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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.

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

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.

Thanks for the feedback. The app you've mentioned is used to create virtual LANs so that users can play many older games with LAN modes games over internet. It's a very interesting concept but there is a limited number of things we can focus at once. Pius, as you've said, there are apps who already take care of it well.

Many games, majority of them, have their languages built in, which you can change in game. Only some (few) bigger titles, like Witcher 3, with gigs of voice-overs per language require separate downloads for other languages.

The standalone installer language dropdown (same as the one on the website) is not clear in this regard, as it always shows list of languages, no matter if they are built in or not (meaning if game is in 2 languages, there will be 2 options in the dropdown, even though it results in the same download).

Galaxy install option is a bit better in this regard, as it shows ab extra dropdown to change language in More -> Configure section only if languages requires additional download. Normally it show's "English" which is not entirely true as game can include many languages obviously.

We will address both of these issues in the long run, and for now simply check if Configure menu includes a language switcher or not - if it doesn't, it means you have the language built in (and in case you will find exception to this rule, please report it to mantis.gog.com :)

For games with DLC, there is a incompatibility between old installers and current version in the Galaxy Content System. It will be fixed but you will likely either have to redownload the installer once it's fixed or just Install the game using the Client now (it should install DLCs automatically but if it won't, we'll fix this soon).
Yup, planned. For now it's only available in store, as it's better to have it al least there than nowhere (as previously :)

Could you post to mantis.gog.com a video showing how it looks outside of installation / download on your system together with details about your OS version and SP installed as well as antivirus / firewall used, together with your PC config (CPU, RAM, HDD/SDD...)? I'm not claiming the Client is times faster than a browser or anything like that, but judging by your description it sounds much worse than it should be...