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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 26, 2015
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dirtyharry50: <snip>
I would not say Galaxy isn't for you or older people at all. I think it is going to be very nice in time when it is actually finished and fully tested. If Witcher 3 requires Galaxy for updates, that was a big mistake by management. It isn't right to do that for an expensive paid product and have it depend on what they are calling beta software but which in reality by definition is alpha software (Galaxy is not even feature complete). If it couldn't be done in time, they should not have launched with a dependency on it. That's just wrong in my opinion. Actually, it's just plain wrong period.

By the way, I'm just a 56 year old kid so what do I know but I think Galaxy is going to be good in time for folks of all ages. ;-)
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skeletonbow: The patches for The Witcher 3 do not require Galaxy at all, nor does the game itself. The game, it's patches and all of its bonus extras are available for download directly from the website via the web browser, or via GOG Downloader, or through GOG Galaxy all as standalone files just as every other game in the catalog. In addition to that The Witcher 3 can receive automatic updates via Galaxy if Galaxy is installed and being used, and auto-updates are enabled for the game which is the default on Galaxy.

I just woke up an hour ago to find out the 1.04 patch is out for The Witcher 3, and I go in Galaxy to see if I need to download it and... Galaxy had already updated the game for me while I was sleeping so it's ready to play. I like that, I really like that. But for those that don't like that, it can be disabled too, and either way it is configured the patches ARE available on the website and through GOG Downloader and Galaxy. So there's no reason to speculate about GOG management making a "big mistake" since it is completely an untrue premise to begin with.

To make it rock solid clear: The Witcher 3 has absolutely zero dependency on Galaxy whatsoever.
I was not speculating about anything. I said, IF that was true and I put it that way because I don't own the game and expected someone to clarify if it wasn't as you just did. Thanks for that info by the way.

This does return to the issue of GOG failing to make crystal clear that Galaxy is for testers, people who want to test the bleeding edge, etc. It should not be counted upon for regular use. The other options you outline which are available as has traditionally been the case would be preferable for those not wanting to test client software in development.

I know they put this out as a supposed beta but people in numbers clearly are not understanding that this is not a finished, reliable product which should only be used by those wanting to see it, contribute to testing it, etc. and not rely on it like it is a finished release. As far as I am concerned management has failed there when I see so many people posting here as if they believe this thing is completely ready for prime time and they are not expecting to have any problems with it. These same people become upset when this alpha client fails them in any way or lacks implemented features they expect to see, etc. That wouldn't be happening so often if there was a crystal clear and detailed disclaimer about what to expect where the download link is located and better still, make it required reading before allowing the download to commence to the extent possible, in other words, at least make the user scroll to the bottom of the info and then if they ignore it, that's their problem.

And to further clarify things for users, that same disclaimer should point out that traditional means of acquiring games, updating them, etc. should be used by those not wishing to test Galaxy. This assumes those traditional means are all still working across the board. I haven't bought anything recently to know first hand. I've just installed stuff I already had with Galaxy here and in my own case with the Mac client I didn't have any issues doing that much.
Post edited May 26, 2015 by dirtyharry50
Posted May 26, 2015
Is it possible to include some kind of time tracking reset ?

It happen that for some game, specially RPG, that i play few hours and then restart because my character building (or party building or anything else depending of the game) don't suit me well. But then the time track is not good because it's the time of the new session and the time of the cancelled session.
Posted May 26, 2015
Can you tell us when we may see a new update please? I'd really like to see a bit more interaction between the community and Galaxy devs honestly.
Post edited May 26, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted May 26, 2015
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Geralt_of_Rivia: I was actually the first person who pointed out the increased download requirement due to uncompressed file downloading during the Alpha. See the Mantis ticket. Blackguards for example had installers with a combined size of around 4.3 GB but an installed size of around 18 GB. At least that's how it was at the time of writing the ticket. At the moment it is around 5.5 GB for the installers and 18.4 GB for installed. But GOG did promise to implement compression later down the road.

Concerning your questions:

I have no idea why GOG chose to download to a temp directory first. I can imagine some reasons but to know the real reason why they did it you would have to ask someone of the Galaxy programming staff.
Maybe that is exactly the reason: they might always have planned to download the files compressed into a temp dir and then extract them to the install dir. At the moment they only download to temp and just move (and rename) them to the install dir but I could imagine that this will change the wy I described it before.

Given the fact that GOG always offered icompressed files due to their use of an installer they must always have thought about using compressed files in the future of Galaxy - otherwise nobody would want to use it since they always said that they will not abandon the old (installer packages) way completely. Steam never offered installer packages so they never had the problem because the customer only gets one size of a game to know and that is the installed size.
Posted May 26, 2015
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Geralt_of_Rivia: I was actually the first person who pointed out the increased download requirement due to uncompressed file downloading during the Alpha. See the Mantis ticket. Blackguards for example had installers with a combined size of around 4.3 GB but an installed size of around 18 GB. At least that's how it was at the time of writing the ticket. At the moment it is around 5.5 GB for the installers and 18.4 GB for installed. But GOG did promise to implement compression later down the road.

Concerning your questions:

I have no idea why GOG chose to download to a temp directory first. I can imagine some reasons but to know the real reason why they did it you would have to ask someone of the Galaxy programming staff.
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MarkoH01: Maybe that is exactly the reason: they might always have planned to download the files compressed into a temp dir and then extract them to the install dir. At the moment they only download to temp and just move (and rename) them to the install dir but I could imagine that this will change the wy I described it before.

Given the fact that GOG always offered icompressed files due to their use of an installer they must always have thought about using compressed files in the future of Galaxy - otherwise nobody would want to use it since they always said that they will not abandon the old (installer packages) way completely. Steam never offered installer packages so they never had the problem because the customer only gets one size of a game to know and that is the installed size.
I would imagine they download to a temp directory first so that if something was to go wrong with the download (ie Galaxy fails, or the download corrupts) it's not effecting your actual installed game until a successful completion of the download. But that is of course just a best guess.
Posted May 26, 2015
Support for hardware back/forward buttons would be nice, feels very awkward to use the program without them.
Posted May 26, 2015
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falloutttt: well yeah I know that part. but I was wondering since in the settings, it says "coming soon" so im guessing that it's still being worked on by gog. so I wonder if there's some kind of information as to when, just to have an idea. :)
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skeletonbow: Achievements are available right now already. The Witcher 2 and 3 are the only 2 games with achievements that I'm aware of. I've got both installed but have only played Witcher 3 long enough to get an achievement. The achievements show up in Galaxy client after you exit the game. I don't know if there is any on-screen notification in-game when you achieve an achievement as I've received 5 achievements in Witcher 3 so far but haven't noticed anything pop up on the screen yet. It's possible it did and I just missed it.

So the information as to when it is coming is something like "a week or more ago". As for achievements showing up in other games that may or may not ever happen depending on if and when the individual owners of each game decide to add Galaxy achievements and other features to their games of course. There wont be any ETA for that sort of thing happening though, not from GOG at least.

If you still see "coming soon", then uninstall Galaxy client, and blow away the ProgramFiles\GOG.com and ProgramData\GOG.com directories and reinstall the new client. When I did that, all sorts of things changed including a lot of bugs I was having going away which suggests that GOG's "upgrade" procedure in the client doesn't perfectly update it but probably leaves bits of old mixed with new intermixed installation. Reinstall after blowing it away fixed that sort of stuff. Their "uninstall" doesn't work very well at all, I think it just releases it from the registry without deleting any actual files that were installed.

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BKGaming: The Witcher games have achievements, Witcher 3 and the Witcher Adventure Game, and the Witcher 2 has them but they were not working yet (might be by now though).
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skeletonbow: Yep, I just checked and I have achievements showing under Witcher 2 also although I haven't achieved any. Need to play it to get them apparently. :)
thank you very much friend for detailed information! :)
will try as you say.
Posted May 27, 2015
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marklaur: While I agree the game does not require Galaxy, the only way to play the game according to the official manual that comes with the retail version (In Australia) states you must run the game from the desktop shortcut, no other way. And that is via Galaxy.

GoG deserves all the flak it gets as because told people they must use Galaxy in the manuals, there are no other options in the manual. Until they change the manual it is their official stance, you must use Galaxy according to GoG.

Regards MarkL
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skeletonbow: Would love to see a photo of the manual stating "GOG Galaxy is mandatory and is the only way to launch the game whether you like it or not" though. No rush, upload one whenever you get the chance. :)
Sorry but I have never uploaded a picture to the web and cannnot see a way to insert a picture here like other forums. But I just downloaded the PDF manual from my shelf and I can confirm it is the same as the paper one.

See below

Page 2 of the manual below cut and paste exactly
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INSTALLING THE GAME
Internet Connection
An Internet connection is required when launching The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt for the first
time. The game will automatically download the release day patch. Once the patch is installed,
the game no longer requires an Internet connection and can be launched offline.
If the release day patch is not downloaded automatically, please check our knowledge base at:
thewitcher.com/support
Installing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
1. Close all open applications and background tasks.
2. Insert The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game Disc 1 into the DVD-ROM drive.
• If AutoPlay is enabled, the installation screen will appear automatically.
• If AutoPlay is not enabled, navigate to the DVD-ROM drive containing The Witcher 3:
Wild Hunt - Game Disc 1 and run the “setup.exe” file.
3. When the game installer window appears, select the preferred language and accept
the EULA when prompted.
• The language you select will be used during installation and for the game itself. You can
change the in-game text language later using the in-game menus.
4. Press “Install” to install the game to the default directory. To install the game to a different
location, click “Options.”
• In “Options,” you can also choose the voice-over language to be installed. English voiceovers
are always installed in addition to the language you select here.
5. Run the game using the shortcut created during the installation process.
• NOTE: It is important that you use this shortcut. Do not try to run the game any other way.
6. The game will automatically download the release day patch.
7. Once the patch is installed, you can play the game.
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Now I appologise if I have this bit wrong as I have not read every topic on The Witcher 3, but I have just checked the forum and the FAQ does not tell you how to find the game executable. To my way of looking at it if GoG does not update the manual either online or the PDF their official stance still is you must use Galaxy.

From what I can see they are very quiet on the mater and it is only the community helping people get the game running.

Anyway enough from me as this is getting negitive and I fully support GoG, just not Galaxy.

I have had my say, time to leave. Sorry if I have offended anyone.

Regards
Posted May 27, 2015
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Geralt_of_Rivia: When you install a game with Galaxy this actually happens:

1) Galaxy downloads all files of the installed game to the directory configured in "Download games to".
2) When step 1) is finished Galaxy creates a new subdir in the directory configured in "Install game to" and moves all files downloaded in step 1) there.
3) Galaxy downloads and installs dependencies, creates registry entries that the game needs and/or default config files for the game in the users directory (or wherever the game expects them).
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timppu: Thanks for the clarification, that also seems more plausible considering people also say the "Galaxy downloads" are bigger, due to not being compressed. Some more questions:

- Do you know why it first downloads them to a temporary directory? Why not directly to the installation directory?

- Does the game installation basically need twice the amount of space (temporarily) of the game installation size? Or are those installation files really moved (not copied first, and then afterwards all the originals deleted), ie. moved files are deleted as soon as each one is copied to the new place?
If you look in the log files of the Galaxy client after a game installation, you might see that the client downloads ZIP archives -- this might be different from game to game (i don't know, ymmv). Since those ZIP archives are "temporary" and will be deleted after an installation it makes sense to put them into a temp directory.
Whether those ZIP archives contain the complete game data or just some component(s) which enable download of the rest of the game files i don't know, so i am not sure how much available disk space would be really needed for a game installation...
Post edited May 27, 2015 by elgonzo
Posted May 27, 2015
Been using Galaxy on mac and not having many troubles. I just wanted to give a bit of thanks for the guys at GOG for making it so we mac users can see what works in our library. It was a big hassel having to go through each game on the site seeing what we could and couldnt play on our macs.


Just thought its nice to get some good feedback once in a while.
Post edited May 27, 2015 by Mursa
Posted May 27, 2015
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marklaur: snip
Not sure why they would put that, but there is no real reason someone couldn't use the direct exe to launch the game.
Maybe that put that because they think you will what things like updating, achievements, ect and put that so that you get those things via Galaxy?
Post edited May 27, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted May 27, 2015
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marklaur: Now I appologise if I have this bit wrong as I have not read every topic on The Witcher 3, but I have just checked the forum and the FAQ does not tell you how to find the game executable. To my way of looking at it if GoG does not update the manual either online or the PDF their official stance still is you must use Galaxy.
No, GOG official stance never was that you must use Galaxy.

1. I understand your concern regarding game manual - I'm not sure when exactly it was created and translated, however for sure GOG did not write the manual.

2. at the very end of every single retail TW3 installation there is a screen that you have to manually click through (this time indeed prepared by GOG) explaining what is Galaxy as well as how to play your game without it / how to get game executable without ever using Galaxy.
Post edited May 27, 2015 by Destro
Posted May 27, 2015
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elgonzo: If you look in the log files of the Galaxy client after a game installation, you might see that the client downloads ZIP archives -- this might be different from game to game (i don't know, ymmv). Since those ZIP archives are "temporary" and will be deleted after an installation it makes sense to put them into a temp directory.
Whether those ZIP archives contain the complete game data or just some component(s) which enable download of the rest of the game files i don't know, so i am not sure how much available disk space would be really needed for a game installation...
Ok that makes sense, and maybe that has indeed changed recently. Considering how much some files compress, I presume it makes sense to transfer the files compressed, and then uncompressing them locally to the install directory. Rather than downloading the uncompressed files which might make the download time far higher.

Like Geralt mentioned, Blackguards compressed size 4.3GB goes to 18GB unvcompressed (install size). I know I like to download 4.3GB instead of 18GB with my 10Mbps cable modem. I presume people with monthly download caps by their ISPs agree even more.

(I don't know if there can be or generally is some on-the-fly compression/decompression of files during download, if the files are not compressed already? But I presume downloading 18GB of files really means downloading that much data, regardless of its compression rate (if any)).
Posted May 27, 2015
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elgonzo: If you look in the log files of the Galaxy client after a game installation, you might see that the client downloads ZIP archives -- this might be different from game to game (i don't know, ymmv). Since those ZIP archives are "temporary" and will be deleted after an installation it makes sense to put them into a temp directory.
Whether those ZIP archives contain the complete game data or just some component(s) which enable download of the rest of the game files i don't know, so i am not sure how much available disk space would be really needed for a game installation...
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timppu: Ok that makes sense, and maybe that has indeed changed recently. Considering how much some files compress, I presume it makes sense to transfer the files compressed, and then uncompressing them locally to the install directory. Rather than downloading the uncompressed files which might make the download time far higher.

Like Geralt mentioned, Blackguards compressed size 4.3GB goes to 18GB unvcompressed (install size). I know I like to download 4.3GB instead of 18GB with my 10Mbps cable modem. I presume people with monthly download caps by their ISPs agree even more.

(I don't know if there can be or generally is some on-the-fly compression/decompression of files during download, if the files are not compressed already? But I presume downloading 18GB of files really means downloading that much data, regardless of its compression rate (if any)).
As someone on a capped ISP... can agree. Feel my pain. xD
Posted May 27, 2015
Like Geralt mentioned, Blackguards compressed size 4.3GB goes to 18GB unvcompressed (install size). I know I like to download 4.3GB instead of 18GB with my 10Mbps cable modem. I presume people with monthly download caps by their ISPs agree even more.
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