Hi Maggie

As Traveler said, GOG is Good Old Games. I remember seeing The Longest Journey on there some while ago. Good Old Games is owned by the same company which made The Witcher games. And as Traveler also said, it is very easy to use. All games are drm-free and they are also setup by Good Old Games to work with windows xp, vista and windows 7. Normally, Good Old Games patch their games as well, so The Longest Journal from GOG should or would be patched.

Hope you get your game working, though.

Hi Karsten, I cannot get the Longest Journey working at all, when I turn it on, it opens up to the main page where the old women is with the young children, but then it still flickers and then goes black. I do have 32 bit. I have Nvidia nForce 10/100/1000Mpbs Ethernet#2
I will buy the other game and see how it goes, do you have any idea what my problem is with The Longest Journey???

Thanks

Hi Maggie

If I were to make a guess, it could be a video card problem? Depending on how old your computer is, that is...and if it has a videocard on its own.

The Ethernet card is a network card, as I remember it, it is unfortunately not a graphics card.

Is your computer a desktop or a laptop?

Did you remember, Maggie to install the game into another location that C:/Games Programs. In Vista older games like TLJ doesn't like to be placed in the program files folder since Vista sort of locks this folder (for security reasons). Have you tried uninstalling the game - and then installing it again in a folder called Games.
[To create a new folder right click on blank page on your desktop then new then folder - then rename this folder - Games. To rename the folder rightclick on the folder and go down to where it says rename and type the folder name e.g. Games].

To check if your computer has a stand-alone videocard, please rightclick on the My Computer icon, then select properties, and then on the next screen, please clcik the Hardware option, then on the next screen click on the first (top) available option. You'll come into hardware management; please scroll down to where it says graphics or screen card. Now please click on the x (the mark) in the box next to it, and see what it says. Mine says this: ASUS AH 3650 Series.

I really do hope you get TLJ to work.

I didn't realize you'd gotten as far as the old woman.
There's a separate ***archive page*** for that:

Hi and sorry if I missed this part, but have tried any of the Patches for TLJ?
Below are just a few links for patches for TLJ:

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/patches/dreamfallthelongestjourney/patch.html

http://www.gamefront.com/files/7318417/The-Longest-Journey-v1.61-Patch

Good luck and as a side note, I was able to play this game on my Win7 32 bit laptop, Nvidia card.

Starcom

May I ask how you got your game running on windows 7? I have Vista and it is a desktop and I am still stuck in the mud as you might say.

Maggie

maggie, make sure you try Jenny's suggestion first.

Yes maggie, take Draclvr's suggestion and definetly follow Jenny's advice first, and the 1st Link I gave you is not a good one for you since it is for TLJ2 and not TLJ1.
Sorry about the confusion.

As for your Q. re : how did I get it to work, I will re-install the game when I have a chance and find some savegames where you are, because to be honest I played that game about 3 years ago on my Win7 and previously my Vista Laptop and I haven't a clue as to how I got it going.
Did I need the Patch? or Not?

Good luck.

Update: I have the game installed and I have tested several save games at each chapter and All is Good, I had to make a couple of minor tweaks as suggested by Jenny100 and InlandAZ, if you have problems seeing these suggested tweaks, here is a link with Pics that might help (don't worry about it being for Win7):

http://saeedoo.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/getting-the-longest-journey-to-work-on-windows-7/

On one last note, in my CD version I installed the NO CD fix since I hate playing with a CD in my machine, especially since it is a Laptop and gets very noisy at times.

Maggie I have Vista and the security software that comes with Vista must be closed or it will interfere with launching or playing most adventure games. Close the security icons (bottom right) on your desktop before opening the game and see if that helps. Good Luck!