The latest being Styx Shards of Darkness. Requires a pc reboot just to recover. Far Cry 3 & Witcher 2 haven't launched in forever. I have literally hundreds of other titles, older & newer, that run without issue. NO, I don't want to go on an "try this" expedition to edit some obscure file hidden god knows where. Yes I'm using a multi-core processor, it's 2025. Can we PLEASE check to see if games sold on GOG actually launch on a current pc? It's kinda the whole point.

Okay, Provide GOG with a patch that'll make Creatures 1 work.

Ever considered that it might be just your machine and that the games mentioned actually launch, play and generally work just fine for the majority of people?

Idk ever game you listed works for me fine on multiple machines. What are your hardware specs?

The Witcher 2 works fine here, and always have. But I am not running the Windows version, so I don’t know how working/broken this one is.

Far Cry 3 on GOG?

Do you have the 2H24 Windows 11 update installed? It apparently broke many games, both in GOG and elsewhere. For me it broke at least Demonicon.

"Requires reboot" sounds Windows update related. As timppu said, half the time it's the newer OS's (ie, W11's endless borked updates) that's breaking stuff far more often than the older OS's ever did. It's understandable people want things pre-tweaked but at the end of the day, PC's aren't consoles. A fix that might be needed for nVidia / AMD / Intel GPU's (example for Fallout 3) may be counter-productive if forced on the other two. A mod that fixes UI scaling could come in 3 different versions (1440p vs 4k vs Ultrawide), etc, and no store can just pick one and force it on everyone, you have to add the one you are using personally. Lots of examples like this where expecting one set of pre-supplied fixes with zero tweaking on a platform stretching back 50 years and spanning tens of thousands of different hardware combinations is unrealistic.

For 32-bit games (eg, Witcher 2), Large Address Aware can fix out of memory errors. For Far Cry 3 there's various tweaks you could try (eg, use DX9 instead of DX11) assuming "doesn't launch at all" isn't Ubisoft Connect DRM related in the first place, as there's nothing GOG can do about games they don't sell.

Far Cry 3 works perfectly to me, and so does the Witcher 2, but probably because I'm on Windows 10, and I don't use that garbage called Windows 11.

Kinda curious if it is a Win11 system. Could download a Win10 image for free and see how that goes. Just a thought.

Except Witcher 2 works on modern systems.