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Posted May 06, 2015
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!!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

== BUG REPORTING ==

Please use: http://mantis.gog.com and include
1. steps to reproduce the bug (if possible)
2. screenshot or movie showing the bug (if possible)
3. Galaxy Client logs (see below)

Where can I find Galaxy logs on my computer?
On Windows 7 or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs

== FEATURE SUGGESTIONS ==

Please use: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy. For feature suggestions and votes on them please try do explain how Galaxy and its users will really benefit from it.

== IMPORT ALREADY INSTALLED GAMES TO GALAXY ==

1. For GOG games installed using installers from the last few months (so called Galaxy-compatible installers)
Click the Galaxy logo button on top of the sidebar and select "scan and import folders" - it will find all compatible games within that folder and add them to the Client.

2. For remaining GOG game INSTALLATIONS
Find the game in the Library (click on the image of the game), then click the More button and select "Manage Installation" -> "Import folder" and point the folder selector into the folder where that game is installed.

== KNOWN ISSUES ==
- throttling max download speed is not yet possible
- notifications related to incoming chat messages and friend requests does not always disappear instantly when consumed and may require reloading Store page
- games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
- Moving Galaxy from /Applications on Mac OS X will stop the app from working
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer
Post edited October 03, 2016 by Liosan
Posted July 03, 2015
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Hi Everyone,

Below you can find the changelog of GOG Galaxy.

Changelog 1.1.15 (September 7th, 2016):
Changes / Improvements:
• Added Wallet button in dropdown menu under user's avatar
• Performance improvements on UI speed and a little on CPU usage
• Enabled copying text in Galaxy forums
• History will now remember only the 100 most recent pages in history
Bugfixes:
• Fix for "Disk access problem" bug, which broke installation and updates of games. (Bug happened on Windows only, but general mechanism is better on OS X as well)
• Fix for Verify/Repair, which did not work in some scenarios (The above bug for example)
• Fix for "Server problem" while downloading backup installers or other goodies. They will now work, even if temporary download folder is same as destination folder
• Fixed situations in which Store page sometimes did not load properly after waking up computer

Changelog 1.1.16 (September 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• Galaxy now supports H.264 codecs
• Much better handling of paying using third party processors (PayPal, paysafecard etc.)
• Friends and chat window now scale with the system scaling factor
• New and prettier GOG Eula will be used in games
• Better handling of loading timeouts

Bugfixes:
• "INSTALLED" label will appear all pages of the library now
• Fixed a bug with game time tracking for some games. Galaxy will now register more than one minute:)
• Fixed a bug in which Galaxy in rare cases could not be able to update the game (bug rather existed in rollbacks)
• Galaxy will no longer show a little bit of bare code upon launching
• Fixed blurred images in sidebar expanded list mode

Changelog 1.1.17(hotfix September 20th, 2016):
• Fixed crashes and 'Disk Access Problem' caused by updating Galaxy from 1.1.12 (and earlier versions) to 1.1.16

Changelog 1.1.18 (October 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• More accurate game time tracking mechanism
• Improved mechanism showing current online status between friends

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to stop tracking game time

Changelog 1.1.19 (October 25th, 2016):
Improvements:
• We have removed download size from Galaxy updater. It showed faulty data, as Galaxy Updater doesn't download > 100mb each time and only downloads differences. It will come back in nearest future, when it will show correct data:)
• The first check for game updates will be done 15s after Galaxy starts, instead of 5 minutes.
• OSX: Improved mechanism responsible for removing old files left by Galaxy updates
• OSX: Improved the way Galaxy handles installing games into protected locations like /Applications; you will receive a password prompt about a "Helper tool" installation

Bugfixes:
• Fixed "Essential components missing" error which sometimes appeared after fresh installation
• Fixed a situation where failure in Updater could lead to Galaxy not being able to launch
• Fixed self-update on OSX to properly delete leftover files
• Fixed friends window losing functionality after network loss and reconnect
• Fixed blurry Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
• Galaxy will remember maximised window status

Changelog 1.1.20(November 2nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed installing XNA4 and other msi-based dependencies.
• Store page won't be reloaded twice upon logging in

Changelog: 1.1.21 (November 17th, 2016)
Improvements / changes:
• Added "with preview updates" suffix to Galaxy window title
• Small optimizations with memory and Galaxy loading time
• Small improvements with updater, it should fail less

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug with Galaxy refreshing pages
• Fixed occasional crashes

Changelog 1.1.22 (November 22nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will no longer freeze when downloading a game update and checking another game in library
• Galaxy should crash even less now:)

Changelog 1.1.23 (November 28th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will be now able to reconnect to internet correctly, if computer was put to sleep and then woken up without (initially) Internet connection
• Downloading of games/updates should have less impact on starting other installations

Changelog 1.1.24(December 6th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Downloading an installer with Galaxy and using it to install the game should not result in redownloading the whole game again
• Updater should no longer report over 100% progress on download

Adjustments:
• Increased timeout for failures during sign in
• Increased timeout for "Loading Timeout"

Changelog 1.1.25 (December 20th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed a crash when trying to install certain games (Game affected was 1979 Revolution: Black Friday).

Changelog 1.1.26 (December 23rd, 2016, Preview only)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 26th, 2017, Preview)
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 31th, 2017)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.28 (March 10th, 2017)
Changes / Improvements:
- Better support for differential patches. They are now seperate depending on game's language and system bitness
- Italian & Japanese partial support + more Spanish translations
- Improved checking for new available updates of the games
- We'll sort available DLCs alphabetically
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when Galaxy doesn't have permissions to the logs directory
- Fixed showing empty grey page after a while of inactivity
- Fixed infinite spinner after going to support page
- Fixed displaying of prices in cart when they were over 999 (Bug caused by a comma in the price)
- MacOS: Popup windows (for example chat) will no longer open as a tab but as a separate window instead
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak (~30MB upon GOG Galaxy launch)
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak while playing a game

Changelog 1.1.29 (March 14nd, 2017)
Changes:
- Changes in downloading mechanism, which allows for better control over download's flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed displaying progress of differential patches (It did not display the "Extracting" status)

Changelog 1.1.30 (March 16th, 2017)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash within games downloading mechanism

== PREVIEW UPDATES* ===

HOW TO ENABLE PREVIEWS?
Go to your Galaxy settings and check the option to receive preview updates.

HOW TO DISABLE PREVIEW?
- Uninstall Galaxy
- Download current installer from gog.com/galaxy
- Install Galaxy
- Import your games

Changelog 1.2.0 (March 22nd, 2017)
Changes and improvements:
- Cloud saves backup and syncing (supported games only)
- Screenshot capture with F12 (supported games only)
- In-game overlay with FPS counter and notifications (supported games only)
- Greatly improved chat, also in overlay
- Ability to enable or disable achievements, game time tracking, auto-updating games and more
- Desktop and in-game notifications system
- Ability to set bandwidth limit and scheduler
- New settings window
- Rarity information in achievements
- Abort button next to installation status
- Only one Galaxy Updater window will be shown in most cases
- GOG Galaxy updates will be downloaded in the background
- Games are now downloaded directly to their install directory, instead of a temporary location
- Galaxy changelog is displayed in Galaxy

Bugfixes:
- Fixed game time tracking issues
- Initial size of Galaxy Client window will respect Windows scaling
- Improved Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
- Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to redownload whole data in case of a failure of installation/update
- Thumbnail highlighting in media gallery now works properly
- Decreased client's network and CPU usage (especially for a lot of games)
- MacOS: Fixed situation when Galaxy Client could downloading due to App Nap
- MacOS: Fixed crash when logging out with "New post" popup open
- MacOS: Fixed game processes not being properly cleaned up after exiting
Post edited March 22, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted March 26, 2016
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For everyone who has a problem with missing api-ms-crt dlls in Client's versions post 1.1.5:
Please install one of those windows update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118401
You may need to update Windows to meet the requirements for these:
For Windows 8.1 and for Windows Server 2012: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2919355
For Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/976932

You can also try reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables 2015 (x86) if you meet above requirements.
Available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

If above instructions doesn't work for you, create a separate issue on mantis.gog.com and we'll try to help you individually.

Please note that this solution only helps with the missing api-ms-crt dlls.


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Answering this question: Why 1.1 doesn't work after updating to 1.2?

This is happening probably due to incompatible database from version 1.2, please delete this folder:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GOG.com\Galaxy\storage
usually
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\storage\

Then you'll have to use scan&import (menu under the top Galaxy logo) function to see your games back in Galaxy Client.
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Post edited March 27, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted May 21, 2015
Just a quick question regarding the friends list functionality and how the client integrates with the rest of the community stuff. I'm not using the client right now, I may a little further down the line but as of right now I've opted out.

Thing is, I have added some people to my friends list on the site. I'm curious as to how the functionality of the client works with this when I'm browsing the forums. For example, I tend to read the forums a few times a day - when I do so, do I pop up as 'online' for the people in their Galaxy clients, the same way it'll say online if I hover over my name on the forums?
Posted May 21, 2015
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gringlas: Regarding the game time issue. As said in an earlier post of mine. On my Mac it counts game time all right and when I click on settings all checkboxes in features are greyed out, but checked. On my windows machine, all checkbox are greyed out and unchecked (see attached screen).
I searched around in registry, C:\ProgramData and my User\AppData folders, but I can't seem to find anyhting to change the setting.
I'd realy like to see that feature work, as this is -as stupid as it sounds - a mandatory feature for me oO
ah ! thank you, i didnt see that checkbox before..
it seems really in "beta" state atm, they should not put the time in there if it doesnt work yet imho.
its just annoying when you believe it works and then doesnt...
do you know any other method of keeping track of the game time, especially in the witcher3 i am curious how much i play..
thanks again

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Nerdmigo: hi guys,
gog galaxy has stopped counting my "time played" for the witcher3 its stuck at 3h 15 m.
anyone got the same problem ?
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skeletonbow: Yep, everyone.

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Nerdmigo: are there other ways to see the play time for witcher 3 ?
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skeletonbow: Nopers, only option is to wait until they fix the bugs and put out an update. Should hopefully be a new build in the next few days if we're lucky as I think it was hinted at last Friday or something.
i am fearing a reset of playtime after the update, or the playtime missing from the previous play sessions before the update.. its gonna be chaos, real chaos :D
but i really like a playtime feature, and with like i meant need.
As other peoples said here its almost mandatory, its what you expect.. so lets wait for an update ^^
Post edited May 21, 2015 by Nerdmigo
Posted May 21, 2015
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Venom: !!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

== BUG REPORTING ==

Please use: http://mantis.gog.com and include
1. steps to reproduce the bug (if possible)
2. screenshot or movie showing the bug (if possible)
3. Galaxy Client logs (see below)

Where can I find Galaxy logs on my computer?
On Windows Vista or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs

== FEATURE SUGGESTIONS ==

Please use: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy. For feature suggestions and votes on them please try do explain how Galaxy and its users will really benefit from it.

== IMPORT ALREADY INSTALLED GAMES TO GALAXY ==

1. For GOG games installed using installers from the last few months (so called Galaxy-compatible installers)
Click the "+" button on top of the sidebar and select "scan and import folders" - it will find all compatible games within that folder and add them to the Client.

2. For remaining GOG game INSTALLATIONS
Find the game in the Library (click on the image of the game), then click the More button and select "Manage" -> "Import folder" and point the folder selector into the folder where that game is installed.
Please be aware that Client will accept any folder pointed to and will overwrite files inside it (this can for example wipe some mods or damage other apps in case of pointing to a wrong folder) and will update the game to the newest version (current default language English).

== KNOWN ISSUES ==
- few games are not yet compatible with Galaxy and are marked accordingly on Library page
- back / forward navigation is only available in Store section and requires further work
- pausing downloads or throttling max download speed is not yet possible
- notifications related to incoming chat messages and friend requests does not always disappear instantly when consumed and may require reloading Store page
- games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
- games installed in Galaxy alpha 0.6 that included DLC may require a full game reinstall in the beta
- reinstalling Galaxy (Windows) to a different folder than the initial install will cause an error
- Moving Galaxy from /Applications on Mac OS X will stop the app from working
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer
- DPI scaling beyond 100% is nor respected on Windows (Client UI will be very small or 4k screens)
kek'd irl
Posted May 21, 2015
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Minmataro: When will other games get achievements? Since Witcher 3 now has them enabled im assuming it wont be difficult to at least give games that have achievements on Steam achievements on gog galaxy.
And then some. Can you imagine playing the older titles like Theme Hospital, BloodRayne etc with achievements? Awesome!
Posted May 21, 2015
bonjours !
Posted May 21, 2015
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Pond86: And then some. Can you imagine playing the older titles like Theme Hospital, BloodRayne etc with achievements? Awesome!
Completing Theme Hospital is an achievement in and of itself.

Reminds me that I need to check the current status of CorsixTH...
Post edited May 21, 2015 by EuroMIX
Posted May 21, 2015
Hello China!
Posted May 21, 2015
Downloaded and installed Witcher 3 using the old fashion way (Gog downloader using website), while GOG Galaxy was not opened. (Only testing Galaxy with select smaller games so far).
This still added witcher 3 into the galaxy list of installed games somehow, complety on it's own.
It should not do this.

Also later, when starting playing witcher 3 while GOG Galaxy was shut down. My brother could still see me as online on Galaxy, I also saw my name on the game menu. This really should not happen while Galaxy was shut off.
I had to uninstall Galaxy to be able to play Witcher 3, without being shown online.

My brother has also since uninstalled Galaxy, and this has up to now, reduced his witcher 3 crashes (He has had a lot of crash issued with the game, unlike myself).
I'm not saying this solved it for him though, since he hasn't played it long enough without galaxy yet. But so far at least, no crashes for him.
Posted May 21, 2015
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Runibl: This still added witcher 3 into the galaxy list of installed games somehow, complety on it's own.
It should not do this.
It does this because the standalone installers have been updated for Galaxy, so Galaxy will automatically add them if Galaxy is installed. This is so people who use Galaxy but prefer the standalone installer for whatever reason can still have their game in Galaxy without issue. You can still launch the game without Galaxy though.

So basically it's designed like that on purpose...
Posted May 21, 2015
I can understand that point.
But it still logged me in galaxy, when I launched the game without galaxy. Galaxy was not even on at that point.
Posted May 21, 2015
hoi
Posted May 21, 2015
HOLA :)
Posted May 21, 2015
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Runibl: Downloaded and installed Witcher 3 using the old fashion way (Gog downloader using website), while GOG Galaxy was not opened. (Only testing Galaxy with select smaller games so far).
This still added witcher 3 into the galaxy list of installed games somehow, complety on it's own.
It should not do this.
Sounds ok to me. If you configure Galaxy to install games to a particular folder and then manually install a game in that folder, it's natural to expect Galaxy will pick up the game. But I can understand some people may not like this behaviour. The best way of handling this would be having an option to switch manual/automatic games import.

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Runibl: Also later, when starting playing witcher 3 while GOG Galaxy was shut down. My brother could still see me as online on Galaxy, I also saw my name on the game menu. This really should not happen while Galaxy was shut off.
I had to uninstall Galaxy to be able to play Witcher 3, without being shown online.
This is really weird. I've just tested it with Galaxy constantly working. The first time I was logged out, launched TW3 and there was no name at all at the bottom right. Exited, logged in Galaxy, launched again and my nickname was there. Then again exited the game, logged out from Galaxy, launched the game and no nickname. Is it possible you had another instance of Galaxy running?
Posted May 21, 2015
WItcher 3 preloaded very fast, but today WItcher 3 patch is downloading at 0,1 MB/s (I'm on 300 Mbit connection)
Posted May 21, 2015
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Ryoga1980: WItcher 3 preloaded very fast, but today WItcher 3 patch is downloading at 0,1 MB/s (I'm on 300 Mbit connection)
I thought it was my connection. I had a look at the changelog and cancelled the update, didn't look important to me at the moment.
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