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Posted December 05, 2014
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BUG REPORTING: Please use http://mantis.gog.com

Always attach your logs when reporting bugs. You can find them at:
On Windows Vista or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On MacOSX: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs


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Hi, everyone!

The Galaxy team is hard at work to bring you the Client application that will let you manage your GOG.com games library more conveniently. We’d love for the initial release experience to be as smooth and streamlined as possible for everyone, but releasing an app of this scope is no easy feat.

But before we jump in and hand out the alpha Client, we’d like to set some ground rules.

1) The key word here is ‘alpha’, which means that this is not the final app and not all functionalities are present. The purpose of this test is to evaluate the core tech in the Client on a wider set of computer configurations than what we can locally test on, so only core features are included. Below I will post a detailed list of what is present and what we plan to add in future releases.

2) Alpha also means that you can encounter some unexpected issues. If you have a metered connection (a bandwidth cap or payments per bandwidth used) or you’re currently playing and can’t afford a loss of game time, this might not be for you. In other words, if you want to avoid potential problems with the alpha Client, simply wait for the final release.

3) Please, please, please refrain from posting screenshots, reviews or first impressions, both on our forums or elsewhere, as this is not the final product and many changes will still be made.

If you’ve read all of the above proceed to the signup page: http://www.gog.com/galaxy/alpha

We will be sending out invitations in batches (along with some more info on how to install the client and report bugs), so not everyone will receive one right away.
Post edited May 02, 2015 by Destro
Posted April 30, 2015
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Hi everyone,

we've released the 0.7 version a couple of minutes ago, here's the changelog:

- Back/Forward navigation in the Store section
- Import Folder - it is now possible to import a game which is not compatible with the client, by clicking the game in the Library section and choosing ‘Import Folder’ from the More dropdown
- Startup page option - it is now possible to decide if the client should start on LIBRARY page, STORE page, or continue previous session
- Search option - you can press enter in the search field to continue searching in the Store
- Option to Show Game Folder added to MORE menu
- New sidebar sorting options (sort by name)
- External links will now be forwarded to the system browser
- Wishlist option added to the LIBRARY menu
- Community option in the STORE menu
- Forum Replies option in the ACCOUNT menu
- Option to keep saves, when uninstalling a game
- Windows: starting the client when another instance is already running should now open the running instance (rather than displaying error message)
- Improved ‘Last Played’ information, which should now show the time of the user stopped playing the game, rather than started playing the game
- Fixed uninstallation issues on Windows
- Fixed an issue which prevented using Paypal, when buying a game
- Fixed an issue which prevented from displaying Terms and Agreements when registering new account
- Fixed some issues when installing and uninstalling DLCs
- Bugfix: client will now not allow dragging elements onto its window
- Fixed memory leaks, causing to crash the application when downloading lots of games
- Fixed a bug which was causing the client to crash on exit
- Fixed an issue, which sometimes caused the client to duplicate the news on game view
Post edited May 01, 2015 by Destro
Posted May 01, 2015
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HOW TO IMPORT EXISTING GAMES INSTALLATIONS INTO GALAXY

1. For GOG games installed using installers from the last few months (so called Galaxy-compatible installers)
Click the "+" 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, then click the More button and select "Manage" -> "Import folder" and point the folder selector into the folder where that game is installed.
Post edited May 01, 2015 by Destro
Posted April 30, 2015
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BKGaming: If they games is installed, click more and then download extras... from there you can then get the installer. I don't think you can do it though if they game isn't already installed.
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Fallen_Zen: Yes, you can do :)
Go to library and click on the image of the game. You should get a view like this, and you can click normally "MORE".
Ah okay did not know that... thanks for telling me. I just click in install in library view. Lol :)
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BKGaming: If they games is installed, click more and then download extras... from there you can then get the installer. I don't think you can do it though if they game isn't already installed.
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CthuluIsSpy: Actually, you can.
Its just that you have to click on the game in the library, and not on the arrow.
The arrow in the library doesn't have that option, but clicking on the game itself will take you to its own little page, where you do have that option.

Just a little UI quibble.
Thanks I see this now. :)
Post edited April 30, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted April 30, 2015
What does number of concurrent connections mean?
Does that change how many games you can install at once?
Posted April 30, 2015
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CthuluIsSpy: What does number of concurrent connections mean?
Does that change how many games you can install at once?
No, just how many threads are used for downloading the same item. This helps greatly if you're on fast connection and you want to hit the limit :)
Post edited April 30, 2015 by Fallen_Zen
Posted April 30, 2015
Am I blind or is there no download speed/bandwidth management options? As someone that shares a terrible connection with multiple people this is a huge deal.
Posted April 30, 2015
Just tried it and made a test run with Simon the Sorcerer (install, play and uninstall). Yay, I like! Really looking forward to the Final Client :-)

One request I have: please don't minimize to tray when I click X to CLOSE the application. If I want to minimize it, I click minimize. If I click close, I mean close. Please include an option, thanks!


Back to yay: pretty cool alpha you've put together there! Keep going!
Posted April 30, 2015
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tammerwhisk: Am I blind or is there no download speed/bandwidth management options? As someone that shares a terrible connection with multiple people this is a huge deal.
This is still in Alpha, so there are plenty of things not being added right now, i mean they even state as much in the initial post, as they purpose of the private alpha test is not to show off the new client but to test features .

Now if we were in the open test beta phase then I would say something about things like that.
Posted April 30, 2015
Not sure if I should bring this up on mantis, but is it really necessary to show images for the news section which repeats the same image over and over for the most part. This has to increase loading time on the page? Or is this just stock images right now which will be improved later?
Posted April 30, 2015
I tried to search the forums, but it kept timing out... Is there a feature coming to galaxy meant to monitor my time played? That's one thing I really like on that other PC gaming client. It's kind of a big deal to me, I really miss it from Galaxy. I don't mind waiting a little longer for this feature, but I'm wondering if it's even in the works?
Posted April 30, 2015
The GalaxyClient Helper Application is a real memory hog. On My 4GB system it eats up 258.2MBs of RAM as a background app and another 70MBs for the GOG Galaxy main application.

Its that bad I can't really use it to launch games or I have windows deciding it needs to kill the programs to save ram, as it stands the GOG Galaxy uses more ram than many of the games I use it to run.

So please can we have auto startup on windows login disabled until you can get its background memory use down to the level of a normal background app (no more than 25MB) and get it a bit more optimised. Come on its using more ram on my system than Firefox, which currently has about 15 tabs open :-)

On a positive note is easy to use and should make playing multi player games easier on GOG so I will look forward to testing future releases, but I will probably uninstall it for now as its stopping me from enjoying Witcher 2 runs nicely on my system without GOG Galaxy, but cant really play with it installed and running in background.
Posted April 30, 2015
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dwyloc: The GalaxyClient Helper Application is a real memory hog. On My 4GB system it eats up 258.2MBs of RAM as a background app and another 70MBs for the GOG Galaxy main application.

Its that bad I can't really use it to launch games or I have windows deciding it needs to kill the programs to save ram, as it stands the GOG Galaxy uses more ram than many of the games I use it to run.

So please can we have auto startup on windows login disabled until you can get its background memory use down to the level of a normal background app (no more than 25MB) and get it a bit more optimised. Come on its using more ram on my system than Firefox, which currently has about 15 tabs open :-)

On a positive note is easy to use and should make playing multi player games easier on GOG so I will look forward to testing future releases, but I will probably uninstall it for now as its stopping me from enjoying Witcher 2 runs nicely on my system without GOG Galaxy, but cant really play with it installed and running in background.
No arguing about the need for it to be optimized but the option to not start it with windows start is already available if you access the settings menu.
Posted April 30, 2015
Update appears to have screwed up Mount and Blade Warband which is now showing as "Unknown Game Version" and it seems like I can no longer access any DLC.
Posted April 30, 2015
I was going to report to mantis that the back/forward buttons didn't work when accessing a game's store page through the wishlist, but re-reading the update makes it seem like it's not supposed to yet.


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lebowitz: I tried to search the forums, but it kept timing out... Is there a feature coming to galaxy meant to monitor my time played? That's one thing I really like on that other PC gaming client. It's kind of a big deal to me, I really miss it from Galaxy. I don't mind waiting a little longer for this feature, but I'm wondering if it's even in the works?
If you look at a game's page you'll see a small clock under "My Activity". I thought this was a new feature for this update, but I haven't played any games with it installed, yet it's showing on some games play time. Maybe it was only partially implemented in a previous update.
Posted April 30, 2015

No arguing about the need for it to be optimized but the option to not start it with windows start is already available if you access the settings menu.
Yes but it should not be enabled without first asking the user if they want it started.

Its only useful when you are playing or downloading games it has no good reason to be running other wise unless GOG are planning to add always on DRM.
Posted April 30, 2015

No arguing about the need for it to be optimized but the option to not start it with windows start is already available if you access the settings menu.
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dwyloc: Yes but it should not be enabled without first asking the user if they want it started.

Its only useful when you are playing or downloading games it has no good reason to be running other wise unless GOG are planning to add always on DRM.
I totally agree!

I am a bit confused. You can switch between installed games and all my games but
1) All my games is greyed out (not yet implemented?)
2) Why should I need "All my games" AND a "Library" which contains all my games as well? I don't understand the concept.
Post edited April 30, 2015 by MarkoH01
Posted April 30, 2015
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So I'm running the Galaxy Client, it runs fine and then it asks me to update, so I go ahead and update it and then this error happened

Yes, I'm running XP SP3 because I don't have a copy of 7 or 8 and Linux, a good portion of my stuff I do (capture video and certain games) I can't even do on the system (hence of the Flame Shield)
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