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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 April 05, 2017
All I´m saying is that demanding a feature like the personal Backup functionality, that is already available in some form, isn´t exactly the best idea when somebody is code crunching to finally get out of beta.

As for your personal problem..
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skeletonbow: As an example for those who are completely unaffected by this problem to try to understand one single way in which it is a problem for people such as myself, is that I have several disks in my computer.

C: -> a very small 120GB SSD drive for the operating system and nothing else.
E: -> a 2TB hard disk where most of my applications and games are installed to
F: -> a 2 TB hard disk where all of my downloads, archives, backups and other large size files are stored
I´m very partial to it as I´m prety much in the same boat.
Even worse actually, as I´m stuck with just one 512GB 2ndary drive and use my BR burner to archive.
Only difference is, I install on my SSD and use Junctions to constantly shuffle the games that aren´t my favorites over to the HD.
A couple of favorite games stay on my SSD, can´t imagine playing a game from my HD again.
You´re really wasting a perfectly good SSD there, buddy. Win7 doesn´t need nowhere close to that much space.

The handy tool I use for this: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
Powerfull and a bit complicated, but all you really need from it is the Junction functionality.
Post edited April 05, 2017 by agog4games
Posted April 05, 2017
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Post edited April 10, 2017 by BKGaming
Posted April 05, 2017
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agog4games: All I´m saying is that demanding a feature like the personal Backup functionality, that is already available in some form, isn´t exactly the best idea when somebody is code crunching to finally get out of beta.

As for your personal problem..
I´m very partial to it as I´m prety much in the same boat.
Even worse actually, as I´m stuck with just one 512GB 2ndary drive and use my BR burner to archive.
Only difference is, I install on my SSD and use Junctions to constantly shuffle the games that aren´t my favorites over to the HD.
A couple of favorite games stay on my SSD, can´t imagine playing a game from my HD again.
You´re really wasting a perfectly good SSD there, buddy. Win7 doesn´t need nowhere close to that much space.

The handy tool I use for this: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
Powerfull and a bit complicated, but all you really need from it is the Junction functionality.
My SSD drive is only 120GB and already is loaded with all it can hold, however I have been using LinkShellExtension for 4 years now also to create junction points in Windows to relocate various things apps put on C: to a mirrored directory structure on E:, which has both saved a fair bit of space on the SSD and also reduced wear and tear by programs that unnecessarily use C: for things even if you tell them to install elsewhere. It's a life saver.

Out of the box on a fresh OS install of Windows 7 the OS used up 70GB of my new SSD drive which just about made me fall on the floor. I did a bit of sleuthing at the time to discover that by default Windows creates a swap file on C: that is equal in size to the amount of installed RAM. Since my system has 32GB of RAM, that gobbled up and wasted 32GB of swap on the SSD. I moved swap from the SSD to the HDD and reduced the size of it to what was necessary for my usage, freeing up 32GB of wasted space.

Next, Windows enables hibernation by default, which also creates a file in C:\ just slightly less than the amount of RAM installed. In my case it was about 28GB in size. That feature got disabled completely as I have no use for it and the file can not be moved or reconfigured, just disabled.

Junction points have helped to keep things off of the SSD drive, but for my purposes 120GB is just far far too small. The majority of my applications and all of my games are installed on the hard disk, so they don't even benefit from SSD performance.

Planning on buying a ~= 500GB SSD drive sometime this year to gut the system and re-provision everything to better use.
Posted April 05, 2017
Got to say, liking the change to game titles. CAPS was a little hard on the eyes.
Posted April 05, 2017
Linux versión, please
Posted April 06, 2017
Haven't read the thread so I don't know if this has been suggested already, but can there be an option to disable smooth scrolling in GoG Galaxy? I'd much prefer to not have it enabled but I don't see any sort of option to disable it at the moment.
Posted April 06, 2017
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BKGaming: Got to say, liking the change to game titles. CAPS was a little hard on the eyes.
Yes, the games ARE NOT SHOUTING AT US ANY MORE. Looks much nicer now. :)
Posted April 06, 2017
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BKGaming: Got to say, liking the change to game titles. CAPS was a little hard on the eyes.
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skeletonbow: Yes, the games ARE NOT SHOUTING AT US ANY MORE. Looks much nicer now. :)
Except the ones that are in caps natively like BLACKHOLE. Sometimes it really is the little things that bring the most joy. :P
Post edited April 06, 2017 by BKGaming
Posted April 06, 2017
I wonder if we will get the missing features shown in the Galaxy pics on the Galaxy page before beta is over? If you look closely at the pictures they show features like improved status messages (such as an away status and for how long, as well as how long someone has been offline) on the friends list and friends activity sections. They also show a join button in the friends list for joining friends in-game, haven't seen this so I assume it not currently added. There is also down arrows on STORE / LIBRARY which are not currently added. The friends list is also designed slightly differently than the current version.

We must be on a version that is slightly behind the version these pics were taken on... Galaxy is slowly but surely coming along quite nicely (other than removing some features from 1.1.x which I hope is fixed).

EDIT: There was also an old pic that showed plans for a "recent players" tab next to friends activity. I wonder why that hasn't been added yet... would make finding people easier that enjoy the games you enjoy.
Post edited April 06, 2017 by BKGaming
Posted April 06, 2017
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skeletonbow: Yes, the games ARE NOT SHOUTING AT US ANY MORE. Looks much nicer now. :)
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BKGaming: Except the ones that are in caps natively like BLACKHOLE. Sometimes it really is the little things that bring the most joy. :P
And GUN. Perhaps they're supposed to be acronyms? :)
Posted April 06, 2017
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BKGaming: I wonder if we will get the missing features shown in the Galaxy pics on the Galaxy page before beta is over? If you look closely at the pictures they show features like improved status messages (such as an away status and for how long, as well as how long someone has been offline) on the friends list and friends activity sections. They also show a join button in the friends list for joining friends in-game, haven't seen this so I assume it not currently added. There is also down arrows on STORE / LIBRARY which are not currently added. The friends list is also designed slightly differently than the current version.

We must be on a version that is slightly behind the version these pics were taken on... Galaxy is slowly but surely coming along quite nicely (other than removing some features from 1.1.x which I hope is fixed).

EDIT: There was also an old pic that showed plans for a "recent players" tab next to friends activity. I wonder why that hasn't been added yet... would make finding people easier that enjoy the games you enjoy.
Speaking of these screenshots, I've been wondering for a long time now what is the game they are discussing in a screenshot right above Community Features. I still have no idea. ;)

Anyway, one thing I'd like to see in Galaxy is the CD-keys of games you own. At the moment you still need to access the website for them, even though Galaxy is advertised as a full alternative. I remember back earlier you couldn't also delete friends from within Galaxy, but now you can, so I guess keys are the only thing remaining.
Post edited April 06, 2017 by Taro94
Posted April 07, 2017
Just to chime in on the download location...

I have what probably isn't the usual use-case, but I'm having a big problem with it. I have a small internal drive, so I keep games on an SD card. This is fine, I can put up with the slower load-times (which aren't really that slow, the read speed is pretty fast.) The problem is that now the games download to that drive, which has a VERY slow write speed. So basically, as the game downloads it stalls over and over as the disk writing maxes out. It takes an eternity.

In the past I it set up to download to the internal drive and just move it to the SD card-- that was much faster. But now I can't do that. Even if I install the game on the local machine and then move it to the SD card, any updates that trigger will then go at the slow speed because it downloads into the game folder.

I'm at a loss of what to do.
Post edited April 07, 2017 by MrMetlHed
Posted April 07, 2017
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MrMetlHed: Just to chime in on the download location...

I have what probably isn't the usual use-case, but I'm having a big problem with it. I have a small internal drive, so I keep games on an SD card. This is fine, I can put up with the slower load-times (which aren't really that slow, the read speed is pretty fast.) The problem is that now the games download to that drive, which has a VERY slow write speed. So basically, as the game downloads it stalls over and over as the disk writing maxes out. It takes an eternity.

In the past I it set up to download to the internal drive and just move it to the SD card-- that was much faster. But now I can't do that. Even if I install the game on the local machine and then move it to the SD card, any updates that trigger will then go at the slow speed because it downloads into the game folder.

I'm at a loss of what to do.
Yeah, it's very unfortunate that GOG never thought this change out fully before releasing it publicly. At least it is only in preview beta though, giving them an opportunity to fix it before the bad change is rolled out to all users. I suspect a lot of people are going to get bit by this due to having their game installation location being their smaller SSD drive or a hard disk that is close to full, yet still wanting to download backups of their games. There isn't even an easy way to work around the problem hackishly at the operating system level using junction points or similar.

Sadly, like myself and many others you're stuck either using the GOG Downloader, the web browser, a browser downloader addon, gogrepo.py or similar until they fix the problem or a 3rd party reverse engineers the rest of the Galaxy API and are able to provide a better downloader client. :o(
Posted April 07, 2017
Hey,

we have released 1.2.4 version of Galaxy on preview.

It contains a small fix to properly handle opening/closing overlay after game invite has been accepted and optimizations in the cloud saves system
Posted April 07, 2017
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TheTomasz: Hey,

we have released 1.2.4 version of Galaxy on preview.

It contains a small fix to properly handle opening/closing overlay after game invite has been accepted and optimizations in the cloud saves system
Does it fix the "failed to sync [game title]" when a save file is overwritten locally?
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