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Posted June 26, 2018
I know I'm a minority but some of us still may have either XP or Vista machines for playing old games or just a dedicated PC for playing, and I have noticed that some releases aren't providing the exact info about the OS where a game can be run.

For sure there are more published games than not, since 2014(?) on, that cannot run in something older than Win 7 or that they need 64-bit OS but there are other games which can and they should be updated in the site. This is particularly important since GOG offers a search filter by OS.

For example Into the Breach is able to run in Vista but I had to look at St...(not to be mentioned) and even to the info of the devs. I have seen the release of Shivers -a 1995 game- which has as minimum requirements 7,8,10 and I suspect that it can run even on XP. Cultist Simulator can run on XP and later (except Vista as said by the developers). Probably there will be more examples. I don't want or need to look at the dev site in order to make a decision about a sale but it should be enough at the GOG site.

Please GOG, don't be lazy with the info on compatibility and provide the right one.
Post edited June 26, 2018 by sergtomas
Posted June 26, 2018
How often do you come across this issue while playing games?

Regardless, I hope GoG sees and fixes this.
Posted June 26, 2018
Complete guess here, but I suspect it has something to do with MS declaring the end of support for those older OSes. Which should actually make compatibility testing easier in some regards, since those OSes are no longer moving targets. The downside is that hardware still IS a moving target, which can make some OS / hardware combos impossible to resolve. Maybe that's why they aren't giving official blessing on those older OSes.

Again, a guess.
Posted June 26, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: Complete guess here, but I suspect it has something to do with MS declaring the end of support for those older OSes. Which should actually make compatibility testing easier in some regards, since those OSes are no longer moving targets. The downside is that hardware still IS a moving target, which can make some OS / hardware combos impossible to resolve. Maybe that's why they aren't giving official blessing on those older OSes.

Again, a guess.
Steam just announced a cutoff for XP, didn't they?

Do we have an actual date?
Posted June 26, 2018
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sergtomas: I know I'm a minority but some of us still may have either XP or Vista machines for playing old games or just a dedicated PC for playing, and I have noticed that some releases aren't providing the exact info about the OS where a game can be run.
Both XP and Vista have been dropped ages ago by Microsoft, so GOG can't really promise customers that even their older games, that were originally programmed for the systems, will run, as if they don't, GOG can't really do anything to that, as it would be on the hands of the developers of either the game or the OS to fix it.
Posted June 26, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: Complete guess here, but I suspect it has something to do with MS declaring the end of support for those older OSes. Which should actually make compatibility testing easier in some regards, since those OSes are no longer moving targets. The downside is that hardware still IS a moving target, which can make some OS / hardware combos impossible to resolve. Maybe that's why they aren't giving official blessing on those older OSes.

Again, a guess.
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tinyE: Steam just announced a cutoff for XP, didn't they?

Do we have an actual date?
Another thread mentions a date, but I don't use Steam so that specific info whooshed over my head. Thought it was something-something 2019.
Posted June 26, 2018
Keep in mind that GOG's mission is to get old games to run on new hardware and operating systems and that they will make changes to those games if necessary which can break compatibility with originally supported OSs.

That's why GOG can't and won't include e.g. XP in the OS list, unless they actively support it. They don't test compatibility and won't offer support if it doesn't work. So a ton of games might still work on XP despite it not being mentioned, but you won't get the confirmation you'd like because it would mean liability on GOG's end.
Posted June 26, 2018
higurashi visual novel works on xp, so does lego star wars complete saga work on xp.
I rather trust some other sites for supported os than gog except when it comes to fallout 3 i think they broke xp compability which can be made to work on xp again with a patch that you can find on the net

Oh and mangagamer only mentioned vista for higurashi chapter 6 while steam still says xp. I bought it on gog and tested running the VN and it works.
Post edited June 26, 2018 by Fonzer
Posted June 26, 2018
No need to censor the Steam word. We won't bite you.

Unfortunately for you, GOG no longer supports XP or Vista. As a result, they don't mention it in the requirements. What's more, they have been slowly removing it from the requirements of older games.
Posted June 26, 2018
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sergtomas: I know I'm a minority but some of us still may have either XP or Vista machines for playing old games or just a dedicated PC for playing, and I have noticed that some releases aren't providing the exact info about the OS where a game can be run.

For sure there are more published games than not, since 2014(?) on, that cannot run in something older than Win 7 or that they need 64-bit OS but there are other games which can and they should be updated in the site. This is particularly important since GOG offers a search filter by OS.

For example Into the Breach is able to run in Vista but I had to look at St...(not to be mentioned) and even to the info of the devs. I have seen the release of Shivers -a 1995 game- which has as minimum requirements 7,8,10 and I suspect that it can run even on XP. Cultist Simulator can run on XP and later (except Vista as said by the developers). Probably there will be more examples. I don't want or need to look at the dev site in order to make a decision about a sale but it should be enough at the GOG site.

Please GOG, don't be lazy with the info on compatibility and provide the right one.
As a couple others have noted, GOG doesn't test for compatibility on older OSes no longer supported by MS. So they won't guarantee that games will run on something like XP. They may run, but GOG won't test for or support it, so they won't list it. If you're using an outdated OS like XP which is no longer receiving support from MS, the onus is on you to find out if a game may run on your system. Sucks, but that's the reality.
Posted June 26, 2018
You'd probably have a better chance of getting them to provide the original versions of the games than getting them to provide info on if their modified games run on older Operating Systems
Post edited June 26, 2018 by DosFreak
Posted June 26, 2018
Even with your complaints in mind, you have to keep in mind that GOG only has the people and hours of a small company and cannot test a game on so many configurations and operating systems, especially ones in the MOE for usage.

As such, GOG cannot feasibly provide support for those systems, moreso now that they've been discontinued, seeing as Vista left extended support a year ago. It is dead as can be, in terms of operating systems.
Posted June 28, 2018
I am pretty sure that in one of those past threads about XP compatibility it has been said by a blue/support that GOG does not even have an XP machine in their offices anymore to test those games for XP compatibility.
Post edited June 29, 2018 by MarkoH01
Posted June 29, 2018
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MarkoH01: I am pretty sure that in one of those past threads about XP compatibility it has been said by a blue/support that GOG does not even have a XP machine in their offices anymore to test those games for XP compatibility.
... GOG does not even have an XP machine ...
Posted June 29, 2018
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sergtomas: I have seen the release of Shivers -a 1995 game- which has as minimum requirements 7,8,10 and I suspect that it can run even on XP.
Shivers is ScummVM apparently so you're better off checking if new releases of that are XP compatible.
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