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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 07, 2015
So should feature requests be posted on the wishlist instead of mantis now? Since there still is the option to put feature requests under mantis.
Posted May 07, 2015
Problem updating?
Had ALPHA already.
Received BETA invite with key.

Attempted to redeem BETA key says it is in my library.

Check, sure enough the Alpha is labelled BETA.

It supposedly did an update this morning.
Still same version and same Alpha feature set.

Have not tried Uninstall and reinstall yet. Just noting the update issue.
EDIT: Download and install of the BETA client setup_galaxy_1.0.0.871.exe from my library replaced the Alpha version with the BETA correctly.
Post edited May 07, 2015 by Red_Eagle_LXIX
Posted May 07, 2015
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Red_Eagle_LXIX: It supposedly did an update this morning.
Still same version and same Alpha feature set.

Have not tried Uninstall and reinstall yet. Just noting the update issue.
It is almost the same as the last alpha, the only difference seem to be this friends stuff in the upper right corner. So perhaps you had the right version ;-)
Posted May 07, 2015
I have a new issue that started when Galaxy updated itself to Beta. When I click on Store Page & Review on a game in my library it is automatically taking me to the install page, rather than the store.

This wasn't happening in the Alpha. It was working fine there.

I have tried closing and restarting multiple times, resetting options to original (as I had changed it to open in my library), but nothing seems to fix the problem. Install/Support/Hide Game are all functioning properly.
Post edited May 07, 2015 by scoobydooami
Posted May 07, 2015
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Garrett24601: I still can not change the instal location, because of the "essential components missing." error that is already known about in the ALPHA.
I was hoping that would be fixed in the BETA version.
Here is to hoping that will be fixed in the final version.
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skeletonbow: Solution for this already posted several times today in the thread earlier if you go back and read through. Hope this helps.
I didn't see any solution in this thread about changing the Galaxy Client instal location (not games the Client its self.)

Edit: The solution was posted in a different thread http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_starts_now_e5bf1/post925

Thanks for helping anyway.
=)
Post edited May 07, 2015 by Garrett24601
Posted May 07, 2015
I'm a spanish user and i'm very dissatisfied with the treatment give us to non-English-speaking community and is one of the reasons because you do not sell more in my country.

I understand that the galaxy client is beta and are still things to polish and I'm not even going to complain that we can not translate the interface but is very serious that we can only install the games in English.

Spanish is the second language most used in the world used by 50-60 millions of persons more than the English language.

Sorry but no excuses for the bad treatment we have from a company like Gog.
Posted May 07, 2015
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FiatLux: Sorry I think that you are plain wrong there...
Yeah , maybe you don't like to install and use software to download , but I for one surely wouldn't like to be without the GOG downloader as I consider it one of the greatest and nifty downloader apparatus / tools around..
So for me no doubt that I would have to install a piece of software anyway ..
The Client hopefully can be used just like the present GOG downloader can to just manage your downloads (with the addition of being able to work as an install manger too) and if it can not then I will join the "choir" to which you apparently belong ;) :P
"kdgog" appear to be a somewhat typical "not that young user" that haves typically "not that young user" attitudes (besides the use of Facebook) and opinions... And that kind of user generally tends to focus on the "I don't like" (than seeing that "it's completely optional" so no need to make any fuzz over that...)
Thanks for the comments, we probably agree more than not, and I'm glad Galaxy (and the previous downloader) are useful tools to you.

I should clarify that none of my comments were meant as "GOG DON'T DO THIS!" They were just meant as "You have lots of users, it's good to satisfy them all, just remember that we have diverse opinions and ways of working and it is good to offer options, bad to offer only one way of doing things - which I know you aren't doing, great, I just know it is better to say in advance than have changes happen and react retrospectively". Or something. Since there aren't regular surveys of GOG users and their attitudes (and, to be honest, many companies that do surveys completely balls it up by only allowing fixed choices that totally exclude what their customers want to say) the best way is probably through fora which GOG staff read.

Oh, and yes, you're correct that I'm not too young. My first console was an Atari 2600 (ouch, the blisters from those square joysticks while playing Berzerk...).
Posted May 07, 2015
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skeletonbow: Solution for this already posted several times today in the thread earlier if you go back and read through. Hope this helps.
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Garrett24601: I didn't see any solution in this thread about changing the Galaxy Client instal location (not games the Client its self.)
You could try what was proposed in the following post:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_starts_now_e5bf1/post925
Posted May 07, 2015
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Posted May 07, 2015
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oscargeek: I'm a spanish user and i'm very dissatisfied with the treatment give us to non-English-speaking community and is one of the reasons because you do not sell more in my country.

I understand that the galaxy client is beta and are still things to polish and I'm not even going to complain that we can not translate the interface but is very serious that we can only install the games in English.

Spanish is the second language most used in the world used by 50-60 millions of persons more than the English language.

Sorry but no excuses for the bad treatment we have from a company like Gog.
GOG is introducing more languages, but it takes time. Only a few months ago for example Russian was integrated. So the chances are good that Spanish might also come here.
In regards of installing the games in galaxy, I was under the impression that you can change the language of the game if a different language is available. At least this was working in beta.
Also keep in mind that often games do not have other languages thna English because of troubles in regards of the rights/licences of the languages packs.
Posted May 07, 2015
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Garrett24601: I didn't see any solution in this thread about changing the Galaxy Client instal location (not games the Client its self.)
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moonshineshadow: You could try what was proposed in the following post:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_starts_now_e5bf1/post925
Thank you so much Moonshineshadow!
That worked perfectly and needs a sticky.
Plus rep to you.


Quote from link:
"All i've done was to uninstall the client, opened the windows console and type: sc delete GalaxyClientService
Then reinstall the client.
Worked for me.

Hope this help."
Post edited May 07, 2015 by Garrett24601
Posted May 07, 2015
Aprox. how long does it take to receive a key? Asked for one yesterday, but haven't received anything yet.
Posted May 07, 2015
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Red_Eagle_LXIX: It supposedly did an update this morning.
Still same version and same Alpha feature set.

Have not tried Uninstall and reinstall yet. Just noting the update issue.
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moonshineshadow: It is almost the same as the last alpha, the only difference seem to be this friends stuff in the upper right corner. So perhaps you had the right version ;-)
Thanks for the thought, but nope, I can see the differences quite clearly with the Beta versus the prior Alpha I had installed. I did an edit to reflect I had to manually download the Beta from my library and run the installer to get updated.

Differences noted right away:
Different font/size for the whole headers (Store/Library/Username Area)
The little friends/people icon on the header next to the cart.
Hover mouse over profile has new options related to chat.

Just a few things I noticed in the minutes since the manual install/update.
Posted May 07, 2015
I've been trying to import my already installed games into Galaxy, and I'm running into two major problems.

First of all, I keep getting "game corrupted" messages on roughly half of the games I try to import.

Secondly, the client itself has frozen twice now in the time I've been using it. The only option to get it working again is to manually shut the whole thing down and restart it, which then requires me to go back through the list and tell it to verify/repair the corrupted games all over again.


So is this happening to anyone else? Anyone know what the problem is?
Posted May 07, 2015
Update issue 2:
After installing (manually because auto-update didn't actually update the client) the Beta over the Alpha my game path settings were all reset to C: versions of those paths.

Example I had the following paths set:
Install to: J:\GoG_Games
Download games to: G:\GoG_Games\!Downloads\temp
Download extras to: G:\GoG_Games\!Game_Extras

AFTER updating to Beta the settings became:
Install to: C:\GoG_Games
Download games to: C:\GoG_Games\!Downloads\temp
Download extras to: C:\GoG_Games\!Game_Extras
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