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Posted March 31, 2015
Home on the front.

<span class="bold">Act of War: Gold Edition</span>, a 2005 RTS wonder, is available now DRM-free on GOG.com!


<span class="bold">Act of War: Gold Edition</span> is a sleeper-hit real time strategy game written by well known author and veteran Dale Brown. The terrorists have made their way onto US soil, and you're in charge of a new direct action operations group known as Task Force TALON. Your only resource here is money, but you'll have to look in various places to maintain a steady flow - that includes extracting oil, capturing POWs, and even the occasional bank raid (for the greater good). <span class="bold">Act of War Gold Edition</span> features fully destructible environments, gameplay that will force you out of your unit-spam habit, and plenty of live-action cutscenes for some real well written camp.

This Gold Edition pack includes the Act of War: High Treason expansion pack set three years after the events in the base game. Aside from a brand new campaign, the expansion introduces two new skirmish modes, battles at sea and 50+ new units with plenty of graphics and gameplay improvements.


Defend your home front in <span class="bold">Act of War Gold Edition</span> is available now for Windows, DRM-free on GOG.com!
Posted March 31, 2015
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ShadowOwl: Awwwww, too bad, was looking around to fiddle around with that thing.
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JudasIscariot: Sorry :(

Basically, this game was one of our most troublesome ones and it's a miracle we were able to get it to work.
No wonder since game doesn't wan't to play if you have more then 2GBs of ram and a multiple core cpu :) Obviously I have a non functioning retail version :)
Post edited March 31, 2015 by Matruchus
Posted March 31, 2015
GoG are the best, fixing the game to work for modern machines with lots of RAM. Hell yeah!
Posted March 31, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Basically, this game was one of our most troublesome ones and it's a miracle we were able to get it to work.
I can imagine ... so, you were finally able to fix the RAM bug with modern Windows OS, where you had to limit the RAM to 2 GB?

Was this your own solution or did you use the fixed "d3d9.dll" which showed up about two years ago?
Posted March 31, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Basically, this game was one of our most troublesome ones and it's a miracle we were able to get it to work.
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Harzzach: I can imagine ... so, you were finally able to fix the RAM bug with modern Windows OS, where you had to limit the RAM to 2 GB?

Was this your own solution or did you use the fixed "d3d9.dll" which showed up about two years ago?
I am not sure if we used that .DLL as I don't deal with the technical side of these things.

If we did use that DLL and it solved our problems then we would've released the game two years ago instead of now :)

As far as I know, we used our own solution for the memory issue :)
Posted March 31, 2015
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ShadowOwl: Awwwww, too bad, was looking around to fiddle around with that thing.
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JudasIscariot: Sorry :(

Basically, this game was one of our most troublesome ones and it's a miracle we were able to get it to work.
Indeed. I've seen AoW for sale in other shops with the warning that 64-bit PCs can't run AoW. If you folks got it working that's great. I might buy it after Windows 10 is out and it's proven that it works on that OS.
Posted March 31, 2015
Okay I now have this on disc and in here. I'm safe.

I also have this HUGE Prima guide and a shit load of maps and charts the discs came with so I'm set. :D
Posted March 31, 2015
Great release. More Atari titles more happiness.
Posted March 31, 2015
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JudasIscariot: If we did use that DLL and it solved our problems then we would've released the game two years ago instead of now :)
Yeah, probably :)
Thnx for the answer ...
Post edited March 31, 2015 by Harzzach
Posted March 31, 2015
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Harzzach: I can imagine ... so, you were finally able to fix the RAM bug with modern Windows OS, where you had to limit the RAM to 2 GB?

Was this your own solution or did you use the fixed "d3d9.dll" which showed up about two years ago?
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JudasIscariot: I am not sure if we used that .DLL as I don't deal with the technical side of these things.

If we did use that DLL and it solved our problems then we would've released the game two years ago instead of now :)

As far as I know, we used our own solution for the memory issue :)
Two years!?!?!!

https://youtu.be/WFNEgdwjEhs
Posted March 31, 2015
More RTS goodness? Tasty! :)

Unlike with shooters, when it comes to the tactical genere I love to madness military games! Maybe even too much, considering the time I'm spending on them lately (Silent Storm and Commandos kidnapped my last six months).

I will defintely pick it up at some point! High priority for this one! :)

P.S. My only concern when wayching the screenshots: two or more helicopters side by side in an urban area? That screams "tragedy"...

Edited for typos, as always.
Post edited March 31, 2015 by Enebias
Posted March 31, 2015
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Enebias: More RTS goodness? Tasty! :)

Unlike with shooters, when it comes to the tactical genere I love to madness military games! Maybe even too much, considering the time I'm spending on them lately (Silent Storm and Commandos kidnapped my last six months).

I will defintely pick it up at some point! High priority for this one! :)

P.S. My only concern when wayching the screenshots: two or more helicopters side by side in an urban area? That screams "tragedy"...

Edited for typos, as always.
I love this one especially, and this is really minor, because there are a couple of missions that require you to "soften up" landing zones. By that I mean you just beat the hell out of the beach so when your troops show up there is nothing left to shoot at them. :P The original AOE had a few of these and as minor as it is, I just love using ships and artillery to obliterate coastal defenses. XD
Posted March 31, 2015
Now if they would only grace us with Ghostbusters.
Posted March 31, 2015
Does the game run in a window by any chance? How well does it run on a computer with more than 2GB RAM?
Posted March 31, 2015
OMGOMGOMGIFEELLIKEHALFLINGSPEAKINGWITHOUTSPACESOMGOMGOMGIMONTHEHYPETRAIN! Choo-choo!

Seriously, GoG, thank you very much, I've been looking for this game a lot (well, the one in working condition), and you manage to deliver! Again! For hell if I know what time. Pure awesomeness. Woo-hoo!
Sorry, can't express my feeling better. :D

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IronArcturus: Does the game run in a window by any chance? How well does it run on a computer with more than 2GB RAM?
Yes, it works in window (only causes some windows theme-related message) and works fine on PC with more than 2 GB RAM. I only launched it and played a bit, but it works.
Posted March 31, 2015
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IronArcturus: Does the game run in a window by any chance? How well does it run on a computer with more than 2GB RAM?
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RudyLis: Yes, it works in window (only causes some windows theme-related message) and works fine on PC with more than 2 GB RAM. I only launched it and played a bit, but it works.
Thanks for the info!
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