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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 May 30, 2016
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mike_cesara: Well, technically it's still.. technical preview ; ) Surely it needs some tweaks here and there.,
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BKGaming: Honestly at this rate I'd be happy will any changes, kind of sad that Galaxy of today is largely the same as Galaxy of a year ago. Not that there haven't been some nice changes on the back end for mostly developers, but from an end user perspective changes are to slow and far in between.
I believe a lot changed during last year (even more since alpha) and don't forget we also have to face new, not necessarily expected problems like windows 10.. But I agree, from an end user perspective it doesn't seem like anything but some minor cosmetics changes. But I've heard rumors we have bigger Galaxy team now, perhaps more spectacular changes are coming : )
Posted May 30, 2016
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joelandsonja: I don't like the new GOG.com icon at the top-left hand corner of Galaxy. I don't see why GOG can't use the modern logo for the Galaxy client. The purple logo looks dated and out of place (see attached image).
What modern logo? I went to their Twitter and other social media profiles and it looks pretty much the same to me, just in a circle.

I agree it looks a bit blurry, but it's not that bad, a higher resolution version would fix it easily.

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BKGaming: I mean were using Galaxy and GOG we don't have to be told what were using... not even Steam's logo say's Steam on it.
Just because most major sites don't have the name of their products in their logo doesn't mean that doing it differently is a bad thing. (It seems it's only a thing with Internet brands, I made a quick Google search and it seems most traditional brands include their names in their logos / have their names as logos.) The GOG logo looks good, it's not flashy and gets the job done. If you introduced someone who is new to Google, Spotify, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, YouTube and many, many others to their logos, do you think they would know what products they're looking at? Besides, "GOG" is only three-character-long, while most other sites have at least six or seven characters in their names, so that may be a reason why they don't display them in their logos.

Google's revolutionary-wannabe Material Design "Less is more" isn't always the best approach.
Posted May 31, 2016
Seems like Galaxy doesn't recognize Witcher 3 addons/DLC that were installed via the manual installer. It looks alright in-game but the client still wants to re-download stuff.
Posted May 31, 2016
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Tyrrhia: Just because most major sites don't have the name of their products in their logo doesn't mean that doing it differently is a bad thing. (It seems it's only a thing with Internet brands, I made a quick Google search and it seems most traditional brands include their names in their logos / have their names as logos.) The GOG logo looks good, it's not flashy and gets the job done. If you introduced someone who is new to Google, Spotify, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, YouTube and many, many others to their logos, do you think they would know what products they're looking at? Besides, "GOG" is only three-character-long, while most other sites have at least six or seven characters in their names, so that may be a reason why they don't display them in their logos.

Google's revolutionary-wannabe Material Design "Less is more" isn't always the best approach.
The issue isn't really the logo itself, it that it's being used as a desktop icon... it's blurry and gets worse as it's get smaller. It's easily the worse icon on my desktop as far as quality and scalability goes. Enable small taskbar icons on the new windows 10 insider preview and it's unreadable. Text on desktop icons is just overall bad, and most avoid it.
Post edited May 31, 2016 by BKGaming
Posted May 31, 2016
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Anthedon: Seems like Galaxy doesn't recognize Witcher 3 addons/DLC that were installed via the manual installer. It looks alright in-game but the client still wants to re-download stuff.
Unfortunately, the system that recognizes manual DLC and patches is basically brand new, and only applies to patches and DLC released since Galaxy 1.1.9 (it's the second entry in the 1.1.9 patch log above). That will probably (hopefully) apply to Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, but sadly I don't believe any of the others have been re-released since 1.1.9.
Post edited May 31, 2016 by Blackdrazon
Posted May 31, 2016
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Blackdrazon: Unfortunately, the system that recognizes manual DLC and patches is basically brand new, and only applies to patches and DLC released since Galaxy 1.1.9 (it's the second entry in the 1.1.9 patch log above). That will probably (hopefully) apply to Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, but sadly I don't believe any of the others have been re-released since 1.1.9.
The DLC downloaders have been updated I think. They are all version 1.21.

It's not that big of a deal as long as the game itself works/keeps working.
Posted May 31, 2016
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Blackdrazon: Unfortunately, the system that recognizes manual DLC and patches is basically brand new, and only applies to patches and DLC released since Galaxy 1.1.9 (it's the second entry in the 1.1.9 patch log above). That will probably (hopefully) apply to Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, but sadly I don't believe any of the others have been re-released since 1.1.9.
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Anthedon: The DLC downloaders have been updated I think. They are all version 1.21.

It's not that big of a deal as long as the game itself works/keeps working.
No, pardon, I meant Galaxy's version 1.1.9, the version of the DLC installers is irrelevant and unrelated. My point is: I have Witcher 3 as well and haven't seen any updates since Galaxy 1.1.9, so the installers can't have the new feature.

Anyway, I'm glad it's working in the end.
Post edited May 31, 2016 by Blackdrazon
Posted June 01, 2016
One wish: look into CPU time used when idle/minimized.

While I'm reading something it can be distracting when the CPU fans are noisy since there is some CPU load constantly.
Posted June 02, 2016
Dear Galaxy Team

There is a Polish language available in Galaxy client, so when you will add such language to choose in options at gog.com website?

EDIT

I own WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT, THE - GAME + EXPANSION PASS and when I go to your shop at gog.com or in Galaxy client there is an information ADD TO CART for WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT, THE and WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT, THE - EXPANSION PASS. It's strange, because I own WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT, THE - GAME + EXPANSION PASS in one package and it includes: WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT, THE and WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT, THE - EXPANSION PASS. You should mark it as OWNED, because someone may buy twice the same package.

PS. My Avatar still is not visible in Forum.

Thank you in advance for your great support.

Sincerely
Post edited June 02, 2016 by UTAVATU
Posted June 02, 2016
Correct me if im wrong, but it looks like the backup downloader is stupid and it will re-download what i already have in the backup folder all ready which seems kind of daft, how about a check ? md5 or such if existing local backup all-ready exists
i does not appear to do so at the moment, as it turns out the games linux version had updated and not the winders version , meaningless download again should all-ready be there
Posted June 02, 2016
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kazereal: One wish: look into CPU time used when idle/minimized.

While I'm reading something it can be distracting when the CPU fans are noisy since there is some CPU load constantly.
Well.. any news regarding the high cpu usage? It's becoming a serious issue when the client is running for a longer period of time :(
Posted June 03, 2016
What games are GOG Galaxy Multiplayer Ready?

I know AvP 2000 Classic is but is there a list compiled?
Posted June 03, 2016
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smrtgi19: What games are GOG Galaxy Multiplayer Ready?

I know AvP 2000 Classic is but is there a list compiled?
GOGmix
Posted June 03, 2016
GOG Galaxy stopped connecting and wouldn't update.

I used GOG Galaxy a couple days ago to play something. Everything worked fine and dandy. The next day I see an email about policy changes and the addition of the Steam connect that's going on with GOG. So last night I launched GOG Galaxy and got a pop up message that said:

"there was a problem updating the application"

If I hit okay on the message, it would go away and I'd get into the GOG Galaxy client, but it wouldn't connect to the server. It was rather late so I thought maybe the server connection was down. I went to bed.

Curious if my connection worked, I installed GOG Galaxy on another computer and connected to my account this morning. I got home and tried it on my computer at home and it wouldn't connect. I got the "there was a problem updating the application".

I uninstalled GOG Galaxy and downloaded the app again. I installed it. Launched the app and got the "there was a problem updating the application".

I added firewall exceptions into Windows Firewall for GOG Galaxy app, launched it, got the "there was a problem updating the application".

I restarted my computer, launched the app, got "there was a problem updating the application".

I uninstalled GOG Galaxy and went through the registry and deleted out anything with "GOG" and "Galaxy". I restarted the computer. I re-installed GOG Galaxy and it works now.

I'm not sure what happened because nothing changed on my side. I had not installed anything new or made any changes to my network or the Galaxy app, but it just stopped working. So, if anyone else is having this problem, please make sure you uninstall the GOG Galaxy program. Then go into your registry (make a backup first, this is very important), then search (Ctrl + F) for Galaxy. Anything that's found with Galaxy in it, make sure it's for GOG Galaxy (should be very easy to spot, everything I found had GOG or Galaxy in the registry that I came across) and delete the registry entries. Once you've found them all, reboot your PC. Then install GOG Galaxy - this should get it working for you.
Posted June 03, 2016
Just wishing the Galaxy team the best!
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