After being 'GOG-ified', do the old games install/run easily on Win 10? I'm in the market for another PC that I can dedicate mainly to older/simpler/less hardware demanding games. My go-to O/S is usually Windows 7, but I won't rule out a 10 box if I can get a good deal on a refurb. My main dislike of Win 10 are the constant updates, which I could turn off if I went in that direction. Win 8 and Vista are out of the question. So, between 7 and 10, what do experienced GOGers recommend for playing the oldies? I have an old XP machine with a Pentium 4 that I was hoping to use for this purpose, but now having second thoughts about that. I'm thinking dual-core is probably a better minimum. Thanks!

Windows 7 of course. But Microsoft have stopped selling Windows 7.

there are still plenty of win 7 refurbs available.

More GOG games support Windows 7 than 10 (though the difference isn't that big, afaik). I'd suggest keeping the old XP machine around if you want to play original old games; I've been toying with the idea of buying an old Windows 98 machine eventually, to play some of my childhood games in their original form.

As an aside, always check the "Works on" section and system requirements to make sure you can qualify for a refund (that you're running a supported OS and meet the system requirements), in the case that you can't get the game running and Support can't help you.

Thanks for your input. My concern regarding older versions of Windows (especially XP) is that GOG may optimize the old games to actually run better on a newer O/S. I'm new here, so not sure what all they do when repackaging the old ones. I no longer have any of the original disks and not inclined to search them out, so I'd be getting the games from GOG.

As "bad" and "EVIL" as everyone keeps saying Windows 10 is, the fact still stands that I can run Revenant flawlessly on it, and never could on Windows 7.

If you're willing to consider it, Linux is often a great option for late 90s and early 2000s games that run poorly or not at all on newer Windows.

It has been my experience that Win 10 can run everything just as well or better than Win 7, with only a couple of exceptions that escape me right now.

Well I think GOG generally just applies tweaks and fixes (depends on how well they expect a game to sell, thus how much they expect to make back), and a portion of GOG games officially supported on new OSes may still have issues on those new OSes, and most of the non-new games here are supported by WinXP, so I think I can safely advise you to play non-DOS Good Old Games games on older machines. GOG games that use emulators may be another thing (depending on the DOS game), because those can need a lot more CPU power to run well (since the computer is running two OSes basically); you'll see GOG reviews about DOSBox slowdowns happening when there's a lot on-screen at once. I don't know if this applies to games that use nGlide.

If you were to play GOG's release of Populous 3 or Interstate '76 or Gorky 17, you'd probably want a WinXP machine for those.

I'm still waiting for a Win10 x64 compatible Moto Racer 2 .

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Moto_Racer_2

Already tried out dgVoodoo . Not worked .