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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 September 15, 2016
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CDR: I tried uninstalling re-downloading it same issue.
There might be a web page in the support section on how to work around it, but if not try contacting GOG support using the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.

HTH
Posted September 15, 2016
Is it still in Beta?
I tried it when it came out, but there were bugs so discontinued with it.

Is it still buggy?
Not going to waste my time until it's free of bugs and stable.
Posted September 15, 2016
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CDR: I tried uninstalling re-downloading it same issue.
Before doing the new install try deleting C:\programdata\gog.com\galaxy. Programdata is a hidden folder, so you may have to set Explorer to view hidden files before being able to delete it.
Posted September 15, 2016
I get "not connected" quite often, yet it still downloads games on the side while this is happening...
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Posted September 15, 2016
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poisonlotus: I get "not connected" quite often, yet it still downloads games on the side while this is happening...
Usual case is that the downloading takes up all your bandwidth, thus Galaxy cannot connect to GOG. Have had it quite a few times while downloading at full speed.
Posted September 15, 2016
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poisonlotus: I get "not connected" quite often, yet it still downloads games on the side while this is happening...
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JMich: Usual case is that the downloading takes up all your bandwidth, thus Galaxy cannot connect to GOG. Have had it quite a few times while downloading at full speed.
In nearest release our team will improve the not connected page for having bandwidth problems (the message and how the button works).
Posted September 15, 2016
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JMich: Usual case is that the downloading takes up all your bandwidth, thus Galaxy cannot connect to GOG. Have had it quite a few times while downloading at full speed.
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Johny.: In nearest release our team will improve the not connected page for having bandwidth problems (the message and how the button works).
That is a good start, even though the same holds true for visiting the site through a browser and/or trying to read the RSS feed through Outlook. Unsure if your team can do something about that though, but no worries :)
Posted September 15, 2016
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kristian777: Is it still in Beta?
I tried it when it came out, but there were bugs so discontinued with it.
Yes it is in beta, and it most likely will be in beta for quite some time to come yet. They have not announced any release date or particular release strategy, and it appears they're going with a rolling beta approach "until it's ready". When that might be probably wont be announced until days/weeks before they plan to actually release an official stable release however.

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kristian777: Is it still buggy?
Not going to waste my time until it's free of bugs and stable.
Of course it's still buggy, and it always will have bugs just like every other major piece of computer software has bugs in it. It uses the Google Chromium engine, and that alone perpetually has hundreds of bugs in it just like every other major piece of computer software of that scope. If you are expecting it to be 100% completely free of bugs ever, then it probably will never be for you because that's just an unrealistic expectation.

Stable on the other hand, well that's a different concept altogether. If you can handle "stable and free of major glaring bugs and/or missing features" then I think you'll be in luck some day if you can accept that all software has some bugs in it, but it'll never be "bug free", and you'd be hard pressed to find any developer anywhere with any worthy experience disagree with that. :)


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JMich: That is a good start, even though the same holds true for visiting the site through a browser and/or trying to read the RSS feed through Outlook. Unsure if your team can do something about that though, but no worries :)
Firefox and Chrome are open source, so in theory they can submit patches via bugzilla et al. :) Not so much with IE or Edge etc. I imagine though. :)
Post edited September 15, 2016 by skeletonbow
Posted September 15, 2016
I can't play any videos lately with the galaxy client - message is your browser does not support HTML5 Videos .

Additionally when I click on the open in you tube it does not open . I see a separate window on the galayclient Tray Icon but cannot get to it even with ALT+TAB .

Any known issue with taht . I use Win10 and Firefox as Standard Browser but also Chrome installed and used. All in the newest version.
Posted September 16, 2016
Is there a way to to enlage the font size - magnify the whole page ?

some of us are old u know lol (i run Edge at 125% for eg)
Posted September 16, 2016
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kristian777: Is it still in Beta?
I tried it when it came out, but there were bugs so discontinued with it.

Is it still buggy?
Not going to waste my time until it's free of bugs and stable.
Depends on what you call buggy. Yes it has bugs from time to time, especially when new features are introduced (which makes sense).
But I would call it stable enough for using it as a launcher/installer/updater. I haven't had any major problems the last 12 months or so but I have heard that some people do have problems which might be system and/or game specific related. Just try it for yourself and you'll see.

And I have to agree with Skeletonbow. You'll won't ever get a 100% bug free Galaxy. That's just impossible.
Post edited September 16, 2016 by Blinkin89
Posted September 16, 2016
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Ian: Is there a way to to enlage the font size - magnify the whole page ?

some of us are old u know lol (i run Edge at 125% for eg)
Yes and no, but maybe. The short answer is no, the longer answer is yes but you have to edit the Galaxy CSS files which are minified and unreadable and will be overwritten when Galaxy upgrades, so it's kinda yes with caveats which more or less means no kinda sorta.
Posted September 16, 2016
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Ian: Is there a way to to enlage the font size - magnify the whole page ?

some of us are old u know lol (i run Edge at 125% for eg)
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skeletonbow: Yes and no, but maybe. The short answer is no, the longer answer is yes but you have to edit the Galaxy CSS files which are minified and unreadable and will be overwritten when Galaxy upgrades, so it's kinda yes with caveats which more or less means no kinda sorta.
Thank you for your answer :)

Perhaps I can use windows to get the text to the size I need, I will have a play around :)
Posted September 16, 2016
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Ian: Thank you for your answer :)

Perhaps I can use windows to get the text to the size I need, I will have a play around :)
Wont work, it's all controlled via CSS, the files are located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\web\styles or wherever else your client happens to be installed to. The file in question is "main.css" but you'll find it is unreadable as-is. It can be loaded in Firefox or Chrome developer mode by loading the main.html and tinkering around a bit, or possibly with other web development tools that will reformat it in a human readable form for editing. I use Firefox developer mode to tweak Galaxy CSS to my tastes.

It will get blown away on Galaxy client updates though. No simple way to deal with that, however if you're a software developer, one way to potentially handle it would be to convert the CSS files into a human readable format with a csslint or similar type of tool, then import them into an SCM system like git. That way you can track your changes against the official GOG version of the files and when new releases come out you can merge them and clean up merge conflicts. Bit more work to set up but easier to maintain over time sanely.

Same thing can be used to tweak just about any aspect of the Galaxy UI. I use it for increasing the width of the left side bar by about 2 inches, and some other tweaks. Hopefully in the future GOG adds skinning ability to Galaxy so users can do these sort of tweaks in a way that is easy to do and not blown away on upgrades.
Posted September 17, 2016
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Ian: Thank you for your answer :)

Perhaps I can use windows to get the text to the size I need, I will have a play around :)
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skeletonbow: Wont work, it's all controlled via CSS, the files are located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\web\styles or wherever else your client happens to be installed to. The file in question is "main.css" but you'll find it is unreadable as-is. It can be loaded in Firefox or Chrome developer mode by loading the main.html and tinkering around a bit, or possibly with other web development tools that will reformat it in a human readable form for editing. I use Firefox developer mode to tweak Galaxy CSS to my tastes.
Opening it with Sublime Text (the best text editor! <3) will render it completely readable and with a nice colour code. I don't really know a lot about CSS, yet, but I guess you'd have to tinker with the "font-size" elements (Sublime tells me there are 33 matches); I don't know which ones change what, though, so it would probably be mostly trial-and-error.
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