Corsairs Gold

To get it work: copy the game out of the Program Files directory. To avoid crashing in-game: avoid using square select or touching the edges of the game screen. It crashes significantly less with 4:3 resolutions. Before the review, here is why it crashes upon startup: since Win XP (before which the game published), the writing permissions in the default Program Files directories have become stricter every Windows release and the game is probably not coded to acquire them. Copy it to something like C:\games\Corsairs Gold and it will start working. It will still crash if you start it from the launcher .exe, so run it from corsairs.exe to avoid that. Review synopsis: major technical issues hide gameplay worthy of being called the most terrible Pirates! clone out there, with cheating CPU to boot. Only for masochists. Basically, as soon as you take one enemy port town, that enemy will absolutely flood you with ships no way it could afford if it played with the same rules as the player. In practice, 150k gold is big money and enough to buy the biggest military ship in the game (Frigate), yet almost every single ship I board has that much and more on it. Where this gold is coming from is a mystery as I have not seen the enemy trade much in the game. The second you attack enemy as per your mission orders, you are flooded with unmanageable amounts of enemy ships even at 10% of normal speed, i.e. crawling. Because of the ton of micromanagement required to individually replenish every single ship's hull condition and sailors, even that crawl speed is too fast. The UI is not very helpful with this and makes things super slow. Yes, every single ship has its individual cash balance, another thing needed to micromanage. The worst part to micro is the godawful path-finding and the way ships get stuck into one other and fail to pass slower ships (instead they shift and turn infinitely behind the slower one). All this while the enemy is perfectly micro'd and never gets stuck.

To make it playable after instalation from GOG: Step 1 - Open "C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Corsairs Gold\!Downloads" Step 2 - install via "setup_corsairs_gold_2.1.0.7.exe" Step 3 - run "C:\GOG Games\Corsairs Gold\corsairs.exe" Step 4 - during game and battle (espacially during battle) change speed game using "-" and"+" on num-keyboard, or "-" & "SHIFT+" on basic Enjoy

I bought it out of Nostalgia. I was happily looking forward to play it again, after many years. It says it works on Windows 10, but it doesn't. The game crashed every time after launching tutorial, I couldn't proceed from menu not having the game crashed. I read some tips from other comments to move it to C:\ folder (I had the game installed on D:\) and it worked, I could launch the tutorial. My satisfaction was not for too long, because the game crashed after 2 min, I kept on trying to play the game, but the game kept crashing on and on during random moments. I just lost patience, after 30th crash. Besides, as someone already mentioned, the scrolling during naval boarding is broken, I couldn't properly select my army, It is just not possible. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time trying to play it (if you have Windows 10, that's it).

A fun nostalgic game which deserves a remaster. Given 4 stars as the GOG version is missing the Adventure Mode from the menu, however, I have released a mod which addresses this and adds a ton more scenarios to play. Check out the link below, adds a ton of repeatability to this fun title. https://www.moddb.com/mods/adventure-mode-launcher/downloads/adventure-mode-launcher

This has always been one of my very favorite pirate-games and I'm really glad there's finally a GoG-version that runs on modern operating systems. However, "running" is a bit of an overstatement in this case. I don't have the slow-running or too fast scrolling problems on my Win7Prof, but no matter the resolution or compatibility mode I run it in, I keep having random crashes, which is really annoying. How about an updated, fixed version GoG?