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Posted July 29, 2015
Windows 10 is coming today!

With so many of us excited to jump on board the next big thing for Windows gaming, we want to share with you the latest update on game compatibility today, and our expectations for the future.

Overall, the entire process went better than expected. We're very happy with that fact, but we're still only getting started.

Today, roughly 85% of our library is labeled as compatible with Windows 10. These games were fully playable with no significant performance or graphical issues during our testing process and are ready to go right now. You can filter through Windows 10 games in our catalog, and the compatibility will be labeled on every game card.

Moving forward, we plan to continue our work to bring as many of the remaining games as possible over to the new OS. As new updates and features are released, we hope to see improved backward compatibility and new tools to work with, but it's always possible for new issues to come up along the way. If you do suspect that a game should not be labeled Windows 10 compatible, we'll appreciate your help in getting to the bottom of things, but you can always rely on your 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.

The most important thing to stress is that Windows 10 is a brand new operating system, and that means we're still in the middle of a transition period. The coming weeks or months may be rocky as the first wave of patches hits the OS, so we'll constantly monitor the situation to quickly put out any fires.







Help us improve our Windows 10 compatibility.
Windows 10 is still in its early days, and there's a myriad of hardware and software combinations out there - some of them potentially explosive. We want to give you the option to report any problems you have with Windows 10 and GOG.com games, and help us make the experience best for everyone. If you'd like to help us out, you can do so through our public Mantis bug tracker:

--Use your GOG.com credentials to log in.
--Make sure that you are browsing issues the Windows 10 Game Compatibility Issues project, as opposed to the GOG Galaxy Client project.
--You can change your project through the drop-down menu in the upper-right hand corner of the page.
--You can access the Report Issue section from the upper menu if you are redirected to the home page.
--Inside, you'll find more detailed instructions on how to help us out and submit your bug.







We've done our best to bring GOG.com to Windows 10 and we're happy with the results so far, but if you're having problems with a game that should be compatible - contact us! Every bit of info helps us and your 30 Day Money Back Guarantee is there if we can't help you in turn.
Posted July 30, 2015
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In case you're interested, here is the list of all games (except removed ones) that are currently not listed as supporting Windows 10. Much shorter than the complementary list (996 games that do support Windows 10). Impressive work, GOG.

[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=601&scp=gdspu&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbah&ord=&flt=onn~w10~&opt]http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=601&scp=gdspu&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbah&ord=&flt=onn~w10~&opt[/url]=
Posted July 30, 2015
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GODSPEEDseven: To anyone wondering, I've been using Windows 10 for quite a while, testing the different releases and such.. and, basically, if the game ran well in Windows 7 or 8, it will run the same in Windows 10. The platform used is pretty much the same, although they did a lot of technical behind-the-scene improvements. For most of us, that will change almost nothing.
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crabfish: Hi,

The difference between 7 and 8/8.1 was huge. Windows 8/8.1 has a issued direct draw emulation, so, old games, like Fallout tactics for example, run handicapped if it run at all.

Did you try any one of these in windows 10? Does this games run smoothly for you?

Thx.
Fallout 1, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics run just fine in Windows 8.1

No DDraw issues, at least on the gog.com copies. Now that Windows 8 has been out for 3 years or so, isn't it time to stop the FUD?
Posted July 30, 2015
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GOG.com: Windows 10 is coming today!

With so many of us excited to jump on board the next big thing for Windows gaming, we want to share with you the latest update on game compatibility today, and our expectations for the future.

Overall, the entire process went better than expected. We're very happy with that fact, but we're still only getting started.

Today, roughly 85% of our library is labeled as compatible with Windows 10. These games were fully playable with no significant performance or graphical issues during our testing process and are ready to go right now. You can filter through Windows 10 games in our catalog, and the compatibility will be labeled on every game card.
I believe people have been waiting for this announcement for like six months now. Myself, I wasn't so worried, but you sure took your sweet time to let us know.

How do we know as of now which games do NOT work on Windows 10? Instead of filtering which are guaranteed to work (which doesn't necessarily means all others won't work, I'm assuming the rest just wasn't tested).
Post edited July 30, 2015 by RafaelLVX
Posted July 30, 2015
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Cavalary: Basically same thing as always in software. Options = good. Decisions (not made by the user) = bad.
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Vestin: Uh... No. That's not true. That may superficially feel true, but it's not. Sometimes options are essential to a good user experience, sometimes a person is better off finding a different piece of software rather than customizing an ill-fitted tool for a given task, sometimes implementing alternatives is a waste of developer time that would be better spent on something else. What makes software good or bad are the decisions behind it. First of all - a decision to CREATE the program in the first place. Creating a set of options is also a decision, as is the set of options available. Want all the options and no decisions made for you? Write your own goddamn software. Nobody's stopping you.
Decisions can be good; decisions can be bad. Options can be helpful, yet they can also be quite superfluous. The Devil is in the detail.
That may be the case when you have a field with hundreds of little pieces of software out there doing similar things in slightly different ways, and where a small team or a person writes a program largely for their own use and releases it as is and free in case others like it too, but on a market with as few options as general use operating systems (also with gaming in mind at that), where the piece of software is intended for billions of people with wildly different needs and preferences and skill levels, even more so if made by a huge corporation with massive resources and the software is also paid, a huge array of options is a must. Or should be.
Defaults that are good enough for the majority of casual users, perhaps tailored more for those with less knowledge/skill if it can be done without taking away from the others, sure, but provide the rest with the possibility to easily tailor the experience to their preferences and needs, adapt the software to them and not the other way around, obviously also offering detailed documentation to let them learn exactly how to make the most of said options.
Posted July 30, 2015
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mrkgnao: In case you're interested, here is the list of all games (except removed ones) that are currently not listed as supporting Windows 10. Much shorter than the complementary list (996 games that do support Windows 10). Impressive work, GOG.

[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=601&scp=gdspu&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbah&ord=&flt=onn~w10~&opt]http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=601&scp=gdspu&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbah&ord=&flt=onn~w10~&opt[/url]=
Link broken on my end. What is this site about?
Posted July 30, 2015
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mrkgnao: In case you're interested, here is the list of all games (except removed ones) that are currently not listed as supporting Windows 10. Much shorter than the complementary list (996 games that do support Windows 10). Impressive work, GOG.

[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=601&scp=gdspu&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbah&ord=&flt=onn~w10~&opt]http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=601&scp=gdspu&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbah&ord=&flt=onn~w10~&opt[/url]=
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RafaelLVX: Link broken on my end. What is this site about?
Interesting.

I checked the website's availability from different places around the world and it all seems fine, except for access from Sao Paulo (which fails), so there might be some internet problem somewhere between Brazil and Canada (where the website resides). Hope it resolves soon.

Anyhow, the link is a MaGog search for GOG games that do not yet support Windows 10 (currently, 200 games/DLCs).

P.S. Do you know which DNS server you use?
Post edited July 30, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted July 30, 2015
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RafaelLVX: Link broken on my end. What is this site about?
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mrkgnao: Interesting.

I checked the website's availability from different places around the world and it all seems fine, except for access from Sao Paulo (which fails), so there might be some internet problem somewhere between Brazil and Canada (where the website resides). Hope it resolves soon.

Anyhow, the link is a MaGog search for GOG games that do not yet support Windows 10 (currently, 200 games/DLCs).

P.S. Do you know which DNS server you use?
I don't know Magog, but the list is working now. Wow, this is confusing but it sure looks like a kind of a cool GOG search filtering? How come this is on some other site?

By the way I had no idea most games on GOG are regionally priced only for Russia, where they charge less. Interesting.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by RafaelLVX
Posted July 30, 2015
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GODSPEEDseven: To anyone wondering, I've been using Windows 10 for quite a while, testing the different releases and such.. and, basically, if the game ran well in Windows 7 or 8, it will run the same in Windows 10. The platform used is pretty much the same, although they did a lot of technical behind-the-scene improvements. For most of us, that will change almost nothing.
That is good news indeed. That was my concern that I wasn't smart enough to think about when the update button asked me if I wanted the upgrade for free.Of course I want it for free. Why would I ever want to pay for windows? lol
Posted July 30, 2015
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mrkgnao: Interesting.

I checked the website's availability from different places around the world and it all seems fine, except for access from Sao Paulo (which fails), so there might be some internet problem somewhere between Brazil and Canada (where the website resides). Hope it resolves soon.

Anyhow, the link is a MaGog search for GOG games that do not yet support Windows 10 (currently, 200 games/DLCs).

P.S. Do you know which DNS server you use?
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RafaelLVX: I don't know Magog, but the list is working now. Wow, this is confusing but it sure looks like a kind of a cool GOG search filtering? How come this is on some other site?

By the way I had no idea most games on GOG are regionally priced only for Russia, where they charge less. Interesting.
MaGog is a search engine that I wrote, simply because GOG's search engine is somewhat lacking.

It collects information from GOG (every 6 hours) and allows one to search it in a million-and-one different ways (many find it too complex).

The search engine is here: http://www.an-ovel.com/pages/magog.php

Its thread is here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/magog_a_search_engine_for_gog_games

Major changes it detects in game pages and files are regularly reported here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread

Changes it detects in game prices (primarily regional pricing) are regularly reported here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates

Finally, the directory of public wishlists is here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_directory_of_public_wishlists

P.S. Yes, 1,099 GOG games are regionally discounted in Russia and other ex-Soviet republic (mean discount 61%). By comparison, in Brazil and the rest of South & Central America, 84 GOG games are regionally discounted (mean discount 27%).
Posted July 30, 2015
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RafaelLVX: I don't know Magog, but the list is working now. Wow, this is confusing but it sure looks like a kind of a cool GOG search filtering? How come this is on some other site?

By the way I had no idea most games on GOG are regionally priced only for Russia, where they charge less. Interesting.
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mrkgnao: MaGog is a search engine that I wrote, simply because GOG's search engine is somewhat lacking.

It collects information from GOG (every 6 hours) and allows one to search it in a million-and-one different ways (many find it too complex).

The search engine is here: http://www.an-ovel.com/pages/magog.php

Its thread is here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/magog_a_search_engine_for_gog_games

Major changes it detects in game pages and files are regularly reported here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread

Changes it detects in game prices (primarily regional pricing) are regularly reported here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates

Finally, the directory of public wishlists is here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_directory_of_public_wishlists

P.S. Yes, 1,099 GOG games are regionally discounted in Russia and other ex-Soviet republic (mean discount 61%). By comparison, in Brazil and the rest of South & Central America, 84 GOG games are regionally discounted (mean discount 27%).
I see. Your work is impressive.

About discounts in Brazil, I could see it now too, and I simply had no idea there was a single game with regional pricing for Brazil on GOG. I had the impression all regional pricing was the same, something along the lines of "every 10 dollar game sells for 10 euro in all Europe". I recall complains about unfair pricing along with promises of "fairness" that would come in the way of store credit for those who buy at a disadvantage, which means I know shit.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Cavalary: (...) a huge array of options is a must. Or should be.
Defaults that are good enough for the majority of casual users (...)
A few assumptions are necessary to fit both of these claims together.
I need what I need, and I want what I want, but I understand that if there isn't enough demand, that might not make a difference.
On a positive note, when it comes to operating systems, one can customize their Linux distro to the their heart's content... Not to mention the fact that variety already exists in the number and intricacies of distros... Still - some claim that the abundance of choice is actually a weakness when it comes to trying to convert people into the ways of Linux...
Frankly - the operating system should just not get in the way. I want to run my programs, and it's supposed to facilitate that.
I'd love to just blindly echo your sentiment and claim that options are amazing, but that's just too vague. WHAT options? Sometimes things can just be made better. Sometimes even the users themselves don't get what would be better for them and would rather stick to an inferior yet familiar workflow... It's all complicated. One can't just round all of this off with "more options". It's not like if someone at Microsoft woke up one day and suggested during a meeting "we need more options" people would cheer, get to work, and implement "Windows Options". It's a slogan, not a panaceum.
Posted July 30, 2015
Again, for the new readers to this topic, I would very much like to point out that Windows 10 is the SAME as Windows 7 and 8.1, but incorporates the new Start Menu hybrid, it works fabulous. Everything runs EXACTLY the same. Total War Attila and GTA V were the only games that ran slightly slower, due to the un-optimized drivers.. and that was a few releases ago during the Insider Technical Preview.. since I got the full release about 1 week ago, everything is running the same as it did with a fully updated and stable Windows 8.1.. and that was REALLY stable and smooth.

As the Borg like to say...

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Posted July 30, 2015
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Maighstir: Then again, a pure-CLI Windows (that thus had no windows) would be a contradiction, wouldn't it?
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IAmSinistar: Not necessarily. You can use a curses library like ncurses or pdcurses to emulate windows. There's no technology so advanced that it can't be downported to the commandline. ;)
That line was mostly a joke based on the name of the OS though.
Posted July 30, 2015
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Cavalary: (...) a huge array of options is a must. Or should be.
Defaults that are good enough for the majority of casual users (...)
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Vestin: A few assumptions are necessary to fit both of these claims together.
I need what I need, and I want what I want, but I understand that if there isn't enough demand, that might not make a difference.
On a positive note, when it comes to operating systems, one can customize their Linux distro to the their heart's content... Not to mention the fact that variety already exists in the number and intricacies of distros... Still - some claim that the abundance of choice is actually a weakness when it comes to trying to convert people into the ways of Linux...
Frankly - the operating system should just not get in the way. I want to run my programs, and it's supposed to facilitate that.
I'd love to just blindly echo your sentiment and claim that options are amazing, but that's just too vague. WHAT options? Sometimes things can just be made better. Sometimes even the users themselves don't get what would be better for them and would rather stick to an inferior yet familiar workflow... It's all complicated. One can't just round all of this off with "more options". It's not like if someone at Microsoft woke up one day and suggested during a meeting "we need more options" people would cheer, get to work, and implement "Windows Options". It's a slogan, not a panaceum.
How's that for external validation, eh? If not enough others want the same, you don't matter... And how do you define "enough"? Seem to be plenty bothered by the forced updates at least... Or, moving to some other major and extremely used software, there's the current WordPress issue, with the Customizer added to core in 4.3 and replacing the existing methods despite overwhelming negative user reactions, the official response being just that users need to be educated enough to realized it's the right and better choice. Talk about condescending.
As for "Sometimes even the users themselves don't get what would be better for them and would rather stick to an inferior yet familiar workflow..." Well, let them then. It's their choice, should be their right to make it. When a "new way" is included, also allow the old one to still be selected, with a one-time selection, no need to keep changing of course. Those who strongly prefer the new way can stick to it, those who strongly prefer the old can switch to it from the get go and never look at the new again, the rest may switch between every so often and make up their minds later, or just use the old way for a while till they feel comfortable enough with the new.
And the operating system should also let you control and monitor your system. Also tend to say let you perform some common activities without the need for 3rd party software, and that it does, but control and monitor first (and this part also goes for antimalware solutions, which REALLY should once again make a main purpose of this).
Posted July 30, 2015
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GODSPEEDseven: Again, for the new readers to this topic, I would very much like to point out that Windows 10 is the SAME as Windows 7 and 8.1, but incorporates the new Start Menu hybrid, it works fabulous. Everything runs EXACTLY the same. Total War Attila and GTA V were the only games that ran slightly slower, due to the un-optimized drivers.. and that was a few releases ago during the Insider Technical Preview.. since I got the full release about 1 week ago, everything is running the same as it did with a fully updated and stable Windows 8.1.. and that was REALLY stable and smooth.

As the Borg like to say...

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Surprise surprise:
Windows 10 is a freaking privacy disaster
Jupiter Broadcasting, Tech Talk Today, Episode 198

Changing the privacy policy a few days after release (kicks in on saturday to be exact) is a nicely diabolical plan, M$. ;)
Just shows how important the mandatory updates are, makes changing the rules so much easier.
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