine is fully patched to the 8.1.1 (so-called) version that includes the recent Spring update. Game runs great--no problems.

Caveat: I'm running a desktop computer in which every component has been hand-picked by yours truly--second-best hardware won't do, etc. I notice that many people posting in the Gog forums are running laptops of one description or another--and with a laptop (running Windows 8 or Win 7) whether a given game will run correctly for you is little more than a spin of the roulette wheel. Laptops pretty much always use some custom, non-standard hardware of some kind which require custom out-of-band hardware driver updates from the OEM making the laptop. Laptops often change things ever so slightly from the standard that game developers use when writing to a 3d API, and in those cases the OS isn't problem--it's the laptop hardware and the drivers the laptop OEM supplies.