I think that’s just the difficulty of life that ramp up quite quickly, you might need to do some side quests for more XP and better stuff ;)

If you hover your mouse cursor anyone else's post but yours, you should see a button labeled "mark as solution" appear; simply click this button on the post you think best answered your question. (Note that you can only do this for one post, though.) This will mark the topic as "SOLVED" in the forum, and the first post of the thread will then display a link to whichever post you marked (in case someone else has the same question later and finds your thread). It will also give the person who posted the solution a little bump to their community rep number (displayed under their avatar on the left), and will hopefully reduce the number of people that will later wander into the topic and post answers which are no longer needed. : )
Sorry in advance if I over-explained.

Have you tried the free games, like Beneath the Steel Sky? You can get an overall idea of how GOG games work with those.

Just to make sure: GOG games are not guaranteed to run on old unsupported versions of Windows like XP or 98, even if the games were originally released for those. The games might run, but the tweaks used to make them run on modern systems might break them on older systems.

Is it just me, or has there been a deluge of necromancy going around the forum lately?

GOG's forum pillars were created by the dark forces of Necromancy, which would explain why it's a rotting mess.

Dunno, But I'm pretty sure the above dark mage ^ , the Dread Necromancer Torence, is a spammer. ;)

Just in case someone did not point that out yet. While GOG offers most games with removed DRM that by itself is not a sufficient condition for compatibility with modern OS. There might still be other issues. Have a look at the game card of a game on the GOG website. If GOG says that a game is compatible with a certain OS then you can return it if it isn't - it's their responsibility then. If they don't state it, you can try, but you are on your own then.

Is that Irony?

Ie. necroing a thread to talk about it?

the necro post was done by a spammer, which is removed by gOg. If you check the post numbers, it jumps from #34 to #36. #35 is deleted.

Oh yes, hadn't noticed that. Has left MadlinStroe looking a bit ironic.

A little. :)

You'll notice that HunchBluntley, mentions the original necroer/spammer: Torence.

That is right, as removing DRM is piracy, and piracy is illegal.

What's discussed in this (2 years old) topic is, despite the title implying otherwise, the buying of DRM-free games and the question if they can run on any system.

Removing DRM for yourself is against most laws and EULA's, but buying a game a publisher decided to sell without DRM on this DRM-free store (*) is legal. I hope that clarifies.

(*) though there's some store practices, mostly involving multi-player and the game GWENT, that's considered DRM by some forummites, GOG used to apply it's DRM-free principle much stricter in the past.

Quickly, we need a spammer detector here!

Necro-spammer strikes for 10 damage!