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Article #350763Re: GOG.com Weekend Sale (thru Sunday, July 7) --- 60% off classic Adventure games, DRM free
From: Mike S.
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:13
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:13
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On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:53:47 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote: >I still play this game occasionally and have never had a problem with it >- I do NOT have this "updated" GOG.com version, but the original >re-release from EA Classics from Summer 2000. > >Despite being designed for a 200MHz Pentium it runs just fine on a >3.2GHz Quad core Phenom 2. > >Of course I don't have ATi Video hardware and I could see that maybe >making a difference since they apparently drop support for old games >from their drivers all the time. > >Xocyll You can run it with all video working? I can't. You can run it without having to disable all but one of your CPU cores? I can't. I'm guessing the GOG version works without these issues.
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