I also blame Galaxy for all the hacked Gog accounts! Of course, post hoc ergo propter hoc, Qapla!

What's "Galaxy"?

That is soooooooooo funny. ^

This should have been "What's a Galaxy?"

Yours as well? Why won't anybody put an end to this madness?!

That's not Galaxy, that's Freddy Starr eating all your hamsters, maybe Galaxy can eat him?

Have to agree with the original poster and mindblast. Galaxy has the power to control the quality of graphics in a game that has started and also the temperature of the planet. Some may disagree and say it was because of something else... that when the OP downloaded and installed via the downloader instead of Galaxy and it worked that way, it was solved due to a correction of user error or something peculiar. But I'm with the original poster, Galaxy needs to be avoided, it is powerful and dangerous in the wrong hands.

Theoretically that isn't necessarily wrong (the crashes). Consider, a number of games usually need a minor tweak to run properly, like to be set to XP SP3 to work properly, or as Admin (less likely). However if Galaxy starts the game, those specific compatibility options aren't under your control, and it likely runs them the way Galaxy was run...

Galaxy burnt my burger. My fries. Even my milk shake!!!

Galaxy. Sun. Planet. Eggplant.

As much as I can see from what OP is saying this seems like a problem with game overlay (in development and not implemented yet) which is a copy of steam overlay functionalities for which it is known that it breakes some games and makes them unplayable. I might be wrong but this seems similar to that issue.

No, it's understandable that Galaxy would cause graphical issues and game crashes.

Galaxy is a Steam-clone, which means that it's interacting with the game during play. Graphical glitches are are a very likely consequences of trying to run a pre-Windows 7 program and a current program at the same time. Running drastically different programs that use the same resources at the same time is also a reasonable cause of crashes.

The graphical model for Windows changed enough, and game programming was sloppy enough, that I would expect issues just from new program + old program running together. Add in the 2 programs trying to talk to each other, and possible Galaxy mistakes during the installation? Definitely reasonable for Galaxy to cause issues playing the game.
Yes, exactly.

Less likely but still possible causes:

1) Programs from different eras trying to communicate causing hiccups
2) Competing use of resources
3) Galaxy mistake during installation

link :p

GOG Galaxy ate my homework.
Now, I'm hungry...

No it's really not, the overlay is currently only interacting with the Witcher 3... no other game contains any code yet for this (other than maybe some of the newer ones), nor does Galaxy currently contain anyway for the user to interact with the overlay. Meaning it's unlikely the overlay would be conflicting with anything other than the Witcher 3 for the achievement overlay which again is only being used in the Witcher 3, and shouldn't be running during any other game. The only other interaction is the game play time which is just counting how long the exe is running, not exactly interacting within the game itself.

Not saying it can't happen when the overlay is out, but right now Galaxy has little to no interaction with a game when it is running unless it's a newer game that includes code for Galaxy services. None of these older games have that. OP is grasping at straws, and like many on GOG quick to blame Galaxy.

Pretty much right now, Galaxy is nothing than a glorified launcher that runes as as completely separate process/program. Your claim about crashes it more realistic, but even that is unlikely. Make the game slower sure, but any modern computer will have the resources for programs running in the background, which on a typical computer today is a lot. Any of which could also conflict with a running game.