I was so excited to see Lands of Lore on GOG and would have bought straight away but for one little thing. GOG lists minimum requirements as Win XP or Vista. Is someone able to confirm this will run on Win7 64 bit. Throne of Chaos is one of my old time favorites particularly the full talky version

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Both my laptop and desktop run Windows 7 64 bit and I can confirm that Lands of Lore runs perfectly on them both. I haven't really touched Lands of Lore 2 much other than starting it up just to see if it works, and it does. Hopefully there isn't anything down the road that would cause problems, but I think it's safe to assume there won't be.

Hope this Helps!

Yes, I can confirm, both games runs perfectly on Win 7 64 bit.

Also running both on Win7 64 fine here

HeyPamina,
I got the say problem as you. My maching states specifically that the gane is not compatible with a 64 bit system, so I have no idea why everyone else is saying it works on their 64 bit system.

Are you running the game from the shortcut that the installer created?

The Gog version runs fine on Win7x64--I'm running LoL1&2 without difficulty on WIn7x64. You, however, apparently are running the original LoL from CD which installed via a 16-bit installer that *is not* compatible with Win7x64. You need the GoG version for Vistax64/Win7x64 support. Again, the *original* LoL uses a 16-bit installer which *will not* run under Win7x64--you *must* buy the GoG version to run it under x64 OSes.

GOG uses DOXBox for running the game.

DOSBox is free.

If you have the CD-ROM, you can also use DOSBox to run it.

Edit: Just found out that ScummVM also supports Lands of Lore 1. Cool beans! I actually don't know if GOG uses ScummVM or DOSBox....

It uses Dosbox, however the GOG version can also easily be used with ScummVM, the big game.dat file is actually just an iso image of the CD, so you can just open it in any program that can extract iso-files (I used 7zip, which is free) and extract the files and then you can just point ScummVM to the DATA directory. Runs perfectly on pretty much every existing system out there old and new :)

No, I am not running it from a CD. I am trying to run the GOG version.

You are using the shortcut GOG created, right? Not doing something silly like navigating to the game folder and running lol.exe or whatever?

Yes, and as the Gog version does not come from Gog on a CD, it was natural to assume she might've been using the original version of the game--which, yes, would run under DOSbox--but it won't run natively under Winx64 because Winx64 won't even run 16-bit Windows installers natively--have to VM to get those to work. DOSbox if anything is easier these days...

OK, as the game ships from Gog, it comes pre-installed to run under DOSbox, which is supplied with the game when you buy it. Navigate to your Windows start menu and look under Programs for Gog.com, and inside you'll find a folder for "Lands of Lore 1 and 2" and inside that you'll find the icons for running the Lol1 and the Lol2 executables. They should run for you as installed by the Gog installer--but be sure and run the programs from the Start menu and not from the directories in which you have installed the games--for some reason known only to Gog their DOSbox games will not run from the DOSbox configuration program icon in the same directory as the LOL executable itself--you have to go through the Start menu. I suggest this for you because it is the easiest way to run the game and it ought to work ROOB.

For some reason--I'd assumed you were originally trying to run the non-Gog initial version of the game from CD. Don't know where I got that idea from...;) Probably it was a late hour...Good luck!

Ok, as it happens, I gave up on Widows sometime after I posted this, after Windows 7 and all their version of Windows after XP were never backwards compatible. Microsoft also made sure that when XP users eventually have to get a new computer, and from what I have read, there are still a lot of XP users, they won't be able to use XP anymore.

This is the thanks Microsoft gives its customers who have gave Microsoft a monopoly in the computer industry. Although I have been hearing that Windows 8 is a lot more backwards compatible than Vista or 7 ever were.

Just got fed up with WIndows altogether. All email now also stays online. Im sorry, I don't like that. I like my email stored on MY hard drive, and not floating out there in cyberspace. The only program of Microsoft that ever worked, Outlook Express, and they get rid of it.

SO ... I just donated my PC to good will, and went out and got a Mac Pro. I am so glad I did. Geeze, the Mac OS/X operating system is so much more stable than Windows, and looking at my game list not long ago, realized that I also got the Mac version of Land of Lores from GOG, and it runs perfectly on the Mac, so Dosbox problem solved, but thanks for the advice. :)

Lol...;) Thanks for wasting my time...;) Can't use a Mac though--far too limited in hardware and software support. Good luck to you, though, as you will certainly need it with a Mac....ha-ha-ha-ha....(Haven't read a troll as silly as this in a long time!)

I don't disagree that there is a lot more hardware for windows than os/x, but microsoft support is a joke compared to apple support. And how does being a mac user or commenting on LOL (not sure which one of those you were referring to) make one a troll? Real intelligent reply.

Oh yeah, and now that I don't have an operating system that doesn't crash on a weekly basis ( can count the number of times I os/x has crashed on one hand in the about two years I've had a mac ) or need to be updated every time you bat an eye, or one that has never been backwards compatable since windows XP, I really need a lot of luck, don't I? Yeah, right. Should have kissed microsoft goodbye the minute they stopped supporting XP, the only half way decent version of windows they ever had.