Is the game support 3Dfx? If it is, just forward an email to the developer. Maybe they will do it sometime later. I emailed them about Pod 3dfx glitch issue last year, and they fixed it in next release; which is current release.

That might as well mean this particular game hasn't been tested yet.
Download nGlide and give it a try, let us know if it fixes the issues Gorky 17 suffers from.

Sounds great to me!

CROC! http://www.zeus-software.com/img/galleries/nglide/croc_b.jpg

Great news indeed! I'm using nGlide already, and it works great with e.g. Carmageddon 2 (I'm playing it on Win7). I wish I could finally finish that game, damn hard, has been sitting on my hard drive forever.

Carma2 has Direct3D support too, but there is an odd bug that if you have an USB game controller/joystick connected, the Direct3D mode doesn't work or something. Since a controller is very much needed with the game, the 3Dfx mode provided by nGlide works perfect, no issues with it.

From the nGlide compatibility list, I got the impression it is somehow possible to use it also with DOS Glide games. I didn't see Fatal Racing/Whiplash mentioned on nGlide compatibility list though, but I don't know if it is because the 3D accelerated (3Dfx) version of it came only with certain 3Dfx cards, not sold on retail? Too bad if so, it was a great arcade racing game, much more interesting than e.g. POD. I recently located the Fatal Racing CD I got with my 3Dfx Orchid card.

In the end, does it really matter if GOG updates the old installers or not? Can't people simply install nGlide on their Windows system, and any current GOG games with Glide support would detect the presence of a 3Dfx "card", and let you choose it? Or is it hard-coded into the GOG installers that they'd never choose 3Dfx support, even if they could?

Next good news would be if GOG could integrate Munt MT-32 emulator with DOSBox, as nowadays Munt seems to work quite well. But for that they'd need the MT-32/CM-32L ROMs from Roland Co. Too bad Roland seems to be in a habit of even sitting on their own IPs, than making some money of them. But maybe GOG could persuade them, after all is there nowadays, or has there ever been, any interest to MT-32 compatibility besides PC retro gamers?

Some game, like i mentioned before (Speed Buster, Pod, ArmA) have numerous issue to get it work with nGlide. Some other can't work without gog version of glide2x.dll / glide.dll.
By "us", are you one of nGlide devs?

There's no point in getting in touch with nGlide devs should it turn out that Gorky 17 works just fine with the current version of the wrapper. That's why we need someone to test it first.

That's right. Somebody should try first. It not gonna take much time.

I would love to take this at face value, but I've got a feeling that "XP or later" doesn't include Win7. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.

Wait, this can upscale old games to make them a bit prettier? I must be honest I don't really like the sound of this... Can we get some clarification on what this really means?

I'm using 7 x64, no problem with the program itself. The only problem is to get some of GOG's game to work with the program. I think the program originally aimed for retail version, that's why some GOG's games are not working with the program, some of them has been modified to run without Glide capability. Leaving only poor old Directx5 or 6 as an option. For me, that's kinda miss, because Glide is the pinnacle of 3D graphics back then. Only rich boy could afford 3Dfx card at that time. So, it's great to see GOG is actually trying to improve the product that they sold. This gonna add some value to them.

I don't have Gorky 17 but I figured someone might have it around here and maybe this could be the fix GOG needed to get Gorky 17 working properly.

nGlide is a wrapper that enable you to run 3Dfx / Glide compliance games in Glide mode which basically offer superior graphic quality. But not all games in GOG catalogue support Glide mode, still i think there are quite plenty of them; Especially mid 90's to early 00's 3D shooter and racing game. Back then there were massive difference between Direct 3D and Glide API.

Since 3Dfx / Glide era already long gone and replaced by Direct3D, this is not officially supported and no longer available in modern OS. So you need 3rd party Glide wrapper to run the game in Glide mode. Of all wrapper available, i think nGlide is the best because of the simple GUI and easy to fiddle with. It's also support variety of screen resolution including widescreen. Most importantly, the development and support still alive.

I understand what you're saying, but I'm having a hard time picturing it, I'll look for some vids.

Interesting ... I wonder if they will be replacing the zeckensack glide wrapper they have been using on titles already on GOG/adding the nglide wrapper to some of the older titles which never got a glide wrapper to begin with, but look nicer with one (i.e. Red Baron 3D).

I've heard good things about the nglide wrapper, so this is good news!