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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 29, 2015
Good to hear. Windows 10 seems to fare much better in the compatibility department than 8.

Sadly, I see that the new OS still refuses to cooperate with Shogo - Mobile Armor Division...
Posted July 29, 2015
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paladin181: Why would anyone specifically support XP now? The OS is a security nightmare and is over a decade old.
Why not,it was the best OS.If you don't go online with it why worry?
Posted July 29, 2015
Hm, very good to see that almost the whole catalog will be working on win 10. I will though abstain from upgrading to it until its stable and more data about it is available (after all there is one year time to upgrade for free).
Posted July 29, 2015
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gunsynd: Why not,it was the best OS.If you don't go online with it why worry?
Win 7 is head and shoulders better in resource management and performance. I just don't see why you wouldn't upgrade to 7 if you can afford to.
Posted July 29, 2015
I'm still using Windows XP and i'll switch to Windows 7 eventually this year.

So i'm not excited about Windows 10. :P
Posted July 29, 2015
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gunsynd: Why not,it was the best OS.If you don't go online with it why worry?
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paladin181: Win 7 is head and shoulders better in resource management and performance. I just don't see why you wouldn't upgrade to 7 if you can afford to.
Read the post,he said he has an extra PC with XP for offline use only.
Posted July 29, 2015
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Matruchus: Hm, very good to see that almost the whole catalog will be working on win 10. I will though abstain from upgrading to it until its stable and more data about it is available (after all there is one year time to upgrade for free).
Yep. That Window icon in my taskbar will remain there, unclicked, until I know that all of my games will run on Win10. I went through Vista, and remember quite vividly how all of my Bethesda games became instantly unplayable, and remained that way for months, until work-arounds become a thing.

When I had this rig built, I specified Win7 instead of Win8, and I'm glad I did it. Same with the gaming laptop.( both of them from IBuyPower PC. )
Posted July 29, 2015
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paladin181: Win 7 is head and shoulders better in resource management and performance. I just don't see why you wouldn't upgrade to 7 if you can afford to.
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gunsynd: Read the post,he said he has an extra PC with XP for offline use only.
Does he still purchase PC versions of video games that have Windows XP support on that PC? Or not purchase going online, but purchase on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and go play them on that Windows XP PC?

There are still a lot of PC versions of video games with Windows XP support released everyday and I purchase quite a few every month.
Posted July 29, 2015
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Matruchus: Hm, very good to see that almost the whole catalog will be working on win 10. I will though abstain from upgrading to it until its stable and more data about it is available (after all there is one year time to upgrade for free).
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trog69: Yep. That Window icon in my taskbar will remain there, unclicked, until I know that all of my games will run on Win10. I went through Vista, and remember quite vividly how all of my Bethesda games became instantly unplayable, and remained that way for months, until work-arounds become a thing.

When I had this rig built, I specified Win7 instead of Win8, and I'm glad I did it. Same with the gaming laptop.( both of them from IBuyPower PC. )
Yeah, I had big issues with Win 8 in the beginning before it got to a stable version with win 8.1 service pack. Microsoft is definitely known for releasing broken versions of windows and fixing them for a year or two before they work properly. Im though more concerned with forced automatic windows and program updates that will definitely break some programs. Eitherway we shall see if this is a good thing or not in a year's time.
Posted July 29, 2015
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gunsynd: Read the post,he said he has an extra PC with XP for offline use only.
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Johnathanamz: Does he still purchase PC versions of video games that have Windows XP support on that PC? Or not purchase going online, but purchase on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and go play them on that Windows XP PC?

There are still a lot of PC versions of video games with Windows XP support released everyday and I purchase quite a few every month.
That's a Q for Sidonnai.....I assume he would purchase said games for XP AND WIN7 as a lot still use
this format.From his comment he doesn't use the XP PC online just the other one with Win7.
Posted July 29, 2015
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Tolya: Windows 7 has Microsoft support until 2020, so we will most likely keep supporting it AT LEAST until that.
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Johnathanamz: Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in April of 2014. Yet I still see a whole lot of PC versions of video games released for Windows XP everyday.

Please continue to support Windows XP and Windows Vista for many more years to come.
I agree! But even though most of those video games support Windows XP, it has been only a year and a few months to say for sure that many future games would still continue to support that operating system.

Despite all this, I still believe that it would take more than 3 years before gaming developers stopped releasing their games that won't run on Windows XP.

Still, I hope GOG will keep on supporting Windows 7 for more years to come.
Post edited July 29, 2015 by FellSome
Posted July 29, 2015
Still interested in making everything Win 7 compatible. 18 games still show up as not being. [url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorlcm&flt=onn~w07~]Here's the list[/url].

Otherwise, still gave up on Windows as something actually useful for proper desktop PCs when Win 8 hit and threw Win 10 in the exact same bin when the presentation started with it being "for this mobile first, cloud first world". Still hoping I'll move to Linux by 2020 when support for it will end, though at the same time still doing nothing about it so in fact hoping for MS to somehow turn around and release over these years at least some edition which can at least be easily configured from install to stick to the plain old desktop with no active content or such apps or whatever, with everything stored locally and known to the user, no cloud stuff or things hidden away, with proper optimization for just mouse and keyboard and a regular monitor and not missing anything if there's no touch or motion or voice (either to or from the computer), and definitely meant to let the user monitor and control the system and be properly informed about what happens and what it means, so not stuff just happening on its own and even without the possibility to change the behavior (like the forced updates in Win 10 for one thing... what the hell???).
Post edited July 29, 2015 by Cavalary
Posted July 29, 2015
How hard would it be for Microsoft to add Windows 3.1 compatibility to Windows 10?
Post edited July 29, 2015 by Barry_Woodward
Posted July 29, 2015
The last few windows versions have been pretty easy updates compatibility wise. Let's hope that remains the case with future versions.
Post edited July 29, 2015 by Pheace
Posted July 29, 2015
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Johnathanamz: Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in April of 2014. Yet I still see a whole lot of PC versions of video games released for Windows XP everyday.

Please continue to support Windows XP and Windows Vista for many more years to come.
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FellSome: I agree! But even though most of those video games still support Windows XP, it has been only a year and a few months to prove that many future games would continue to support that operating system. Despite all this, I still believe that it would take more than 3 years and above before gaming developers to stop releasing their games that won't run on Windows XP.

Still, I hope GOG will keep on supporting Windows 7 for more years to come.
I still purchase PC versions of video games that have Windows XP support for my Windows XP PC.

Also the comment above you, gunsynd says he knows a person who still purchases PC versions of video games that have Windows XP support.

There are still a lot of PC gamers world wide who purchase PC versions of video games for Windows XP.

I'm pretty sure indie video game developers will be supporting Windows XP for more than 3 years.
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