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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 30, 2015
Why do none of the DOS games have their Setup.exe under More?
Posted May 30, 2015
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JKHSawyer: Why do none of the DOS games have their Setup.exe under More?
What exactly is it that you're looking for and for what specific games - details are important. I ask because GOG does not ship installers named "Setup.exe" so it isn't clear why someone would be looking for a file by that name unless it was a figurative way of saying "the GOG standalone installer executable".

I own literally dozens of GOG DOS games and I've downloaded most of them with Galaxy so if there are any that are actually missing, then GOG needs to know the exact game in question and the exact files that are missing so they can look into it. Details details details... :)
Posted May 30, 2015
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JKHSawyer: Why do none of the DOS games have their Setup.exe under More?
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skeletonbow: What exactly is it that you're looking for and for what specific games - details are important. I ask because GOG does not ship installers named "Setup.exe" so it isn't clear why someone would be looking for a file by that name unless it was a figurative way of saying "the GOG standalone installer executable".

I own literally dozens of GOG DOS games and I've downloaded most of them with Galaxy so if there are any that are actually missing, then GOG needs to know the exact game in question and the exact files that are missing so they can look into it. Details details details... :)
Um, most DOS games come with a 'setup.exe' of some sort, to setup sound, music, resolution, controls etc. Just look at Blood, Duke 3D or Shadow Warrior for example. Or Rise of the Triad, which needs the setup.exe to change to the expansion.

It would just be nice to have under 'More' since Galaxy is supposed to make everything easy. I figured GOG would know what I'm talking about since they are obviously lovers of the olden days.
Posted May 30, 2015
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skeletonbow: What exactly is it that you're looking for and for what specific games - details are important. I ask because GOG does not ship installers named "Setup.exe" so it isn't clear why someone would be looking for a file by that name unless it was a figurative way of saying "the GOG standalone installer executable".

I own literally dozens of GOG DOS games and I've downloaded most of them with Galaxy so if there are any that are actually missing, then GOG needs to know the exact game in question and the exact files that are missing so they can look into it. Details details details... :)
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JKHSawyer: Um, most DOS games come with a 'setup.exe' of some sort, to setup sound, music, resolution, controls etc. Just look at Blood, Duke 3D or Shadow Warrior for example. Or Rise of the Triad, which needs the setup.exe to change to the expansion.

It would just be nice to have under 'More' since Galaxy is supposed to make everything easy. I figured GOG would know what I'm talking about since they are obviously lovers of the olden days.
All of the game installers, patches, bonus goodies, DLC, etc. that is available for download on the GOG website when you purchase a game, is downloadable with GOG Downloader, and also with GOG Galaxy as well. In Galaxy the files are available for download under:

More -> Get Backup and Extras

These are the exact same files that you would get if you downloaded it all via the website or GOG Downloader. If that's not what you want, then again I'd have to recommend communicating more specifically with detail rather than assuming GOG or anyone else in the community can magically read your mind. :)
Posted May 30, 2015
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skeletonbow: What exactly is it that you're looking for and for what specific games - details are important. I ask because GOG does not ship installers named "Setup.exe" so it isn't clear why someone would be looking for a file by that name unless it was a figurative way of saying "the GOG standalone installer executable".

I own literally dozens of GOG DOS games and I've downloaded most of them with Galaxy so if there are any that are actually missing, then GOG needs to know the exact game in question and the exact files that are missing so they can look into it. Details details details... :)
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JKHSawyer: Um, most DOS games come with a 'setup.exe' of some sort, to setup sound, music, resolution, controls etc. Just look at Blood, Duke 3D or Shadow Warrior for example. Or Rise of the Triad, which needs the setup.exe to change to the expansion.

It would just be nice to have under 'More' since Galaxy is supposed to make everything easy. I figured GOG would know what I'm talking about since they are obviously lovers of the olden days.
I assume your talking about the DOS configuration, this can be found under MORE -> Graphic Mode Setup. That's all I can find that seems to be what your talking about in the DOS games I have...

EDIT: Actually the games that do have a setup option, which I have now found, do have a setup button again found under MORE... see TYRIAN 2000. So look for MORE -> Setup then.

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JKHSawyer: Um, most DOS games come with a 'setup.exe' of some sort, to setup sound, music, resolution, controls etc. Just look at Blood, Duke 3D or Shadow Warrior for example. Or Rise of the Triad, which needs the setup.exe to change to the expansion.

It would just be nice to have under 'More' since Galaxy is supposed to make everything easy. I figured GOG would know what I'm talking about since they are obviously lovers of the olden days.
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skeletonbow: All of the game installers, patches, bonus goodies, DLC, etc. that is available for download on the GOG website when you purchase a game, is downloadable with GOG Downloader, and also with GOG Galaxy as well. In Galaxy the files are available for download under:

More -> Get Backup and Extras

These are the exact same files that you would get if you downloaded it all via the website or GOG Downloader. If that's not what you want, then again I'd have to recommend communicating more specifically with detail rather than assuming GOG or anyone else in the community can magically read your mind. :)
He appears to be talking about the DOS configuration file, but I'm not 100% sure... which that is under MORE.

Edit: See above, some do have a setup button again found under MORE.
Post edited May 30, 2015 by user deleted
Posted May 30, 2015
Still waiting for real PC release. Mac first? What the heck...?
Posted May 30, 2015
May I suggest a dialogue box for GOG Galaxy's updater that informs of a "new version found", as almost every time I open it up on my desktop, a 50MB update downloads and installs, but I don't know whether this is truly an update for an older version of GOG Galaxy, or a buggy download that never quite installed properly the last time.

Perhaps the dialogue box can state which version number is currently installed, and to which version number it is updating.
Posted May 30, 2015
can anyone verify this?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_has_just_deleted_my_entire_games_folder/page3


okay i created a "deeper" folder within program files and created a dummy text file in the folder above it, it DID DELETE EVERYTHING IN THE PARENT FOLDER TOO! good thing i moved it , otherwise it would have deleted most of the programs on my HDD. this bug should be on the first page!
Post edited May 30, 2015 by dick1982
Posted May 30, 2015
Sorry, I must create my first post to let others add me. Will there be other options of finding/adding friends??
Posted May 30, 2015
Why is my Ultima 7 showing up as two separate games and the only Ultima I have that I cant run from the Galaxy client?
Posted May 30, 2015
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BKGaming: I assume your talking about the DOS configuration, this can be found under MORE -> Graphic Mode Setup. That's all I can find that seems to be what your talking about in the DOS games I have...
The DOS Setup for games like Blood, Duke 3D, SW and RotT are not under more. Graphic Mode Setup is GOG's program for changing the DOSBox .conf files. I'm talking specifically about the game's setup. It's usually always called Setup.exe or something very similar in the game folder.

They made a handy shortcut to it in the Windows start menu, but they don't put it in Galaxy. In the case of SW, they put only the expansion's setup but not the main game's.

It's really annoying.

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skeletonbow: All of the game installers, patches, bonus goodies, DLC, etc. that is available for download on the GOG website when you purchase a game, is downloadable with GOG Downloader, and also with GOG Galaxy as well. In Galaxy the files are available for download under:

More -> Get Backup and Extras

These are the exact same files that you would get if you downloaded it all via the website or GOG Downloader. If that's not what you want, then again I'd have to recommend communicating more specifically with detail rather than assuming GOG or anyone else in the community can magically read your mind. :)
I'm not a fucking moron. I know where everything is. The problem is what I want ISN'T THERE. The DOS specific Setup.exe. How much clearer can I get?
Post edited May 30, 2015 by JKHSawyer
Posted May 30, 2015
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inept.sparrow: Why is my Ultima 7 showing up as two separate games and the only Ultima I have that I cant run from the Galaxy client?
Because Ultima 7 consists of two games each having one expansion.

The first game is called The Black Gate and its expansion Forge of Virtue. The second game is named Serpent Isle and its expansion The Silver Seed.

If you check the game card you will see that GOG sells the complete edition, so you will get both games when you buy it here.

From the game card:

Ultima 7 The Complete Edition includes: Ultima 7: The Black Gate, Ultima 7: Forge of Virtue, Ultima 7 Part Two: Serpent Isle, Ultima 7 Part Two: The Silver Seed.
Posted May 30, 2015
No way to add friends based upon username that I can tell, so here goes.
Posted May 30, 2015
hello
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