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Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned RatIs it playable now?(21 posts)(21 posts)
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Posted July 16, 2015
This games looks amazing. I used to own it on CD aaaaaages ago, but I remember it being utter rubbish. Not because of the game design, but because it was super unstable and buggy and simply didn't work.

Have GOG fixed those issues and made this a working game or was it just made compatible with current OS?
Posted July 17, 2015
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Hesha: This games looks amazing. I used to own it on CD aaaaaages ago, but I remember it being utter rubbish. Not because of the game design, but because it was super unstable and buggy and simply didn't work.

Have GOG fixed those issues and made this a working game or was it just made compatible with current OS?
It's probably just compatible with modern OS since GOG doesn't do anything with source code.
Posted July 17, 2015
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Hesha: This games looks amazing. I used to own it on CD aaaaaages ago, but I remember it being utter rubbish. Not because of the game design, but because it was super unstable and buggy and simply didn't work.

Have GOG fixed those issues and made this a working game or was it just made compatible with current OS?
Not for many (see the only other thread for the game).
Posted July 17, 2015
I figured. Hopefully there will be an announcement once it has been fixed. And hopefully those deceitful false "reviews" made ten seconds after release will be balanced out by 1-star "doesn't work" review... So glad I didn't get it as soon as I saw the email.
Posted July 18, 2015
GOG.com have really dropped the ball with this. Releasing sloppy versions with bugs with Doxbox thoughtlessly slapped on top is not what they're supposed to be about.

If you actually want to play the game you paid for then the best route still is the old Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen fan sites. They have guides to getting it working well on the PC with modern operating systems and guides on patching, etc. The kind of thing that you'd expect GOG.com to do their homework on before asking money for it...

Alternatively you can play/emulate it on the original Playstation. You miss out on some elements of the game but the interface is actually pretty good and the campaign is intact. Better than nothing, for sure.

The game is a real gem of the real time strategy world. Well worth playing.
Posted July 19, 2015
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Fezred: If you actually want to play the game you paid for then the best route still is the old Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen fan sites. They have guides to getting it working well on the PC with modern operating systems and guides on patching, etc. The kind of thing that you'd expect GOG.com to do their homework on before asking money for it...
Those guides won't work. Believe me, I spent hours trying to get my CD version to work, but it still crashed at the
"prepare for battle" screen. GOG version is no different.
Posted July 20, 2015
Strange. I'm not having any technical difficulties, myself.

Well, sometimes the screen cuts to black briefly before dialogue, but that's not game-breaking by any means.
Posted July 20, 2015
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Paviel: Strange. I'm not having any technical difficulties, myself.

Well, sometimes the screen cuts to black briefly before dialogue, but that's not game-breaking by any means.
working good for me to up to the against the grain mission
Posted July 03, 2016
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Fezred: GOG.com have really dropped the ball with this. Releasing sloppy versions with bugs with Doxbox thoughtlessly slapped on top is not what they're supposed to be about.

If you actually want to play the game you paid for then the best route still is the old Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen fan sites. They have guides to getting it working well on the PC with modern operating systems and guides on patching, etc. The kind of thing that you'd expect GOG.com to do their homework on before asking money for it...

Alternatively you can play/emulate it on the original Playstation. You miss out on some elements of the game but the interface is actually pretty good and the campaign is intact. Better than nothing, for sure.

The game is a real gem of the real time strategy world. Well worth playing.
I still have both the PS1 version that I play on my PS3. The PS3 will actually upscale the picture which is nice. SotHR is one of my favorite games of all time.
Posted July 03, 2016
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SirHandsome: I still have both the PS1 version that I play on my PS3. The PS3 will actually upscale the picture which is nice. SotHR is one of my favorite games of all time.
That's a good way to try it, the upscaling from the PS3 would be useful for these old games on the modern big TVs. I love the atmosphere of SotHR and the feeling of depth and character to it and all the units that no other game has quite touched before or since (other than Dark Omen).
Posted August 22, 2016
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SirHandsome: I still have both the PS1 version that I play on my PS3. The PS3 will actually upscale the picture which is nice. SotHR is one of my favorite games of all time.
I have it on the ps1 in here (little scratchy, got it for like 1 usd 15yrs ago! :P) and just tried on the ps2... yep, looks pretty cool on composite!
But on the ps3, upscaled and thru hdmi.. good lord, care to take a picture? Would like to see that!

Thanks! :)
Posted July 16, 2017
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Hesha: This games looks amazing. I used to own it on CD aaaaaages ago, but I remember it being utter rubbish. Not because of the game design, but because it was super unstable and buggy and simply didn't work.

Have GOG fixed those issues and made this a working game or was it just made compatible with current OS?
Played it from the CD aeons ago: original, not patched 95 version. Only CtD bugs I remember was celestial wizard's spells and Banner of Wrath effect, so the game was pretty much stable by then. After that, there was a patch 1.1 released (96 re-release was supposedly contained that patched version), and I believe here on GoG is 1.1, so I don't expect it would be buggy to any noticeable degree.
Post edited July 16, 2017 by Hjorvard
Posted July 18, 2017
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Hesha: I figured. Hopefully there will be an announcement once it has been fixed. And hopefully those deceitful false "reviews" made ten seconds after release will be balanced out by 1-star "doesn't work" review... So glad I didn't get it as soon as I saw the email.
I would not call reviews deceitful. I and many others played gog version without any problems. It is hard to tell what's the percentage of people experiencing problems since users experiencing problems are much more likely to post then those that do not.
Posted August 14, 2017
Bought it yesterday on a whim booted it up without any issues, using windows 10.

My laptop is a modern gaming laptop, so its way above the systems specs, but those don't usually factor in to these problems.
Posted August 15, 2017
Hmm, actually just started again today and now it crashes. Whats really wierd is that I had played this mission before perfectly fine.


EDIT: Got it going again, turning off Nvidia experiance manager.

This game really doesn't play well with background applications.
Post edited August 15, 2017 by ComatosePhoenix
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