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nwcole: WARNING: DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON GOG - IT IS A FRAUD OPERATION FROM WHICH YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE GOODS YOU PAID FOR!!!

nwcole: All four games I purchased from GOG worked in Windows 10 until Microsloth went to war with Rovi and embedded code in the Win 10 kernal to defeat SECDRV.SYS. Supposedly GOG versions of those games simply remove the reference to SECDRV.SYS so the game can be played. Yet when I install the games either in GOG Galaxy or with the standalone installer, they fail to open. (I get farther with the versions installed from the original purchased CDs). I get error 0xc0000022 failed to start messages for all of them despite the statements for each game by GOG that they are "compatible" with windows 10.

No amount of futzing with UAC, compatibility settings, safe mode booting, virus protection disabling, internet umnplugging etc. makes a difference. So I tried installing a GOG version on my ancient WIndows XP SP 3 system with which the original (SECDRV.sys protected) version is specified to be compatible. The GOG setup hangs every time. It appears that GOG game installations are NOT LEGITIMATELY LICENSED CODE, rather they are crude hacks that may work for ONE VERY SPECIAL / UNIQUE SYSTEM on which they have been hacked, rather than a properly engineered application with the prohibited DRM removed so it works on GENERAL SYSTEMS with the advertised "compatible" operating systems.

It appears that YOU ARE PAYING FOR ILLEGALLY HACKED SOFTWARE THAT DOES NOT FUNCTION AS ADVERTISED.

WARNING: DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON GOG - IT IS A FRAUD OPERATION FROM WHICH YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE GOODS YOU PAID FOR!!!

nwcole: All four games I purchased from GOG worked in Windows 10 until Microsloth went to war with Rovi and embedded code in the Win 10 kernal to defeat SECDRV.SYS. Supposedly GOG versions of those games simply remove the reference to SECDRV.SYS so the game can be played. Yet when I install the games either in GOG Galaxy or with the standalone installer, they fail to open. (I get farther with the versions installed from the original purchased CDs). I get error 0xc0000022 failed to start messages for all of them despite the statements for each game by GOG that they are "compatible" with windows 10.

No amount of futzing with UAC, compatibility settings, safe mode booting, virus protection disabling, internet umnplugging etc. makes a difference. So I tried installing a GOG version on my ancient WIndows XP SP 3 system with which the original (SECDRV.sys protected) version is specified to be compatible. The GOG setup hangs every time. It appears that GOG game installations are NOT LEGITIMATELY LICENSED CODE, rather they are crude hacks that may work for ONE VERY SPECIAL / UNIQUE SYSTEM on which they have been hacked, rather than a properly engineered application with the prohibited DRM removed so it works on GENERAL SYSTEMS with the advertised "compatible" operating systems.

It appears that YOU ARE PAYING FOR ILLEGALLY HACKED SOFTWARE THAT DOES NOT FUNCTION AS ADVERTISED.

WARNING: DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON GOG - IT IS A FRAUD OPERATION FROM WHICH YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE GOODS YOU PAID FOR!!!

nwcole: All four games I purchased from GOG worked in Windows 10 until Microsloth went to war with Rovi and embedded code in the Win 10 kernal to defeat SECDRV.SYS. Supposedly GOG versions of those games simply remove the reference to SECDRV.SYS so the game can be played. Yet when I install the games either in GOG Galaxy or with the standalone installer, they fail to open. (I get farther with the versions installed from the original purchased CDs). I get error 0xc0000022 failed to start messages for all of them despite the statements for each game by GOG that they are "compatible" with windows 10.

No amount of futzing with UAC, compatibility settings, safe mode booting, virus protection disabling, internet umnplugging etc. makes a difference. So I tried installing a GOG version on my ancient WIndows XP SP 3 system with which the original (SECDRV.sys protected) version is specified to be compatible. The GOG setup hangs every time. It appears that GOG game installations are NOT LEGITIMATELY LICENSED CODE, rather they are crude hacks that may work for ONE VERY SPECIAL / UNIQUE SYSTEM on which they have been hacked, rather than a properly engineered application with the prohibited DRM removed so it works on GENERAL SYSTEMS with the advertised "compatible" operating systems.

It appears that YOU ARE PAYING FOR ILLEGALLY HACKED SOFTWARE THAT DOES NOT FUNCTION AS ADVERTISED.

WARNING: DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON GOG - IT IS A FRAUD OPERATION FROM WHICH YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE GOODS YOU PAID FOR!!!

KneeTheCap: While the post itself might be a tad.. heated, the OP has a point. If one buys a game, one can expect it to work if the setup is listed as compatible.

Petrell: You're asking the impossible. There simply are way too many hardware, driver and software combinations to ensure that any one game works on all of them. Add to that that any OS, driver or software update or hardware change/upgrade can break previous compatibility. Even new games can't be guaranteed to work with all PC's that seemingly meet the requirements.

KneeTheCap: While the post itself might be a tad.. heated, the OP has a point. If one buys a game, one can expect it to work if the setup is listed as compatible.

timppu: If that was the case, why then would GOG offer a refund option (for those cases where the game doesn't work even though you meet the system requirements and GOG can't fix it for you)?

That's because they are realistic, they know there are always some configurations that might still have problems. especially when we are talking about old games retrofitted to work on modern PCs.

The listed system requirements are not a "if you meet these, the game will 100% certainlý work!", but a "if you meet these requirements, you are entitled for a refund in case the game doesn't work and we can't fix it to work for you".

nwcole: I apologize for my bad attitude - (I'm just used to 70 years of corporate screwing and assumed, wrongly, this was yet another instance of same).

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