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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 September 21, 2017
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Johny.: It depends whether you add it to your GOG library via GOG Connect (https://www.gog.com/connect) or just import the game to GOG Galaxy and it says "NOT CONNECTED" when you display it in Galaxy.

If it's the latter (most probably), then you won't be able to install it on the new PC through Galaxy as you don't own it here.
I got that point, thanks for the tip. I see that every items on the store is labelled as DRM-free. This means, there are no DRM but it induced the info that every game has DRM and was freed by GoG, is that true?

I have the feeling that GoG ensure DRM-free games so if there is a game with DRM they will ensure it is removed in the GoG environmnet (e.g. Anno 1404). If that is the case the DRM-free label on all store item is a bit misleading.

Another question on a pure comparison point of view, Steam vs GoG. If two titles are DRM-free (e.g. Caesar 3) and both at the same price on steam and GoG is there any advantage going for one or the other?

Finally, why is the connect feature do not allow a permanent transfer of the Witcher series ?
Post edited September 21, 2017 by Mohawkward
Posted September 21, 2017
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Mohawkward: I got that point, thanks for the tip. I see that every items on the store is labelled as DRM-free. This means, there are no DRM but it induced the info that every game has DRM and was freed by GoG, is that true?

I have the feeling that GoG ensure DRM-free games so if there is a game with DRM they will ensure it is removed in the GoG environmnet (e.g. Anno 1404). If that is the case the DRM-free label on all store item is a bit misleading.

Another question on a pure comparison point of view, Steam vs GoG. If two titles are DRM-free (e.g. Caesar 3) and both at the same price on steam and GoG is there any advantage going for one or the other?

Finally, why is the connect feature do not allow a permanent transfer of the Witcher series ?
It's not misleading. If you don't own the game on GOG and you just import it into Galaxy, then it's just a shortcut to your existing game, just like how Steam handles non-Steam games. You can't get the DRM-Free benefit of GOG's packaged games if you don't own them here on GOG. The client is simply allowing you to be able to put all your games into one interface so that you don't have to switch between them.

If the game is on both Steam and GOG (and anywhere else for that matter) and all versions are DRM-Free and the same price, then the choice is up to you as to where you choose to buy it from.

Finally, the Witcher 1 and 2 games can be redeemed on GOG via https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup
Posted September 21, 2017
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Mohawkward: I got that point, thanks for the tip. I see that every items on the store is labelled as DRM-free. This means, there are no DRM but it induced the info that every game has DRM and was freed by GoG, is that true?

I have the feeling that GoG ensure DRM-free games so if there is a game with DRM they will ensure it is removed in the GoG environmnet (e.g. Anno 1404). If that is the case the DRM-free label on all store item is a bit misleading.
If there is some DRM on your game (not every Steam game have DRM), Galaxy will not make it DRM-free. You have to buy a game here, or use GOG Connect program to own DRM-free copy of the game.

Importing a game to GOG Galaxy doesn't mean you imported the game to your account, only to the program.


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Mohawkward: Another question on a pure comparison point of view, Steam vs GoG. If two titles are DRM-free (e.g. Caesar 3) and both at the same price on steam and GoG is there any advantage going for one or the other?
On GOG you get quality extra contents to download. For Caesar 3 it's Manual (219 pages), HD wallpaper, Avatar, and Reference card.

As for the differences in the game itself - I don't know an answer to that question, and that's not the best place to ask it (this topic concerns GOG Galaxy).

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Mohawkward: Finally, why is the connect feature do not allow a permanent transfer of the Witcher series ?
You can redeem your free GOG copy of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 here:
https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup
It is not active for The Witcher 3.
Posted September 21, 2017
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Johny.: If there is some DRM on your game (not every Steam game have DRM), Galaxy will not make it DRM-free. You have to buy a game here, or use GOG Connect program to own DRM-free copy of the game.

Importing a game to GOG Galaxy doesn't mean you imported the game to your account, only to the program.
I get that point, what I am stating is that on every item I can see it is advertised as DRM-free even if there are no DRM initially on the item. For instance, Caesar 3 is DRM-free in any case but is advertised as DRM-free. Hence, my misleading info statement. The DRM-free ad is good for games like Spore or Anno where it is really limiting your use of the game.

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Johny.: On GOG you get quality extra contents to download. For Caesar 3 it's Manual (219 pages), HD wallpaper, Avatar, and Reference card.

As for the differences in the game itself - I don't know an answer to that question, and that's not the best place to ask it (this topic concerns GOG Galaxy).
Yep, I see that we should compare the versions to see if it is line with our expectations. Thus another question, why is the version of the games offered on GoG not the latest and allow the users to pick earlier versions at will (like having a list of available version the latest being the last up to date)? (maybe I should transfer this question to GoG general forum and not going any further on GoG galaxy thread but, you know, might as well be a feature on Galaxy),

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Johny.: You can redeem your free GOG copy of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 here:
https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup
It is not active for The Witcher 3.
Did not know that, thanks for the tip, is it planned to do the same for the Third installment of the franchise?
Posted September 22, 2017
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Mohawkward: Yep, I see that we should compare the versions to see if it is line with our expectations. Thus another question, why is the version of the games offered on GoG not the latest and allow the users to pick earlier versions at will (like having a list of available version the latest being the last up to date)? (maybe I should transfer this question to GoG general forum and not going any further on GoG galaxy thread but, you know, might as well be a feature on Galaxy),
I don't know about Caesar 3 versions - you can ask support about that. We offer rollbacks to older versions for our customer's freedom of choice.

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Johny.: You can redeem your free GOG copy of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 here:
https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup
It is not active for The Witcher 3.
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Mohawkward: Did not know that, thanks for the tip, is it planned to do the same for the Third installment of the franchise?
I don't know if it's planned or not.

For Galaxy-unrelated questions, please target other topics, forums and/or support. :)
Posted September 23, 2017
Hi,
I have a dual-boot PC with Win10 and Win8.1
I installed GOG galaxy on both systems, on system drive. So each OS has its own Galaxy installation.
I tried to "share" GOG Galaxy installing it on a different drive (D:), available in both OS, like I successfully do with Steam, but it did not work.

I put games and download folders on D: drive, so I have 2 GOG installations and one games folder. Savegame locations are on D: drive as well and kind of "shared" via symlinks, so savegames symbolic links are on each C: drive and the "real" savegame files are on D:
Same thing I do with Steam, which works just fine. Only difference is that Steam installation is on D: and it's used from both OS.

Anyway, Galaxy client does not realize when a game is updated. I downloaded the 2.8 GB patch for D:OS2 yesterday on Windows 8 and today GOG is downloading it again in Windows 10.
I guess that each GOG installation has it's own "database" of installed/patched games, and it reads information from there.
First games installation is "shared" via GOG folder import function (full installation on one OS, import on the other), and it works fine. Problem is only with updates.

I wonder if there's a way to share these information between 2 different Galaxy installations. I tried to share additional GOG folders with symlinks again: i.e. C:\Users\<%username%>AppData\Local\GOG.com, but it did not work.

Is there a way to share GOG Galaxy games data between two different installations?

Thanks in advance

Ciao

Fabrizio

P.S. I monitored what GOG client is downloading: localization files, temp folder is D:\Divinity - Original Sin 2\!Temp\Data\Localization, files are Video.pak, Video_1.pak etc., which I guess will be moved to D:\Divinity - Original Sin 2\Data\Localization at the end of the process, although they are equal (did a bin compare on video.pak, which was already downloaded). This confirms that the client is downloading files which are already there.
Post edited September 23, 2017 by fazmag
Posted September 26, 2017
What about the Linux client? It's been years since Galaxy is out, and no Linux client whatsoever :-(
Posted September 28, 2017
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cyberkiller: What about the Linux client? It's been years since Galaxy is out, and no Linux client whatsoever :-(
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/looks-like-gog-galaxy-wont-come-to-linux-any-time-soon-as-its-not-a-priority.10183

Many games are not coming to Linux on GOG due to this but GOG don't really care/care enough.
Posted September 30, 2017
Could you pleast add the ability to use the searchbar in sub forums? It's really annoying to have to serach them page by page when you're really only looking for a particular thing, especially if it's an issue. Searching on the main fourm page and indevidual threads works, but not the sub fourms.
Post edited September 30, 2017 by YitzhakLevi
Posted September 30, 2017
HELP!!!! Who knows what is up with this! Me and my roommate have been playing Stronghold and after this most recent update it has not been able to load!!!!!! My roommate thinks it has something to do with having macbooks! IS this a apple related issue, something to do with the compabitiblity of this gaem. macOS Sierra XOXOXOXO
Posted October 01, 2017
So I downloaded Agarest: Generations of War 2 about a month ago (3 Sep 2017) and have just come to install it. Upon installing it, Galaxy prompted me to install an update for the game, stating that "the version you are currently on is no longer available" (see screenshot).

However, after making a copy of the original directory and performing the update, there was no difference in size in the directory. The version numbers are identical. Was this a bug in how Galaxy imports games into the client when automatic updates are disabled?
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Post edited October 01, 2017 by _ChaosFox_
Posted October 01, 2017
Hey! Quick question, if I launch a game from the desktop icon, Galaxy will still recognize it if it's running, right?
Posted October 02, 2017
Hello there!

I am using GOG Galaxy on TV and due to the distance between my TV and my couch it is hard to read anything. Is there a TV mode (like Big Picture mode as an example) planned or at least a high dpi mode ?
Posted October 02, 2017
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Tairetsu: Hey! Quick question, if I launch a game from the desktop icon, Galaxy will still recognize it if it's running, right?
When I lauch Neverwinter Nights from a shortcut, it does detect it. I do not know if that is the case with every game though.
Posted October 02, 2017
Hello,

I am unable to access the settings menu within GOG Galaxy client.

I press the GOG button at the top left of the client window but nothing happens. I restarted my computer and also restarted the client several times. My version of Galaxy client is 1.2.23 beta. I already tried to manually update to a newer client with the installation.exe, but it seems I already have the newest version.

Did someone have had the same issue and may help me solving this problem

My operating system is an up to date Windows 10.


regards,


Veldrin
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