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Posted June 30, 2018
Hey there! I'm sorry if this has been posted/asked before; I tried to find answers regarding it, but I had very little luck finding the specific answer I'm looking for.

So I recently set up a Windows XP machine with the intent of it being purely for retro PC gaming. I know I could just run whatever on my current setup, but there's something about having that old machine, too. And seeing how many GOG games had support for Windows XP, I figured, "Why not?"

Although, I've noticed that newer releases of some older games, that certainly ran on XP back in the day, do not have support for it. Why is this? And is there any sort of workaround for it? Or am I going to just have to settle for playing those particular games on my modern PC?

Thank you for any help, and sorry if this has been asked a hundred times over.
Posted June 30, 2018
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peach_waffles: Hey there! I'm sorry if this has been posted/asked before; I tried to find answers regarding it, but I had very little luck finding the specific answer I'm looking for.

So I recently set up a Windows XP machine with the intent of it being purely for retro PC gaming. I know I could just run whatever on my current setup, but there's something about having that old machine, too. And seeing how many GOG games had support for Windows XP, I figured, "Why not?"

Although, I've noticed that newer releases of some older games, that certainly ran on XP back in the day, do not have support for it. Why is this? And is there any sort of workaround for it? Or am I going to just have to settle for playing those particular games on my modern PC?

Thank you for any help, and sorry if this has been asked a hundred times over.
If they originally worked on XP, then chances are they still will. GOG doesn't list XP as a supported OS because it's no longer supported by MS, so GOG doesn't test games on that OS anymore.
Posted June 30, 2018
GOG can no longer guarantee that what they sell works on Windows XP, and as such it is not officially supported.

It may work, but you most likely will not get support from GOG for any issues you may have.

GOG was never intended to sell games for legacy machines (as much as I would love if they did that), but was started on the idea of selling older games for modern machines (and then they added newer games, too).
Posted June 30, 2018
I approve of your Primm avatar, but as said, WIndows XP is supported by nobody. What you're doing is on your own hands.
Posted June 30, 2018
Thanks for the replies, they're greatly appreciated! I'll give one of the games listed without XP support a try and see how it goes. I don't mind if I'm unable to get support on it, and the computer is totally offline as it is. But if doesn't work, it's no big loss. Just means no future releases will be going on that machine!

@Darvond Thanks! Secret of Mana is a favorite of mine, and so is Primm!
Posted June 30, 2018
A few titles have had XP support broken by fixes to make them work on latter Windows versions but most should work just fine.
Posted June 30, 2018
If a game does'nt work on WinXP One thing you can try is install it on something like Win7 and copy paste the directory to the WinXP machine. This doesn't always work but it worked for Unreal Tournament in Win 98.
Posted June 30, 2018
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Magmarock: If a game does'nt work on WinXP One thing you can try is install it on something like Win7 and copy paste the directory to the WinXP machine. This doesn't always work but it worked for Unreal Tournament in Win 98.
You could, but that sounds like a lot of rigmarole over Wine.
Posted July 01, 2018
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Magmarock: If a game does'nt work on WinXP One thing you can try is install it on something like Win7 and copy paste the directory to the WinXP machine. This doesn't always work but it worked for Unreal Tournament in Win 98.
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Darvond: You could, but that sounds like a lot of rigmarole over Wine.
Nah, less I'd say. I hate Wine I'd rather use Crossover. But that was for Win98, this man wants to run XP most gog games should still install and if they don't there will be other ways to get them working.
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