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Posted July 29, 2015
Windows 10 is coming today!

With so many of us excited to jump on board the next big thing for Windows gaming, we want to share with you the latest update on game compatibility today, and our expectations for the future.

Overall, the entire process went better than expected. We're very happy with that fact, but we're still only getting started.

Today, roughly 85% of our library is labeled as compatible with Windows 10. These games were fully playable with no significant performance or graphical issues during our testing process and are ready to go right now. You can filter through Windows 10 games in our catalog, and the compatibility will be labeled on every game card.

Moving forward, we plan to continue our work to bring as many of the remaining games as possible over to the new OS. As new updates and features are released, we hope to see improved backward compatibility and new tools to work with, but it's always possible for new issues to come up along the way. If you do suspect that a game should not be labeled Windows 10 compatible, we'll appreciate your help in getting to the bottom of things, but you can always rely on your 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.

The most important thing to stress is that Windows 10 is a brand new operating system, and that means we're still in the middle of a transition period. The coming weeks or months may be rocky as the first wave of patches hits the OS, so we'll constantly monitor the situation to quickly put out any fires.







Help us improve our Windows 10 compatibility.
Windows 10 is still in its early days, and there's a myriad of hardware and software combinations out there - some of them potentially explosive. We want to give you the option to report any problems you have with Windows 10 and GOG.com games, and help us make the experience best for everyone. If you'd like to help us out, you can do so through our public Mantis bug tracker:

--Use your GOG.com credentials to log in.
--Make sure that you are browsing issues the Windows 10 Game Compatibility Issues project, as opposed to the GOG Galaxy Client project.
--You can change your project through the drop-down menu in the upper-right hand corner of the page.
--You can access the Report Issue section from the upper menu if you are redirected to the home page.
--Inside, you'll find more detailed instructions on how to help us out and submit your bug.







We've done our best to bring GOG.com to Windows 10 and we're happy with the results so far, but if you're having problems with a game that should be compatible - contact us! Every bit of info helps us and your 30 Day Money Back Guarantee is there if we can't help you in turn.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Surprise surprise:
Windows 10 is a freaking privacy disaster
Jupiter Broadcasting, Tech Talk Today, Episode 198

Changing the privacy policy a few days after release (kicks in on saturday to be exact) is a nicely diabolical plan, M$. ;)
Just shows how important the mandatory updates are, makes changing the rules so much easier.
How "sweet"... From the article quoted there, for any others who prefer reading:

"The new policies take effect on 1 August and there are a few unsettling things nestling in there that you should be thinking about if you’re using the company’s services and software.

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Sign into Windows with your Microsoft account and the operating system immediately syncs settings and data to the company’s servers. That includes your browser history, favorites and the websites you currently have open as well as saved app, website and mobile hotspot passwords and Wi-Fi network names and passwords.

[...]

Turn on Cortana, the virtual assistant, and you’re also turning on a whole host of data sharing: [...] "your device location, data from your calendar, the apps you use, data from your emails and text messages, who you call, your contacts and how often you interact with them on your device. [...] your music, alarm settings, whether the lock screen is on, what you view and purchase, your browse and Bing search history, and more.”

Lots of things can live in those two words “and more.” Also note that because Cortana analyzes speech data, Microsoft collects “your voice input, as well as your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames.”

[...]

The updated terms also state that Microsoft will collect information “from you and your devices, including for example ‘app use data for apps that run on Windows’ and ‘data about the networks you connect to.'”

Windows 10 generates a unique advertising ID for each user on each device. That can be used by developers and ad networks to profile you.

[...] When device encryption is turned on, Windows 10 automatically encrypts the drive its installed on and generates a BitLocker recovery key. That’s backed up to your OneDrive account.

This is the part you should be most concerned about: Microsoft’s new privacy policy assigns is very loose when it comes to when it will or won’t access and disclose your personal data:
"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services.""
Posted July 30, 2015
This is GOG... can't we keep the topic on Good Old Games and not privacy policies?

This is 2015, the internet is the least private thing there is around. Your ISP, e-mail and a whole bunch of online services you use, already contains your genetic code.

All that doesn't change the fact a lot of us are going to use Windows 10 and have our identities completely stripped from our souls and engage in rituals with Cortana; in the end, what matters HERE, is that GoG are making our precious games compatible for us who like selling our souls to Microsoft.
Posted July 30, 2015
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GODSPEEDseven: This is GOG... can't we keep the topic on Good Old Games and not privacy policies?

This is 2015, the internet is the least private thing there is around. Your ISP, e-mail and a whole bunch of online services you use, already contains your genetic code.

All that doesn't change the fact a lot of us are going to use Windows 10 and have our identities completely stripped from our souls and engage in rituals with Cortana; in the end, what matters HERE, is that GoG are making our precious games compatible for us who like selling our souls to Microsoft.
The internet, yes. Personally tend to have a rule of not putting stuff up online if I'd mind it being public (and generally having profiles everywhere about as public as they can possibly be). But do expect communications to remain private though. And your own computer should be as private as you want it to be, that's an entirely different bowl of fish.

Meh, whatever.
Posted July 30, 2015
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GODSPEEDseven: This is GOG... can't we keep the topic on Good Old Games and not privacy policies?
Yes, this is GOG. This is also a thread on Windows 10. Stands to reason there might be some overlap regarding issues specific to Windows 10. Also stands to reason there might be an overlap of people who want DRM-free games and privacy/control over the technology in their lives.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Maighstir: That line was mostly a joke based on the name of the OS though.
I realise that. I was just harkening back to those days where I actually did use curses-based windows. :)

One can still see a similar principle at work in many of the BIOS interfaces, incidentally.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Maighstir: That line was mostly a joke based on the name of the OS though.
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IAmSinistar: I realise that. I was just harkening back to those days where I actually did use curses-based windows. :)

One can still see a similar principle at work in many of the BIOS interfaces, incidentally.
Also note that I never said windows outside of Windows would be a contradiction, just that Windows without windows would be one :-P
Posted July 30, 2015
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Maighstir: Also note that I never said windows outside of Windows would be a contradiction, just that Windows without windows would be one :-P
If Windows truly had windows, I should be able to see the back of my monitor through them. ;D
Posted July 30, 2015
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J_Darnley: No up button in Windows Explorer.
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Cavalary: Oh yes, THAT one's still frustrating. Can get around it easily, but even now after all these years I keep hitting backspace for up and sometimes end up somewhere else, if the previous folder was not the one one level above.
Apologies for going back a few pages here.

Alt+Up = Go up a level in explorer.
Alt+Left or Right = scroll through the explorer window history; right being forward, and left being back.

These and more listed here.

The up button in explorer was likely removed because the breadcrumb trail in the address bar basically served the same function.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by EuroMIX
Posted July 30, 2015
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IAmSinistar: I realise that. I was just harkening back to those days where I actually did use curses-based windows. :)

One can still see a similar principle at work in many of the BIOS interfaces, incidentally.
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Maighstir: Also note that I never said windows outside of Windows would be a contradiction, just that Windows without windows would be one :-P
Does that make Nano Server a contradiction :P you can't even logon to a Nano Server instance locally and instead have to do everything via PowerShell or WMI remotely.
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thesmashingone: Color me surprised that The Incredible Machine was marked as compatible for Windows 10!

Also, color me severely disappointed that Unreal Tournament 2004 did not make the cut. I'll still try it on my machine since I love the game so much, but if it does not work, I hope that Windows 10 does eventually support this game.
I can get ut2004 to run on 10 if I switch to the OpenGL rendered for ut2004 32bit or alternative d3d9 works with the 64bit exe. It appears there is a d3d9 option for ut2004 32bit but I haven't looked very hard for it but it might also be an option if someone can find it as the OpenGL renderer doesn't appear to let you max out character shadows I think it is which is a little strange but there you go.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by cpc464
Posted July 30, 2015
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Maighstir: Also note that I never said windows outside of Windows would be a contradiction, just that Windows without windows would be one :-P
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cpc464: Does that make Nano Server a contradiction :P you can't even logon to a Nano Server instance locally and instead have to do everything via PowerShell or WMI remotely.
Indeed. I hadn't read about that earlier (looked it up just now), thank you for informing me.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by Maighstir
Posted July 30, 2015
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GOG.com: Windows 10 is coming today!

With so many of us excited to jump on board the next big thing for Windows gaming, we want to share with you the latest update on game compatibility today, and our expectations for the future.

Overall, the entire process went better than expected. We're very happy with that fact, but we're still only getting started.

Today, roughly 85% of our library is labeled as compatible with Windows 10. These games were fully playable with no significant performance or graphical issues during our testing process and are ready to go right now. You can filter through Windows 10 games in our catalog, and the compatibility will be labeled on every game card.

Moving forward, we plan to continue our work to bring as many of the remaining games as possible over to the new OS. As new updates and features are released, we hope to see improved backward compatibility and new tools to work with, but it's always possible for new issues to come up along the way. If you do suspect that a game should not be labeled Windows 10 compatible, we'll appreciate your help in getting to the bottom of things, but you can always rely on your 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.

The most important thing to stress is that Windows 10 is a brand new operating system, and that means we're still in the middle of a transition period. The coming weeks or months may be rocky as the first wave of patches hits the OS, so we'll constantly monitor the situation to quickly put out any fires.

Help us improve our Windows 10 compatibility.
Windows 10 is still in its early days, and there's a myriad of hardware and software combinations out there - some of them potentially explosive. We want to give you the option to report any problems you have with Windows 10 and GOG.com games, and help us make the experience best for everyone. If you'd like to help us out, you can do so through our public Mantis bug tracker:

--Use your GOG.com credentials to log in.
--Make sure that you are browsing issues the Windows 10 Game Compatibility Issues project, as opposed to the GOG Galaxy Client project.
--You can change your project through the drop-down menu in the upper-right hand corner of the page.
--You can access the Report Issue section from the upper menu if you are redirected to the home page.
--Inside, you'll find more detailed instructions on how to help us out and submit your bug.

We've done our best to bring GOG.com to Windows 10 and we're happy with the results so far, but if you're having problems with a game that should be compatible - contact us! Every bit of info helps us and your 30 Day Money Back Guarantee is there if we can't help you in turn.
Time to give SWAT 3 a working patch then? Been needing it since Windows 8. Slow fps and annoying third way solutions to fix it.
Posted July 30, 2015
Terraria is dont work on Windows 10. Only 1 second loade and stop.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Telika: Is there a way to list the non-compatible games ? That is, to filter the win10-compatible "out" instead of "in" ?
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Cavalary: Here on GOG, no, but give mrkgnao a bit and MaGOG will take care of it.
As well as being able to filter and show the non-compatible games, I'd like to see the filtered game count displayed. For instance if one has 400 games in the library and I filter to only show games that are Windows 10 compatible it still shows the game count as 400. I have no way of knowing, other than manually counting those onscreen (which with a large library is just not practical), how many games in my library are compatible and by difference knowing how many are not.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Telika: Is there a way to list the non-compatible games ? That is, to filter the win10-compatible "out" instead of "in" ?
See here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/news_we_are_ready_for_windows_10_55b81/post121

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Cavalary: Here on GOG, no, but give mrkgnao a bit and MaGOG will take care of it.
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ikrananka: As well as being able to filter and show the non-compatible games, I'd like to see the filtered game count displayed. For instance if one has 400 games in the library and I filter to only show games that are Windows 10 compatible it still shows the game count as 400. I have no way of knowing, other than manually counting those onscreen (which with a large library is just not practical), how many games in my library are compatible and by difference knowing how many are not.
See here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/news_we_are_ready_for_windows_10_55b81/post121
You can also get your library from GOG into MaGog (use "Get From GOG") and filter anything you wish.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted July 30, 2015
Uru is not compatible, I get this message.

Exception type: Access violation
Call stack (14 levels):
0x00483962
0x0047315B
0x004EB4A3
0x004D02AA
0x004D1CFF
0x004D2843
0x69AD961C
0x5EEB6E0B
0x5EEE64A5
0x5EEEC4FC
0x5EEEDA8C
0x5EEECA9C
0x5EE956F1
0x6023F610
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