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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 August 20, 2015
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Posted August 20, 2015
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Posted August 20, 2015
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RogueXanter: For some reason my library in galaxy doesn't have all of my games. In fact the very first game I ever bought from GOG, Star Wars Rebellion, is missing along with all of the other Star Wars games I've bought from GOG as well as a large number of other games.
Galaxy doesn't automatically detect every title in your install folder, and unfortunately the rules for what it does and does not detect are not very consistent. You can import them manually by going to the game's page in your Library, then hitting More -> Manage -> Import Folder.
Posted August 21, 2015
I really hope we see the 1.1 update before the weekend. :P
Posted August 21, 2015
Any progress regarding the disk space eaten by the storage and support folders inside galaxy? I'm losing 7 GB to those 2 folders and the thousands of files inside.
Posted August 21, 2015
Ok, I am a total noob of this. I would like to:
1) make galaxy recongise the backup downloads already in the download directory
2) update these backup files
I don't care of the installed games, if I know there is an update I can launch it myself; I want to keep my archive updated. Is i tpossible? at least the first of the two?
Thanks.
Posted August 21, 2015
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Qoelet: Ok, I am a total noob of this. I would like to:
1) make galaxy recongise the backup downloads already in the download directory
2) update these backup files
Not yet possible I'm afraid. All you can do for now is download all of them manually or wait until the feature is implemented..
Posted August 21, 2015
Ok, thank you, I suspected so much... . Are these functions in program?
Posted August 22, 2015
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RogueXanter: For some reason my library in galaxy doesn't have all of my games. In fact the very first game I ever bought from GOG, Star Wars Rebellion, is missing along with all of the other Star Wars games I've bought from GOG as well as a large number of other games.
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Blackdrazon: Galaxy doesn't automatically detect every title in your install folder, and unfortunately the rules for what it does and does not detect are not very consistent. You can import them manually by going to the game's page in your Library, then hitting More -> Manage -> Import Folder.
Thanks. I'm still not sure why Galaxy says I've never played most of my games when I play almost all of them for at least a little while within a couple of days of getting them though.
Posted August 22, 2015
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Qoelet: Ok, I am a total noob of this. I would like to:
1) make galaxy recongise the backup downloads already in the download directory
2) update these backup files
I don't care of the installed games, if I know there is an update I can launch it myself; I want to keep my archive updated. Is i tpossible? at least the first of the two?
Thanks.
The only way to do that right now is to use a script someone wrote called "gogrepo.py" which you can find by searching the forums. Galaxy does not provide such a feature currently but hopefully it will at some point. They will be publishing the Galaxy service API at some point in time also however which will make it much easier for additional fancier 3rd party tools to be created which use the Galaxy backend to provide the functionality should GOG not include this feature directly in the Galaxy client. There's no word on when that API will be published but it most likely will be some time after they have finalized the API and stabilized it and are ready to commit to supporting it for 3rd party developers. That will likely be some time after Galaxy Client comes out of beta.
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Blackdrazon: Galaxy doesn't automatically detect every title in your install folder, and unfortunately the rules for what it does and does not detect are not very consistent. You can import them manually by going to the game's page in your Library, then hitting More -> Manage -> Import Folder.
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RogueXanter: Thanks. I'm still not sure why Galaxy says I've never played most of my games when I play almost all of them for at least a little while within a couple of days of getting them though.
Ah, that's an easy one to explain. Galaxy's game time tracking is beta and fairly buggy at the moment. It is pretty common to play a game, exit the game and have Galaxy not update the game time at all. That will likely improve over time as they smooth things out though.

I hope they provide an option to re-zero game timers though unlike Steam. It's nice to be able to restart for future playthroughs etc. Alternatively to provide a separate user timer that is resettable.
Post edited August 22, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted August 22, 2015
Using forums to add friends is fun lol
Posted August 22, 2015
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Kharn99: Using forums to add friends is fun lol
This is the most retarded way of adding friends!!
Posted August 22, 2015
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flaviossa: C´mon guys! Almost 5 minutes between i click on gog galaxy icon and the moment it actually opens!!! Impossible to use it this way! I don´t have this game "Jade Empire" that people are talking about. It must be something else making galaxy so slugish at the point i give up playing anything inside gog just for the time i will have to wait it opens.

Inside galaxy the slugish continues, browsing thru my games. Clicking in page two of my games and i have to wait it load the games in page two and the info "INSTALLED" even don´t appear anymore. GOG Galaxy needs a quick overhaul even it´s on beta stage. I think it´s on "alpha" stage.

My machine is up to date as drivers and SO: win10 Pro 64bits.
I7 / 32Gb / 2xGTX980 SLI / SSD 960gb
Galaxy version: 1.0.7.2023
125 games installed thru galaxy.

Please, consider doing a research on this problem asap. Thanks.
Seems like a common issue for Win10 x64. I've created a ticket for it some time ago: http://mantis.gog.com/view.php?id=3380 but there's no fix in sight. Feel free to add your logs too.
Posted August 23, 2015
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/option_to_disable_adding_start_menu_entries

Please vote! This option is already available on the standalone installers, but Galaxy litters the Start Menu with hints links, uninstall, dosbox config and all sorts of annoying clutter.
Posted August 23, 2015
@ skeletonbow: thanks! you were really exaustive!
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