Hello!

I use my PC mainly to play games, and most of the ones I have are old games from GOG or Steam. But I want to purchase newer games, like FarCry 3 and COD: Black Ops II. My vídeo card is a NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, so I need to update it to a newer one in order to run these games.

But I would like to know if my older games from GOG (especially the ones that don't run on DOSBox, like Deus Ex and Painkiller) and Steam (like Star Wars KOTOR and Max Payne) would still run without problems on my new vídeo card.

If somebody could help me out, I'll be really thankful.
(Sorry for my english, I'm brazilian :D)

Thanks in advance.

The whole point of GOG is that they work to make all of their games compatible with modern PCs. In general, you should have no problems with your games from GOG running on a new video card.

I'd say it's much more likely that your GOG games would continue to be compatible with your new video card than your Steam games. Steam is not necessarily known for caring much (or as much as GOG) about compatibility issues.

I forgot to mention, I'm running Windows 7 32-bit and the only issue I had with Steam games is that the first Max Payne doesn't have sound, but I installed a patch that quickly fixed it.

I'm not going to change my OS (Like you said, most issues arise when there's a new OS), so I guess my games I'll be fine with my new vídeo card.

Thanks for the replies!

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http://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_many_of_your_gog_games_have_worked_right_out_of_the_box

It seems that GOG has been doing quite well on the compatibility front; no huge complaints here. (One of the staff said they want to be known for games that "work right out of the box".) People run into some issues, but generally Support can help people out or the game specific forums may have answers.

Now there do seem to be a couple of "stinkers" here with somewhat serious issues (like Interstate 76 or Gorky 17) so do read the reviews, but don't let a single review sway your mind. (Some 1-star reviews may be written in the heat of the moment, when someone is really frustrated about a game not working.)

Not sure which all NVidia Geforce chipsets are affected, but didn't the latest NVidia drivers break quite many older Windows games, also on GOG? There was some discussion about it here two weeks ago or so. I personally noticed it first with Rayman 2, not sure if the problems with one of the Tomb Raider games is about the same.