Hi,

I just rebuilt my Old computer and wanted to see the difference to my new Computer.

Am I allowed to have My GOG games on more than 1 PC in my home at the same time ? ?

I Declined Punk-Buster spyware as I don't play Multiplayer games and don't know how to cheat anyway
Some of my games are trying to Update and install but keep failing on my Old PC

This Computer has No Punk Buster and works fine.
I wonder if its the New Galaxy install is causing the fail due to the new Punkbuster ?



Thank you
LP

They're DRM free so there should be no issue. Just run the installer on your other PC.

I edited my first post

Download the offline installers from the website, under your account, then the game, the option lower down for offline installers is what you want. 1 exe plus maybe some .bin files. These are the game installers. You can copy and run these on any of your systems, no need for galaxy at all.
Oh, and which games? Not sure punk buster should be on any game, is that some anti tamper drm type software?

Just install it, no problems, you can install your games in many computers as you want, welcome to DRM-free.

saldite,
Thank you

nightcraw1er.488
First Thank you for the Information
I am not sure exactly think one of the following,
A Story About My Uncle
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
All these failed to install updates
Yes PunkBuster is some form of DRM or AntiCheatware

Norodomo,
Thank you

It is (or at least used to be) anti-cheater program for online games. I recall it from the times of playing Quake TeamFortress online, back when Steam wasn't yet a thing. I didn't realize it is still alive as all these online services seem to have their own anticheat systems nowadays (like VAC for Steam).

Do some GOG games really come with Punkbuster? I don't recall seeing any GOG game trying to install it yet, but if some GOG game tries to install it, I presume it is not needed if you are not going to play online.

I might try to install those three games to see if they really try to install Punkbuster.

A Story About My Uncle
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas

If you want you can run the same game on 20 PCs in your home if you really like that kinda thing. ;) Noone's going to stop you. Not GOG either.

As long as only you or others in your household play the games.

What do you mean "failed to install updates"?
As far as I know these games you mentioned haven't received any updates in a long time, thus meaning that you only install them and that's it. Unless the games are trying to backup your save files into a cloud and you're mistaking it for an update.

A story about my Uncle, when I check local files verify...I always seem to have a 200-223 MB update even after I allow it to do its thing. My internet speed is slow but I will strongly consider uninstall and fresh install thank you for the suggestion.

The 2 Computers in question this one is windows 10 the other windows 7 would that cause an issue with games working if II copy from one pc to the other using an external Hard drive?
O.T ,... I really wish All games were made for Linux.

Use the offline installers. Download the files, then you can install them whereever you need to, on win 10 or win 7, completely without the need for galaxy. You can also keep the files, back them up, for any future time you need them. I would avoid “copying” games, they rely on other things such as registry entries, folder sets and third party add ins.

I installed those three games on my PC (using the offline installers, I don't use the GOG Galaxy client at the moment), and none of those three installed PunkBuster for me. Fallout games installed some Microsoft Visual C++ versions that the games apparently need.

HOWEVER, when I googled for "site:gog.com punkbuster", I did find some older GOG discussions that suggested some GOG games may have installed punkbuster, at least at some point of time. So I don't know if there are some GOG games that would install it, or whether it is Galaxy that installs it.

Don't copy the installed game files, copy the standalone (offline) installers. Then install the games with them to the other PC.

I tried installing them on Windows 7. I don't know if those three games have any issues on Windows 10.

I wouldn't mind it (I'd like to play more on Linux), but it isn't like Linux gaming is trouble-free either. Dependencies dependencies, libraries this and that...

Quite many of the GOG (and I presume Steam) Linux games are Windows versions running on Wine. I couldn't get e.g. the GOG (Linux) version of Two Worlds to run on the newest Linux Mint, there was some library mismatch. The "Linux version" runs in WINE.

I had better success installing the GOG Windows version of the game to WINE myself, but it is silent, for some reason I didn't get sound to work. Maybe my WINE installation is somehow screwed too, it always says "these will not be updated but will be kept back" for some WINE packages, when I run sudo apt update/upgrade.

I haven't had enough motivation to try to fix that, I'll play that game on Windows instead.

Thank you for the offline installer information