Tex Murphy: Overseer

Beware: This game doesn't run on modern computers. According to the Steam discussions, installing of third party software might get the game to work, but I'm not willing to do that. Therefore I can't recommend that anyone buy this game. This game being unplayable is particularly pathetic because all the older games in this series run fine on Windows 10. Why would the more modern game be the one that doesn't work? Just bad design, I guess.

I spent almost an entire week trying to get this game to run. I tried Windows 10 and Ubuntu with every available version of Proton. Then I tried VMs running: Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 7, and Vista. I tried every possible way to install the esoteric video codec used by the game's cutscenes. I tried a "borrowed" GOG version of the game, alleged to have re-encoded cutscenes. I have never in my life tried so many ways to play an old game and ultimately fail. Either the videos won't play or it'll crash when in interaction mode. You can't seem to have both. This game should NOT BE FOR SALE because it DOES NOT RUN 😤

I loved this game and if you live in 1998 I would highly recommend it (if you don't have the better looking DVD version - this is a CD release). Even the awesome Nightdive Studios didn't fix the compatibility issues and the game does not work properly on modern machines. If you jump through enough loopholes and get it running, the graphics are corrupted and cannot be considered playable. Skip it, even if you are a fan...

[h1]Описание:[/h1] Серия видеоквестов про детектива. Игры начали выпускать с 1989 года но до сих пор не один русскоязычный переводчик не добрался до серии (кроме последней части 2014 года - Tesla Effect). В игре очень трудный английский и вы не найдете руссика, поэтому не стоит тратить деньги если не владете английским в совершенстве. Поставлю палец вниз (на рейтинг он никак не влияет), чтобы вы случайно не купили игру, которой не сможете насладиться. Я не сомниваюсь игры хорошие и может когда игре будет 40 лет или 50 лет кто-то и переведет их, но сейчас насладиться не получится. К сожалению...

Tex Murphy《神探墨菲》系列第五部作品 这部作品steam版本的质量实在拉跨 上手运行先给你一个莫名的system checker界面 接着又是一个使用ffdshow的弹窗，如果选择不允许，那直接报mpeg2 driver error无法运行游戏 如果选择运行了，虽然可以勉强进游戏，但你会在游戏里发现各种贴图错误，导致游戏体验极差

Best Storytelling and character development for Tex. Has great FMVs and puzzles are alright. The FMVs and story is more serious this time around (which people seem to dislike for some reason) and they've been updated to 480p(?) and don't glitch out during camera transitions. Controls and UI have been updated to be a bit more modern, although mouse support for looking around is still not present. [spoiler] Cliffhanger sucks but we have the sequel nowadays so no need to worry [/spoiler] Technical issues are still present though, which include FMVs not even playing, glitched textures, and crashes (not random crashes). These can all be fixed, just look on the discussions for the fixes. I've emailed and @'d Nightdive like a million times to actually fix the game but they still haven't responded. TL;DR: Apply the patches and play the game, it's worth it.

I love Tex Murphy and was thrilled to see I could buy it again through Steam. Unfortunately it has not been updated to play on most currant pc's Honestly if its up for sale through a modern platform like steam I'd expected it to be fully playable I purchased the entire Tex Murphy games as a bundle and I can only just play Under a Killing Moon but not Overseer or the Pandora Directive which were two I really wanted to play again. Just buy the NEW PC Tex game the Tesler effect but unless the others are fixed they will just have to stay a fond memory for those of us that loved it back in the day

Rubbish not working with W10 so why say Nightdrive studios have remastered it?

It's Tex Murphy being Tex Murphy. You either like him or not. Just wish they'd used the keys to move and the mouse to look, not the other way around. Meh, still love it.

A oublier. Cette version ne lance pas les vidéo sur les configuration modernes et aucun patch en vue. C'est dommage.