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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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einexile: ... I can't figure out how to turn it off which sort of makes it a bad feature.
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cogadh: Go into the individual game page in your library, click on More > Configure.
Thank you, I thought I had seen it somewhere but then lost it.

But how does putting it in the individual game settings help anyone who has the game already installed? I'd imagine the main point of turning off auto-update is to prevent your games from being overwritten when they're imported. By the time it has an entry on your launcher, isn't it already too late to prevent this?
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 :(
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IAmSinistar: 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).
I have had some kinda lag in chat and friends list screen. Looks like things not work in real time on client. Mostly I have to restart client to get new notification like who added me or who typed on chat screen. Just like restarting client from alpha to get update beta build phase.
Posted May 06, 2015
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einexile: Thank you, I thought I had seen it somewhere but then lost it.

But how does putting it in the individual game settings help anyone who has the game already installed? I'd imagine the main point of turning off auto-update is to prevent your games from being overwritten when they're imported. By the time it has an entry on your launcher, isn't it already too late to prevent this?
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Venom: !!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

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== KNOWN ISSUES ==

- few games are not yet compatible with Galaxy and are marked accordingly on Library page
- games not compatible with your current operating system cannot be accessed from the Library page
- when starting with the OS, Client doesn’t start minimised
- back / forward navigation is only available in Store section and requires further work
- pausing downloads or 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
- games installed in Galaxy alpha 0.6 that included DLC may require a full game reinstall in the beta
- reinstalling Galaxy (Windows) to a different folder than the initial install will cause an error
- 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
- UI is currently available in English only but occasional quirks may happen where “download extras” list is displayed in another language
- option to change currency and some other settings aren’t yet accessible in the Galaxy
- PayPal payment window sometimes does not show properly on Windows
The existing behaviour is not the intended behaviour, but rather the existing developmental state of the beta test and a known issue that it does not yet work as is intended or optimal. Should be addressed in a future update at some point, as should all of the issues they've posted above as "KNOWN ISSUES". Hope this helps.
Posted May 06, 2015
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cogadh: Go into the individual game page in your library, click on More > Configure.
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einexile: Thank you, I thought I had seen it somewhere but then lost it.

But how does putting it in the individual game settings help anyone who has the game already installed? I'd imagine the main point of turning off auto-update is to prevent your games from being overwritten when they're imported. By the time it has an entry on your launcher, isn't it already too late to prevent this?
At the moment, you can only change that setting after the game has already been installed/imported into Galaxy, but in the Galaxy client options there is a global setting for auto-updates that is not functional in this version of the beta. Once that option is enabled, you can turn off auto updating completely. Remember, this is a beta test, not everything is going to work as advertised... yet.
Posted May 06, 2015
probably been asked a million times but... is there a list of games multiplayer is working on currently?
Posted May 06, 2015
Hitting the X (close) button on the Alpha client window would send it to the taskbar Notification Area from which I could exit from the program. In the Beta hitting the X button just causes the client to disappear without confimation (and not put anything in the Notification Area). Is it actually exiting when I push the X button, or is it still running in the background with no way to properly exit?
Posted May 06, 2015
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zavlin: probably been asked a million times but... is there a list of games multiplayer is working on currently?
If you mean Galaxy multiplayer it includes Alien vs Predator, The Witcher Adventure Game, the Double Dragon game and I think that might be all but if I missed something I'm sure someone else will patch my list. :)
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Flaose: Hitting the X (close) button on the Alpha client window would send it to the taskbar Notification Area from which I could exit from the program. In the Beta hitting the X button just causes the client to disappear without confimation (and not put anything in the Notification Area). Is it actually exiting when I push the X button, or is it still running in the background with no way to properly exit?
I'm unable to reproduce that here, you might have encountered a bug perhaps. Bring up your task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and kill all Galaxy related processes, then start the client up again fresh and try to reproduce the problem. If you can reliably reproduce it, follow the instructions in the first post in this thread to file a bug report in the Mantis bug tracker system. Hope this helps.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted May 06, 2015
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skeletonbow: If you mean Galaxy multiplayer it includes Alien vs Predator, Rise of the Triad (2013), The Witcher Adventure Game, the Double Dragon game and I think that might be all but if I missed something I'm sure someone else will patch my list. :).
There is your auto-update.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by Grargar
Posted May 06, 2015
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Flaose: .
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skeletonbow: I'm unable to reproduce that here, you might have encountered a bug perhaps. Bring up your task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and kill all Galaxy related processes, then start the client up again fresh and try to reproduce the problem. If you can reliably reproduce it, follow the instructions in the first post in this thread to file a bug report in the Mantis bug tracker system. Hope this helps.
Looks like I just had to restart Galaxy :$ Thanks for your help!
Posted May 06, 2015
I miss simple "Play" buttons (>) in the list of the installed games (or inside the game icons for example). To play a game I have to switch to the info site of the game first. That is very awkward....
Posted May 06, 2015
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Please, add pause button in downloads
Posted May 06, 2015
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Grargar: There is your auto-update.
Ah yes, I forgot about that one (Rise of the Triad 2013). Probably because the game crashes for me on startup so I've been unable to play it. :)
Post edited May 06, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted May 06, 2015
Is there a way for adding friends without going to the community section and click "invite to friends"? Thank you.

Good job, GOG! Keep up the good work!
Posted May 06, 2015
Currently I have 4 GOG games installed (the old way, before the client). I tried to add them manually to Galaxy, but only managed to do so for Baldur's Gate EE and Baldur's Gate II EE.

Galaxy failed to find Jack Keane and Ghost Recon, even when pointing Galaxy to the game folder itself.
Posted May 06, 2015
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nofuckingidea: Is there a way for adding friends without going to the community section and click "invite to friends"? Thank you.

Good job, GOG! Keep up the good work!
Not at the moment, but it will probably be implemented. In the meantime you can vote for such a feature on the galaxy wishlist:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/add_friends_via_username_or_email_address
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