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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 06, 2015
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evilnancyreagan: What's the optimal way to transition from the alpha client to the beta?

I can see a box for the beta on my games shelf but is says it's 'not yet available' when I view my shelf through the client but I can download it from my self when viewing the shelf from my browser.
Mine automatically updated when I launched it this morning. That seems pretty optimal to me.
Posted May 06, 2015
I don't know, man. This was announced almost a year ago. Where is everything?

I wasn't expecting all the social features and other niceties to be ready, but I thought maybe there would be one or two features other than GOG Downloader + website. I suppose auto-update counts for something, though I can't figure out how to turn it off which sort of makes it a bad feature.
Please be aware that Client will accept any folder pointed to
This doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe I am being unfair here or nitpicking, but by "any folder" I had expected the client to recognize folders with old versions of GOG games in them, and at least present me with an error. But it's just telling me "Did not find any games to import." How about don't import them then? I don't need a game launcher to "import" every game I play. No media manager of any kind for as long as I can remember has insisted on "importing" things the user already has in place. What is this even for?

If it was GOG's intention for Galaxy to just plain not play nicely with games that weren't made for it, this is honestly baffling. If a ragamuffin operation like Raptr can figure this out, I can't get my head around GOG having trouble with it after so much development time. I get that the auto-updater is married to a new installer format, but to not have even a placeholder for the absolute #1 essential feature of a game launcher, when your own installed customer base has 5 years worth of your products lying around, customized and modded and sometimes in older versions we can't have anymore - I am dumbfounded here. What in the world do you think we wanted out of this? A daily reminder that we can launch all our GOG games from Steam?
Posted May 06, 2015
Posted three new Galaxy requests as a result of my chatting with Judas earlier today:

Chat: Show who is typing

Chat: Active notification of a message

Chat: Flash icon/titlebar of chat client when message arrives in background
Posted May 06, 2015
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einexile: ... I can't figure out how to turn it off which sort of makes it a bad feature.
Go into the individual game page in your library, click on More > Configure.
Posted May 06, 2015
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groundhog42: Dear GOG

We sincerely hope that the introduction of GOG Galaxy doesn't mean that you will no longer be offering the delivery of games by pigeon?

Yours Faithfully

Dastardly & Muttley
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yyahoo: +1

https://youtu.be/HRsPdzivDrM
lol, didn't get the point until watch the video :D
Posted May 06, 2015
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evilnancyreagan: What's the optimal way to transition from the alpha client to the beta?

I can see a box for the beta on my games shelf but is says it's 'not yet available' when I view my shelf through the client but I can download it from my self when viewing the shelf from my browser.
I exited Galaxy completely (alpha version) and restarted it, and it began the update process automatically. If you haven't restarted Galaxy today, try that first.
Posted May 06, 2015
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opticq: The alpha doesn't auto update to the beta it seems. You should be able to download the beta from your library. Otherwise refreshing should make it work.
Yeah, I was reading reports that it did auto-update which would be a more elegant (and my prefered) solution over a clunky manual uninstall-reinstall

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cogadh: Mine automatically updated when I launched it this morning. That seems pretty optimal to me.
Can I get sommadis? ^

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IAmSinistar: I exited Galaxy completely (alpha version) and restarted it, and it began the update process automatically. If you haven't restarted Galaxy today, try that first.
BINGO!

1.0.0.871

Strange, that it required an additional restart, I shut my PC down completely last night. Oh well, it works--who cares how or why?

(that's the popular consensus regarding technology these day, right?)
Post edited May 06, 2015 by evilnancyreagan
Posted May 06, 2015
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opticq: The alpha doesn't auto update to the beta it seems. You should be able to download the beta from your library. Otherwise refreshing should make it work.
The alpha does update to the beta, but you may have to exit the program and restart it a few times to trigger the update. Whether that is due to bugs in the software, bugs on their backend server infrastructure, or some sort of update throttling mechanism present on the server or client isn't clear however. When I posted a comment this morning about starting the client and it not updating, then exiting and starting it again as another user suggested I magically got the beta update just fine. An hour or so later I got a message from one of the developers asking me for my Galaxy logs so I'm assuming there might be a glitch they're working on ironing out with the update process. Seems reasonable for alpha/beta testing though, so just try exiting and restarting a few times. Worked the second start for me here.
Posted May 06, 2015
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IAmSinistar: Posted three new Galaxy requests as a result of my chatting with Judas earlier today:

Chat: Show who is typing

Chat: Active notification of a message

Chat: Flash icon/titlebar of chat client when message arrives in background
Looks like chat feature doesn't work properly for me. Typed to two person on my list but I didn't get even any response from them. That's weird :(
Posted May 06, 2015
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skeletonbow: snip
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evilnancyreagan: snip
Strange, I thought that might be the case as well and restarted Galaxy several times to no such luck.
Posted May 06, 2015
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gaddarmice: Looks like chat feature doesn't work properly for me. Typed to two person on my list but I didn't get even any response from them. That's weird :(
The notification are a touch too minimalist in their current state, hence one of my wishlist items. I could be that they aren't noticing them. Or they could just have Galaxy running in the background and aren't paying attention to the chat notifications. Again, another reason why I suggested more active features (which the user should be able to toggle on and off).
Posted May 06, 2015
Im loving gog galaxy but we need a better way to add friends ;) a search maybe?
Posted May 06, 2015
Tried importing games manually, and this is what happened:
1.Game "X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter". Import folder /at this point decided to pick the main folder /GOG Games, just to see if Galaxy will find XvT folder by itself, and that was my mistake/. Galaxy reinstalled the whole game in the main folder, so i decided to uninstall the game. Galaxy deleted ALL my games, leaving only the folder "!Downloads"...
Posted May 06, 2015
please add an option for us to add friends in a simpler way. Had to post a comment in order for my buddy to find my account
Posted May 06, 2015
The clients design is overall nice, but it has bugs here and there. For example: u can't seem to make purchases via paypal on it, attempting to do so would result in just going back to my game library. But overall, it's a nice client.
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