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If Vast Machinations Maturate, Sow Sin

Enjoy The 11th Hour, blockbuster sequel to the gripping horror adventure game The 7th Guest, today on GOG.com for just $9.99!

60 years have passed since the seven guests arrived at Stauf’s Mansion and never departed, and many have stopped believing in the horrors that lie within the deranged toymaker’s house. You play as Carl Denning, Jr., an investigative reporter whose producer Robin Morales has vanished while investigating the house. When you receive a computer that plays a video showing that Robin has been captured and is terrified of what is going to happen to her, you do the responsible thing, call the police, and hope for the best.

No, of course you don’t. That would make The 11th Hour a very short and terribly uninteresting game. Instead, you hop on your motorcycle, travel to Harley-on-the-Hudson, and enter the terrifying mansion yourself, braving the horrors within to rescue Robin from Stauf’s clutches.

Featuring the same puzzle-based gameplay, creepy music, and FMV sequences that made The 7th Guest such a smash hit, The 11th Hour features an all-new game engine that showcases improved visuals and audio to make the game even more unsettling than before. As you venture through the house, old ghosts may come back to haunt you while you puzzle your way through new, fiendishly difficult locations throughout the ruins of the Stauf mansion.

You may have noticed that it took us a little while to get this game off our “coming soon” section of the catalog; remastering it to deal with some of the difficulties in getting it to run on Windows 7 wasn't easy, but good things are worth the wait and our exclusive fix means you should be able to run the game without any hassle.

If you’re a fan of puzzles, great adventure games, or getting a nearly-terminal case of the wilies, pick up The 11th Hour today on GOG.com with the soundtrack, script, making-of video, and other great goodies for only $9.99!

(In case you were wondering, our headline is an anagram for “Stauf’s Mansion Awaits Another Victim!”)
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RafaelLopez: And here I was thinking this was already on the site for a while now. Why wait so long after 7th guest?
The 7th Guest was only released into the GOG wilds a month ago, so not that long a wait.
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RafaelLopez: And here I was thinking this was already on the site for a while now. Why wait so long after 7th guest?

Anyway, it's a real blockbuster. I wish I had played this back in the days.
"You may have noticed that it took us a little while to get this game off our “coming soon” section of the catalog; remastering it to deal with some of the difficulties in getting it to run on Windows 7 wasn't easy, but good things are worth the wait and our exclusive fix means you should be able to run the game without any hassle."

Quoted from release notes above.
Doing overtime to pay the bills, once I have the money I think I'll have a GOG version of the 11th hour to replace my original CDs
I'm getting a buffer error that sends me back to windows 7 over and over.... The game works but after playing for 10 mins or less I always end up getting the error.

Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks!!
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Roman5: Speaking of that, what exactly DID the team do to make the game run on Win7 Better?

I don't need specific details but hearing some general info would satisfy my curiosity :)
The game worked too fast on some configurations/ modern systems, and we fixed this bug.

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Tenar: I'm getting a buffer error that sends me back to windows 7 over and over.... The game works but after playing for 10 mins or less I always end up getting the error.

Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks!!
Write to support, guys should help you.
Post edited March 09, 2012 by Coala
I joined GOG for this game, for the memories!

I'm finding the in-game music is much louder than the voices, anyone know how to change this setting? I read in the PDF manual supplied with the download that the right and left arrow keys should do it, but that seems to be non-functioning. Somehow, I've now lost the in-game music but have music and voice everywhere else in the game, I've tried a reinstallation but and the problem persists.
Not going to buy this unless it goes on a sale.

The 7th Guest is scary already. :'-(
I'm curious how gog.com manages to get the game to work on Windows 7. My mother had bought a copy of the game from a Goodwills' store, but has been unable to get it to work. Nothing against this website, but I really don't want to have to buy another copy online just because of a better installer. Is there anything that can be done? Any advice or recommendations so my mother can enjoy The 11th Hour like she did previously enjoy The 7th Guest?

P.S. She beat the unholy virus puzzle without the use of a guide or walkthrough. That deserves at least something.
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BionicTaffy: I'm curious how gog.com manages to get the game to work on Windows 7. My mother had bought a copy of the game from a Goodwills' store, but has been unable to get it to work. Nothing against this website, but I really don't want to have to buy another copy online just because of a better installer. Is there anything that can be done? Any advice or recommendations so my mother can enjoy The 11th Hour like she did previously enjoy The 7th Guest?
11th Hour had apparently both DOS and Windows versions, at least according to MobyGames.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/11th-hour

I am unsure which version the GOG version is (or the one your mother bought), or whether both versions are included in the same CDs, but for the DOS version I presume installing and running it from DOSBox should do the trick. Whether your mother is able to do that by herself (is she familiar with DOS gaming on the whole), I have no idea.

Maybe the subforum below knows which version the GOG version is, DOS or Windows.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_7th_guest_series/#1339572358
Post edited June 13, 2012 by timppu
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timppu: 11th Hour had apparently both DOS and Windows versions, at least according to MobyGames.
It did. Most of the retail copies in the US were DOS versions, but Trilobyte released a beta DirectX based Windows version of the main game executable a few years later through the internet. Presumably, this same program was included in later re-releases.
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BionicTaffy: I'm curious how gog.com manages to get the game to work on Windows 7. My mother had bought a copy of the game from a Goodwills' store, but has been unable to get it to work. Nothing against this website, but I really don't want to have to buy another copy online just because of a better installer. Is there anything that can be done? Any advice or recommendations so my mother can enjoy The 11th Hour like she did previously enjoy The 7th Guest?

P.S. She beat the unholy virus puzzle without the use of a guide or walkthrough. That deserves at least something.
Keep in mind that part of what GOG does is wraps these old games in a DOSbox shell (or similar emulator software as needed) in order to get them to run on current systems. I have an original copy of the 11th hour, but I bought the GOG download specifically so I can run it on Windows 7 - and it does work!
Nice release, though not personally interested.

Btw, I hear this (and the first game) have a really good OST. True?