I'm pretty pissed atm so excuse me if this comes off as hostile. Thought I'd help GOG out and try the Galaxy beta. DL Witcher 3 to start a new playthrough to get read for Blood and Wine. So new game, several hours in the Galaxy client crashes but the game is still running. I continue to play. Several hours later I get a message about low disk space. That can't be, I should have 40'ish free gigs on my SSD. Sure enough my free space is down to 10 megs. WTF? OK, I'll delete some save games to free up enough space to save my current game and quit Problem is Galaxy is still chewing up space for some reason. Now C: is down to 1.8 megs of space. WTF? Run diskcleaner. Uninstall a few old other things. Regardless of what I do Galaxy just keeps eating up any free space and I can't find where or why.

So, I'm forced out of the game, 6 fucking hours of a new game completely wasted. Well, that's it for Galaxy. Uninstall W3 and Galaxy. Free space still all gone. What the fuck is going on here?!?! When in doubt, reboot. Power off machine for a minute. Boot up. Wow, now C: is showing 70'ish plus GIGs of free space once more.

So, as far as I can tell it somehow installed another copy of W3 for some reason and continued to install files until there was no free space left. Some kind of weird memory leak. Maybe because it's an SSD? Anyway, suffice it to say I'm royally pissed. Give this and the other limitations and instability of the client I think it's way too early to call it a beta. It's ,more like a late alpha I'm thinking.. Anyway consider it tested and it failed miserably. I will not be touching again anytime in foreseeable future. So now I've had to DL the game again manually - and tell me again why I need to DL 50 million different files? Can't you at least have a few zip files - 1 for main game, 1 for all the patches, 1 for all the DLC - for expediency's sake? It's a good thing I'm not capped or I'd be really angry. Still, now I have to start all over again, oh joy.

I love GOG, but if you don't have the professional in-house QA to do this than farm it out.

One miffed customer
Coots

It's definitely not because of the SSD, plenty of users have SSDs.
But yeah it is and always will be a POS.
Weird bug though, you should report it on Mantis if you still have the logs and such.

How long has Galaxy been in beta now? Is it ever going to be actually done? Are people ever going to realise how pointless clients are? It's mysteries like that, questions lurking in the shadows of the gaming mind, that allow us to look at the world with wonder. They remind us that we live in a world of extreme possibilities. In a reality where people willingly use perpetually unfinished clients to play games that don't even require it anything is possible.

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For the sake of correlation vs. causation, did you confirm whether the sudden disk bloat was caused by files inside your Galaxy folder before you rebooted?

Edit: Ignore me actually, see mike's post below.

Galaxy screwed up ... again? God damn it.

Let me guess ... it's the Milky Way, right? Worst crap galaxy ever!

why so nervous?
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/debuglog

I know, right? At least M31 has a certain cachet...

any form of client for whatever purpose will always require huge amounts of testing and playing hours, more developers at the same time if possible would be great, as a team you can give feedback.
I assume there's a team working on it, cause its impossible to do it all by yourself.

many steam addicts who adore the big steam, take the big client for granted, but that program must have had loads of working hours and (bug) testing before it was released, and it still gets updates now and then, it seems like it can be done in little time, but never underestimate a tool/program like this.
Things like these are complicated, thats why i keep it simple and stupid by not using any, steam client is used only by me because the game files have to be downloaded and installed somehow onto my pc, otherwise i wouldnt use it.

GoG website also seems to be borked. Every other comment I make is stuck with the message "please wait, processing" and that goes on forever.

GoG I know all the bugs come out during spring but for fucks sake get your shit together and buy some bug-spray will ya.

Why not go help them solve some of their problems? https://www.gog.com/work#/gog_mentality

only issue with Galaxy since the very first version for me as been the inability for it to know if a file has already been downloaded or not.

if you download an extra it cant tell if its ever been downloaded and if asked to download again it will download every time forever... :(

other then that its been doing damn good for me.

Yes, that is exactly what happened. Once I removed the caps after trying various other things and edits it would post my post without issues. Weird, but now I know.

I use it keeping games uo to date. useful since I've bought games in development...

Steam was the worst piece of crap when it was first released, it would crash the OS and corrupt files.

It took many years and updates until it was reliable.