I have a bunch of GOG games and would like to know how to burn the games and if I need to burn gog installer ? Thank you!

BubbaJake,

You don't need to burn the GOG 'downloader'.
It will install games for you but you only need it to download games much more quickly than you could in your browser.

Get yourself some DVD-R 4.7 GB disks since they'll handle practically any adventure game and put one in your computer.
I'm going to assume you have Windows 7, which has a disk burner built in.
Go to the game you want to burn and select it.
If you want to put the extra goodies on the disk (the manual, soundtrack, etc.), check them, too.
Then in the bar above select Burn and just follow the instructions.
It's really not hard at all.

Gil.

The first time I tried to "burn a game to disk", many years ago, I didn't realise that I had to burn the downloaded setup files (etc) exactly as they were when they arrived - that is BEFORE I opened any of them.

I had to come here to Gameboomers for help. Otherwise I would never have fathomed out how to get a playable game !!

That's right, Mad. You have to burn the downloadeded setup files if you ever need to install the game again. The support FAQs at GOG tell you do backup the setup files as soon as you download them.

http://www.gog.com/support/website_help/downloads_and_games

Here is more from the GOG forums.

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

Dumb me, I should have said just what Mad did, BubbaJake.
You burn the setup files you downloaded from GOG, not the game files after installation.
In other words, you burn those files with .exe and .bin (if any) after them that you see in the game file once it is in your GOG downloads folder.

Gil.

I knew what you meant, Gil!

Ah, you speak my language, Tomato Lady!


Gil.

But BubbaJake might not !!