First off, the main engine and source of this game is opensource and there is a better solution out there already called the descent rebirth project (google it), gog didn't bother including it in this package. Second, it runs under windows vista as a dosbox application, why bother? the rebirth engine runs as a windows app out of the gate. Third, stability. the dosbox equivalent of this game crashes on me repeatedly in the first D2 level. Which is the reason I went searching for the rebirth patch / fix in the first place. Fourth, to get the rebirth patch working with the right music for the game you have to disect the gog file to make it work. Sure this complaint shouldn't really be a complaint seeming obviously it was gog.coms intention to make you play the old, non-improved, cheap dosbox edition. In short, Descent and Descent 2 are great games, but gog.com really doesn't deliver anything but the descent.gog files for you to make your own solution out of them. Are all gog.com's games this slapped together?
First off, the main engine and source of this game is opensource and there is a better solution out there already called the descent rebirth project (google it), gog didn't bother including it in this package. Second, it runs under windows vista as a dosbox application, why bother? the rebirth engine runs as a windows app out of the gate. Third, stability. the dosbox equivalent of this game crashes on me repeatedly in the first D2 level. Which is the reason I went searching for the rebirth patch / fix in the first place. Fourth, to get the rebirth patch working with the right music for the game you have to disect the gog file to make it work. Sure this complaint shouldn't really be a complaint seeming obviously it was gog.coms intention to make you play the old, non-improved, cheap dosbox edition. In short, Descent and Descent 2 are great games, but gog.com really doesn't deliver anything but the descent.gog files for you to make your own solution out of them. Are all gog.com's games this slapped together?
First off, the main engine and source of this game is opensource and there is a better solution out there already called the descent rebirth project (google it), gog didn't bother including it in this package. Second, it runs under windows vista as a dosbox application, why bother? the rebirth engine runs as a windows app out of the gate. Third, stability. the dosbox equivalent of this game crashes on me repeatedly in the first D2 level. Which is the reason I went searching for the rebirth patch / fix in the first place. Fourth, to get the rebirth patch working with the right music for the game you have to disect the gog file to make it work. Sure this complaint shouldn't really be a complaint seeming obviously it was gog.coms intention to make you play the old, non-improved, cheap dosbox edition. In short, Descent and Descent 2 are great games, but gog.com really doesn't deliver anything but the descent.gog files for you to make your own solution out of them. Are all gog.com's games this slapped together?
