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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 21, 2015
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mike_cesara: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth..

I think a big pop-up window Walk away if you have no clue what <span class="bold">BETA</span> means. before BETA Galaxy installation could be a way of handling this.
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Tarnicus: Except that Galaxy is a piece of shit Alpha not Beta. Even the page you linked clearly states that "Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs". Galaxy is far from feature complete. I wouldn't have half the issues I do with GOG if they hadn't fucked up manual downloading to make it far more cumbersome or fucked up the PM system by introducing chat.

Maybe instead of a pop-up saying "Walk away if you have no clue what BETA means" it should state "Walk away if you don't want to alpha test poorly coded software with numerous bugs that is far from feature complete unless you are an arse-licking fan-boy of GOG."
After they got online with galaxy, I deinstalled Galaxy beta from my PC. This client is not ready to go public at all. It's still a beta version, that dowmloads masses of data for no obvious reasons.

Wait untill they have finished it.
Posted June 21, 2015
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BKGaming: I'm not a 20 year old kid by any means, so who is putting their foot in their mouth now? The answer I linked you worked for people that have this issue, so if you did it right and still have this issue then you going to have to wait for a GOG fix. I repeat this is BETA software. You are essentially testing it.

Don't make stupid comments and you won't get called out for it. If you really believe the costumer is always right then boy are you in for a rude awakening. What are you 5 years old?

Need more info, did you install in the same place as before? Can you press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC OR CTRL + ALT + DELETE and run task manager after you try to start Galaxy and see if any Galaxy process are running in the background?
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stika: Hi there, thank you for the reply. No, I installed it in a different drive. When I use the task manager I can't seem to find GOG Galaxy anywhere.
Hmm, I'm wondering if it has to do with essential components error but your not getting the error. As that normally happens when people re-install to a different location.

Uninstall again and try doing this:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_starts_now_e5bf1/post925

It could be that parts of Galaxy are simply being left over after the uninstall causing you issues... It which you may need to run a program to clean up your PC.
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mike_cesara: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth..

I think a big pop-up window Walk away if you have no clue what <span class="bold">BETA</span> means. before BETA Galaxy installation could be a way of handling this.
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Tarnicus: Except that Galaxy is a piece of shit Alpha not Beta. Even the page you linked clearly states that "Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs". Galaxy is far from feature complete. I wouldn't have half the issues I do with GOG if they hadn't fucked up manual downloading to make it far more cumbersome or fucked up the PM system by introducing chat.

Maybe instead of a pop-up saying "Walk away if you have no clue what BETA means" it should state "Walk away if you don't want to alpha test poorly coded software with numerous bugs that is far from feature complete unless you are an arse-licking fan-boy of GOG."
I do agree with you that generally BETA's are feature complete, but as it clearly states generally. It's really up to whoever is making the software to label it as they want. GOG has decided they have the minimal number of features to call this software BETA.

Having said that, I run Galaxy on 3 different PC's with 3 different OS's (Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 10)... I have had almost no issues. I do get a hard drive access error when downloading every now and then (especially on large games), but generally it's very stable. Performance could use an improvement as it generally get's slower with the more games you have installed but I imagine that will improve with time. There are a few graphical issues on Windows 10 but that's not even supported yet, so that's to be expected.

You have to remember that almost 700,000 people are running the Galaxy beta right now because of the Witcher 3 (more if you include those just running it in general), and of that we have just over 1000 open bug reports. This really isn't a lot compared to how many have access and shows that many people are using the client just fine (even if we take into account potential people who have issues and don't report them).
Post edited June 21, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted June 22, 2015
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~sorry for the rage post, I just need to wait for galaxy to leave beta~
Post edited June 22, 2015 by aquasox
Posted June 22, 2015
Haven't tried any games yet but had no problems with purchasing through the Galaxy. So that's a basic feature that works for me with my experience so far with Galaxy.

Would like to suggest a feature though. The ability to change viewing size and font size. Reading content on the community page in Galaxy is difficult and eye straining because of the tiny font size and the colour theme.
Posted June 22, 2015
Are you guys rewriting code or something?
I mean I'm not an expert, but releasing update once 2 months or even less often is a bit strange, especially when galaxy is missing many features and is full of issues.
Post edited June 22, 2015 by IDeivis
Posted June 22, 2015
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IDeivis: Are you guys rewriting code or something?
I mean I'm not an expert, but releasing update once 2 months or even less often is a bit strange, especially when galaxy is missing many features and is full of issues.
They have actually been updating about every week, granted they have been small bug fixes... ect. They have a lot of features to still put in and this is going to take time. I believe we will be getting something soon though.
Posted June 22, 2015
Is anyone else having trouble getting the Galaxy client to connect today? It just keeps telling me it encountered an error during login.
Posted June 22, 2015
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akhliber: Is anyone else having trouble getting the Galaxy client to connect today? It just keeps telling me it encountered an error during login.
Seems to be down along with Mantis. Was importing my games when it failed. >.>
Posted June 22, 2015
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akhliber: Is anyone else having trouble getting the Galaxy client to connect today? It just keeps telling me it encountered an error during login.
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BKGaming: Seems to be down along with Mantis. Was importing my games when it failed. >.>
Thanks for the heads up. I'm glad to know it's not something going wrong on my end.
Posted June 22, 2015
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BKGaming: Seems to be down along with Mantis. Was importing my games when it failed. >.>
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akhliber: Thanks for the heads up. I'm glad to know it's not something going wrong on my end.
It's back up now, you should be able to log in.
Posted June 22, 2015
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akhliber: Thanks for the heads up. I'm glad to know it's not something going wrong on my end.
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BKGaming: It's back up now, you should be able to log in.
Indeed! Thanks :)
Posted June 22, 2015
It's been a while since we had a Galaxy update... I've got a gut feeling that the next update will bring some long sought after features and functionality and that they're putting extra effort into it to smooth and polish it a bit this time around. Anyone else getting that sort of vibe? :)
Posted June 22, 2015
I just noticed that the standalone Arcanum installer is at gog version 2.0.0.15, whereas the galaxy updated Arcanum is gog version 2.1.0.16. The game binaries have changed between the two. The one installed by galaxy is unplayable in wine, it seems, whereas the other continues to work flawlessly. If GOG is going to claim that Galaxy is optional, I think they should at least make sure the separately downloadable installers match up with what Galaxy is installing..

Side note, does anyone know if there's a way to tell Galaxy to not install redists? Is it installing them when it runs the galaxy_<game> installer from the galaxy application data, or at first play the way steam does? With steam, there are registry entries used to keep track of which have been installed, and it's possible to generate a .reg from the installscript.vdf to make it think they've already been installed.
Posted June 23, 2015
Hey GoG? You might want to make it so that playing a game on Galaxy DOESN'T block messages from Steam chat and the like. Seriously, it completely freezes any messages you might receive from your friends on Steam, so it's only when you leave the game that you'll hear the sound queue, the messages pop-out and you'll realize that your friend tried to tell you something half an hour ago, got annoyed when you didn't answer and now is a little miffed at you.

Please fix this, it can ruin friendships :p.
Posted June 23, 2015
Does anybody has an idea how to backup all my games easily?

I DONT want to click on each game!
...I dont want do this for the first download and even less for all updates/update checks!
And also I want to download all extras in a subdir in the game download directory.
And if possible I would like to download game pics as well.

How can I do this best???
Is there a script (Perl, Powershell, VB,...) out there anywhere?

Many thanks in advance.
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