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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 June 11, 2015
Have we found a solution to reinstalling GoG to a drive other than the initial install drive? I'd like it on my C:\ SSD rather than my D:\ HDD
Posted June 11, 2015
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Faenix1: Hopefully this is the right forum.
Before I get some crap, as per usual, for having an outdated PC I'll just state I'm not complaining just merely asking out of curiosity.

Any particular reason why GOG Galaxy client requires Windows 7 or later? I'm still running Vista and it appears this is the only client I've come across where it isn't supported. Find it kind of weird and disappointing at the same time.
Well, i don't know, but i would guess the reason is perhaps related to GOG not having enough resources to test against more than W7, W8, W8.1, W10, Mac OSX and some popular Linux distros (assuming they do actually run test suites on different target OS's).

Have you tried running the client on your box already? Galaxy client being unsupported for a Vista does not necessarily mean that it does not run on this Windows version. Of course, keep in mind that a current version running properly now on Vista will not guarantee that future versions of the client will still run on Vista. Vista not being supported probably also means not getting help from the support team for any Vista-related problems with the client...
Post edited June 11, 2015 by elgonzo
Posted June 11, 2015
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QuickFixMedic: Have we found a solution to reinstalling GoG to a drive other than the initial install drive? I'd like it on my C:\ SSD rather than my D:\ HDD
No, no proper solution/bug fix for this issue yet, as it seems.
Fortunately someone found a workaround for this problem. See the comment for issue #2575 in GOG's Mantis bug tracker.
Post edited June 11, 2015 by elgonzo
Posted June 11, 2015
If this helps anyone - if you're suffering from game&extras backup downloads pretty much constantly "failing" after a short time when using Galaxy ("disc access problem" error) - temporarily disable your antivirus (in my case - Avast).
No idea what it is that makes these two applications incompatible.
Posted June 11, 2015
I made this how-to on fixing the install directory issue.

pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fgECL5Ar

sources: Myself and this post on my favorite Q&A site: superuser.com/questions/222238/how-to-change-path-to-executable-to-a-service/252850#252850
Post edited June 11, 2015 by AweSampo
Posted June 11, 2015
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Faenix1: Hopefully this is the right forum.
Before I get some crap, as per usual, for having an outdated PC I'll just state I'm not complaining just merely asking out of curiosity.

Any particular reason why GOG Galaxy client requires Windows 7 or later? I'm still running Vista and it appears this is the only client I've come across where it isn't supported. Find it kind of weird and disappointing at the same time.
It's because they said they ran into some issues on Vista and XP that they fixed but didn't like the look of for the future of the client. Having said that Galaxy works just fine on Vista right now even if it's not officially supported, a future update may change that, but right now it's fine.

They have said they will not block the client from running on Vista or XP.
Posted June 11, 2015
Great program :)
Posted June 11, 2015
Galaxy is exactly what I have wanted for a long time, which is a steam manager without DRM. I hope that it will be a game changer in a gaming world loaded with DRM. Thank you, GOG!

Galaxy works fine for most of the games that I have. But there are some games which show apparent issues. I don't know if these issues happen only for me or for many people. But I just want to remind GOG people of these issues so that they can fix them.

(1) installation of the games 'Unrest' and 'Outlast' doesn't work no matter how I tried. The games themselves work fine (if I start the game in a usual way without using Galaxy, they start fine). I just cannot install these games through Galaxy.
(2) The avatars of YS I & II on the left side area don't show up (Galaxy keeps on searching for the avatars for these games).
(3) Overall Galaxy is slow. When I start Galaxy, it takes a lot of times until Galaxy recognizes the installed games.

Many games work fine only on Windows XP/Vista. For this reason I set up my computer works for Windows XP/7/8/Linux. Hopefully GOG will keep Galaxy available for Windows XP/Vista in the future (If it is necessary to reduce the features of Galaxy just for XP/Vista, it would be OK as far as the fundamental functions of Galaxy is working for XP/Vista as much as Windows 7/8/10).
Posted June 11, 2015
Septerra Core does not launch from the Gog Galaxy client. I have to manually open my gog folder and launch it from there.
Posted June 12, 2015
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Phaidox: If this helps anyone - if you're suffering from game&extras backup downloads pretty much constantly "failing" after a short time when using Galaxy ("disc access problem" error) - temporarily disable your antivirus (in my case - Avast).
No idea what it is that makes these two applications incompatible.
Thanks, Phaidox, that was happening to me, just randomly in the middle of some otherwise successful imports?
Posted June 12, 2015
Can I use command line launch options with GOG Galaxy? This is a very important feature, I need to limit the frame rate in Far Cry 2 for example (Currently I'm using MSI Afterburner): [url=http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Far_Cry_2:_Fortune%27s_Edition#Bouncing_NPC_glitch]http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Far_Cry_2:_Fortune%27s_Edition#Bouncing_NPC_glitch[/url]
Posted June 12, 2015
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SnowGabe: Can I use command line launch options with GOG Galaxy? This is a very important feature, I need to limit the frame rate in Far Cry 2 for example (Currently I'm using MSI Afterburner): [url=http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Far_Cry_2:_Fortune%27s_Edition#Bouncing_NPC_glitch]http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Far_Cry_2:_Fortune%27s_Edition#Bouncing_NPC_glitch[/url]
Try modifying the "goggame-<somenumber>.info" file which you should find in FarCry 2's game folder.

In this .info file, look for the primary task definition. It should look similar to this example (note the "isPrimary" property which indicates this being the primary task):

{
"isPrimary" : true,
"type" : "FileTask",
"path" : "SomeExecutable.exe",
"workingDir" : ""
},

(FYI: I do not own FarCry 2, hence i can only illustrative examples. But i am sure you figure out which one is the right task in the .info file.)

Add the desired command line options to the "arguments" property of this primary task. If the task does not yet have an "arguments" property (as in my example), add it to the task with the command line options you desire. You should end up with something like this:

{
"isPrimary" : true,
"type" : "FileTask",
"path" : "SomeExecutable.exe",
"workingDir" : "" ,
"arguments" : "-some -command -line -options"
},

Note that if you add the "arguments" property to the task, do not forget to add a comma at the end of the line preceding the "arguments" property (in my example that line would be the one with the "workingDir" property).

After you have done the modifications and saved the .info file, you might perhaps need to restart the Galaxy client.
Give it a try...

A very important note of caution:
Make sure that the data structure of the .info file is intact and does not contain errors. The data in the .info files is in JSON format. If your modifications are incorrect and the modified .info file contains broken/invalid JSON data, then the Galaxy client might remove the game from the list of installed games (in which case you would need to scan+import the game after fixing the broken .info file).

P.S.: It obviously would make sense if the client UI would provide means for an easy configuration of command line arguments. But until such a feature is available, one has to resort to editing files manually -- or not using the client to start such games ;)
Post edited June 12, 2015 by elgonzo
Posted June 12, 2015
Any plans to be able to choose an 'and' rather than 'or' search on tags?
I want to find games that are 'RPG' AND 'Top Down / Isometric' AND 'Real Time' or example, not be shown all the games that I've given ANY of these tags to!
Post edited June 12, 2015 by Fever_Discordia
Posted June 12, 2015
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QuickFixMedic: Have we found a solution to reinstalling GoG to a drive other than the initial install drive? I'd like it on my C:\ SSD rather than my D:\ HDD
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elgonzo: No, no proper solution/bug fix for this issue yet, as it seems.
Fortunately someone found a workaround for this problem. See the comment for issue #2575 in GOG's Mantis bug tracker.
I had no luck with this. When installed on my C:\ drive, attempting to open Galaxy does not result in an error message, simply nothing visibly happens. With process explorer I can see that the galaxy client service is opens, nothing happens, and then closes after like 7 seconds. Haven't found any solutions or work arounds to it. It simply does not want to work correctly on my C:\
Posted June 12, 2015
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elgonzo: No, no proper solution/bug fix for this issue yet, as it seems.
Fortunately someone found a workaround for this problem. See the comment for issue #2575 in GOG's Mantis bug tracker.
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QuickFixMedic: I had no luck with this. When installed on my C:\ drive, attempting to open Galaxy does not result in an error message, simply nothing visibly happens. With process explorer I can see that the galaxy client service is opens, nothing happens, and then closes after like 7 seconds. Haven't found any solutions or work arounds to it. It simply does not want to work correctly on my C:\
That's unfortunate. The workaround helped me once. But as it seems there are more things broken than just the uninstaller forgetting to properly uninstall Galaxy's system services.

Do the log files contain something that might point towards a problem that could be related to the issues with the system services?
Does the system event log contain some information about why the system service did shut down?
Post edited June 12, 2015 by elgonzo
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