Timboli: I also believe that Heroic, another third party program can be used for downloading GOG games etc. In fact the developers of that are rumored to be in talks with GOG, possibly working on a client to support Linux.

Adanicus: I recently purchased some games this last week, and i noticed a terrible download speed. Terrible as in 140~400 KB/s, sometimes less. As i said i don't have a great connection but in all these years downloading games from GOG didn't experience this slowness (and i tried different parts of the day, just in case is temp spike), my "normal" slow speed is around 1~2 MB/s, if lucky more, but is ok.

Timboli: Yes, it is a very common theme here for many, and many threads exist discussing it and complaining.

Many of us are convinced it is deliberate by GOG for one reason or another. Maybe cost cutting in some quarters, perhaps trying to force more of us to use Galaxy, to probably appease those considering selling their games via GOG.

I recommend using a third party program, if you cannot stomach using Galaxy.

You could use gogcli.exe or gogrepo.py, but they are unlikely to give you a speed benefit on their own. If you are using Linux, you could use LGOGDownloader which is multi-threaded, and so gain a speed benefit. Those three programs use the GOG API or SDK. Or you could use something like Free Download Manager 5, which is also multi-threaded, but a bit tricky to get working (best with a browser addon).

FDM5 aside, the others are command-line based, so you need to know what you are doing. The freely available curl.exe and aria2c.exe programs can also assist, but once again command-line, and tricky to get just right. Aria2 is multi-threaded.

I also believe that Heroic, another third party program can be used for downloading GOG games etc. In fact the developers of that are rumored to be in talks with GOG, possibly working on a client to support Linux.

Adanicus: i noticed a terrible download speed. Terrible as in 140~400 KB/s, sometimes less.

Anybody experiencing too slow downloads recently?

Adanicus: Yes that is what i use to do whenever i found slow speed, and i notice some hours are better. However lasts downloads i found that even the improvement wasn't satisfactory.

Hurricane0440: Heroic already supports GOG through their launcher and has been doing so for a while now. They even recently implemented support for achievements and multiplayer in GOG games without requiring the use of GOG Galaxy.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/next-heroic-games-launcher-release-to-include-initial-gog-galaxy-support/

Timboli: I was only going by what I had read in passing, posted by users here, so not yet checked out the situation myself, and at the moment it would need to be 32 Bit for the PC I currently use for downloading games ... not playing them. As Heroic also supports Legendary (for Epic store games), which is only 64 Bit, I suspect that Heroic may also only be 64 Bit.

Hurricane0440: Huh.... I am surprised to know that anyone uses a 32-bit system these days. Which OS do you run on it?

Hurricane0440: Huh.... I am surprised to know that anyone uses a 32-bit system these days. Which OS do you run on it?

Adanicus: Yes that is what i use to do whenever i found slow speed, and i notice some hours are better. However lasts downloads i found that even the improvement wasn't satisfactory. Luckily last games were all "small", only one of them was 6GB and it took some hours.

I hope they don't discontinue or degrade the offline installers. The offline installer and the "no-DRM" Is one of the main reasons i own a lot more games from GOG than Steam (only the half lifes and some exclusives on the platform).