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Posted May 06, 2015
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!!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

== 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 (see below)

Where can I find Galaxy logs on my computer?
On Windows 7 or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs

== 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 ==
- throttling max download speed is not yet possible
- notifications related to incoming chat messages and friend requests does not always disappear instantly when consumed and may require reloading Store page
- games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
- Moving Galaxy from /Applications on Mac OS X will stop the app from working
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer
Post edited October 03, 2016 by Liosan
Posted July 03, 2015
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Hi Everyone,

Below you can find the changelog of GOG Galaxy.

Changelog 1.1.15 (September 7th, 2016):
Changes / Improvements:
• Added Wallet button in dropdown menu under user's avatar
• Performance improvements on UI speed and a little on CPU usage
• Enabled copying text in Galaxy forums
• History will now remember only the 100 most recent pages in history
Bugfixes:
• Fix for "Disk access problem" bug, which broke installation and updates of games. (Bug happened on Windows only, but general mechanism is better on OS X as well)
• Fix for Verify/Repair, which did not work in some scenarios (The above bug for example)
• Fix for "Server problem" while downloading backup installers or other goodies. They will now work, even if temporary download folder is same as destination folder
• Fixed situations in which Store page sometimes did not load properly after waking up computer

Changelog 1.1.16 (September 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• Galaxy now supports H.264 codecs
• Much better handling of paying using third party processors (PayPal, paysafecard etc.)
• Friends and chat window now scale with the system scaling factor
• New and prettier GOG Eula will be used in games
• Better handling of loading timeouts

Bugfixes:
• "INSTALLED" label will appear all pages of the library now
• Fixed a bug with game time tracking for some games. Galaxy will now register more than one minute:)
• Fixed a bug in which Galaxy in rare cases could not be able to update the game (bug rather existed in rollbacks)
• Galaxy will no longer show a little bit of bare code upon launching
• Fixed blurred images in sidebar expanded list mode

Changelog 1.1.17(hotfix September 20th, 2016):
• Fixed crashes and 'Disk Access Problem' caused by updating Galaxy from 1.1.12 (and earlier versions) to 1.1.16

Changelog 1.1.18 (October 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• More accurate game time tracking mechanism
• Improved mechanism showing current online status between friends

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to stop tracking game time

Changelog 1.1.19 (October 25th, 2016):
Improvements:
• We have removed download size from Galaxy updater. It showed faulty data, as Galaxy Updater doesn't download > 100mb each time and only downloads differences. It will come back in nearest future, when it will show correct data:)
• The first check for game updates will be done 15s after Galaxy starts, instead of 5 minutes.
• OSX: Improved mechanism responsible for removing old files left by Galaxy updates
• OSX: Improved the way Galaxy handles installing games into protected locations like /Applications; you will receive a password prompt about a "Helper tool" installation

Bugfixes:
• Fixed "Essential components missing" error which sometimes appeared after fresh installation
• Fixed a situation where failure in Updater could lead to Galaxy not being able to launch
• Fixed self-update on OSX to properly delete leftover files
• Fixed friends window losing functionality after network loss and reconnect
• Fixed blurry Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
• Galaxy will remember maximised window status

Changelog 1.1.20(November 2nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed installing XNA4 and other msi-based dependencies.
• Store page won't be reloaded twice upon logging in

Changelog: 1.1.21 (November 17th, 2016)
Improvements / changes:
• Added "with preview updates" suffix to Galaxy window title
• Small optimizations with memory and Galaxy loading time
• Small improvements with updater, it should fail less

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug with Galaxy refreshing pages
• Fixed occasional crashes

Changelog 1.1.22 (November 22nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will no longer freeze when downloading a game update and checking another game in library
• Galaxy should crash even less now:)

Changelog 1.1.23 (November 28th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will be now able to reconnect to internet correctly, if computer was put to sleep and then woken up without (initially) Internet connection
• Downloading of games/updates should have less impact on starting other installations

Changelog 1.1.24(December 6th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Downloading an installer with Galaxy and using it to install the game should not result in redownloading the whole game again
• Updater should no longer report over 100% progress on download

Adjustments:
• Increased timeout for failures during sign in
• Increased timeout for "Loading Timeout"

Changelog 1.1.25 (December 20th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed a crash when trying to install certain games (Game affected was 1979 Revolution: Black Friday).

Changelog 1.1.26 (December 23rd, 2016, Preview only)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 26th, 2017, Preview)
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 31th, 2017)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.28 (March 10th, 2017)
Changes / Improvements:
- Better support for differential patches. They are now seperate depending on game's language and system bitness
- Italian & Japanese partial support + more Spanish translations
- Improved checking for new available updates of the games
- We'll sort available DLCs alphabetically
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when Galaxy doesn't have permissions to the logs directory
- Fixed showing empty grey page after a while of inactivity
- Fixed infinite spinner after going to support page
- Fixed displaying of prices in cart when they were over 999 (Bug caused by a comma in the price)
- MacOS: Popup windows (for example chat) will no longer open as a tab but as a separate window instead
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak (~30MB upon GOG Galaxy launch)
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak while playing a game

Changelog 1.1.29 (March 14nd, 2017)
Changes:
- Changes in downloading mechanism, which allows for better control over download's flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed displaying progress of differential patches (It did not display the "Extracting" status)

Changelog 1.1.30 (March 16th, 2017)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash within games downloading mechanism

== PREVIEW UPDATES* ===

HOW TO ENABLE PREVIEWS?
Go to your Galaxy settings and check the option to receive preview updates.

HOW TO DISABLE PREVIEW?
- Uninstall Galaxy
- Download current installer from gog.com/galaxy
- Install Galaxy
- Import your games

Changelog 1.2.0 (March 22nd, 2017)
Changes and improvements:
- Cloud saves backup and syncing (supported games only)
- Screenshot capture with F12 (supported games only)
- In-game overlay with FPS counter and notifications (supported games only)
- Greatly improved chat, also in overlay
- Ability to enable or disable achievements, game time tracking, auto-updating games and more
- Desktop and in-game notifications system
- Ability to set bandwidth limit and scheduler
- New settings window
- Rarity information in achievements
- Abort button next to installation status
- Only one Galaxy Updater window will be shown in most cases
- GOG Galaxy updates will be downloaded in the background
- Games are now downloaded directly to their install directory, instead of a temporary location
- Galaxy changelog is displayed in Galaxy

Bugfixes:
- Fixed game time tracking issues
- Initial size of Galaxy Client window will respect Windows scaling
- Improved Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
- Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to redownload whole data in case of a failure of installation/update
- Thumbnail highlighting in media gallery now works properly
- Decreased client's network and CPU usage (especially for a lot of games)
- MacOS: Fixed situation when Galaxy Client could downloading due to App Nap
- MacOS: Fixed crash when logging out with "New post" popup open
- MacOS: Fixed game processes not being properly cleaned up after exiting
Post edited March 22, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted March 26, 2016
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For everyone who has a problem with missing api-ms-crt dlls in Client's versions post 1.1.5:
Please install one of those windows update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118401
You may need to update Windows to meet the requirements for these:
For Windows 8.1 and for Windows Server 2012: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2919355
For Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/976932

You can also try reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables 2015 (x86) if you meet above requirements.
Available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

If above instructions doesn't work for you, create a separate issue on mantis.gog.com and we'll try to help you individually.

Please note that this solution only helps with the missing api-ms-crt dlls.


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Answering this question: Why 1.1 doesn't work after updating to 1.2?

This is happening probably due to incompatible database from version 1.2, please delete this folder:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GOG.com\Galaxy\storage
usually
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\storage\

Then you'll have to use scan&import (menu under the top Galaxy logo) function to see your games back in Galaxy Client.
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Post edited March 27, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted June 26, 2015
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BKGaming: Update this week? Yes, no, maybe? ... The communication is starting to get less and less. Please communicate Galaxy devs.
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Fallen_Zen: Sorry for being so quiet lately, we'll do better :).
Unfortunately no update this week but it's coming soon.
I mean, if I was them, I wouldn't be wanting to come 'round here much either. There's quite a lot of hate that gets thrown at them in this topic. "GOG IS TEH WURST NOW!" and things like that. I for one think you guys are doing a good job, thanks for all your work :)
Posted June 26, 2015
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billybob2010: Galaxy updates itself, and I installed all the games from withing Galaxy, just when they do an update, it wants me to install them all again, and I have to go into manage directory and then manually add them all again. However I was half way through and it did another update, and once again wiped them all. So it is keeping my games, but just not recognise them as being installed
Do you have your games installed under the GalaxyClient subdirectory, or elsewhere? It is a known issue that games will be blown away on upgrade of Galaxy client if the person has reconfigured it to install games into a subdirectory of the Galaxy client itself. The best thing to do is to install games to C:\GOGgames or similar and _not_ to a subdir of Galaxy itself. They will probably address this well known problem in a future update though, but it's the only reason I've ever seen someone have to reinstall their games for in the forum so far.

If your games are not under the GalaxyClient directory, where do you have Galaxy installed, and where do you have your GOG games installed?
Post edited June 26, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted June 26, 2015
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Venom: == KNOWN ISSUES ==
- few games are not yet compatible with Galaxy and are marked accordingly on Library page
Where are they marked accordingly on the Library page? Am I missing it? I can't seem to find any indication of whether they are compatible with Galaxy or not. Ones that haven't worked so far - Darkstone, Divine Divinity, and Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2.
I am downloading from Galaxy using the More/Get Backup and Extras then installing by running the setup. Most games work fine but those do not show up in the launcher.

EDIT: I can go to More/Manage then Import the folder after installing and then it shows up in the launcher, but I would still like to know where on the Library page it is marked, and why are those not showing up without the extra step?
Post edited June 27, 2015 by Zoraji
Posted June 27, 2015
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Venom: == KNOWN ISSUES ==
- few games are not yet compatible with Galaxy and are marked accordingly on Library page
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Zoraji: Where are they marked accordingly on the Library page? Am I missing it? I can't seem to find any indication of whether they are compatible with Galaxy or not. Ones that haven't worked so far - Darkstone, Divine Divinity, and Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2.
I am downloading from Galaxy using the More/Get Backup and Extras then installing by running the setup. Most games work fine but those do not show up in the launcher.

EDIT: I can go to More/Manage then Import the folder after installing and then it shows up in the launcher, but I would still like to know where on the Library page it is marked, and why are those not showing up without the extra step?
It only shows if they are not compatible, if you you don't see this on the right in the library page (by the drop down arrow when you hover over with your mouse) then all of your games are probably considered compatible.
Posted June 27, 2015
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Venom: == KNOWN ISSUES ==
- few games are not yet compatible with Galaxy and are marked accordingly on Library page
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Zoraji: Where are they marked accordingly on the Library page? Am I missing it? I can't seem to find any indication of whether they are compatible with Galaxy or not. Ones that haven't worked so far - Darkstone, Divine Divinity, and Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2.
I am downloading from Galaxy using the More/Get Backup and Extras then installing by running the setup. Most games work fine but those do not show up in the launcher.

EDIT: I can go to More/Manage then Import the folder after installing and then it shows up in the launcher, but I would still like to know where on the Library page it is marked, and why are those not showing up without the extra step?
Suppose to look like on attached screenshot if game isn't Galaxy compatible. Not yet available right bellow Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, sometimes you have to hover over the game icon to see it.
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Posted June 27, 2015
Thanks BKGaming and mike_cesara. I guess all my games are compatible, I don't see any indication that they are not where you mentioned. Galaxy is still in Beta, so maybe that is why some don't show up in the launcher after installing until I import the folder. I have 50 games installed, but only those few weren't listed in the launcher.

I also noticed that they were missing the goggame-xxxxxxxxx files in the directory until I imported the folder. I suspect that is why they weren't showing up, though no idea why those files were missing.
Post edited June 27, 2015 by Zoraji
Posted June 27, 2015
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Zoraji: Thanks BKGaming and mike_cesara. I guess all my games are compatible, I don't see any indication that they are not where you mentioned. Galaxy is still in Beta, so maybe that is why some don't show up in the launcher after installing until I import the folder. I have 50 games installed, but only those few weren't listed in the launcher.

I also noticed that they were missing the goggame-xxxxxxxxx files in the directory until I imported the folder. I suspect that is why they weren't showing up, though no idea why those files were missing.
There are two import features in Galaxy, 1) for games installed with the newer updated Galaxy compatible standalone installers and 2) for games installed via the old standalone installers. The newer ones should show up automatically I believe, while the older ones you got to click on the library page for the game and then import. Scan and Import however under the "+" symbol is for the newer installers, and it is to be used when move the folder or copy them to another PC, or if for some reason they don't automatically show up... ect. More info can be found up top on that.
Posted June 27, 2015
Personally I would like to see the current functionality fixed to a point of solid stability and consistent reliability before the introduction of any new stuff. When people have no problems with what is out there now working properly including even little things like time tracking, then it would be a good time to introduce additional features slowly, testing each, fixing it, then move on to another, etc.

Putting a bunch of stuff into a build that still has issues isn't a great idea in my opinion. Then again, releasing this to beta before it was feature complete was a terrible decision as well. Not that it matters. It's done now.

I pop in here periodically for news but I don't use Galaxy anymore and I won't until it is finished. This means, I won't bother with any of my GOG games until then either and I certainly will not make any purchases before then.

I want the experience to be complete, stable and worth using. I think that's reasonable myself.
Post edited June 27, 2015 by dirtyharry50
Posted June 27, 2015
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Post edited June 27, 2015 by NoxTM
Posted June 27, 2015
Can we have it so that galaxy doesn't keep creating shortcuts in the start menu?
An option for this would be great. :)
Posted June 27, 2015
Something I've noticed with the Galaxy Client; its text sizing doesn't scale. At all. I recently bought a Lenovo Y50 laptop with a UHD display, and all the text in the Galaxy client is microscopically small. Not exactly a bug, but these high resolution panels are getting cheaper every day.
Posted June 27, 2015
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devland: Can we have it so that galaxy doesn't keep creating shortcuts in the start menu?
An option for this would be great. :)
Yea I'd like that too, need to check the wishlist and see if that is on there or not. If not one us should add it. I have no use for the shortcut items on the start menu with Galaxy.
Posted June 28, 2015
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Posted June 28, 2015
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Posted June 28, 2015
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BKGaming: Update this week? Yes, no, maybe? ... The communication is starting to get less and less. Please communicate Galaxy devs.
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skeletonbow: I've been getting a bit of a "no news is good news" vibe myself although I can understand your feelings also. :)

My gut instinct tells me they're working on some bigger additions to the client and that they want to both polish them off much more before release and hopefully fix many other broken things and fulfill some feature requests and existing bug reports this time around more en-masse. They haven't said that of course, but I am channeling their energy. :)

If I'm correct (and I hope I am), this could be quite good overall. Sometimes holding back communication temporarily can be a good thing too, so I'm going to give them the benefit of doubt on that one for the time being. :) The longer the next update takes though the greater everyone's expectations are likely to be too, both in terms of features and quality control.

Personally I hope the delay is due to both features and quality control, but we'll have to wait and see.

What features and fixes are the most important to everyone currently? The biggest things on my radar currently are:

- I really really want a GOG client overlay with screenshot and FPS counter capability, the two main things I use Steam to launch my GOG games for right now.

- Improvements to the user interface download queue view and interactions.

- Ability to pause downloads (for other people, I don't care so much myself but it is a hot item others want)

- Integrated way to search for and add new friends to the contact list directly in the client as well as the website UI without having to start "add me" threads in the forums.

- Ability to change the sorting of messages in the chat to be able to see unread messages on top, as well as the ability to avoid seeing people on the friend list who are not actually "friends" but whom are just someone you've received a message from some time before. The current client wants to tell me who all is online that I've ever spoken to even once and put them on the top of the list causing things I actually care about to be buried and impossible to find. I've never received any PMs from anyone ever since the new system went in place which I was able to find and read.

- Changelog for the Galaxy client that pops up on screen when the old client detects an update is available and/or when you upgrade to the new client - or both. Much like Steam client beta does, it's very useful.

- GOG.com user profiles with fine grained privacy controls over what parts of one's profile can be seen by "friends", "public", or individuals or groups, and an interface with which to make friend groupings/lists not unlike Facebook has. Ability to control who can see not only your wishlist with more fine grain, but also allow to share your owned-games list and to be able to make custom lists of both owned games and unowned games (kind of like Mixes but more useful). Ability to post status messages on your profile, and just be more social networkish overall for the profile side of things. Yes, some people don't want or care about that "crap", but many others do and it's not something anyone will be forced to use, but many will appreciate being able to opt into having and I'm one of them. :)

- Switch from a hierarchical navigation on game's pages in Galaxy to a flat list of meta-options. This means getting rid of "More" and it's tree based menu structure with buried options that aren't in the most intuitive place or wording and replacing it with a single flat list of things that appear directly on the game page itself alongside "Play", ie:

[Play] [Downloads] [Manuals/documentation] [DLC] [Store page] [Properties] etc... no submenus, and everything worded in the most intuitive language that will appeal to the masses.

That's just a short list of some of the more important things to me anyway, feel free to suggest your own lists! :)
Yea I agree, and I'd like to see those things too. In addition to that I'd also like to see:

- UI improvements (less standard windows look for the title bar ect)
- Better overall performance when many games are installed.
- I like to see a way to hide the the left side of the client (game list, ect) when doing something like browsing the forums or looking through the store so that your entire view it dedicated to that. Right now if your resolution is set lower you get horizontal scrollbars which I hate. Lol
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