Brett8: It's a new game? I mean, kind of, but there was that nearly three-year EA period to iron out a few kinks. "New game" also feels like a better excuse for Larian, who made the game, rather than GOG, a middle-man sale and delivery service. This isn't an issue with BG3, this is an issue with one particular distributor of BG3, that it sounds like may be affecting more games than BG3.

Perhaps that is all forgivable under the "no one's perfect" doctrine if GOG's own published work-around--referring the community to the back-up direct install--worked, which it almost does. Unfortunately, and mind-mindbogglingly, the back-up install version is out-dated and does not include the updates through the latest August 11 patch, so even if someone has wasted their time installing a 100+ GB game multiple times, if they were already playing rather than a new user (say, someone trying to reinstall the game because GOG's client issues extended to preventing it from launching, probably due to cloud sync issues also through its client), their saves on the latest version of the game will all be incompatible with the out-of-date work-around GOG currently has available for the back-up install.

That's not the incompetence on display here? Godspeed to the community figuring out install files to delete, file names to change, .NET applications to download, and whatever else one can do to trick GOG Galaxy into thinking an install completed properly, but that's different than the installation actually completing properly and may be liable to cause issues down the line until GOG can actually get itself working again. That's not a real solution, and it's not a substitute for GOG being a reliable marketplace and distributor.

And you're instead upset about purported end-user incompetence? Honey, we're not selling a product, we bought a product--apparently from the wrong source. Speaking at least for myself, I will not make that mistake again.

Mushroompukka: did the steps, seemed to work, but verifying files has it now stuck at 91.4% instead! lol
this is my first time buying off GOG instead of steam & its sad that this is happeneing.

gmortson: I just want to say thanks to everyone who has chimed in.

Changing Gustav.pak.download to Gustav.pak worked for me.

I tried the VPN fix first, but it didn't do anything.

What a frustrating 24 hours.

iofhua: I'm kind of sus that the DRM-free version was broken on purpose. >_>

A lot of developers are pro-DRM.

Mushroompukka: did the steps, seemed to work, but verifying files has it now stuck at 91.4% instead! lol
this is my first time buying off GOG instead of steam & its sad that this is happeneing.

vzord: There was a new update today (2023-04-16) and I had my updates stuck at 91% for a while. Step 1 fixed it for me ($GAME_FOLDER/!Temp and delete the hashdb file, same for the hashdb file in $GAME_FOLDER). Are hashes somehow wrong in the GOG version of the game?