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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 October 20, 2017
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Psykopat89: How do I stop the client from auto updating on launch?
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JMich: 1) You shouldn't really stop it from checking for updates. Quite curious as to why you'd want to do this.
2) Run the client with the /runwithoutupdating flag. But you really should be letting it check for updates.
I never said I want it to stop CHECKING for updates. I said I want to make it stop auto updating on launch (or at any point, really). The key here being I want to update when I choose. It can be very inconvenient when I just want to quickly launch a game through the client and it has to update first - sometimes the servers are just crap, and it literally takes several minutes. I'd like to update, but on my terms, when I choose. It should never force that shit.

When you say I should run the client with the /runwithoutupdating flag, do you mean as a command added in a shortcut, or something else? Also, will this prevent me from manually updating, so I have to be adding and removing this flag all the time?

Frankly GOG should just add an option to manually opt in to click "update now" or something like that. I mean, their whole shtick is about "your client, your terms" - that's what they've been tooting ever since before we could even download a beta. Why not be persistent about it? Don't become Steam, please.
Posted October 20, 2017
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Psykopat89: When you say I should run the client with the /runwithoutupdating flag, do you mean as a command added in a shortcut
Yes. In the shortcut you use to run Galaxy, adding this flag will prevent from checking for updates. No idea about whether you're able to check for updates later on, this flag was mentioned in the "Galaxy Patch for Windows XP" thread, which is already running Galaxy in unsupported ways.
Posted October 20, 2017
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JMich: Yes. In the shortcut you use to run Galaxy, adding this flag will prevent from checking for updates. No idea about whether you're able to check for updates later on, this flag was mentioned in the "Galaxy Patch for Windows XP" thread, which is already running Galaxy in unsupported ways.
Thanks - but then again that's quite inconvenient, as I actually *want* to update every now and then, just on my own time, and it would quickly become a pain to be adding / removing it al the time.

@GOG - can we just have an option for this? Thanks.
Posted October 20, 2017
Anyone else have a problem where GOG Galaxy creates a "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?" popup every time they start the compter? It's getting kinda annoying and wonder if there's a fix (short of reinstalling GOG, that is).
Posted October 20, 2017
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JMich: 2) Run the client with the /runwithoutupdating flag. But you really should be letting it check for updates.
Interesting. I wonder if the client still works online when setting this flag and/or if you can still connect online once you are behind a released update.

If so, I would say this is a security concern with it being public now. We really don't need people connecting to the Galaxy network on old outdated versions.
Posted October 20, 2017
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MadDemon64: Anyone else have a problem where GOG Galaxy creates a "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?" popup every time they start the compter? It's getting kinda annoying and wonder if there's a fix (short of reinstalling GOG, that is).
What operating system are you using? It should not happen. I would be grateful if you would put a bug report on http://mantis.gog.com
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JMich: 2) Run the client with the /runwithoutupdating flag. But you really should be letting it check for updates.
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BKGaming: Interesting. I wonder if the client still works online when setting this flag and/or if you can still connect online once you are behind a released update.

If so, I would say this is a security concern with it being public now. We really don't need people connecting to the Galaxy network on old outdated versions.
How is it a security concern? We could block older Galaxy versions if we wanted to do so. We do show an outdated message for some very old versions. But they are meant for the user convenience really, so he does not experience some broken features.
Post edited October 20, 2017 by Johny.
Posted October 20, 2017
I use Windows 8.1
Posted October 20, 2017
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Johny.: How is it a security concern? We could block all the Galaxy versions if we wanted to do. We do show an outdated message for some very old versions.
Well then that makes it less of an issue but I would say in a general sense outdated software is always a security concern especially when connecting to online networks (not only for GOG in the case of Galaxy, but the user as well because online attacks usually target users running outdated software). In my experience you also don't want users to be able to utilize any potential bug or bypass of a old version that could impact the system that has been fixed in a newer patch due to allowing a user to connect with outdated software. Not that it would happen but could potentially increase the risk.

However, if GOG can blacklist certain versions from your end (which I kind of assumed you could but had no real confirmation on) then I assume GOG could blacklist said version from being able to connect to the network if some potential major security issue was found with that outdated version which at least protects GOG.

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Johny.: But they are meant for the user convenience really, so he does not experience some broken features.
Which bring up another matter outside of security, allowing outdated software to connect to the network can cause adverse bugs and crashes due to broken features or missing features, or bugs already fixed. Which could potentially increase support emails I assume and waste support time.

Again probably not a huge issue as long as GOG blacklist all really old versions from connecting to the network when significant feature updates are released.

All in all though, I'm of the mind that forcing updates keeps things simple for all involved and prevents some of these penitential issues... just my 2 cents. It's worth the arguably minimal amount of bandwidth and time.
Post edited October 21, 2017 by user deleted
Posted October 21, 2017
Hi,
i have installed Withcher 3 GOTY, but i am unable to run the game from the Galaxy, "play" button is grey. Galaxy offers me to install the Blood and WIne but it is already installed, because I have done it manually. To run the game i have to go to the folder and execute it manualy.
Posted October 21, 2017
Galaxy download speed is terrible at the moment anyone else having issues? Checked my connection and its fine.
Posted October 22, 2017
Is anyone else experiencing issues with time tracking? I've noticed it with Jade Empire and The Witcher. Contrary to others games, Windows requests admin rights to run the game in both cases (even when launching Galaxy as admin). After launching both games with admin rights, the play button's no longer greyed out. Galaxy tracked the play time for both games correctly in the past.
Posted October 22, 2017
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boldee: Galaxy download speed is terrible at the moment anyone else having issues? Checked my connection and its fine.
Same here
Posted October 22, 2017
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boldee: Galaxy download speed is terrible at the moment anyone else having issues? Checked my connection and its fine.
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legi0: Same here
Same here.
Perhaps there is a Problem with the servers.
Posted October 22, 2017
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boldee: Galaxy download speed is terrible at the moment anyone else having issues? Checked my connection and its fine.
Same here.
Posted October 23, 2017
I'm getting the message "There was a problem with updating the application. You can always download the latest version from: https://www.gog.com/galaxy" every time Galaxy starts up now.

Downloading the installer and re-running it just says that I already have the latest version (1.2.26), but the message still persists.

This has been happening since I ran the Fall Creators update for Windows 10, so I'm guessing that might be related - but I'm not sure exactly what's causing it. Any suggestions?
Post edited October 23, 2017 by Rohaq
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