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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 12, 2016
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BKGaming: No it does not, you have to click install, and the download size is like 6 GB.
Ok, thank you!
I didn't know how large the game was, I guess that won't be too bad as long as GoG has a good CDN. :)
Posted August 12, 2016
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BKGaming: No it does not, you have to click install, and the download size is like 6 GB.
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masterchiefmas: Ok, thank you!
I didn't know how large the game was, I guess that won't be too bad as long as GoG has a good CDN. :)
My experience is GOG downloads about the same speed as Steam. Now I'm not sure the exact size, but the game only requires 10 GB for hard-drive space for uncompressed files, factoring in compression... probably 6 to 8 GB is a good bet.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by BKGaming
Posted August 12, 2016
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masterchiefmas: That's not what I was asking for. I'm already aware that they are not pre-loading.
When the game releases at 1PM tomorrow, I want to know if the Galaxy client will just start downloading it or if I have to click the button, because I have a job, and it'll be kind of sucky if I get home and then am looking at a 40GB download or whatever it is. It'd be really nice if the client would just start the download when it's able to.
Ah, in that case no. Galaxy won't automatically install a game, just auto-update (whether it is pre-load or released). I'm not aware of any game platform that will automatically install a game when it is released unless the game has a pre-load option that the user has chosen to manually install ahead of time though.

Having said that, I think there might be a way to cause Steam to install a game on one's computer remotely (I seem to remember reading about it somewhere, but I can't be sure), but Galaxy does not offer such functionality at the moment.

Update: I can confirm that Steam allows remote install of games on a remote PC, so long as Steam is running on that PC, and the person logs into Steam via the website on a remote computer - they can initiate an install onto the computer that is running Steam. This seems like a reasonable feature for GOG to implement in Galaxy in the future perhaps as well.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by skeletonbow
Posted August 12, 2016
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BKGaming: No it does not, you have to click install, and the download size is like 6 GB.
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masterchiefmas: Ok, thank you!
I didn't know how large the game was, I guess that won't be too bad as long as GoG has a good CDN. :)
Actually it's even less that I thought. Only 2.6 GB... which actually isn't that hard to believe sense it's all procedurally generated.

https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/763875660175663108
Post edited August 12, 2016 by BKGaming
Posted August 12, 2016
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BKGaming: Actually it's even less that I thought. Only 2.6 GB... which actually isn't that hard to believe sense it's all procedurally generated.

https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/763875660175663108
Would be funny if you don't need to install it at all because if you bought it, it will just get procedurally generated on your computer. :oP
Posted August 12, 2016
I might use Galaxy for a single game (No Man's Sky) to get the expected updates a lot quicker and I have a question for more experienced users. Does Galaxy scan for other GOG games automatically? I don't want it to touch my other games at all.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by Wurzelkraft
Posted August 12, 2016
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Wurzelkraft: I might use Galaxy for a single game (No Man's Sky) to get the expected updates a lot quicker and I have a question for more experienced users. Does Galaxy scan for other GOG games automatically? I don't want it to touch my other games at all.
When Galaxy is first installed it does a scan for GOG games in the default install location. If you have installed games elsewhere I don't think it looks for nor finds them by default but I can't easily confirm that myself. The only other time it scans for games is if you manually choose "scan folders" in which case it only scans the subdirectory you tell it to.

If Galaxy ever lists any of your GOG games as installed which you do not want to show up in Galaxy for some reason, you can simply search your GOG game install directories in Windows explorer for "goggame*.info" and delete all of the files that are found except for the one(s) for games you want to show up in Galaxy. Galaxy recognizes games as being installed in your library based on the existence of these files, however it does not look for them itself except when it is first installed or when you choose scan-folders yourself manually.

One more thing worth noting about this, is that Galaxy does have auto-updates turned on globally by default with no way to disable it. As such, when it is first installed, any games it does detect with its scan in the default install folders it will attempt to verify the authenticity of the files to ensure they're not corrupted. It will then download any differences it finds, as well as any game updates, a fresh updated goggame*.info file for the game, and possibly the game's dependencies such as DirectX, PhysX, or other game redistributables. This could cause problems for some people if they purposefully run a non-current version of the game for some reason, or if they have modded the game. There is no way to globally disable auto-updates and there may never be one.

You can manually disable auto-updates on a game by game basis, but you can't do it before Galaxy has had a chance to already scan the game and attempt to update it so be warned if you mod your games or otherwise have a good personal reason to not update them to current, as Galaxy can and will hose that. Keep in mind too that this is just the current state of Galaxy at the moment, and not likely the way GOG intends for it to be forever. Also keep in mind though that it has been this way for two years and is probably unlikely to change any time soon IMHO, so if you want to play it safe be sure to make backups of your installed game directories in case you need to restore them after Galaxy overwrites the game with updated files etc.

Another way to do it possibly might be to temporarily rename your game installation directory by adding a bunch of underscores to the prefix, install Galaxy, then install No Man's Sky. Rename/move your old game dir back into place, having bypassed Galaxy's scan. Just make sure you never tell it to "Scan Folders" in the future or it will find all of your games and auto-add them all later, then forcibly update them all.
Posted August 12, 2016
GOG client is constantly doing a lot of I/O writes even when it's not updating or downloading any updates.
See this topic for details
www.gog.com/forum/general/galaxy_client_helper_io_write_bytes
Posted August 12, 2016
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skeletonbow: Having said that, I think there might be a way to cause Steam to install a game on one's computer remotely (I seem to remember reading about it somewhere, but I can't be sure), but Galaxy does not offer such functionality at the moment.

Update: I can confirm that Steam allows remote install of games on a remote PC, so long as Steam is running on that PC, and the person logs into Steam via the website on a remote computer - they can initiate an install onto the computer that is running Steam. This seems like a reasonable feature for GOG to implement in Galaxy in the future perhaps as well.
To me that sounds like controlling a computer remotely. Aren't you just describing opening applications on a remote computer? For example, with remote desktop software? I would think applications on a remote computer would be agnostic of how the mouse clicks are inputted into the OS.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by thomq
Posted August 12, 2016
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thomq: To me that sounds like controlling a computer remotely. Aren't you just describing opening applications on a remote computer? For example, with remote desktop software? I would think applications on a remote computer would be agnostic of how the mouse clicks are inputted into the OS.
No, Steam must already be running on the computer. When you tell it to install via web browser on another computer, Steam knows all of the computers connected to your account at that time and simply can send the installation request to the Steam client running on the PC at home.
Posted August 12, 2016
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skeletonbow: Having said that, I think there might be a way to cause Steam to install a game on one's computer remotely (I seem to remember reading about it somewhere, but I can't be sure), but Galaxy does not offer such functionality at the moment.

Update: I can confirm that Steam allows remote install of games on a remote PC, so long as Steam is running on that PC, and the person logs into Steam via the website on a remote computer - they can initiate an install onto the computer that is running Steam. This seems like a reasonable feature for GOG to implement in Galaxy in the future perhaps as well.
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thomq: To me that sounds like controlling a computer remotely. Aren't you just describing opening applications on a remote computer? For example, with remote desktop software? I would think applications on a remote computer would be agnostic of how the mouse clicks are inputted into the OS.
As skeletonbow states, the steam client is already running there, and listens to the service provider for events telling it to install software. The user logs into the same account and expresses that they want a system which is already running steam, already logged in as their own account to install a specific thing at their account owns. The client on the remote machine listens to these events, and performs the install.

There is some risk here obviously, but also a lot of convenience. It's much more significant for those with slower internet links.
Posted August 12, 2016
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thomq: To me that sounds like controlling a computer remotely. Aren't you just describing opening applications on a remote computer? For example, with remote desktop software? I would think applications on a remote computer would be agnostic of how the mouse clicks are inputted into the OS.
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skeletonbow: No, Steam must already be running on the computer. When you tell it to install via web browser on another computer, Steam knows all of the computers connected to your account at that time and simply can send the installation request to the Steam client running on the PC at home.
Ah, I think I understand. I didn't realize the significance of the part about simultaneous logins. So a person traveling by car, the city bus, a bicycle, or simply walking is the "remote desktop application" instead of software over an internet connection. And that is aided by Steam's servers coordinating logins (that don't automatically log out) from multiple computers over the Internet. Hmm, I guess that could be a nifty feature when managing such software on more than one computer inconveniently distanced from one another.

Edit: Though, I'm having a tough time thinking how I'd get myself in such a situation. Somebody somewhere must be benefitting from it.
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jsjrodman: As skeletonbow states, the steam client is already running there, and listens to the service provider for events telling it to install software. The user logs into the same account and expresses that they want a system which is already running steam, already logged in as their own account to install a specific thing at their account owns. The client on the remote machine listens to these events, and performs the install.

There is some risk here obviously, but also a lot of convenience. It's much more significant for those with slower internet links.
Thank you, that assures me I'm understanding it, and very clearly put. And I didn't think about slower internet connections as a factor.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by thomq
Posted August 12, 2016
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skeletonbow: When Galaxy is first installed....*snip*
Thanks for the input! It really didn't change much since then. :D I'm still not sure if it's worth using.
Posted August 12, 2016
I would really appreciate if we can view our game library shelves offline. It looks so much better than the panel on the left and Steam allows for their grid view library to be viewed offline regardless if a game is installed or not. I really hope gog considers this.
Posted August 12, 2016
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ralphunreal: I would really appreciate if we can view our game library shelves offline. It looks so much better than the panel on the left and Steam allows for their grid view library to be viewed offline regardless if a game is installed or not. I really hope gog considers this.
This! That would be great. :)
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