Re: GOG.com Weekend Sale (thru Sunday, July 7) --- 60% off classic Adventure games, DRM free

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From: shawn
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:36

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On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:17:32 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
<arybenkov@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 10:34:59 +0400, Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If there was really a problem in an .exe of a game that cannot be
>> overcome by relatively simple configuration changes, you most likely
>> won't see that game ever appear on GOG, Steam etc.
>
>We will see whatever that mighty GOG will do with original Fallout.
>The game conflicts with desktop windows manager of Windows. In XP,Vista/W7
>you can turn it off in exe's compatibility options ("desktop composition").
>W8 does not let to turn DWM off anymore.
>
>Some guy published a way to unload DWM (and Explorer along with it).
>So theoretically it is possible to run Fallout on W8, but it's tricky.

Fallout (from GOG) runs fine on my Windows 8 machine. So I don't know
why you think there would be a problem. They've been selling it for a
while.

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