![]() ![]() ![]() Deleting these DLL files usually solves the issue.įor Win9x era games, the situation is not so great. However, in some rare instances, GOG includes modified versions of DirectX DLL files which make it easier for a game to work on newer (post-XP) operating systems, but may cause issues on a real DX9 compatible WinXP machine. Games from the WinXP era generally work fine, and their installers can be used on a real WinXP system. Preferably, delete any files from the game folder which don't conform to the 8+3 naming convention beforehand, as they aren't needed on a real DOS system. After that, it's easy to copy over the folder containing the game to a real DOS machine and run it from there. DOS era games usually ship with DOSBox and can be installed on a modern PC without much hassle. My experience with GOG releases has been as follows. Reply 7 of 22, by appiah4Ĭrazy! Gog sell's old games that do not run on old-pc's they were released for and also they don't work on new PC's.so where is the sweet-spot here.CRAP! It would be a great opportunity to not only provide these games in a format playable on modern hardware (via SCUMMVM and DOSBOX), but also to preserve these games in the format they were originally released (ISO, or even images of the original install diskettes!). ![]() I know GOG's market is not necessarily people that want to play these games on actual period hardware, but it would be nice if they offered the original game ISO as an extra, for instance. A lot of the games that have CD audio tracks are stubs like Zup mentioned above, where the actual tracks are compressed OGG files in a separate folder I know you can recreate the ISO by converting the tracks to WAV and burning using the CUE file, but then you end up with worse audio quality than the original CD due to lossy compression to OGG format. Most of the point and click adventure games use SCUMMVM, but even for games that use DOSBOX, I've found myself having to resort to to find actual ISOs for many of the games I've bought on GOG, just so that I could install them in PCEM, for instance. I'm honestly a bit disappointed with GOG in that it seems most of the DOS CD games they sell don't come with an actual working ISO. ![]()
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