I hate to be a stickler but what gives? Is there any support for games purchased on gog.com? I've made two support tickets and haven't heard anything back in like two weeks.

I appreciate the response and definitely understand how that goes...

Not sure what you mean about the issue(s) being bugs present in the original game...I actually owned HOMMIV on disk and never had that problem. Granted, it was on a different computer with Windows XP and not Windows 7...but I thought that was the whole point of gog.com was making the old game compatible with today's hardware/software?

I do hope there is a solution for this though. I'm not going to get crazy about it or anything and say the game is completely unplayable, but as it stands now it's very frustrating to play between the stuttering and random crashes.

I too understand that the bugs may be present with the original relase. But if there are problems with Win7 the game should not be presented as working on that system. Especially not since the majority of people (id guess) are running either Win7 or Vista.

Could you elaborate on this one Galimatias? Is is possible to fix or do we buy it "as-is"? I'll understand if its unfixable.

Thanks in advance

Just bought this yesterday after being unable to play my original copy on newer systems for a couple years due to getting the blue screen of death every time I tried to run the game (I've heard the original version had some archaic copy protection on it that brings down newer OS). Anyways this game works splendidly for me and I never had the expansion packs before either.

I know this is like a "problems topic" but I didn't feel the need to make a new topic and just wanted to say it runs perfectly on this Vista machine. I also have a laptop that runs Windows 7 that I have not tried it on, but will at some point. It's too bad that it seems to run faulty on other systems :/

Well, they only say "All games are XP and Vista compatible", which I guess implies they may not be Win7 compatible. DOS games have the greatest chance of running in Win7 because of the rock-solidness of DOSBox. But Windows games made in the late 90s to early 00s can be a pain to make work. Most of the times, all we can do is set compatibility mode for the executables, which doesn't always work. For instance, I can't get Starcraft (not from GOG) to work on Win7 without graphical glitches, but it works on XP.

This is not entirely true, if you read the "Compatible With" section when browsing games you clearly se Homm4 as compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit).

I know that the game is runnable in Win7 but theres alot of stuttering graphics. But i still think gog should add those compatibility issues.

I think, that very high CPU ussage under Vista and 7 make stuttering graphics. In 1280x1024 cpu usage is very often 100%. It is much lower under Windows Xp.

Im holding off on this as well until I hear confirmation it runs ok on Windows 7

It sounds like it could go either way. I have Windows 7 64-bit and I'm not experiencing any issues with it.

Well that means its not a problem with Win7 64. What version do you use? Home or Ultimate?

I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium.

For what it's worth, I'm playing IV on my wife's netbook with Windows 7 32-bit just fine.

I'm also noticing this problem in Win 7-64bit. It really detracts from the experience, hopefully someone has found a solution. I have done some reading and it may be specific to nvidia graphics users, maybe i'm right? can others confirm

I'm running two ATI HD Radeon Mobility 5870, and I'm getting lag too. So it's definitely not an nvidia exclusive thing.