48d58e No.16728327
A GOG thread got me thinking, are GOG releases of old games safer to store than ISOs of originals? I've read that many GOG win 95/98 games don't work on the original windows versions and God knows if anyone is going to bother to try to make them work on windows xp/7 VNs in the future. If you absolutely want a game to survive maybe having the ISO and patches/nocd fixes is preferable. What do you think?
1d9c37 No.16728407
>>16728327
You're probably right, for one example, GOG's version of Dungeon Keeper absolutely refused to run on my goto pc for older gaming, a windows xp machine from 2001. Generally GOG releases do work on it though, for example the GOG version of Morrowind GOTY works perfectly.
055602 No.16728511
>>16728407
They add patches and compatibility fixes that break older operating systems.
20f8cb No.16728806
>GOG versions
just get the original ISOs fagot
>>16728511
>They add patches and compatibility fixes that break older operating systems.
They literally grab patches and compatability fixes that have existed for years and bundle them with their shitty installer, no different than using an ISO and installing the patches yourself
838a2b No.16728832
Just archive both, so you can choose which one to use based on your needs.
20f8cb No.16728847
>>16728832
dont do this, just archive the original ISO and any patches
e8443b No.16728848
>>16728806
>They literally grab patches and compatability fixes that have existed for years and bundle them with their shitty installer, no different than using an ISO and installing the patches yourself
not always. Freedom Force, for instance, has a mouse bug on Vista and above that has a million fixes, none of which work. The GOG version actually does work, though it seems to do so by using a modified exe from the sequel
20f8cb No.16728854
>>16728848
>not always
Wrong, they do it for every game. they dont make patches/fixes or improve compatability
438d04 No.16728859
>>16728854
I think you are underselling GOG but whatever, Steam does the same shit except without free DRM.
20f8cb No.16728870
>>16728859
>steam does the same shit
No it doesnt, many games are unfixed and dont work at all, comapred to if you just downloaded their original versions
>without free DRM
What did you mean by this?
cf2c1a No.16728883
GOG releases are patched for newer hardware.
Going forward they might be better for archival, however, older archival copies will be better for running older operating systems.
20f8cb No.16728884
>>16728883
Why are you niggers so lazy that you cant just patch the games yourselves?
438d04 No.16728886
>>16728870
>No it doesnt, many games are unfixed and dont work at all, comapred to if you just downloaded their original versions
Example?
>What did you mean by this?
I mean without DRM.
438d04 No.16728888
>>16728884
Why do it when GOG already does it?
cf2c1a No.16728891
>>16728884
That's a non sequitur. Even if you're worried about someone spending money, you can archive pirated copies of GOG installers.
Shatter your femurs
4d5db2 No.16728900
>>16728884
Patches for old games can disappear when the hosting site dies and there isn't an active enough community. GOG stuff sometimes works on new hardward when the original, with patches or not, doesn't. Why are you assuming that finding old games and their patches will always be possible?
20f8cb No.16728902
>>16728886
GTA vice city, manhunt, stubbs the zombie
>>16728888
Because it doesnt take more than 5 mintues to do? and you dont get any GOG™ bloatware with your game.
>>16728891
Never said ANYTHING about money
cf2c1a No.16728905
>>16728902
Bitch I knew you were thinking it because if you weren't there's literally no justifcation for you to complain.
438d04 No.16728910
>>16728902
There's no GOG bloatware in any GOG releases.
inb4 muh .50kb gog spy file.
20f8cb No.16728918
>>16728905
>uhhh… dude trust me i just KNOW
pathetic
>>16728910
50.kb is 50.kb too much.
438d04 No.16728930
>>16728918
Yeah, I'm sure, my dog.
e8443b No.16728954
>>16728854
then for the sake of that 100% figure you're espousing, would you please find a non-gog fix to the aforementioned mouse problem with Freedom Force that–and this is key–actually fucking works
20f8cb No.16728956
>>16728954
Find it yourself if you want to play faggot force that much
bc01a6 No.16728970
>>16728884
>>16728902
Are you really so stupid that you forgot that websites hosting obscure files like community patches for 20 year old games occasionally go down? Or are you just being contrarian because muh board culture? I'd like to believe you're not an idiot, anon. And "it takes 5 minutes" is also a blatant lie, depending on the game in question.
20f8cb No.16728982
>>16728970
There are many sites out there with a collection of patches, try the patches scrolls.
bc01a6 No.16729001
>>16728982
To be blunt, I trust GOG to not go down sooner than some random .de domain, but whatever, fine.
438d04 No.16729029
>>16728956
This faggot hates GOG for being GOG.
20f8cb No.16729031
>>16729029
and that they're polacks
84144f No.16729045
84144f No.16729051
>>16729031
Nevermind you are
84144f No.16729068
Suddenly he is dead silent
84144f No.16729087
>oy vey he mutters as he is crawling back to leftypol
Come jew-kun come back
438d04 No.16729100
>>16729087
Must be outta shift.
man, with the downing of xhentai, the idea of virtual closed network can't come soon enough.
84144f No.16729104
>>16729100
Pretty sure that jew-kun doesnt know how to use sadpanda in the first place.
438d04 No.16729109
>>16729104
He will never know what is lost today.
c031ea No.16730052
>>16728407
I had didn't have any problems running dungeon keeper, but I had problems running dungeon keeper 2. It was apparently a problem with dungeon keeper 2 built in graphics accelerator that would cause the game to have missing textures, and be very slow. It takes some fidgeting with the menus, but all you have to do is turn it off.
a91a8b No.16733343
>>16728806
>They literally grab patches and compatability fixes that have existed for years and bundle them with their shitty installer, no different than using an ISO and installing the patches yourself
They sometimes also bundle not just fan patches but actual mods into their games. For instance: VtMB.
1b99ae No.16734027
>>16728806
Yes most GOG games are like that . But sometimes they do add custom fixes developed in-house by GOG to the games they sell, see >>16728848. If you refuse to accept that, you're a stubborn nigger.
Sometimes these custom fixes will be modified .exes but more often they come in the form of .sdb patches, which is a form of real-time patching natively supported by Windows without having to modify the original files.
