It's sad to hear that! Used these patches for a year. Maybe you need funding to keep up work?

The CEF won't work on XP. Can't expect people to cater to outdated OS forever.

Steam still works in Windows XP though. And GOG is famous for its Good OLD Games. Why can't people use Good Old OS as well? Do you also say that the games are outdated and I shall claim refund for all my 700+ games?:-)

The games are being updated to work on modern technology. Your analogy is misled and inapt.

You are right, though it wasn't analogy. We talk about OLD games. And if we rephrase your earlier statement, maybe we shouldn't expect people to cater to outdated games forever?! Who would you want outdated games anyway if there are tons of new, alive and kicking?

As for me, I just want to use OS that is better for old games. Modern doesn't necesseraly means better, and that's right with games, movies, music and OS. I understand people that tend to disagree with that, but don't you think it's strange to have these disputes at GOG? Especially considering the fact that probably all old games here work on Windows XP. But client isnt. That's just sad.

That is a nice idea but (unfortunately??) for me it is not a matter of monay but a matter of time. Beside that, earlier versions of CEF were easier to patch than the newer ones. It is even possible (I did not check that) that the newest CEF requires DirectX 10 (which is not availble on XP/Vista). If that is the case, preparing a patch would essentially require to make DirectX 10 to run on XP/Vista... Anyway, I am happy that somebody found my work useful. I did it mainly for my own satisfaction.

@DrakoPensulo - Thank you for your time and effort up until now, it has been appreciated.

I've set up three PCs as retro gamer boxes, for differing epochs in PC gaming. There's a P3-600 with a Matrox as a DOS/Win3.11 box, theres' a Tualatin P3 with ti4200 for win98 games, and a P4-D with Quadro600 for WinXP gaming. All are connected through a KVM, and sit beside my modern Core-i7 windows 7 desktop. Some of us have high level time-appropriate hardware specifically for retro gaming, and those machines will continue to run the time-appropriate OS on that hardware. Yes, it's a niche market, but it exists.


Anyway, thank you for the effort up till now, and it's perfectly understandable why the effort stops here.

DirectX10 was not just available for Vista but available only for Vista ;)
Vista is actually not that outdated of an OS all things considered.

Thanks for that info. It seems to me that the only computer with widnows Vista I have access to supports only DirectX 9. Whether GOG Galaxy requires DirectX 11, or DirectX 10 is enough, I cannot say at this point.

That's odd, as far as I remember Vista came with DirectX 10 out of the box and DirectX 9 had to be installed manually via the web installer if you planned to run any games.

What is even more odd is that dxdiag shows DirectX 11 on that old laptop of mine (I have just checked it)

That means you have Service Pack 2 installed there. Vista got the DirectX updated to 11 with SP2. After SP2 not much was separating it from Windown 7 anymore (even the group rights management was taken over from Windows 7 if I remember right) which means that closing an application for Vista requires to basically actively coding Vista out and is not a natural incompatibility on the side of the OS. Windows 7 is basically Vista SP3 lol.

All applications running on Windows 7 should be able to run on Windows Vista without issue.

Don't mean to bump this thread.

So yesterday I just finished setting up my XP machine.

Quite dissapointed that Galaxy isn't avaialble for XP. but for this case, it's understandable since It's just a matter of convenience. Most gog's classic installer still works on XP anyway.

However, some GOG's version of games that actually WERE meant to run on Windows XP won't run on it, because of the modern OS patches. That's just odd lol.

I don't remember what they were, just going test runs through them quickly for each game making sure when I'm carying this baby everything is set for a go.

Most games on GOG that were originally intended to run on Windows 95 or DOS probably won't run on that either. XP was released 18 years ago now -not that much more recent than Windows 98 (22 years ago)- and have been succeeded more than a couple times. What's odd is that it's been supported as long as it have been.

Starcraft on my Mac OS 9.1-endowed PowerMac G4 can't connect to Battle.net because Blizzard stopped releasing patches for that system, instead switching completely to Mac OS X/OS X/macOS. The game was originally released for the classic Mac OS, but I can't install a current version. In your words: "That's just odd lol."

I'm not saying I don't approve of your efforts (see one of my own retro machines above), but we do need to support ourselves if we want to continue using ancient systems, rather than count on others to do it.