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As part of GOG’s 17th Anniversary celebrations, a new wave of classics joins the GOG Preservation Program!

This time we’re adding a mix of fan-favorite RPGs, gritty brawlers, dark mysteries, and strategy gems: each over 15 years old and preserved to stay playable, DRM-free, and hassle-free for years to come.

Let’s welcome:
Gothic 1 (-75%)
Gothic 2 Gold Edition (-75%)
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (-80%)
Mortal Kombat Trilogy (-35%)
Freespace 2
XIII Century: Gold Edition (-85%)
Stranglehold (-80%)

All of them are now part of the GOG Preservation Program, which means they’ve been updated, tested, and will continue to be maintained to ensure they remain accessible on modern systems.

Whether you're heading back to the Colony, throwing punches in the arena, or stepping into John Woo slow-mo, there’s something here worth revisiting.

Thanks for being with us – let’s keep making games live forever!
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Syphon72: You keep repeating yourself like a broken record. I’ve heard you say the same thing numerous times. It feels like you’re ignoring my perspective and just rambling on.
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AB2012: Your "perspective" is often little more than instinctively jumping down the throat of anyone who "dares" to voice almost any complaint or criticism whatsoever that anything here need fixing, something that very clearly and obviously "triggers" something in you on an almost daily basis. You constantly complain about how "negative" everyone else is (and even base your own forum avatar subtitle on that), yet remain blind to how negative your own daily snarky one-liners come across. And I'm not the only one who's noticed that certain people who loudly & proudly position themselves as "anti-negative" or self-appointed "forum policemen" are in fact some of the most antagonistic and negative people of all here.

At the end of the day, people want broken games fixed. If they get fixed, great. If they don't, reminders are clearly necessary. People who want them fixed fixed are focusing on "things". You are unhealthily obsessed with other people. No-one's forcing you to read let alone respond to my nor multiple other users posts that "dare" to remind GOG that problem game x still needs fixing (on an entirely on-topic subject). If you don't like that, just skip over our posts and completely ignore us from now on. Just as we often skip over your own daily "people watching" posts. Problem solved for everyone.
You're bringing up other threads that have nothing to do with this topic. I wasn't jumping down anyone's throat in this thread at all. I’ve mentioned multiple times what I think GOG should do for users facing issues, but you keep overlooking that.

I'm not trying to be a forum police. It's interesting how you can always be negative, but if I'm being positive, I get labeled as form police. Being negative and saying ridiculous about everything all the time is apparently better than being positive. I've shared my negative thoughts about GOG multiple times, and I believe I’m allowed to disagree with others in these forms. Just like you.

I never said anything bad about.

If anyone is triggered, it seems to be you. You’re the one coming off as aggressive.
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GOG.com: Let’s welcome:
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Freespace 2
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All of them are now part of the GOG Preservation Program, which means they’ve been updated, tested, and will continue to be maintained to ensure they remain accessible on modern systems.
This is an honor! FreeSpace 2 is a classic.
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Anybody who thinks the GOG preserevation program is anything but a PR gimmick is not living in the real world.
Thye don't seme to want to handle the tough ones.
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gogtrial34987: Even though I own Gothic II, I swiftly discovered that I really didn't enjoy playing it, and left it abandoned many years ago. As such, I might be misunderstanding what you're asking for, but it looks like you got your wish fulfilled, as the changelog says:

Changelog (29 September 2025):

* You can now choose between playing the vanilla version of Gothic 2 without the DLC or a version with the DLC already baked in.
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Swedrami: Can't take a closer look right now, but I assume that's what that OpenGothic source port build is for?
Does it support all localisations or just the terribad English one?
Just did a test install, it's the English localisation only.
Which obviously is useless to the majority of the franchise's audience, that last I checked is in its country of origin, Germany (+ other German-speaking countries), as well as in Poland.

There are legacy 1.08k installers in German, Polish, Czech & English available in Gothic I's extras section, why not do the same with vanilla Gothic II sans the expansion too?
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So can this be considered "completed"? https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/gothic_ii_vanilla
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As soon as it's also available in German and Polish, at the very least, not before.
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AB2012: Just for you I logged into my PCGW account and pulled up the editorial revision history for the DAO page seeing what changed in 2024-2025 vs the previous 15 years people have been happily playing the game. Other than the single line "Set CPU core affinity to only two cores - This was applied to GOG.com version on November 13, 2024, reverted on November 27, 2024 and reinstated on December 4, 2024", that's GOG specific, there is no mention of such a required core affinity fix anywhere necessary for the millions of Steam, retail disc or pre-2024 GOG versions. In fact there's a reason why LAA, official patch 1.05, Awakening bug-fixes, etc, are all under the "Essential Improvement" section at the top whilst core affinity is way down the page.

Pulling up a pre-preservation DAO page from 2022, there's a small mention that 2-core affinity can help in some cases underneath a bolded disclaimer specifically stating "You will most likely not need to apply all the fixes below at the same time", basically telling people to only apply what they actually need as "over-tweaking" can cause problems (ie, what can fix the game for one PC can break another). Tweak guides have the luxury of being able to include all that information simultaneously - every potential fix - with the disclaimer "Try this, this or this but it may not work on all systems". But stores cannot "brute-force pre-tweak" every single tweak for everyone the same way because PC's still aren't consoles, and never will be...

If I "keep posting that", guess what - it's because it's a true statement of fact...
Thanks for this detailed comment! I'll give gog a link to it if they finally respond to my ticket.
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Syphon72: I wasn't jumping down anyone's throat in this thread at all. I’ve mentioned multiple times what I think GOG should do for users facing issues, but you keep overlooking that.
I didn't overlook it, in fact I literally responded to your comment : "Many people have reported that the game had issues running on Windows 10 before the update. Some users even mentioned that the GOG update made the game function properly on their hardware." pointing out that the bulk of that is the 4GB LAA patch. The next thing I knew you responded with some weird antagonistic "I know you, repeat this multiple times in different threads. Honestly I think so much it's just becoming a copy and pasted for you. Complete ignoring what I was saying as well." clearly being well & truly triggered by any mention of Dragon Age (just because you personally don't have a problem) as well as ignoring the fact literally replying & quoting what you said is the opposite of "ignoring".

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Syphon72: It's interesting how you can always be negative. If anyone is triggered, it seems to be you.
Good God, the 100% projection here is unreal. "Always negative" posts like this? Or maybe this one? No I'm sure it must be this one? Or maybe this one? The vast majority of posts I make involves helping others usually with technical issues. Not just this site but elsewhere. Over 800 of the fixes for old games on PCGW were edited by me without any thanks. All you ever seem to do is "forget" any such positive things people contribute, choose to see only the worst in people, and constantly falsely ascribe malicious intent to people getting frustrated with lack of fixes of various GOG problems. Your subtitle openly admits how you're happy to generalise the whole forum as haters despite there being many good / helpful people here on GOG that far outweigh the handful of trolls. Or that the worst of GOG forum pales in comparison to literal death threats on Steam, Roblox & Discord's sexual predator problem, Reddit's doxxing problem, etc, and the so called "worst negativity on Earth" of asking GOG to improve something they repeatedly ignore is being completely blown out of all sane proportion to a hysterical degree, but it's become oh so trendy to call everyone here a 'hater' for cheap likes...

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Syphon72: I've shared my negative thoughts about GOG multiple times, and I believe I’m allowed to disagree with others in these forms. Just like you.
I'm glad you posted that. So from now on if you get "tired" of "copy-paste" posts that are both on-topic and factually correct and simply committing the 'crime' of nudging GOG into remembering to fix an unfixed issue, then the solution is obvious - simply scroll past them without responding with the low-key passive-aggressive posts that you introduced in post #64 (and other topics too) as there was absolutely nothing "negative" whatsoever about the completely neutral tone of my first post in #59 that justified any snarky response or dishonest "you're always negative" responses from yourself. Have a good day as I'm done with this "exchange".

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RekontVerlon: Thanks for this detailed comment! I'll give gog a link to it if they finally respond to my ticket.
No worries. Not quite sure why that line was removed but it still stands true. It's recommended that things like core affinity be applied only if you actually need them (for obvious reason different people will have different hardware, plus even hard-coding it to your own hardware of today can break if you change hardware and need a "clean base" to start modding from).
Post edited September 30, 2025 by AB2012
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Time to archive more old installers in so many places that they can‘t get lost. While the preservation program is nice enough I really don‘t want to be stuck with these modified versions.
An option to download the unmodified versions would be appreciated.
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Thanks for adding esp language to Gothic, even the intro has voices in spanish.
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Nice ... we have a trollbot here who upvotes every single post. I wonder if GOG will do something to fight it.
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RekontVerlon: 2) The offline installers were simply removed before the update.
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foad01: They changed just one single file with their patch. DAOrigins.exe was changed. You can use Galaxy to get the old exe back. If you don't want to use Galaxy you can just use what I posted earlier.

To undo the patch without using Galaxy you can use a hex editor and change the following values

Read the table as offset - from - to

00000126: 22 02
00000168: B3 F8
00000169: EF 74
0000016A: 9B A2
0075A130: 03 00
0075A140: 00 30
0075A141: 00 EC
0075A142: 00 B8
0075A144: 04 0E
0075A145: 00 11

This restores the old DAOrigins.exe.

The MD5 value for the old version is 2bc572eed0fcb07d6bc3e6febaa7b49e

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/stop_this_madness_preservation_program_is_killing_games/post149
Isn't it a pity that the process of uploading ONE file apparently is too complicated for GOG to do? ;)
Post edited October 02, 2025 by MarkoH01
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Syphon72: I wasn't jumping down anyone's throat in this thread at all. I’ve mentioned multiple times what I think GOG should do for users facing issues, but you keep overlooking that.
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AB2012: I didn't overlook it, in fact I literally responded to your comment : "Many people have reported that the game had issues running on Windows 10 before the update. Some users even mentioned that the GOG update made the game function properly on their hardware." pointing out that the bulk of that is the 4GB LAA patch. The next thing I knew you responded with some weird antagonistic "I know you, repeat this multiple times in different threads. Honestly I think so much it's just becoming a copy and pasted for you. Complete ignoring what I was saying as well." clearly being well & truly triggered by any mention of Dragon Age (just because you personally don't have a problem) as well as ignoring the fact literally replying & quoting what you said is the opposite of "ignoring".

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Syphon72: It's interesting how you can always be negative. If anyone is triggered, it seems to be you.
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AB2012: Good God, the 100% projection here is unreal. "Always negative" posts like this? Or maybe this one? No I'm sure it must be this one? Or maybe this one? The vast majority of posts I make involves helping others usually with technical issues. Not just this site but elsewhere. Over 800 of the fixes for old games on PCGW were edited by me without any thanks. All you ever seem to do is "forget" any such positive things people contribute, choose to see only the worst in people, and constantly falsely ascribe malicious intent to people getting frustrated with lack of fixes of various GOG problems. Your subtitle openly admits how you're happy to generalise the whole forum as haters despite there being many good / helpful people here on GOG that far outweigh the handful of trolls. Or that the worst of GOG forum pales in comparison to literal death threats on Steam, Roblox & Discord's sexual predator problem, Reddit's doxxing problem, etc, and the so called "worst negativity on Earth" of asking GOG to improve something they repeatedly ignore is being completely blown out of all sane proportion to a hysterical degree, but it's become oh so trendy to call everyone here a 'hater' for cheap likes...

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Syphon72: I've shared my negative thoughts about GOG multiple times, and I believe I’m allowed to disagree with others in these forms. Just like you.
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AB2012: I'm glad you posted that. So from now on if you get "tired" of "copy-paste" posts that are both on-topic and factually correct and simply committing the 'crime' of nudging GOG into remembering to fix an unfixed issue, then the solution is obvious - simply scroll past them without responding with the low-key passive-aggressive posts that you introduced in post #64 (and other topics too) as there was absolutely nothing "negative" whatsoever about the completely neutral tone of my first post in #59 that justified any snarky response or dishonest "you're always negative" responses from yourself. Have a good day as I'm done with this "exchange".

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RekontVerlon: Thanks for this detailed comment! I'll give gog a link to it if they finally respond to my ticket.
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AB2012: No worries. Not quite sure why that line was removed but it still stands true. It's recommended that things like core affinity be applied only if you actually need them (for obvious reason different people will have different hardware, plus even hard-coding it to your own hardware of today can break if you change hardware and need a "clean base" to start modding from).
Weird how this post just now is showing up for me. You link to posts of you helping users to prove me wrong. I can post links of me helping people and not being form police like you called me. Guess we are both wrong then about each other. But You know what I was talking about when I said negative, I can tell you interpret things in you're own way.

And you said I'm the one trigger. Man o man
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Thanks for adding russian to Gothic.

Have you decided to lower your age? I understand, no one wants to get old.
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