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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
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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
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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
Just some feedback, on screen keyboards fail to work with Galaxy on touch screen devices (like my Wndows 10 tablet). I have reported on mantis here.
Post edited August 16, 2016 by BKGaming
Very minor thing, but it kinda bugs me.
Just got a matt 1080p Monitor and the stickied symbol in the taskbar looks much better than the symbol in the information area.

Is this a known "bug" or on my end?

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Motterman: Very minor thing, but it kinda bugs me.
Just got a matt 1080p Monitor and the stickied symbol in the taskbar looks much better than the symbol in the information area.

Is this a known "bug" or on my end?

Pic related
I've reported this before, the icon is blurry as hell as a small icon, even in Galaxy itself. Even the taskbar one is a little blurry. I believe this is in part due to using text on the icon which most icons don't do at that size. Text tends to get blurry the smaller you go so that's probably making it worse.

I wish GOG's designers would come up with some kind of symbol for GOG and Galaxy without having to say GOG or GOG.com on it. The icon in the titlebar of Galaxy is also really bad and not even needed really.
Post edited August 16, 2016 by BKGaming
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lefantome89: it's been what, 2 years after the announcement?

We still haven't got any public profile with achievements and the chat sucks. Updates are rare, what's the plan?
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BKGaming: This is what was last stated:

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Destro: Hi guys,

Quick update about what we’re working on now. Currently we’re polishing version 1.1.13. which should bring some noticeable additions and improvements rather than just bug fixes, including
- huge optimisations in CPU usage when Client is idle or when playing a game
- faster and snappier browsing experience
- shortcuts to store page, support and forums for every game
- option to see your friends game time for games
Obviously plenty of bug fixes and other will be tackled as well.

After 1.1.13 is out, we’ll likely have one or maybe two smaller versions before 1.2. As for 1.2 itself, you can expect some pretty cool stuff there, but I can't share details at this point. We definitely plan an earlier preview version together with the announcement.
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BKGaming:
thanks!
finally!
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lefantome89: thanks!
finally!
Destro said it should be out this week. I hope sooner rather than later.
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lefantome89: thanks!
finally!
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BKGaming: Destro said it should be out this week. I hope sooner rather than later.
With a stress on "hopefully" :)

There is one more update-related improvement that will possibly make this release at the cost of postponing it by a week or two... or we'll make 1.1.14 out of it and 1.1.13 goes out earlier. Stay tuned.
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Destro: With a stress on "hopefully" :)

There is one more update-related improvement that will possibly make this release at the cost of postponing it by a week or two... or we'll make 1.1.14 out of it and 1.1.13 goes out earlier. Stay tuned.
Well I would assume it doesn't take much from a management stand point to push an update, so lets push that to 1.1.14 and have something to look forward too. Pretty please with sugar on top. :P

Unless it's really cool... it which case GIVE ME NOW. xD ;)
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BKGaming: Destro said it should be out this week. I hope sooner rather than later.
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Destro: With a stress on "hopefully" :)

There is one more update-related improvement that will possibly make this release at the cost of postponing it by a week or two... or we'll make 1.1.14 out of it and 1.1.13 goes out earlier. Stay tuned.
Yeah, I think having more frequent updates keeps us GOGers excited about Galaxy more than having a large update once a year. :D
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Destro: With a stress on "hopefully" :)

There is one more update-related improvement that will possibly make this release at the cost of postponing it by a week or two... or we'll make 1.1.14 out of it and 1.1.13 goes out earlier. Stay tuned.
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Taro94: Yeah, I think having more frequent updates keeps us GOGers excited about Galaxy more than having a large update once a year. :D
Couldn't agree more.
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Taro94: Yeah, I think having more frequent updates keeps us GOGers excited about Galaxy more than having a large update once a year. :D
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BKGaming: Couldn't agree more.
Me too.
Hi, is there a way that I can change the colour of this client? Grey looks really dull.

Also, it would be nice if there was a search bar on the featured store page instead of having to go to browse games.
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PARADEZIXO: Hi, is there a way that I can change the colour of this client? Grey looks really dull.

Also, it would be nice if there was a search bar on the featured store page instead of having to go to browse games.
Not in any official or easy intended manner. Having said that, it is a web browser and the user interface is constructed out of HTML and CSS, so you can modify the .css files to your liking. I've modified it to change the width of the left hand sidebar among a number of other changes. There are some caveats with doing this however...

- Every time Galaxy client gets updated, it may and probably will completely blow away the old .css files you've customized and replace them with the newest official version. There is no way around this unless GOG makes a conscious decision to allow "skinning" of the client and provides a better mechanism than editing the .css.

- The .css file is either machine generated, or has been passed through some kind of CSS minimizer/optimizer so it is completely unreadable to any sane human. In order to make heads or tails out of it you need to either load it into an editor that can reformat it with human readable indentation etc. or you can load the main.html file into Firefox or whatever other browser and use the browser's debugging utilities to view the CSS colour coded and manipulate it and save it. Before modifying the official .css files it is a good idea to make a backup copy of them just to be safe.

Note that since doing this is an underhanded modification that isn't intended by the design of the software, modifying it in this manner may cause it to malfunction visually or otherwise, or cause any other number of problems so I wouldn't recommend doing it unless you're comfortable enough with web development to handle figuring out how to make a customization work, and also accept that it might blow up in your face after and you get to keep all pieces. :) Having said that, my personal modifications are all working fine when I have them active. (I use them when using the client, disable them when doing GOG client testing etc.)
Anyone get achievements for Layers of Fear?
Seems to be broken.
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Destro: With a stress on "hopefully" :)

There is one more update-related improvement that will possibly make this release at the cost of postponing it by a week or two... or we'll make 1.1.14 out of it and 1.1.13 goes out earlier. Stay tuned.
PSA: There won't be a GOG Galaxy Client 1.1.13 update this week. We're aiming for the next one, sometime mid-week.
Post edited August 18, 2016 by Destro
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Destro: PSA: There won't be a GOG Galaxy Client 1.1.13 update this week. We're aiming for the next one, sometime mid-week.
Well that is unfortunate... but thanks for keeping us informed none the less.