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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 January 13, 2016
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Venom: Hi Everyone,

Below you can find the changelog of GOG Galaxy.

GOG Galaxy 1.0.5:
- Download speed and reliability improvements
- Game time tracking should be updated more quickly after the game quits
- Default games installation path is now inside Galaxy folder (Windows)
- Added button to easily retry failed installation
- Achievements, game time tracking and other game information are now visible when offline
- All available DLCs will now be visible on a game view
- Bugfix: games installed in in Galaxy folder will not be removed on auto update
- Bugfix: "Essential Component Missing" will not block game installation to a path that’s different than the default
- Bugfix: Font rendering issues (blank boxes, no descriptions, no download speed)

GOG Galaxy 1.0.5.14: (Windows)
- Bugfix: tw3 installation issue.

GOG Galaxy 1.0.6.31: (Windows)
- Bugfix: tw3 installation issue.
- Bugfix: achievements not showing up on the gameview

GOG Galaxy 1.0.7.2023 (both Windows and Mac)
- Added an option to participate in early updates to Galaxy
- Added an option to disable "minimise to tray" behaviour
- Bugfix: Galaxy uninstaller would also remove game files - now it won't
- Various Galaxy self update improvements
- Various Galaxy network communication improvements

GOG Galaxy 1.1.2 (both Windows and Mac):
- Rollbacks - option to manually rollback your game to a previous version
- Installation screen - change install path, language, update preferences and more for every installation
- Pause/Resume functionality
- Friends search - search for new friends without using the forums
- Improved application wide back/forward navigation
- Improved performance (CPU and RAM usage, application launch)
- Better HiDPI support
- New sidebar compact style
- Double click to launch game in sidebar
- Bugfix: installing and launching games on non-admin accounts
- Bugfix: installing components needed for running some games (XNA redistributable)
- Bugfix: links to Reddit, Twitch and other external websites
- Various minor bug fixes and stability improvements

GOG Galaxy 1.1.3 (both Windows and Mac):
- Bugfix: Fixed store and library pages being unnecessary reloaded
- Bugfix: Fixed Server Error message when initializing download of some games on low speed connection
- Bugfix: Fixed crashing that was preventing some users from launching the client
- Bugfix: Various fixes for achievements

GOG Galaxy 1.1.4 (both Windows and Mac):
- Added number of online friends displayed in upper right corner
- Improved handling of DLCs
- When minimizing to Windows tray, notification will appear only once per client installation
- Bugfix: Clearing Windows tray icon while quiting

GOG Galaxy 1.1.5 (both Windows and Mac):
- Bugfix: Properly storing last play date of games
- Bugfix: Properly storing game list display settings
- Bugfix: Friends and chat should work after loosing and regaining Internet connection

Subsequent updates to 1.1.5 included:
- Updates and bugfixes to multiplayer functionality
- Bugfixes for in-game overlay for The Witcher 3

== 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
I followed these instruction but I think I am missing some part as am not able to make it correctly, will try once again.
Posted January 13, 2016
So I haven't used Galaxy in a while and when I do want to use it, all of sudden I find this popping up every time I try to open the program. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I got a ton of games installed in Galaxy and I was really liking it, it'd be a shame if I lost all of that already.
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Posted January 13, 2016
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J_Ryman: So I haven't used Galaxy in a while and when I do want to use it, all of sudden I find this popping up every time I try to open the program. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I got a ton of games installed in Galaxy and I was really liking it, it'd be a shame if I lost all of that already.
You need to install some version of Visual C++ Redistributable. Try installing the x86 and also (if you have a 64 bit OS) the x64 versions of the 2010 and 2012 versions. It's a problem they really, really, really need to fix in the next update, because it seems like all they have to do is add the missing program to the Galaxy installer, and someone comes asking about it more or less every week at this point.
Post edited January 13, 2016 by Blackdrazon
Posted January 13, 2016
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Crsldmc: Win7 and 10, works flawlessly on both for me.
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TrueDosGamer: The only thing that works for me is the GOG Galaxy browser and downloading GOG Galaxy patch files for the game. But not seeing any multiplayer games in TROTT. Maybe it only works fully only in W7 and W10 so far.
Sad to hear mate, but they'll get to it eventually!
Posted January 14, 2016
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TrueDosGamer: The only thing that works for me is the GOG Galaxy browser and downloading GOG Galaxy patch files for the game. But not seeing any multiplayer games in TROTT. Maybe it only works fully only in W7 and W10 so far.
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Crsldmc: Sad to hear mate, but they'll get to it eventually!
I will probably revisit Galaxy in the future with W7 64-bit or W10 64-bit to see if it is an OS issue preventing it from working properly.
Posted January 14, 2016
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Crsldmc: Sad to hear mate, but they'll get to it eventually!
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TrueDosGamer: I will probably revisit Galaxy in the future with W7 64-bit or W10 64-bit to see if it is an OS issue preventing it from working properly.
Hopefully a flawless perfomance will be the result.
Posted January 14, 2016
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Crsldmc: Sad to hear mate, but they'll get to it eventually!
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TrueDosGamer: I will probably revisit Galaxy in the future with W7 64-bit or W10 64-bit to see if it is an OS issue preventing it from working properly.
I'm pretty sure that is something on your end mate, shouldn't have anything to do with the OS really... it's a firewall or connection issue most likely or something your missing. As I said before had the same issue until letting the game through the Windows firewall.
Posted January 14, 2016
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TrueDosGamer: I will probably revisit Galaxy in the future with W7 64-bit or W10 64-bit to see if it is an OS issue preventing it from working properly.
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BKGaming: I'm pretty sure that is something on your end mate, shouldn't have anything to do with the OS really... it's a firewall or connection issue most likely or something your missing. As I said before had the same issue until letting the game through the Windows firewall.
It's not a Windows firewall issue since I disabled it when trying GOG Galaxy as a last resort.

I am using a server to share the internet connection but I doubt somehow that could be the issue.

I'll troubleshoot having it directly connected to see if that changes things but if somehow you can't use GOG Galaxy when using a computer sharing an internet connection then I can't be the only one who has had this issue. I'm sure most people share their internet connection.

But if Windows 7 64-bit doesn't work with GOG Galaxy then and it's not a firewall issue then it would be baffling. And yes I did allow all those GOG and game processes in my Windows Firewall but like I said GOG Galaxy has no problem downloading the patch files for the game I'm launching so I know GOG Galaxy is working. It just can't see the Multiplayer games which is the only point for me to use GOG Galaxy. For all I know achievements probably work fine if GOG Galaxy can download updates but that's not a selling point for me. :)

Multiplayer fun DRM free style is all I need from GOG Galaxy.
Posted January 15, 2016
Hey Guys,

At the moment I am giving Galaxy an other chance and I wanted to write my experience. In short, its not going well.

1- I wanted to install NWN2 which I had a copy of in my backup disk. I installed it normally and even played it for a bit.
2- Then I opened Galaxy. I used the option library->More->import folder and it recognized the game and started updating.
3- First problem. Before the update, it checked the files on the server and on my machine. Checking server files was quick but when it came to checking files on my disk, it took 25 minutes. This shouldnt take that long.
4- When it finally started updating, it came to 60% really quick. Then when it started downloading, I thought it was stuck with 0.1 MB download / second. It took an other 1 hour to reach 70%. Download speeds from Galaxy needs working.
5- After 70 % it reached 100% immediately.
6- After 100%, installation started "moving". Dont know what from where to where but it stuck at 92.9%. It took an other 20 minutes to "move"
7- It started configuring. I think that took less than a minute which concluded the installation.
8- The game worked perfectly without problems.
Posted January 15, 2016
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TrueDosGamer: It's not a Windows firewall issue since I disabled it when trying GOG Galaxy as a last resort.

I am using a server to share the internet connection but I doubt somehow that could be the issue.

I'll troubleshoot having it directly connected to see if that changes things but if somehow you can't use GOG Galaxy when using a computer sharing an internet connection then I can't be the only one who has had this issue. I'm sure most people share their internet connection.

But if Windows 7 64-bit doesn't work with GOG Galaxy then and it's not a firewall issue then it would be baffling. And yes I did allow all those GOG and game processes in my Windows Firewall but like I said GOG Galaxy has no problem downloading the patch files for the game I'm launching so I know GOG Galaxy is working. It just can't see the Multiplayer games which is the only point for me to use GOG Galaxy. For all I know achievements probably work fine if GOG Galaxy can download updates but that's not a selling point for me. :)

Multiplayer fun DRM free style is all I need from GOG Galaxy.
Galaxy doesn't enable all games to offer multiplayer through it, rather Galaxy has an optional multiplayer matchmaking service available which game developers are able to use if they wish to. This means only games that have chosen to use it and have had Galaxy multiplayer support specifically coded by the developer will have the feature available. As of now that is around 5-10 games or so including Aliens vs. Predator classic, The Witcher Adventure game and a small handful of other titles. There isn't any special multiplayer screen/page to go to, rather you simply start a game that has multiplayer capabilities and the game either uses Galaxy multiplayer (if supported) or it uses some other multiplayer mode if implemented. If a game developer has not written code for their game to talk to GOG Galaxy's multiplayer service then that game wont work with Galaxy multiplayer matchmaking.

What in particular were you expecting the Galaxy multiplayer handling to do? If there's something specific, you might want to consider adding it to the official wishlist.

HTH
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Engerek01: Hey Guys,

At the moment I am giving Galaxy an other chance and I wanted to write my experience. In short, its not going well.

1- I wanted to install NWN2 which I had a copy of in my backup disk. I installed it normally and even played it for a bit.
2- Then I opened Galaxy. I used the option library->More->import folder and it recognized the game and started updating.
3- First problem. Before the update, it checked the files on the server and on my machine. Checking server files was quick but when it came to checking files on my disk, it took 25 minutes. This shouldnt take that long.
4- When it finally started updating, it came to 60% really quick. Then when it started downloading, I thought it was stuck with 0.1 MB download / second. It took an other 1 hour to reach 70%. Download speeds from Galaxy needs working.
5- After 70 % it reached 100% immediately.
6- After 100%, installation started "moving". Dont know what from where to where but it stuck at 92.9%. It took an other 20 minutes to "move"
7- It started configuring. I think that took less than a minute which concluded the installation.
8- The game worked perfectly without problems.
Everything you've mentioned above is a quite common experience for many in the current developmental beta. Part of it is due to the lack of compressed delta updates, and part of it is due to unoptimized game install verification (or so it seems). When you install games outside of Galaxy it has no knowledge of the game installation or the integrity of the files, so it fully scans every single file and compares them with what is on GOG's servers. This can take an extremely long time and beat the heck out of the hard disk while it's doing so. It then synchronizes any differences which means re-downloading any files it has determined to be different. Basically this means in practice that it will just re-download everything again anyway so you might as well install via Galaxy directly rather than using the standalone installers, at least until they come up with a better installation verification algorithm.

Sometimes a download or install will get almost all the way through and then seemingly pause forever at 99% or thereabouts for some people also.

If you experience those types of issues you might want to wait until the next major update (1.1.6 presumably) is out to see if they've improved any of this functionality. Actually it might be good to wait a while longer after 1.1.6 is out as it is probably going to introduce a large amount of new code since it's been eons since a major update so they've probably got a lot of new code that'll need to get tested, beat up, fixed, tested, fixed, etc. until it stabilizes. Hopefully we get some goodies soon though. :)
Post edited January 15, 2016 by skeletonbow
Posted January 16, 2016
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TrueDosGamer: It's not a Windows firewall issue since I disabled it when trying GOG Galaxy as a last resort.

I am using a server to share the internet connection but I doubt somehow that could be the issue.

I'll troubleshoot having it directly connected to see if that changes things but if somehow you can't use GOG Galaxy when using a computer sharing an internet connection then I can't be the only one who has had this issue. I'm sure most people share their internet connection.

But if Windows 7 64-bit doesn't work with GOG Galaxy then and it's not a firewall issue then it would be baffling. And yes I did allow all those GOG and game processes in my Windows Firewall but like I said GOG Galaxy has no problem downloading the patch files for the game I'm launching so I know GOG Galaxy is working. It just can't see the Multiplayer games which is the only point for me to use GOG Galaxy. For all I know achievements probably work fine if GOG Galaxy can download updates but that's not a selling point for me. :)

Multiplayer fun DRM free style is all I need from GOG Galaxy.
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skeletonbow: Galaxy doesn't enable all games to offer multiplayer through it, rather Galaxy has an optional multiplayer matchmaking service available which game developers are able to use if they wish to. This means only games that have chosen to use it and have had Galaxy multiplayer support specifically coded by the developer will have the feature available. As of now that is around 5-10 games or so including Aliens vs. Predator classic, The Witcher Adventure game and a small handful of other titles. There isn't any special multiplayer screen/page to go to, rather you simply start a game that has multiplayer capabilities and the game either uses Galaxy multiplayer (if supported) or it uses some other multiplayer mode if implemented. If a game developer has not written code for their game to talk to GOG Galaxy's multiplayer service then that game wont work with Galaxy multiplayer matchmaking.

What in particular were you expecting the Galaxy multiplayer handling to do? If there's something specific, you might want to consider adding it to the official wishlist.

HTH
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Engerek01: Hey Guys,

At the moment I am giving Galaxy an other chance and I wanted to write my experience. In short, its not going well.

1- I wanted to install NWN2 which I had a copy of in my backup disk. I installed it normally and even played it for a bit.
2- Then I opened Galaxy. I used the option library->More->import folder and it recognized the game and started updating.
3- First problem. Before the update, it checked the files on the server and on my machine. Checking server files was quick but when it came to checking files on my disk, it took 25 minutes. This shouldnt take that long.
4- When it finally started updating, it came to 60% really quick. Then when it started downloading, I thought it was stuck with 0.1 MB download / second. It took an other 1 hour to reach 70%. Download speeds from Galaxy needs working.
5- After 70 % it reached 100% immediately.
6- After 100%, installation started "moving". Dont know what from where to where but it stuck at 92.9%. It took an other 20 minutes to "move"
7- It started configuring. I think that took less than a minute which concluded the installation.
8- The game worked perfectly without problems.
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skeletonbow: Everything you've mentioned above is a quite common experience for many in the current developmental beta. Part of it is due to the lack of compressed delta updates, and part of it is due to unoptimized game install verification (or so it seems). When you install games outside of Galaxy it has no knowledge of the game installation or the integrity of the files, so it fully scans every single file and compares them with what is on GOG's servers. This can take an extremely long time and beat the heck out of the hard disk while it's doing so. It then synchronizes any differences which means re-downloading any files it has determined to be different. Basically this means in practice that it will just re-download everything again anyway so you might as well install via Galaxy directly rather than using the standalone installers, at least until they come up with a better installation verification algorithm.

Sometimes a download or install will get almost all the way through and then seemingly pause forever at 99% or thereabouts for some people also.

If you experience those types of issues you might want to wait until the next major update (1.1.6 presumably) is out to see if they've improved any of this functionality. Actually it might be good to wait a while longer after 1.1.6 is out as it is probably going to introduce a large amount of new code since it's been eons since a major update so they've probably got a lot of new code that'll need to get tested, beat up, fixed, tested, fixed, etc. until it stabilizes. Hopefully we get some goodies soon though. :)
I'm using TROTT which is just one of the few "multiplayer" network capable games on GOG Galaxy. I have not tried any other of the GOG Galaxy supported muliplayer games since I do not own those. I have seen others post a screen shot of the servers showing up in Multiplayer mode for TROTT so I know it's not working only for me.

As for specifics it would be better if GOG tried to add support for GOG Galaxy multiplayer games that were smaller like a couple hundred megabytes download so it would be easier to test out. TROTT was pretty massive. I already suggested they try to add support for Worms into GOG Galaxy multiplayer. That would take 30 minutes to download and install rather quickly. It would easier to network test that or get games going.

At the moment until I confirm via troubleshooting to isolate if it is an OS issue or network issue preventing me from seeing the multiplayer games in TROTT I'm probably going to wait for a newer version of GOG Galaxy before attempting it again.

Maybe a year from now if this is a GOG Galaxy issue it will be patched. But since the number of games supported is still limited at this stage it's better to wait until they support more games.
Post edited January 18, 2016 by TrueDosGamer
Posted January 17, 2016
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TrueDosGamer: I'm using TROTT which is just one of the few "multiplayer" network capable games on GOG Galaxy. I have not tried any other of the other GOG Galaxy supported muliplayer games since I do not own those. I have seen others post a screen shot of the servers showing up in Multiplayer mode for TROTT so I know it's not working only for me.
FWIW, that game is extremely buggy. I couldn't even get it to run at all until one of the more recent patches finally fixed it so it'd start. If I had to wager on a multiplayer related problem I'd put my money on "game bug" TBH.

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TrueDosGamer: As for specifics it would be better if GOG tried to add support for GOG Galaxy multiplayer games that were smaller like a couple hundred megabytes download so it would be easier to test out. TROTT was pretty massive. I already suggested they try to add support for Worms into GOG Galaxy multiplayer. That would take 30 minutes to download and install rather quickly. It would easier to network test that or get games going.
I understand what you're saying, and I think it'd be awesome to have as much of the game catalogue add support for GOG Galaxy multiplayer as possible in the future where it makes sense. What a lot of people do not realize however, is that multiplayer is not something that GOG or anyone else can easily just tack onto the side of a game because they'd like to have it supported, rather it involves having the actual source code of the game and the legal right to modify and add features to a given game and sell the results. GOG does own the rights to some games as they are now a publisher as well, but the vast majority of titles in the GOG catalogue are owned by other companies, and it is my understanding that GOG does not have the source code of the majority of games in the catalogue. As such it is virtually impossible for GOG themselves to add GOG Galaxy multiplayer support to the majority of games in the catalogue even if they had the legal rights to do so and both the desire and the manpower to do it.

We all would like our games to be as functional as possible of course. I mean why wouldn't we? I'd love to see all multiplayer games support LAN multiplayer and direct IP/peer to peer multiplayer personally even much more than centralized online multiplayer matchmaking, but I'd like to see that in games it makes sense for also. For the most part however, the overwhelming majority of games are owned by third party publishers/developers who not only own the rights to decide about what features their games will support, but they exclusively own the source code of their games which is required in order to add the support (if they even have the source code, which for many games was lost years/decades ago).

Unfortunately, what we all would love to have in the perfect ideal fantasy, is just not technically and/or economically possible as a whole. It might be on an individual game by game basis though, and if any distributor out there is likely to make any inroads to see these things happen of course it would be GOG.


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TrueDosGamer: At the moment until I confirm via troubleshooting to isolate if it is an OS issue or network issue preventing me from seeing the multiplayer games in TROTT I'm probably going to wait for a newer version of GOG Galaxy before attempting it again.

Maybe a year from now if this is a GOG Galaxy issue it will be patched. But since the number of games supported is still limited at this stage it's better to wait until they support more games.
I don't have the game installed at the moment or I'd poke around with it a bit as well and offer to help diagnose. I'd suspect a local configuration issue first, and second to that some kind of obscure game bug, but I wouldn't rule out anything either. I too hope to see Galaxy mature over the next year and while I do test it and experiment, I mostly install games manually and launch them directly or via the Steam client (for overlay functionality) these days. I hope they get the major features rolling soon and stomp out the worst bus etc. as the platform looks quite promising.

Hopefully in the future as they grow, they'll be able to convince more publishers to enhance their games, or even acquire the rights and source code to more of them to be able to do it themselves. That would rock. :)
Posted January 17, 2016
I'm wondering: I wrote a review, but it doesn't seem to appear on the shop page. Is this related to Galaxy?

Edit: (I wrote the review while using the client).
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Posted January 17, 2016
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AlbertCole: I'm wondering: I wrote a review, but it doesn't seem to appear on the shop page. Is this related to Galaxy?

Edit: (I wrote the review while using the client).
For what game?
Posted January 17, 2016
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AlbertCole: I'm wondering: I wrote a review, but it doesn't seem to appear on the shop page. Is this related to Galaxy?

Edit: (I wrote the review while using the client).
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JudasIscariot: For what game?
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone.
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