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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 June 22, 2016
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omega64: Are you sure you don't just have Adalia Fundamentals installed? xD
Bwahahahahahaha! Oh man... you nailed it. I had no idea... LOL I tried to use AF when it first came out or not long after but had conflicts with Barefoot Essentials and some website instability so I had to disable it. It sat here disabled ever since until someone recommended it to me for something last week so I thought what the heck, I'll enable it again... Haven't had any instability since, but I never bothered to go through all the options etc. to see what all features it has either. Now I feel like a doofus. LOL

Ok, I guess I have to redirect my GOG praise to the author of AF now. Oops! :) Still, that was good for an unintentional laugh. :)
Posted June 23, 2016
EDIT: I can't read. Carry on with your business.
Post edited June 23, 2016 by gajbooks
Posted June 24, 2016
Yesterday I downloaded the absolute most recent files for "Amnesia A Machine for Pigs" using GOG Galaxy Extras Downloads. It is my understanding that this means I should have the absolute most recent current version of the game installer. I manually installed the game and it did not show up in Galaxy automatically even though I've noticed that some other games do automatically show up when you install them manually.

I tried to scan folders to import the game and it was not recognized either. Next I did a manual import via Manage->Import on the game itself and that made it show up in my sidebar finally. Then Galaxy proceeded to verify the file integrity and after several minutes it failed with out of disk error. This puzzled me because both the E: drive where the game is installed as well as my C: drive contained 10GB and 8GB free disk space respectively, and the entire installed game (not compressed) is only 5GB. So there was enough space for Galaxy to download two decompressed copies of the game onto either drive. But... it turns out it was downloading to where _I_ download the installers to, my F: drive and that is indeed full after the haul of games this week.

But, it's important to note that Galaxy wants 10GB of disk space to download files to for a 5GB game, what's up with that? And it also is trying to download those files for a game that is already 100% up to date and which runs perfectly fine when launched from the Start menu instead of via Galaxy (which has it greyed out).

If this was for my own usage right now I'd probably throw my arms in the air, close Galaxy and play the game from the start menu, however this is purely a part of beta testing Galaxy at the moment so I want to try to get past these roadblocks. I juggled files around and freed up 15GB of space on F: by making a disaster on another drive. So, now C: has 8GB free, E: where Galaxy and my games are installed has 10GB free, and F: where I download my game installers and bonus goodies to now has 15GB free. Galaxy should be happy now yay!

So I restart Galaxy, and suddenly it wants me to log in manually and has completely forgot my email and password as if I'm launching it for the first time, even though I have actually launched it about 40 times today (lots of restarts for beta test stuff). Then it also forced me to complete a 2 factor authentication step via email too, which was very very odd, telling me this is a new device when it is not, I've used the same device all along. Anyhow, beta == bugs so, I do the 2FA and now finally it is scanning Amnesia again.

After it scans it, it no longer complains about disk space and it starts downloading updates to the game. 1GB of updates, that is one gigabyte. What the.... It made me free up 10GB of disk space in order to download 1GB of updates for a 5GB game that is already fully updated? Is this some weird kind of GOGmath I'm unfamliar with? :)

Well, it completed that wasteful 1GB download, but now I am wondering - why did it need to download any data at all let alone 1GB of data, when I have the most recent version of the game installer and it is not corrupt or broken at all and the game already ran fine? Does this mean the version of our games offered by Galaxy include more files/data than what we get in the installers? Are the installers not fully up to date and offering older versions than what is available through Galaxy?

Curious minds want to know! :) Seriously, none of this should happen IMHO. Something is definitely broken.

Update: I launched the game from Galaxy and it worked finally. I exited Galaxy and restarted it and the game vanished from the sidebar and is no longer recognized apparently. <sigh>

Update2: I had to re-import the game a second time now, however this time everything did the same thing, but it only downloaded a few megabytes and not 1GB. This seems to confirm my suspicion that the files for the game offered by Galaxy seem to be 1GB larger than whatever you get if you install via the installer, unless there is some other logical explanation. But the second import did not redownload 1GB, meaning it's recognizing whatever was missing the first time as being there now.

Update3: Ok, I've imported this game twice into Galaxy where it recognized it and let me launch it. Exiting the game then exiting Galaxy and restarting Galaxy causes the game to completely vanish and need to be reimported every single time Galaxy restarts.

At this point I think I'm done trying to test this game, and declaring "doesn't work". :)
Post edited June 24, 2016 by skeletonbow
Posted June 25, 2016
Just a simple question: Will GOG ever decide how they want to sort games with "the" in title?

It is "Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The" and "Wolf among us, The" but it is also "The Marvellous Miss Take" and "The Book of unwritten Tales 2"

Unfortunately Galaxy is sorting those accordingly so the whole sort order is kind of a mess.
Posted June 25, 2016
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MarkoH01: Just a simple question: Will GOG ever decide how they want to sort games with "the" in title?
Is there a reason why GOG simply doesn't change the "The" placement for all games? Do some developers / publishers refuse to put the "The" at the end? Marketing reasons?
Posted June 25, 2016
I ended up blowing away my Galaxy install completely, wiping the ProgramData dir and the Galaxy client install folder after it was uninstalled, then reinstalled it and scanned all my installed games. One thing I just noticed is that all of my game time tracking is completely reset to zero now. I'm not sure if this is considered a feature or a bug as I assumed Galaxy was storing that data locally and then on GOG's servers when it was able to connect to the service, but now that does not appear to be the case.

It's certainly a nice feature for the customer to be able to erase/reset their game time tracking if desired, but I assumed that by default it would be tracked server-side, not just client side. As such, all of my games appear to have never been ran before. This is true for both games I have ran since I reinstalled Galaxy as well as those which I have not ran yet since the galaxy reinstall.

Can someone from GOG let me know if this is by design or a bug, as I don't want to waste both our time filing a bug report if it is by design. :)
Posted June 25, 2016
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skeletonbow: but I assumed that by default it would be tracked server-side
It should be. I'm testing on two machines, and after importing on the second, it does give me the few minutes of playtime I had on the other. Will have to verify that and get back to you tomorrow, but that is the behavior I noticed.
Perhaps it needs some time to update the display?
Posted June 25, 2016
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JMich: It should be. I'm testing on two machines, and after importing on the second, it does give me the few minutes of playtime I had on the other. Will have to verify that and get back to you tomorrow, but that is the behavior I noticed.
Perhaps it needs some time to update the display?
I've had the client running on and off for beta tests for hours now and all my games show 0m of gameplay except the ones I'm testing which only show the few minutes I've been testing them, but which had many many hours of gameplay previously. I had about 38-40hrs of gameplay in King's Bounty The Legend, but right now it shows ... um... crap... it's showing 40 hours now. LOL Maybe you're right. :)

Yeah, I just went through the installed library and it does indeed seem to have finally updated the game times. Thanks for the info, I think I can chock it off now to intended behaviour albeit perhaps taking a bit long to sync the data over.

It would also be nice to have a way to reset the gameplay timer though for various reasons, such as beta testing things, starting a brand new game and wanting to track its time separately etc. Hopefully that's a feature that comes at some point although it's pretty low priority compared to important stuff needing doing. :)

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Tyrrhia: Is there a reason why GOG simply doesn't change the "The" placement for all games? Do some developers / publishers refuse to put the "The" at the end? Marketing reasons?
They're working on the code for "A" currently, then proceeding alphabetically from there. "The" is much further in the alphabet so it'll take a while. :)
Post edited June 25, 2016 by skeletonbow
Posted June 26, 2016
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Tyrrhia: Is there a reason why GOG simply doesn't change the "The" placement for all games? Do some developers / publishers refuse to put the "The" at the end? Marketing reasons?
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skeletonbow: They're working on the code for "A" currently, then proceeding alphabetically from there. "The" is much further in the alphabet so it'll take a while. :)
I'm assuming that's a joke? :P
Posted June 26, 2016
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Tyrrhia: I'm assuming that's a joke? :P
No, no! It's the joke! :)
Posted June 26, 2016
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Tyrrhia: I'm assuming that's a joke? :P
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skeletonbow: No, no! It's the joke! :)
Is it? Or is it Joke, The? :P
Posted June 26, 2016
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skeletonbow: No, no! It's the joke! :)
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Tyrrhia: Is it? Or is it Joke, The? :P
Can't say, under NDA. :)
Posted June 26, 2016
Hey can we please make paused games stay paused until I CHOOSE to resume them? That would be stellar... I dislike having to pause my pending downloads every time I restart the client.
Posted June 26, 2016
Hi all


For when you start testing a Linux version, I'm an experienced C software developer, familiar with RPM packaging, good with a debugger and I'm interested in being involved in testing.

Got any kind of list you can add me to for when you're rolling out alphas?
Posted June 27, 2016
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ringerc: For when you start testing a Linux version, I'm an experienced C software developer, familiar with RPM packaging, good with a debugger and I'm interested in being involved in testing.
it's written in C++, still interested or already running for the hills? :p
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