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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 September 15, 2015
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anomaly: Here is an announcement for a new wishlist item - adding support behind the scenes for the How Long To Beat web page, that aggregates play times for games played on all platforms to give an idea of actual play times.

This is probably not going to be the most important thing to add to Galaxy, however it is something supported by the other major players so possibly should be looked into at some stage,

My wishlist link:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/add_support_for_how_long_to_beat_website
That would be a cool feature but there are probably 100 similar features that would be equally cool like integrating IsThereAnyDeal.com or other stuff kind of like the Enhanced Steam addon for Firefox/Chrome. I think rather than having GOG spend the resources to integrate everyone's pet features like this though, it would make a lot more sense for them to create a plugin API for the client and let 3rd parties mod the client with customizations like this, that would be much more powerful and let GOG focus their efforts on making the base client as stable and reliable as possible for its core function, and let others enthusiastic about special features have the ability to create them as mods without having to wait for GOG to do it with limited resources.

+1 for an official extension mod interface for Galaxyclient and a howlongtobeat addon by someone in the community! :)
Posted September 15, 2015
Ever since 1.1.1 came out or so, I switched to the compact list view and like that better as more stuff fits within a given amount of screen real estate. One problem though is that a number of my games did not show icons beside them in compact view. In particular "Runaway: A Road Adventure", "Mount & Blade", "Dungeon Keeper Gold" never loaded icons however they showed a perpatual circular throbber icon to indicate that it was trying to load something. It never loaded it and the throbber animation never went away making it very annoying.

I think I reported this here before but am not 100% certain about that. Anyway, I've been on 1.1.2 since it was available and it had the same problem but for some unknown reason the problem magically went away today. All 3 games now have miniature icons beside them and Problem Solved(TM). Just wanted to give feedback about that here in case anyone else experienced it as well.
Posted September 15, 2015
I'm trying to submit a ticket to mantis.gog.com, but the window just keeps loading and nothing happens. Are there any server problems or am I doing something wrong?
Posted September 15, 2015
Is anyone ACTUALLY working on the linux client, or are you just working on the theory that linux users will feel less slighted by a mirage of future support than a firm refusal?
Posted September 16, 2015
There should be a privacy option that lets you disable the feature that lets other people see what games you are playing.

And anyone else experience GOG Galaxy freeze after it is running for awhile?
Posted September 16, 2015
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monkeydelarge: And anyone else experience GOG Galaxy freeze after it is running for awhile?
Yup, same here. The client turns into a white square, no interaction possible after that.
Posted September 16, 2015
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monkeydelarge: And anyone else experience GOG Galaxy freeze after it is running for awhile?
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AlbertCole: Yup, same here. The client turns into a white square, no interaction possible after that.
Yeah. This happened to me this morning. I left GOG Galaxy running for around 5 hours, came back and saw a big white frozen square.
Posted September 16, 2015
No improvements regarding my router crashing issues with the new version. Updating a game is still very random and results most of the time in a reboot of my linksys WRT54G router. It usually happens when I reach 90% on the download progress, it seems the lasts bits are very painful... right now I can't get Galaxy to finish Satellite Reign's update.

What kind of super agressive connection protocol Galaxy uses to mess things so badly with my router? Or is it game related? Satellite Reign is the one I that gave me the worst results so far. No other similar clients like Steam or Origin cause such hardware issues when I download or update games, it's the firt time I'm facing an issue of that kind.

Unfortunatly I don't have any significant log to provide since Galaxy only registers a connection loss without specifying a cause (which is normal, it's a router failure).

system:
Windows 10 home
Galaxy 1.1.2
WRT54G router

Edition:
I tried to work around the issue in order to update Satellite Reign, I manually downloaded and applied the patch. The game updated properly, but Galaxy fails to notice that it was updated and still reports an old game version. When I use the Verify/repair tool Galaxy still fails to identify the version properly and tries to redownload the whole game. If I allow Galaxy to redownload the game it rolls back to a previous version (1.04, current is 1.04.02), and then retries to update the game which cause, again, a rebooting loop on my router when I reach the last MBytes of the download.
Post edited September 17, 2015 by Kimuji
Posted September 17, 2015
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Kimuji: Edition:
I tried to work around the issue in order to update Satellite Reign, I manually downloaded and applied the patch. The game updated properly, but Galaxy fails to notice that it was updated and still reports an old game version. When I use the Verify/repair tool Galaxy still fails to identify the version properly and tries to redownload the whole game. If I allow Galaxy to redownload the game it rolls back to a previous version (1.04, current is 1.04.02), and then retries to update the game which cause, again, a rebooting loop on my router when I reach the last MBytes of the download.
This seems to be a hit or miss for the most part sadly... getting Galaxy to not download stuff it already has available is a game within itself. xD
Post edited September 17, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted September 17, 2015
Is there a way to start Galaxy maximized on Windows 10? Command line options don't work it seems.
Posted September 18, 2015
Rather than starting a new thread I thought I'd just put this here.
Is there any chance of creating links in your library on the website that automatically load galaxy up and tell it to install / download backup installer for a game?
Similar to the way the old Downloader links worked?

I know you could just open galaxy up and browse your library from there, but if I'm browsing the forums and get bored and decide to install a new game then it's easier to do it from the browser I already have open then to open galaxy first...
This would more closely mimic the behaviour of the old downloader too.
Posted September 18, 2015
It appears the little blue dot is not appearing on 1.1.2 when updates are disabled unless you click on the game card, THEN it can find that an update is available. Anyone else noticed that? Certainly not how it's suppose to work.
Posted September 18, 2015
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BKGaming: It appears the little blue dot is not appearing on 1.1.2 when updates are disabled unless you click on the game card, THEN it can find that an update is available. Anyone else noticed that? Certainly not how it's suppose to work.
If that's the case then it might be a bug. Could you post an issue, with logs attached, to mantis.gog.com?
Posted September 18, 2015
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BKGaming: It appears the little blue dot is not appearing on 1.1.2 when updates are disabled unless you click on the game card, THEN it can find that an update is available. Anyone else noticed that? Certainly not how it's suppose to work.
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Liosan: If that's the case then it might be a bug. Could you post an issue, with logs attached, to mantis.gog.com?
Done.
Posted September 18, 2015
I hope you implement a fps counter like steam.
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