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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
Doesn't matter much for me(it hasn't for quite a few years now) been using wine successfully for all my favorite games and that won't change... as far as new games go.... i expect linux compatibility for most of them
Posted July 29, 2015
Smashing news! :)
Post edited July 29, 2015 by Betmun
Posted July 29, 2015
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GODSPEEDseven: To anyone wondering, I've been using Windows 10 for quite a while, testing the different releases and such.. and, basically, if the game ran well in Windows 7 or 8, it will run the same in Windows 10. The platform used is pretty much the same, although they did a lot of technical behind-the-scene improvements. For most of us, that will change almost nothing.
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crabfish: Hi,

The difference between 7 and 8/8.1 was huge. Windows 8/8.1 has a issued direct draw emulation, so, old games, like Fallout tactics for example, run handicapped if it run at all.

Did you try any one of these in windows 10? Does this games run smoothly for you?

Thx.
Yes I have encountered this issue, but I always found a walkaround.

My example was with Jagged Alliance 2, if you do not use the GOG shortcut, you have the ddraw issues and game runs laggy. A simple fix was to copy a few ddraw files into the game folder. Then it ran perfectly. The modern windows I think doesn't need to have the ddraw .dll's into it, so they simply stopepd using them, creating a small issue for us who play some older games.

wine3d.dll, libwine.dll and ddraw.dll fixed the issues with that game.

In the end, this seems to affect only a few games I have ever played, as most oldies I play seem to function very well. I do not have Fallout games anymore though, used to have those on CD's a long time ago, so sorry, cannot test if those DLL's would do the trick.
Posted July 29, 2015
Just wanted to say thank you for your amazing support!
Its great that you are prepared in such a good way for win10. Without you it would be very hard the get some of the good old games running with new systems.
Posted July 29, 2015
Are there any GOG games yet that weren't compatible with Win 8.1 but will be compatible with Win 10?
Posted July 29, 2015
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TDP: It's amazing how so many companies (GOG included) are so eager to do free marketing for Microsoft Corp. Seriously... the amount of free advertising Microsoft gets for their new OS releases is crazy, and I'm sure no one from MS is complaining (quite the opposite).
Oh, yes, I'm sure that's why GOG is making sure their games are compatible. No, the customers' (possible) inability to play their games with a newer OS version is not a concern at all. *rolls eyes until they fall out of their sockets*

I'm going to wait at least half a year if not until the very end of the free upgrade period - I'm using Win 8.1 currently - to see how well this all pans out, and to see if MS sees fit to do some tweaks and changes that I might deem more beneficial, i.e. better user options.
Posted July 29, 2015
Well done GOG, well done!
Posted July 29, 2015
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Cavalary: I tend to be quite organized (...)
Yup, that explains why you have little need for libraries. Eventually, when I organize my mess into something orderly, I will also not need them as much... but, for now, they are a godsend for people like me ;P.

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Cavalary: Basically same thing as always in software. Options = good. Decisions (not made by the user) = bad.
Uh... No. That's not true. That may superficially feel true, but it's not. Sometimes options are essential to a good user experience, sometimes a person is better off finding a different piece of software rather than customizing an ill-fitted tool for a given task, sometimes implementing alternatives is a waste of developer time that would be better spent on something else. What makes software good or bad are the decisions behind it. First of all - a decision to CREATE the program in the first place. Creating a set of options is also a decision, as is the set of options available. Want all the options and no decisions made for you? Write your own goddamn software. Nobody's stopping you.
Decisions can be good; decisions can be bad. Options can be helpful, yet they can also be quite superfluous. The Devil is in the detail.
Posted July 29, 2015
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Dju: Joke aside I still haven't got the icon to reserve Win10 even though I have a perfectly genuine Win7 with all updates applied :-(

I can't even pretend I'm not making the switch for any noble reason, it's just I don't have the coice :-(
How to Skip the Line and Upgrade to Windows 10 Now

Windows 10 Media Creation Tool
Post edited July 29, 2015 by ValamirCleaver
Posted July 29, 2015
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cogadh: Apologies if this has already been answered (entire thread TL;DR).

Should we assume that if a game is not labeled as Win 10 compatible, that it has already been tested against Win 10 and been found to be incompatible, or is it a case of if it is not labeled, it has not been tested yet and we should still try running it? Out of the 89 games in my GOG library, 15 aren't marked with Win 10 compatibility, and some are a little surprising (Baldur's Gate 2? BG 1 as well as both Icewind Dales are compatible).
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Cavalary: Well, what it means for sure is that GOG makes no claim that they do work, so you try at your own risk and the money back guarantee doesn't apply if they don't work.
That's always been understood, but doesn't answer the question I asked. I want to know if the lack of a Win 10 flag means the game is not compatible or does it just mean it has not been tested yet. Obviously once they are complete with their testing efforts, the lack of the flag will mean that it is not compatible, but in this transition period, that is not entirely clear, especially when games that would seem to have no problems with 10 are still missing the flag.
Posted July 30, 2015
Until I know how the "rolling updates" situation is going to work (i.e. the system that's meant to be replacing the discrete releases), until manual updates are made possible again, and depending on how old games in general fare relative to Windows 7, I'll wait. The combination of Microsoft giving this away for "free" combined with the elimination of discrete releases leads me to suspect that Microsoft will be introducing a subscription service for updates in a year once they've got all the panic upgraders on board. How else are they going to monetise upgrades in the future?
Posted July 30, 2015
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jamyskis: How else are they going to monetise upgrades in the future?
Same way they've monetized Windows XP upgrades? By providing support well beyond the end date of it?
Where is this thing about monetizing upgrades coming from? And please don't link that Gordon Kelly article with the financial slides, because I don't want to head desk.
Posted July 30, 2015
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jamyskis: Until I know how the "rolling updates" situation is going to work (i.e. the system that's meant to be replacing the discrete releases), until manual updates are made possible again, and depending on how old games in general fare relative to Windows 7, I'll wait. The combination of Microsoft giving this away for "free" combined with the elimination of discrete releases leads me to suspect that Microsoft will be introducing a subscription service for updates in a year once they've got all the panic upgraders on board. How else are they going to monetise upgrades in the future?
Ads and selling you apps through the store. There are so many settings and options related to targeted advertising and "Windows Store" items, its insane. I've tried opting out of everything I can, but I still get prompts and such in the start menu to "buy this app" or "try this service".
Posted July 30, 2015
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Dju: Joke aside I still haven't got the icon to reserve Win10 even though I have a perfectly genuine Win7 with all updates applied :-(

I can't even pretend I'm not making the switch for any noble reason, it's just I don't have the coice :-(
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ValamirCleaver: How to Skip the Line and Upgrade to Windows 10 Now

Windows 10 Media Creation Tool
Thanks for the links, but I don't even have the icon to reserve it!
Posted July 30, 2015
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jamyskis: Until I know how the "rolling updates" situation is going to work (i.e. the system that's meant to be replacing the discrete releases), until manual updates are made possible again, and depending on how old games in general fare relative to Windows 7, I'll wait. The combination of Microsoft giving this away for "free" combined with the elimination of discrete releases leads me to suspect that Microsoft will be introducing a subscription service for updates in a year once they've got all the panic upgraders on board. How else are they going to monetise upgrades in the future?
Actually, upgrades were never much of a source of income for Microsoft, the vast majority has always come through OEM licenses for new PC sales and Enterprise licensing. What they have done with the free upgrade for Windows 7/8.1 is to hopefully get the majority of people on a common platform and also allow for huge potential profit with a relatively small amount of effort through the app store.

Honestly, the subscription for Windows 10 people are still spouting off about is just not going to happen. Microsoft has said as much and it would make absolutely no sense for them to do so.
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ValamirCleaver: How to Skip the Line and Upgrade to Windows 10 Now

Windows 10 Media Creation Tool
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Dju: Thanks for the links, but I don't even have the icon to reserve it!
You don't need to reserve it. You can download the updater linked ("Media Creation Tool") and tell it to upgrade you.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by Tallin
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