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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 November 13, 2015
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Venom: As you've said, only a few games are not yet compatible with Galaxy, and usually it's due to an issue that requires extensive engineering to build a workaround. All new games that arrive on GOG.com are of course compatible with Galaxy.
You should be a bit more careful with your wording here. Being "Galaxy compatible" can mean (or at least be interpreted as) anything from "can be (un)installed with Galaxy" to "has Galaxy Multiplayer/Matchmaking/Crossplay/Achievements/...".
Posted November 13, 2015
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skeletonbow: It's good to know about it using %TEMP% to extract to as I may be able to override that by setting TEMP in a shell and pointing it elsewhere, or via a batch file or something should the problem recur again in the future. What would be nice is if you guys could offer a configuration option as to where to put temporary files and perhaps default it to %TEMP% but allow the user to override it to somewhere else. Knowing there's a potential workaround is good to tide things over for a future update with the goodies you indicated are being worked on though. :)

Thanks again for the info, it's exactly what I needed to know.
To be honest, I'm surprised that you know enough about Windows to know junction points yet you have never heard about the temporary directory. :-)

That's the place where all Windows programs are supposed to store (and delete, once they are finished with it) temporary files. And as you can imagine many programs aren't very good at cleaning up behind them and the directory gets bigger and bigger over time unless you clean it up yourself.

Programs are supposed to get the location of the temporary directory from the environment variable and it is of course possible to set it to a different directory on a different harddrive. Not through a shell though because setting environment variables in a shell will only change them for this shell, IIRC.

Go to "Control Panel/System and Security/System" and click on "Advanced System Settings". Go to the "Advanced" tab and there you will find a button named "Environment Variables". Click that and you can change the environment variables that are set for your logged in user and globally for the system (provided you have admin priviliges) to your hearts content. You should be careful with what you are doing here though if you don't want to screw up your system royally.
Posted November 13, 2015
So, I've noticed that Galaxy notifies you in-game about achievements now.

The pop-up window is absolutely disgusting. It's too big and dis-attached from the actual game. Even U-play pop-ups are better and less screen-invading.

I can't imagine this being implemented the way it is right now in the official release.
Posted November 13, 2015
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skeletonbow: It's good to know about it using %TEMP% to extract to as I may be able to override that by setting TEMP in a shell and pointing it elsewhere, or via a batch file or something should the problem recur again in the future. What would be nice is if you guys could offer a configuration option as to where to put temporary files and perhaps default it to %TEMP% but allow the user to override it to somewhere else. Knowing there's a potential workaround is good to tide things over for a future update with the goodies you indicated are being worked on though. :)

Thanks again for the info, it's exactly what I needed to know.
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Geralt_of_Rivia: To be honest, I'm surprised that you know enough about Windows to know junction points yet you have never heard about the temporary directory. :-)

That's the place where all Windows programs are supposed to store (and delete, once they are finished with it) temporary files. And as you can imagine many programs aren't very good at cleaning up behind them and the directory gets bigger and bigger over time unless you clean it up yourself.

Programs are supposed to get the location of the temporary directory from the environment variable and it is of course possible to set it to a different directory on a different harddrive. Not through a shell though because setting environment variables in a shell will only change them for this shell, IIRC.

Go to "Control Panel/System and Security/System" and click on "Advanced System Settings". Go to the "Advanced" tab and there you will find a button named "Environment Variables". Click that and you can change the environment variables that are set for your logged in user and globally for the system (provided you have admin priviliges) to your hearts content. You should be careful with what you are doing here though if you don't want to screw up your system royally.
I'm well aware of the temporary directories that Windows uses. What actually uses one of the particular temp directories and for what purpose is up to a given software developer however. With the Witcher 3 patch there was absolutely zero user visible/identifyable reason for the patch to fail, and no indication that the C: drive was being used at all.

I don't want to change the location of the TEMP directory for the entire operating system. In this case I would want to change the location of it for a single invocation of a single 3rd party executable, much like you would do the following in Linux:

TEMP=/some/other/directory ProgramToRunOnceUsingTheOtherTempDirectory

or in a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
TEMP=/some/other/directory
ProgramToRunOnceUsingTheOtherTempDirectory


The Windows equivalent of that basically. In order to know the workaround for the problem being encountered is to redirect the TEMP directory elsewhere you have to first know that that is what the problem is with the app in the first place. That was not previously known until Destro provided the information.

I wasn't about to run the Witcher patch inside a debugger to figure out what was going wrong, I'm not being paid for that level of digging into things.
Posted November 14, 2015
So, I downloaded the installer files for Wasteland 2 Director's Cut from GOG.com instead of Galaxy, as that appears to use far less data (so much less harsh on my data cap). However, when I opened Galaxy to add it, it said there was a 7+GB patch it needs to download. I aborted that, and downloaded the patches from the website, then installed them. But Galaxy still says it needs to download the 7GB update. Is there any work around for this, or are the patches from the website out of date?

I have it on manual updates now, but there's that big blue dot there, taunting me.

[Edit] Reading posts from a few days ago, this seems to be a known issue. Guess I'll just keep it as-is.
Post edited November 14, 2015 by exosquadron
Posted November 14, 2015
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exosquadron: So, I downloaded the installer files for Wasteland 2 Director's Cut from GOG.com instead of Galaxy, as that appears to use far less data (so much less harsh on my data cap). However, when I opened Galaxy to add it, it said there was a 7+GB patch it needs to download. I aborted that, and downloaded the patches from the website, then installed them. But Galaxy still says it needs to download the 7GB update. Is there any work around for this, or are the patches from the website out of date?

I have it on manual updates now, but there's that big blue dot there, taunting me.

[Edit] Reading posts from a few days ago, this seems to be a known issue. Guess I'll just keep it as-is.
You could try to use the following tool by alka_setzer. Apparently the issue is the installers don't update Galaxy's table data. Have not had a chance to try it myself yet, but if you do try it let us know how it goes.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_2/post2930
Posted November 14, 2015
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Hey, it worked! Thank you very much. :)
Posted November 14, 2015
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exosquadron: Hey, it worked! Thank you very much. :)
Glad it worked for you. But lets thank Alka_Setzer for the tool. :)
Posted November 14, 2015
Hi,

It seems that GOG Galaxy is unable to detect my installation of The Witcher 1 Enhanced. No matter how many times I ask it to scan the game folder.
Posted November 14, 2015
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Inny: Hi,

It seems that GOG Galaxy is unable to detect my installation of The Witcher 1 Enhanced. No matter how many times I ask it to scan the game folder.
Was it installed via an older standalone installer? Go to library, then click on the game. Go to MORE -> MANAGE -> Import Folder.
Posted November 15, 2015
I'm thinking about trying Galaxy. I'm only interested in using it to install and update my games when I want. I don't care about achievements, etc..

However I have some questions.

Does Galaxy modify the game exe?

I'm planning to install several Morrorwind mods and AFAIK it's a problem if the exe has been modified?

If I use Galaxy to install my games, does it have to be running to play them?

I'd like to be able to start and play my games WITHOUT Galaxy running in the background on my old machine. Is this possible?

Thanks.
Posted November 15, 2015
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WyleCoyote: Does Galaxy modify the game exe?
No. It does install a modified shortcut though, that starts the game through Galaxy.

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WyleCoyote: I'm planning to install several Morrorwind mods and AFAIK it's a problem if the exe has been modified?
Galaxy doesn't modify the exe, but not sure if GOG's Morrowind executable is the one the mods expect to find. Check the subforum for more info.

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WyleCoyote: If I use Galaxy to install my games, does it have to be running to play them?
Nope, but see the comment about the shortcut.

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WyleCoyote: I'd like to be able to start and play my games WITHOUT Galaxy running in the background on my old machine. Is this possible?
Yeap. If you want to install on more than one machines though, it might be preferable to download the stand alone installers and install through those. That may be preferable either way, since the installers are compressed, while Galaxy downloads uncompressed files, at least for now.
Posted November 15, 2015
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WyleCoyote: Does Galaxy modify the game exe?
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JMich: No. It does install a modified shortcut though, that starts the game through Galaxy.

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WyleCoyote: I'm planning to install several Morrorwind mods and AFAIK it's a problem if the exe has been modified?
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JMich: Galaxy doesn't modify the exe, but not sure if GOG's Morrowind executable is the one the mods expect to find. Check the subforum for more info.

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WyleCoyote: If I use Galaxy to install my games, does it have to be running to play them?
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JMich: Nope, but see the comment about the shortcut.

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WyleCoyote: I'd like to be able to start and play my games WITHOUT Galaxy running in the background on my old machine. Is this possible?
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JMich: Yeap. If you want to install on more than one machines though, it might be preferable to download the stand alone installers and install through those. That may be preferable either way, since the installers are compressed, while Galaxy downloads uncompressed files, at least for now.
Thanks for the quick reply!

One last question. Are there any estimates of the performance impact of Galaxy?

I ask because I'm running an ancient single core P4 2GB RAM 32bit Win 7 PC until I can get a new system.
Posted November 15, 2015
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WyleCoyote: One last question. Are there any estimates of the performance impact of Galaxy?
No idea. I'm currently downloading and installing some games through it, and task manager reports <3% CPU usage and ~20MB memory usage. The GalaxyClientHelper service though (all 3 instances of it) seems to take ~100MB of RAM as well.
Posted November 15, 2015
So I have a question here about the installing, using GOG Galaxy.

If you use 'galaxy' to check your library, and then click 'install' it will download from GOG.com, the game files, and install.

However, my question is, can I tell it to use the installer I've already downloaded?

I spent about four hours downloading the 'x' series I just got from the fall sale, and I don't wish to have GOG galaxy re-download them just to install.
I would like to tell 'galaxy' where I downloaded the files, and use those to install.

Can GOG Galaxy do this?

If not, can it be updated to do this? I download/backup all my GOG library games, for when I chose to install/play them.
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