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Posted April 25, 2017
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Hi,

welcome to the official GOG Galaxy forum thread. Please read the below info first:

== GOG GALAXY FEATURES IN GAMES ==

List of games supporting various GOG Galaxy features:
Achievements: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=achievements&sort=bestselling&page=1
Cloud Saves: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=cloud_saves&sort=bestselling&page=1
Overlay: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=overlay&sort=bestselling&page=1

== 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 (location described on mantis report page)

== 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 ==
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer

== CHANGELOG ==

1.2.49 (November 29, 2018)
- [Windows] Updater now requires administrator privileges to perform update of GOG Galaxy
- [Windows] Security of directories containing GOG Galaxy files has been improved
- [Windows] Updated Code Signing Certificate
- [Windows] Crash reporter has been added to Galaxy Communication Service
Bugfixes:
- Prevented several potential causes of "broken" games, where only way out was reinstalling
- [MacOS] Fixed a crash on shutdown when fatal error was shown

1.2.50 (December 13, 2018)
Changes & Improvements:
- Speed up startup time
- [MacOS] Strengthen up connection security with ClientService
Bugfixes:
- Fixed "disk access problem" when installing games, occuring mostly on fresh installation of GOG Galaxy
- Fixed a rare occurrence of a game update resulting in displaying "unknown game version"

1.2.51 (December 20, 2018)
- Improved Korean translations
- Fixed connection to notifications pusher in GOG Galaxy SDK

1.2.54 (March 14, 2019)
Changes and Improvements:
- Updated Chromium version to 71:
- Better performance
- Fixes playing Twitch videos on profiles
- Fixes playing Wistia videos
- Security fixes in the game installation process
- Security fixes in GOG Galaxy update process
- GOG Galaxy Updater should perform better under poor network conditions
Bugfixes:
- [macOS] Fixed passing multiple commandline arguments to games
- [macOS] Multiple "friend online" notifications will no longer appear when system wakes up
- Dates are now properly displayed in cloud saves conflict window

1.2.55 (April 17, 2019)
- Hotfix for unintentional opening of Facebook link after entering Forum

1.2.56 (May 06, 2019)
Bugfixes:
- [Windows] GOG Galaxy will fix the path to its internal services, if it finds it is wrong
- Updating of games' local dependencies (e.g. Dosbox) will be handled correctly
- Unexpected files in games' directories will no longer cause failure of games’ update

1.2.57 (June 12, 2019)
Changes and Improvements:
- Minor download speed optimizations
- Changes in PayPal payment flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed rare crash occurence when reordering games' updates and installations
- GOG Galaxy will correctly reconnect to GOG services after long time of no internet connection

1.2.58 (September 13, 2019)
macOS:
- Enabled hardened runtime, making our application more secure
- Implemented Apple's notarization

1.2.59 (September 23, 2019)
Overlay:
- [Windows] Fixed crash in Overlay affecting some games (including Fallout 3 (Radeon only) and Dragon Age: Origins)
Achievements:
- [Windows] Fixed issue with achievements sometimes not being saved while playing offline

1.2.60 Beta (07 October, 2019)
General:
- Updated CEF version to 3729 (Chromium to 74)
- Security fixes
Updater:
- Will no longer download updates at startup, they will be downloaded in the background, while the application is running
- [Windows] No additional UAC prompt during update

1.2.61 Beta (October 23, 2019)
Updater:
- Fixed an issue where non-admin users would not be able to update to newer versions of GOG Galaxy

1.2.62 Beta (October 30, 2019)
Overlay:
- Fixed crashes for various games

1.2.63 (December 02, 2019)
General:
- Updated CEF version to 3729 (Chromium to 74)
- Security fixes
Updater:
- Will no longer download updates at startup, they will be downloaded in the background, while the application is running
- [Windows] No additional UAC prompt during update
Overlay [Windows]:
- Now supports games which use Vulkan API (e.g. Jupiter Hell, X4: Foundations)
- Fixes crashes for various games

1.2.64 (December 04, 2019)
- Hotfix for launching games

1.2.66 (January 23, 2020)
- Added information about GOG Galaxy 2.0 Open Beta
- Optimization related to showing download progress
- Fixed an issue where Overlay did not launch for some games that use Vulkan
- [Windows] Updated code signing certificate
- [MacOS] Crash fixes

1.2.67 (February 24, 2020)
General:
- [Windows] GOG Galaxy will now show a warning when trying to run on non-NTFS file systems
- Improved security of the application
- Updated POCO library
GOG GALAXY Update:
- Fixes for bugs in the GOG Galaxy update process
Post edited February 24, 2020 by TheTomasz
Posted January 03, 2019
not a galaxy issue but I didn't want to make a new thread. for about a month it keeps saying that I have replies on the forums but I don't. any help is appreciated. tested on two devices.
Posted January 05, 2019
gog galaxy sucks if you are not on your admin account! every update wants me to insert my PW 10 thousand times... i tried to start gog galaxy as admin but it wouldnt chage anything. it still asks for my PW everytime gog has an update or one of the games has an update. i uninstall that shit now! steam doesnt have those problems even though it is installed on the same account as the gog galaxy client.
Posted January 05, 2019
not GOG glaxys fault if your using any application on a standard windows account it asks for a password if it bothers you that much switch to admin if your not allowed to do that or wont, maybe copy and paste password so you dont have to type it
tbh steam has alot more issues than GOG does, thing is with GOG you dnt need galaxy to play or download games cos its DRM free which GOG always want to be, enjoy have steam all the time on your pc and never actually owning your games, your basically paying full price for game rental on steam cos you cant play steam games without steam which is why i love GOG so much
Post edited January 05, 2019 by moobot83
Posted January 06, 2019
Is there a way to stop Galaxy from starting up without asking when I install new games? I download the basic non-galaxy installers because I don't want to play through Galaxy, I only have Galaxy for Stardew Valley's Multiplayer, and that is the only time I want to use it and I really don't like programs starting without me being the one to start them.

I thought that games I install would only be added to Galaxy if I had it running while I install them or that I would be able to add them by choice, but it seems like it keeps track of what I do even though it's closed. I tried finding something in the settings that would stop it from doing that but I'm new to Galaxy and am a bit confused as to how to configure it.
Post edited January 06, 2019 by Uilos
Posted January 08, 2019
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Uilos: Is there a way to stop Galaxy from starting up without asking when I install new games? I download the basic non-galaxy installers because I don't want to play through Galaxy, I only have Galaxy for Stardew Valley's Multiplayer, and that is the only time I want to use it and I really don't like programs starting without me being the one to start them.

I thought that games I install would only be added to Galaxy if I had it running while I install them or that I would be able to add them by choice, but it seems like it keeps track of what I do even though it's closed. I tried finding something in the settings that would stop it from doing that but I'm new to Galaxy and am a bit confused as to how to configure it.
Don't launch from installer or use shortcuts created by installer / Galaxy. Install the game, close the installer, & instead create a new shortcut directly to the games EXE.

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NOTICE: It's been 623 days since the last major Galaxy update (1.2) or 1 year, 8 months, 14 days. Will GOG actually manage to release 1.3 in 2019? Let's continue to wait to find out.

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bouncedk: omg you still have not fixed that your downloads extracts to the system temp folder, and then unpacks to the install folder. It's been like 5 years now? How long does it take? Stop killing peoples ssd's.

Just install directly to the chosen folder, like steam does. You try so hard to be steam, do so.
I think you better check again, from what I can tell Galaxy does download directly to the install folder. I know they use to use a temp folder a long time ago, but I don't believe it does that anymore on the newer versions. Goodies like offline installers still download to a temp folder, but it's a temp folder inside the install location.

Galaxy still puts a butch of crap in ProgramData though, but I believe it uses less space than it use too...
Post edited January 08, 2019 by user deleted
Posted January 08, 2019
Save syncing is a great features; but I have a minor request:

Is there a way to disable notifications for when saves have been synced? Currently when I quit a game, about half a minute later a little notification slides up from the bottom right of the screen saying that GOG Galaxy has synced the save games to the cloud. I'd like to disable that notification.

I've checked the GG notification settings, and the only one that is even close to being relevant is "installing / updating status" - which I have disabled. I suppose the cloud sync notification is just missing from the settings screen.
Posted January 08, 2019
Posted January 09, 2019
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USERNAME:Uilos#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:2145#Q&_^Q&Q#Is there a way to stop Galaxy from starting up without asking when I install new games? I download the basic non-galaxy installers because I don't want to play through Galaxy, I only have Galaxy for Stardew Valley's Multiplayer, and that is the only time I want to use it and I really don't like programs starting without me being the one to start them.

I thought that games I install would only be added to Galaxy if I had it running while I install them or that I would be able to add them by choice, but it seems like it keeps track of what I do even though it's closed. I tried finding something in the settings that would stop it from doing that but I'm new to Galaxy and am a bit confused as to how to configure it.#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:2145#Q&_^Q&Q#
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Oh, that's great! Thank you very much, I appreciate it! :)
Posted January 09, 2019
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Venom: Hi,

welcome to the official GOG Galaxy forum thread. Please read the below info first:

== GOG GALAXY FEATURES IN GAMES ==

List of games supporting various GOG Galaxy features:
Achievements: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=achievements&sort=bestselling&page=1
Cloud Saves: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=cloud_saves&sort=bestselling&page=1
Overlay: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=overlay&sort=bestselling&page=1

== 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 (location described on mantis report page)

== 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 ==
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer

== CHANGELOG ==

1.2.37 (February 05, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- After quitting a game, GOG Galaxy will check if game updates are available
- Added indication on gameview that a game's beta channel is no longer available
- General improvements to download mechanism
Bugfixes:
- [Windows] Fixed GOG Galaxy Notifications Renderer's icon and details
- Fixed Galaxy self-update on MacOS with multiple system accounts
- Fixed issues with starting GOG Galaxy, when one of the configuration files was corrupt
- Fixed issue where some DOSBox games would be broken by Galaxy updates

1.2.38 Beta (Februrary 28, 2018)
- Released only to beta, it consisted changes from 1.2.39

1.2.39 (March 13, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- Increased the default number of download threads from 10 to 32. This should improve download speeds at the cost of CPU usage.
- Improvements to windows handling: size and position persistance, native behaviours
- [MacOS] GOG Galaxy notifications respect "Do Not Disturb mode"
- Small network improvements during GOG Galaxy update
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug with downloading older games in China
- Fixed rare issue where downloading a backup installer would fail with "Server problem" for no apparent reason
- [MacOS] Fixed showing %appName% instead of the application name in an error dialog

1.2.40 (March 28, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- Ability to log in or register a new account with your Facebook account
- Suggested friends will be visible on the bottom of Friends window
- New Find Friends window with suggested friends will be opened when you click "+" in Friends window
- Optimized network transfer in updater and fetching data for installation screen
- Galaxy version is now displayed in the settings window

Bugfixes:
- [Windows] Fixed font rendering in Friends window on 100% dpi scaling

1.2.41 (April 23, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- User Profiles - a personal space for every GOG.com user for socialising among members of the community.
* compare your game statistics with friends
* see what your friends are currently playing
* share text, photos and videos
* personalise profile with your description and backgrounds from the games you own

- Speed up aborting cloud sync in case of service downtime
- Changed default number of download threads back to 10, due to reports of a decrease in download speed

Bugfixes:
- Fixed message on game uninstallation
- Fixed a rare crash in games caused by Galaxy SDK

1.2.42 Beta (May 10, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- Change in internal database architecture
- [Windows] Several improvements in rendering of Galaxy icon

Bugfixes:
- Aborting and pausing downloads will happen nearly immediately
- Adjusted default size of friends window

1.2.43 (May 29, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- Clicking on users in the game view and Find Friends window, will now take you to their profile. (in Friends window opening chat is the default action)
- Improved download process to avoid long download time of last few percents of the game
- Right-clicking on a desktop notification dismisses it.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed database migration issues, which popped out in the last Beta release
- Fixed issue with sockets which may has caused issues with download
- Fixed a crash when trying to resolve cloud saves conflict
- GOG Galaxy will no longer crash when trying to open pdf files - instead it will open them in external browser
- Fixed an issue with Galaxy being unresponsive for a long time on startup and in a few other scenarios

1.2.44 (June 13, 2018)
Bugfixes:
- GOG Galaxy no longer crashes when it is being launched by one of game's shortcuts on the desktop and the game is not updated to the latest version
- Fixed an issue where some of MSVC exit codes were treated as failure, whilist they should be a success. Fixes recent problems with installation of Moonlighter
- Fixed an issue with Verify/repair after failed installation

1.2.45 (11 July, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- When hovering over mutual friends in friends suggestions - you can see the full list of mutual friends.
- GOG Galaxy will no longer treat non-zero exit codes returned from dependency installers (such as Physx, Visual C++ Redistributables) as failure (caused configuration error on installation)
Bugfixes:
- Allows users to download cloud saves backup for all games with enabled cloud saves
- GOG Galaxy will no longer be locked out from launching, if Galaxy Updater cannot launch at all
- Upon update, invalid leftovers from database will be removed. They were caused by a bug with verify/repair (which was fixed in 1.2.44)
- Running a webinstaller again will not interfere with already running installation process
- "Continue previous session" setting will correctly restore last web content (game card, forum topic etc.)
- When showing a conflict, GOG Galaxy will not show invalid date anymore (It may still happen once until conflict is resolved)
- In case when GOG Galaxy is unable to fetch ownership information about not installed game (eg. User is not logged in), Install/Buy button will be disabled, instead of showing spinner infinitely. Play button is always enabled, when game is installed

1.2.46 (October 2, 2018)
Changes and Improvements:
- Improved stability when installing/updating games
- Changed last known part of GOG Galaxy app from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2
- Added Korean and Chinese Traditional to list of languages with limited support
- [MacOS] It is no longer possible to close Galaxy Updater application window
Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue with installations not resuming after failure (for instance due to poor network)
- Importing some games installed by older installers is fixed (eg. Crusader: No Regret™)

1.2.47 (October 22, 2018)
Changes & Improvements:
- Better Korean translations
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug where sometimes a blank screen would be shown to users when store / other page failed to respond
- Changed error text that shows after page fails to load to be more informative
Windows Overlay:
- Saving screenshots will work when User's home folder contains non-ASCII characters (e.g. Cyrillic)
- Other fixes for screenshots in some games (e.g. Balrum, Death's Gambit)
- Fixed scaling issues for some games (e.g. Eden)
- Fixes for OpenGL games allowing us to enable Overlay support for the following games:
- Transport Fever
- Simon the Sorcerer
- WH40k Gladius - Relics of War
- Fixes for DX 11 games allowing us to enable Overlay support for the following games:
- King Arthur II
- Fixes for DX 10 games allowing us to enable Overlay support for the following games:
- Crysis
- Anno 1404
- Two Worlds VE
- Fixes for DX 9 games allowing us to enable Overlay support for the following games:
- Treasure Adventure World

1.2.49 (November 29, 2018)
- [Windows] Updater now requires administrator privileges to perform update of GOG Galaxy
- [Windows] Security of directories containing GOG Galaxy files has been improved
- [Windows] Updated Code Signing Certificate
- [Windows] Crash reporter has been added to Galaxy Communication Service
Bugfixes:
- Prevented several potential causes of "broken" games, where only way out was reinstalling
- [MacOS] Fixed a crash on shutdown when fatal error was shown

1.2.50 (December 13, 2018)
Changes & Improvements:
- Speed up startup time
- [MacOS] Strengthen up connection security with ClientService
Bugfixes:
- Fixed "disk access problem" when installing games, occuring mostly on fresh installation of GOG Galaxy
- Fixed a rare occurrence of a game update resulting in displaying "unknown game version"

1.2.51 (December 20, 2018)
- Improved Korean translations
- Fixed connection to notifications pusher in GOG Galaxy SDK
Thanks for the info I Love GOG!!
Posted January 09, 2019
I suppose this is the place to ask...

Considering the following:
I really like being able to install without first downloading the offline files.
But I really loathe
- being forced to be online
- being forced to update (I may or may not like certain bugs or features)
- losing saves when Galaxy forces a sync when i need to close the computer *now*
- losing saves when Galaxy borks the save sync for whatever reason
- anything overlay-related
- startup time

Had Galaxy improved to the point I should give it a shot?
Posted January 09, 2019
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Roffel: - being forced to be online
Galaxy works fully offline, just turn off your wifi, etc before use. The only time you would need to be online is if you want to play MP for certain games.


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Roffel: - being forced to update (I may or may not like certain bugs or features)
Game updates can be disabled. Even client updates now require admin privileges so you can even disregard client updates.

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Roffel: - losing saves when Galaxy forces a sync when i need to close the computer *now*
- losing saves when Galaxy borks the save sync for whatever reason
Not sure why you would ever lose a save. Saves are stored locally then uploaded to the cloud if cloud saving is on. If Galaxy fails to sync is should sync the next time you play.

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Roffel: - anything overlay-related
Can be disabled.

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Roffel: - startup time
Needs work still, but better than it use to be.

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Roffel: Had Galaxy improved to the point I should give it a shot?
Galaxy is improving slowly but it is improving and defiantly worth checking out again if you haven't done so in a long time.
Posted January 09, 2019
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Will do
Thank you
Posted January 09, 2019
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Roffel: Will do
Thank you
Additionally:
You can disable cloud saves completely if you don't need them. Or - if sync is broken - Galaxy will ask which one it should prefer.
Not only can you disable auto-update globally or per-game, you can also rollback to previous versions of games if the current version is giving you headaches (don't expect "newer" savegames with an old game version though).
Posted January 12, 2019
Recently discovered a game where the CloudSaves folder has savegame files up to December 28 but nothing between then and today compared to the usual savegame folder that is up to date. This game says it is syncing after every time I close it yet is missing several days of savegame files from the CloudSaves folder.

Also still having the issue when Galaxy first opens will not accept password, I have to close the window the open a new one for the first password of the day to work. I reported this once before months ago.
Posted January 13, 2019
I don't know if it's a GOG Galaxy bug, but something strange is going on with the activity feed.

When you start a game that you haven't played before, there should be a notification in the activity feed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I remember, these notifications were instant.

Now these notifications show up only after an hour of playing and have the wrong time.

Here is an example: the game was launched at 13:00, notification in activity feed appeared at 14:00 and says that this event happened two hours ago (that is, at 12:00).

Playing time tracking works correctly. The problem is only with these notifications.
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