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General discussionRelease: 4 great classics from SNEG and Silver Box Classics containing 4 more, all with -15% Spring Sale discounts!(65 posts)(65 posts)
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Posted March 27, 2023
We love Good Old Games. We care for them, we give them home, and we do our best to make them last forever. In fact, the classic titles were the main reason to start our platform all those years ago (hence the use of our initial acronym). And our love and passion for them still remains as strong as ever.

That’s why we are incredibly happy to say that 4 great classic games and Silver Box Classics (containing 4 more), all straight from SNEG, are now available on GOG – find them all (alongside their other D&D classics) HERE! And because we are celebrating our Spring Sale, each of today’s releases are on -15% discounts for the duration of Spring Sale (until April 3rd, 10 PM UTC).

Let’s take a look at what amazing adventures we’ll be able to (re)discover!

Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace
An adventure RPG with strategy elements that provides swashbuckling excitement and the magic of D&D adventures, but in wildspace! In this gem you’ll captain your own Spelljammer ship, recruit officers and crew to man your magical ship, and soar into the ether and explore the planets of Realmspace.



DeathKeep
A D&D dungeon delving the way you like it - fast, furious and fun! An evil Necromancer has escaped from his icy prison and is wreaking havoc upon the surrounding lands. Journey to this frozen wasteland and destroy the forces of evil - if you dare.



DragonStrike
The first-ever dragon combat simulator! In this title the deadly skies above the Dragonlance game world of Krynn explode before your very eyes. The first-person viewpoint propels you into a fully animated, 3D world of action and excitement. So to the skies brave knight - and victory!



Fantasy Empires
A D&D adventure and the first title to feature a computer Dungeon Master who mediates all elements of the game play. Create alliances, defeat enemy kingdoms and forge an empire in this exciting world. Under the computer Dungeon Master, you’ll interact with fantastic races, command dozens of troop types, send your heroes on quests and construct a variety of buildings and fortifications.



Silver Box Classics
A collection that’ll bring back some great memories. It gathers adaptations of the events in the first four Dragonlance role-playing modules, at the beginning of the War of the Lance – these were the first games that brought the world of D&D to PC gaming:

Heroes of the Lance – D&D epic where we discover the world of Krynn. Control the Companions of the Lance (they aren’t Heroes until they succeed!) in their quest to recover the Disks of Mishakal. Only this can defeat the Queen of Darkness and restore the balance between Good and Evil.

Dragons of Flame – Takhisis, Queen of Darkness, and her Draconian hordes have overrun much of the homeland Krynn, even the elven armies of Qualinost, valiant in their resistance to this evil power, struggle on the edge of defeat. It is only the returning Companions of the Lance that can halt this wave of tyranny before Krynn is consumed by evil.

War of the Lance – That's the first D&D computer wargame. Prepare for fierce battles and all-out war when the forces of Whitestone clash against the evil Highlord Dragonarmies. The prize: absolute rule over all Ansalon on the Dragonlance game world of Krynn.

Shadow Sorcerer – A tie-in with the Dragonlance series of novels. The player controls a party of four adventurers that have just rescued 800 slaves and must shepherd them through the wilderness before the evil Dragon army catches up with them. There are three levels to the game: - strategic, tactical, and political. All three take place in real-time with the evil dragons constantly on the adventurers' heels slowly picking off the escapees.



In addition, by purchasing the new releases, along with Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One, Two and Three, Dungeons & Dragons: Krynn Series, Ravenloft Series and Dark Sun Series, Al-Qadim: The Genie’s Curse, and D&D Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator, you'll receive a special completion offer with a -54% discount!

Time to feel the ultimate wave of nostalgia and relive amazing gaming experiences. Check out the D&D SNEG titles and be sure to make full use of all the Spring Sale goodness (like THIS curated collection of classics). Sale ends on April 3rd, 10 PM UTC.
Posted March 27, 2023
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Halbzeit: How about releasing games that work? I bought DeathKeep and it does not work on my computer.

Honestly GOG the quality of your Good Old Games has gone downhill and I will no longer sift the internet and tinker to get it running.
DeathKeep seems to work fine for me. Does it show an error or anything? What happens, exactly?

It's possible it could be fixed quickly. DragonStrike received an update about 20 minutes after I bought it.
Post edited March 28, 2023 by DoomSooth
Posted March 28, 2023
Nice. Now clear those titles from the coming soon lineup and put Shadowcaster up there!
Posted March 28, 2023
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Halbzeit: How about releasing games that work? I bought DeathKeep and it does not work on my computer.

Honestly GOG the quality of your Good Old Games has gone downhill and I will no longer sift the internet and tinker to get it running.
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DoomSooth: DeathKeep seems to work fine for me. Does it show an error or anything? What happens, exactly?

It's possible it could be fixed quickly. DragonStrike received an update about 20 minutes after I bought it.
Not sure if it's the same but I had issues with DeathKeep not working right out of the box, the display wasn't properly fullscreen and it crashed after a few seconds. Swapping the ddraw that it comes with (which appears to be custom but not GOG's own one) for dgVoodoo2 and setting a basic config on that sorted it instantly, but yeah, shouldn't really be required.
Post edited March 28, 2023 by dzyeph
Posted March 28, 2023
DeathKeep runs out-of-the-box here on my end too.
Only issue thus far is that movement speed is at near supersonic velocity. Kind of expected that though as it's a common problem with a lot of older titles.
Post edited March 28, 2023 by Swedrami
Posted March 28, 2023
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Halbzeit: How about releasing games that work? I bought DeathKeep and it does not work on my computer.

Honestly GOG the quality of your Good Old Games has gone downhill and I will no longer sift the internet and tinker to get it running.
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DoomSooth: DeathKeep seems to work fine for me. Does it show an error or anything? What happens, exactly?

It's possible it could be fixed quickly. DragonStrike received an update about 20 minutes after I bought it.
Thanks for the help, DoomSooth. It works now. And thanks to all the other Goglodytes who provided advice in this thread.
Post edited March 28, 2023 by Halbzeit
Posted March 28, 2023
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whystler2012: Nice. Now clear those titles from the coming soon lineup and put Shadowcaster up there!
I would love to have Shadowcaster DRM-free but that's a Raven game, IIRC. I think other Raven games would be ahead in the line.
Posted March 28, 2023
Quick additional to my previous, after people said Deathkeep worked fine out of the box, I restored the original ddraw.dll and still hit the problem, tried a couple of times, same behaviour. I'm guessing something with my own setup is making it wonky.

Also I spoke too soon, dgVoodoo2 doesn't actually work properly with it, it makes the inventory unusable and there's pacing issues all over the place.

Fortunately, GOG's own ddraw wrapper (borrowed from my Star Trek Armada 1 installation) actually seems to work perfectly. So if this is a widespread issue, hopefully GOG only have to patch it with their own wrapper and everything will be shiny (and if it's not widespread, yay).
Posted March 28, 2023
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DoomSooth: DeathKeep seems to work fine for me. Does it show an error or anything? What happens, exactly?

It's possible it could be fixed quickly. DragonStrike received an update about 20 minutes after I bought it.
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dzyeph: Not sure if it's the same but I had issues with DeathKeep not working right out of the box, the display wasn't properly fullscreen and it crashed after a few seconds. Swapping the ddraw that it comes with (which appears to be custom but not GOG's own one) for dgVoodoo2 and setting a basic config on that sorted it instantly, but yeah, shouldn't really be required.
Yep, that was it in my case.
Post edited March 28, 2023 by Halbzeit
Posted March 28, 2023
I bought the Silver Box Classics and played Heroes of the Lance but, for some reason, it doesn't show in my activity feed that I've played it (not in Galaxy or the website). It doesn't even show in my profile's "Recently Played" section.

Actually, none of the games from the Silver Box Classics collection show in the "Games" tab in my profile (they are available in my library from the top menu drop-down though).

Has anyone else experienced these issues?
Post edited March 28, 2023 by Rex3400X
Posted March 28, 2023
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dzyeph: Not sure if it's the same but I had issues with DeathKeep not working right out of the box, the display wasn't properly fullscreen and it crashed after a few seconds. Swapping the ddraw that it comes with (which appears to be custom but not GOG's own one) for dgVoodoo2 and setting a basic config on that sorted it instantly, but yeah, shouldn't really be required.
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Halbzeit: Yep, that was it in my case.
In that case it's possibly something that's affecting some (but apparently not all or not most) people.

Hopefully it's something GOG can sort out (I don't know how much control they have over this kind of thing as they're not the publishers or developers).

My suggestion for a resolution is a bit situational, if you have any other GOG games that use their custom ddraw.dll (the file description on it will be 'GOG.com DirectX 1-7 wrapper' and the games are typically from the late 90's) you can try copying the ddraw.dll, dxcfg.exe and dxcfg.ini from that game folder and pasting them into the DeathKeep folder (making a backup of the original ddraw.dll and ddraw.ini is recommended). This obviously depends on you having one of those games and also being willing to rifle through game folders, so it's far from an ideal solution, and as it's quite a 'bodge' solution, I obviously can't guarantee it'll work, but it did for me.
Posted March 28, 2023
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Halbzeit: Yep, that was it in my case.
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dzyeph: In that case it's possibly something that's affecting some (but apparently not all or not most) people.

Hopefully it's something GOG can sort out (I don't know how much control they have over this kind of thing as they're not the publishers or developers).

My suggestion for a resolution is a bit situational, if you have any other GOG games that use their custom ddraw.dll (the file description on it will be 'GOG.com DirectX 1-7 wrapper' and the games are typically from the late 90's) you can try copying the ddraw.dll, dxcfg.exe and dxcfg.ini from that game folder and pasting them into the DeathKeep folder (making a backup of the original ddraw.dll and ddraw.ini is recommended). This obviously depends on you having one of those games and also being willing to rifle through game folders, so it's far from an ideal solution, and as it's quite a 'bodge' solution, I obviously can't guarantee it'll work, but it did for me.
The wrapper used is not the one used in other GOG games, it is a modification of one created for CnC and Red Alert. It works fine for a lot of games I tried.
Keep in mind that this wrapper is configurable in the ini with a lot of tweakings. One config I noticed is the resolution selection, by default, in this game it is selected an incompatible resolution for my rig. The first thing I have done is change it, so I can not say If the game would crash with the default one. Probably

There are other configurations for borderless and fullscreen etc and also gameticks to modify the framerate if it is too slow or too fast. I need to experiment with it to be sure but the game runs fine when I have been playing a bit.
Posted March 28, 2023
Great to see more classics arrive, again I hope they manage to release The Summoning from SSI in the near future.
Posted March 28, 2023
The manual for Fantasy Empires seems to be German only, no English version.
Posted March 28, 2023
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Steam seems trying to cut GOG loose from Good Old Games business. The same 4 games and Silver Box D&D games are released there and it is like 10 usd for not only these 4 new games and Silver Box but for ALL classics, including previously released gold box, silver box and these new ones. Regional pricing really hits GOG very hard here, it is like 10 times the price for me on GOG.

Still I bought on GOG because, DRM-FREE FOREVER!
Post edited March 28, 2023 by Praymettin
Posted March 28, 2023
Sweet. I'll be picking these up next week.
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