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PSA: don't bother with old Lucasarts games

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desura

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Recently tried playing The Xwing and Tie fighter games from back in the 1990's. Downloaded via steam...and the games don't work at all. When they do ok,things like joysticks don't work. It is too much trouble.
 
It doesn't look like you even tried. Steam will have guides, a list of mods you can apply, the correct compatibility settings, etc.

gog.com would be the better source for older games, anyway. You'd probably still have to deal with modifying the game, but it's much simpler and more likely to "just work" with a gog copy.
 
SW KOTOR I - II are old, published by Lucasarts, and work great on modern PCs (including the Steam versions).

They are also in the Humble Bundle above. Buy them!
 
I did try KOTOR out. While it ran the best out of them, it also had this weird bug where from time to time control wouldn't work at all. It also hasn't aged that well I don't think, though I do like the esoteric RPG aspects of it that are missing in modern streamlined RPG games.
 
desura said:
Recently tried playing The Xwing and Tie fighter games from back in the 1990's. Downloaded via steam...and the games don't work at all. When they do ok,things like joysticks don't work. It is too much trouble.
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There's a reason why GOG is so popular - they actually put in an effort to repackage the games so they work reasonably well on modern systems whereas Steam often just boot them out "raw" with often little more than a stock DOSBox link and a variable quality community "go fix it yourself" page. GOG's community forums and tech support are pretty good too with many common problems having known workarounds. PCGamingWiki is another good resource. I dare say joystick problems in Star Wars were due to old games being hard-coded to look for old joysticks (remember the pre-USB dedicated "Game Ports" you found on discrete sound cards?) If a game supports keyboard input, you may be better off disabling joystick input and using a gamepad to emulate keystrokes via xpadder.

As for "Don't buy any old LuscasArts games" in general, I think you'll find most of them (Day Of The Tentacle, Indiana Jones series, Loom, Monkey Island series, Sam & Max Hit The Road, The Dig, etc) work flawlessly in ScummVM.
 
Gotta give gog a thumb up. They are fantastic. They have the same dedication towards linux support (also).
 
Sucks they don't at least do a remaster. Or make new games. Guess when you just make some skins and a few maps and sell 13 million copies, isn't any incentive to do much.
 
Ranulf said:
Anyone know if that SW humble bundle is just via steam or also have direct download versions?
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You already have your answer but when you're looking at a bundle scroll down to "read more" and expand the text. Click on the "here" full system requirements link and it will show you the drm requirements for each game. In this case it says Windows with a Steam symbol next to it.

https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918298

Here is a guide to what the icons mean.

https://support.humblebundle.com/hc...-Humble-Bundle-Icons-and-System-Requirements-
 
I don't know what people are talking about, but all my old LucasArts games are working perfectly fine on Steam.
 
GOG is the only place I go for old games like that. They actually have guys who's job is to get them to work on modern hardware.
 
Speaking of old Lucas Arts games, GOG has the King's Quest, Hero's Quest, and Space Quest , Quest for Glory, Police Quest games and more Sierra games all on sale https://www.gog.com/promo/weekend_promo_activision_040316

The Space Quest ones are good for a laugh, heck, most of them are pretty good, though, they don't have leisure suite Larry up for some reason (the good versions, not the crap they recently put out).
 
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