Hi all,

Background: I have seen a lot of user issues/problems with Win10 and GOG games coming to the forums and quite often GOG is not fixing them or not aiding.

This made me search a bit the web and I found an interesting paragraph in the EULA for WIN 10:

(iv) work around any technical restrictions or limitations in the software;

out of:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/UseTerms_Retail_Windows_10_English.htm

Is this maybe the reason why GOG hesitates to assist?

Why am I saying it?

MS did already say so in the past that certain problems are limitations of the software, not implemented or similar and are not willing to get a patch out for it.

And as the EULA even goes even a step further:

reserve all rights not expressly granted.....

(and they do not grant you anything)

IMHO MS could always declare anything a paragraph 2 c IV problem according to this EULA and get a cease and desist letter against GOG (or similar). And it is a pain in the you know where and cost a lot of money going against those.

This would even include other useful tools which a lot of us are using on a daily basis.

just wanted to see what others are thinking about.

The Win 7 Eula had the same clause (and I assume the older version of Windows are no different, but I'm not going to check) so, uhm, no?

Maybe they're simply still figuring out how to deal with all the new compatibility issues?

I think they're so busy they don't have time to create fixes, unfortunately. Look how many games are coming out these days.

However, store pages state whether GOG officially supports a game on Windows 10, and if a page says W10 is supported but Support can't help you get the game running on your specific machine, you can get a refund.

I have 262 GOG games and I have run 10 since alpha, and prior to that 8.1 and 8..

I have between 8.1 and 10 installed and tested every game i own.. only a small few didn't work but i was able to get them working with a little google-fu

glide wrapped games were the sore spot for awhile but a new wrapper helped a lot... another issue was getting DirectDraw to play nice but M$ fixed that in a patch. I will never go back, i love 10 so much... the only other OS i run is ReactOS as its an Xp clone that runs nearly all XP software and will support Galaxy next release.

As for the clause, just about every piece of software has something with like wording.