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Posted March 20, 2025
With Spring Sale in full bloom, the GOG Preservation Program welcomes another round of newcomers! This time around, we’re ensuring that Silent Hill 4: The Room (-35%), F.E.A.R. Platinum (-80%) and 24 more games from legendary franchises remain playable in their best versions and are yours to keep forever.

GOG Preservation Program is our commitment to preserving gaming history. Through the program, players can trust that their games will always be up to date and ready to run on current and future PC setups. Whether it’s manuals, DLCs, or missing features, we’re offering the most complete version possible, backed by GOG’s tech support and offline installers, so you can safeguard these classics for years to come.

So, what’s new?
Posted March 21, 2025
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alexandros050: According to a recent GOG interview it seems they will release an old jrpg soon. People say it might be breath of Fire IV and GOG mentions that game alongside freelancer at the end of this video. So I guess there is a chance for Freelancer.
Maybe could be Grandia II Hd remaster? We will know soon.
Posted March 21, 2025
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GOG.com: With Spring Sale in full bloom, the GOG Preservation Program welcomes another round of newcomers! This time around, we’re ensuring that Silent Hill 4: The Room (-35%), F.E.A.R. Platinum (-80%) and 24 more games from legendary franchises remain playable in their best versions and are yours to keep forever.

GOG Preservation Program is our commitment to preserving gaming history. Through the program, players can trust that their games will always be up to date and ready to run on current and future PC setups. Whether it’s manuals, DLCs, or missing features, we’re offering the most complete version possible, backed by GOG’s tech support and offline installers, so you can safeguard these classics for years to come.

So, what’s new?
Please remove the DRM present in F.E.A.R. Platinum's mission packs and multiplayer.
Posted March 21, 2025
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Awesome. Downloading F.E.A.R 1 right now.
Posted March 21, 2025
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TheBigCore: Please remove the DRM present in F.E.A.R. Platinum's mission packs and multiplayer.
Would be nice to see. Until that happens I just use "fractures" with my copies, like in the old days. I be the uber geek :D
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Posted March 21, 2025
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OldFatGuy: (....)
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@Team!
Music! Clothes! Faces! News! Now you are here, with us, every month please, and refer to the forum occasionally.
GOOGy ^° Thank you for the face side of the company. You will recreate a lot of life and love that way : )
Posted March 21, 2025
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TheGrimLord: Not everyone is going to 11, mate. You're just being negative to be negative. There's no point in your post.
They could at least pick a better flavor of Dosbox (link) for what it's worth. One that's actually built for modern systems instead of last engineered for Windows XP.
Posted March 21, 2025
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I don't know about you guys, but "We made them live forever" is giving me some serious horror movie mad scientist vibes.
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Posted March 21, 2025
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PaterAlf: Does that mean you finally removed the remnant Securom files from F.E.A.R.?
No, it absolutely does not. Tested it yesterday. (See attachment).
For me this is another proof that this preservation program is not more than PR with a shiny seal.

@GOG: It also would be really nice if we could get other languages as well if you really want this to be the best version.
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PaterAlf: Does that mean you finally removed the remnant Securom files from F.E.A.R.?
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MarkoH01: No, it absolutely does not. Tested it yesterday. (See attachment).
For me this is another proof that this preservation program is not more than PR with a shiny seal.
Absolutely agree. I realized the same when they broke Dragon Age Origins. I think it still runs worse than before thanks to the new limitation of the CPU cores the game can use.
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Posted March 21, 2025
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Any word on when Fallout 2 Classic is going to receive the updated build too?
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funnyderek: Absolutely agree. I realized the same when they broke Dragon Age Origins. I think it still runs worse than before thanks to the new limitation of the CPU cores the game can use.
I really don't understand this. How many people it needs to report this limitation of the CPU cores for it to be removed? I've seen it in many threads that it cause problems and yet they still keep it and I have never seen this being mentioned as something that needs to be fixed in first place.
Posted March 21, 2025
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A more than questionable list. Some titles were frankly mediocre games at the time of release, and nothing has changed over time.
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funnyderek: Absolutely agree. I realized the same when they broke Dragon Age Origins. I think it still runs worse than before thanks to the new limitation of the CPU cores the game can use.
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Hirako__: I really don't understand this. How many people it needs to report this limitation of the CPU cores for it to be removed? I've seen it in many threads that it cause problems and yet they still keep it and I have never seen this being mentioned as something that needs to be fixed in first place.
Maybe removing SecuRom is particularly difficult in this case?

Wouldn't be suprised if it's actually Warner Bros who are actively stalling the removal, just out of pure spite.
Posted March 21, 2025
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Please highlight the restored content on the Silent Hill 4 page, if players seeing the page don't know about the changes they might be less inclined to give it a shot! Also, the GOG version of Mad Max has some previously online-only stuff which no longer works on Steam restored via offline play so that could be highlighted there as well.
Post edited March 21, 2025 by gordonfreeman1
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gordonfreeman1: Please highlight the restored content on the Silent Hill 4 page, if players seeing the page don't know about the changes they might be less inclined to give it a shot! Also, the GOG version of Mad Max has some previously online-only stuff which no longer works on Steam restored via offline play so that could be highlighted there as well.
That not enough?
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