GOG Winter Sale Discounts 600 Games, Fallout Series Free

[Aardvaarkman]

The site was working fine for me when I just visited it 5 minutes ago. So, either traffic has dropped off, or they've beefed up their servers.

Either way, Good Job, GOG!

 

[Roxas1359]

Welp, this caused me to sign up for GoG, and I've got all the Fallouts now without DRM. ^.^
Now comes the fun part of trying to actually run the games properly on my monster. XD

 

[shintakie10]

Welp, this caused me to sign up for GoG, and I've got all the Fallouts now without DRM. ^.^
Now comes the fun part of trying to actually run the games properly on my monster. XD

Why would you have problems playing them on your computer? All GoG games are specifically designed not to have the kind of issues that you'd have if you tried to simply reinstall an old copy. I guess there could be fringe cases in which it wouldn't work at all, but I haven't heard many people say they've had any issues with GoG bought games. Now if you buy old games from Steam...that gets dicey for whatever reason.

 

[Roxas1359]

Why would you have problems playing them on your computer? All GoG games are specifically designed not to have the kind of issues that you'd have if you tried to simply reinstall an old copy. I guess there could be fringe cases in which it wouldn't work at all, but I haven't heard many people say they've had any issues with GoG bought games. Now if you buy old games from Steam...that gets dicey for whatever reason.

Ah, I see. Well these are my first GoG games, since there really wasn't anything that caught my eye, and I've installed them now and they work great. But yeah my friend bought me the Fallout pack from Steam once on the sale and it wouldn't work because my graphics card, even on the lowest settings, would still mess with the game so I had given up on them. But now that they work I'm happy.

 

[shintakie10]

Why would you have problems playing them on your computer? All GoG games are specifically designed not to have the kind of issues that you'd have if you tried to simply reinstall an old copy. I guess there could be fringe cases in which it wouldn't work at all, but I haven't heard many people say they've had any issues with GoG bought games. Now if you buy old games from Steam...that gets dicey for whatever reason.

Ah, I see. Well these are my first GoG games, since there really wasn't anything that caught my eye, and I've installed them now and they work great. But yeah my friend bought me the Fallout pack from Steam once on the sale and it wouldn't work because my graphics card, even on the lowest settings, would still mess with the game so I had given up on them. But now that they work I'm happy.

I think its because Steam doesn't actually do anythin with the old games they release except, well...release them. On GoG they (I'm not sure if its the guys who work at GoG specifically or someone else) goes in and touches up the code so that everythin works fine on new hardware.

I know when I picked up Magic Carpet I was originally worried that the game would be completely unplayable because the speed of the game was originally tied to your processor. Considerin the speed now compared to then it was...pretty hilarious when I tried to reinstall it originally. The GoG version works perfectly fine though.

 

[Strazdas]

Welp, this caused me to sign up for GoG, and I've got all the Fallouts now without DRM. ^.^
Now comes the fun part of trying to actually run the games properly on my monster. XD

Why would you have problems playing them on your computer? All GoG games are specifically designed not to have the kind of issues that you'd have if you tried to simply reinstall an old copy. I guess there could be fringe cases in which it wouldn't work at all, but I haven't heard many people say they've had any issues with GoG bought games. Now if you buy old games from Steam...that gets dicey for whatever reason.

the same reason anyone trying to play them would have problems. the games are buggy as hell. What modern Behesda does is peanuts compared to how buggy the first two fallout games were. Mind you, they were great games and all but they were very buggy.

I think its because Steam doesn't actually do anythin with the old games they release except, well...release them. On GoG they (I'm not sure if its the guys who work at GoG specifically or someone else) goes in and touches up the code so that everythin works fine on new hardware.

I know when I picked up Magic Carpet I was originally worried that the game would be completely unplayable because the speed of the game was originally tied to your processor. Considerin the speed now compared to then it was...pretty hilarious when I tried to reinstall it originally. The GoG version works perfectly fine though.

I think GOG creates artificial machine that they put the game to run in. At least that was my experience with it, emulating the machine for the game so the game things its running where it was designed to, and modern PC can handle the emulation easily.

 

[RicoADF]

I think GOG creates artificial machine that they put the game to run in. At least that was my experience with it, emulating the machine for the game so the game things its running where it was designed to, and modern PC can handle the emulation easily.

It depends on the game but I would say for fallout that's quite likely, some newer games are 'patched' to fix compatibility issues, it just depends what the issue is (Windows 95+ games are patched, DoS games get the dosbox emulation). GoG are the guys that fix the games, which is why they have the working version and also why I have bought more than a few games from them that I've either previously owned or wanted but missed the first time around.

 

[Strazdas]

Very few games are not fixed on GoG, unless their DoS games meaning they just shove em on DoSBOX and hope for the best.

I was talkin about bugs that were there from day 1 of game release, not ones caused by compactability.