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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 07, 2015
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Venom: - games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
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skeletonbow: The existing behaviour is not the intended behaviour, but rather the existing developmental state of the beta test and a known issue that it does not yet work as is intended or optimal. Should be addressed in a future update at some point, as should all of the issues they've posted above as "KNOWN ISSUES". Hope this helps.
That's not the problem. It doesn't have a chance to be a problem if there's no way to shut off updating universally before the game is added. See below.

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cogadh: At the moment, you can only change that setting after the game has already been installed/imported into Galaxy, but in the Galaxy client options there is a global setting for auto-updates that is not functional in this version of the beta. Once that option is enabled, you can turn off auto updating completely. Remember, this is a beta test, not everything is going to work as advertised... yet.
I see it now. The grayed out option for this should be checked if it's a feature we're unable to turn off. A grayed out option with an empty check box means the feature can't be turned on.

Not really a big deal either way, if the plan for this client is to only support GOG releases and only in versions newer than mid-2014. The games most users will want to maintain as originally installed would have been setup before that.
Posted May 07, 2015
I'll just leave this feedback here as well.

While I love the friend system, I think the notification system is pretty bad in all honesty. You literally have to search if someone sent you a message through galaxy instead of you being notified immediately by the program blinking. Or anything similar.

I mean you want to hit up a friend to play a game with them right? Well if they never notice getting a message, there's no point. The point is that the person receiving a message will get a notification that will draw their attention while they are doing something else. Be it browsing or playing a game. Even if they don't have time at that moment, you can arrange to play together. Currently the IM of galaxy is no different than the GOG message system or an e-mail based system. People will reply when they go look for it.
Posted May 07, 2015
Anyone else gets "disk access problem" error?

Frist I got it when when I was importing folders of some already installed games. I just installed those games from scratch and everything went fine, so I didn't give it much thought.

But now I get it when I just try to download extras. For instance, Another World game files.
And I know it's not problem with my HDD because I tried it with 2 different disks.


Edit: There seems to be a conflict Avast. I've disabled it and now Galaxy seems to work fine. Anyone else using Avast can confirm this?
Post edited May 07, 2015 by MorningStar33
Posted May 07, 2015
For what it's worth, the wishes "Add Friends via Username or Email Address", "Release the GOG Galaxy client for linux", and "Pause Download Capability" are now marked as "in progress".

Keep up the good work GOG, and keep improving the client! :)
Posted May 07, 2015
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skeletonbow: Beware though, importing games into Galaxy that have had mods applied or other changes may cause the mods etc. to be obliterated as Galaxy currently does an initial sync update between their server and your local install even if updates are disabled apparently. I've got BG 1&2 installed with the mod that joins the two games together, the highres/widescreen mod and some others. I haven't tested it yet but it's possible Galaxy might have hosed it on me. :) Not a concern to me though as it is easy enough to fix when I'm ready to play it if it is hosed. :)
Yes, I've read it could happen, so I switched the auto-update function to disabled as soon as I got the BG games coupled to Galaxy. Beforehand I had made backups of the complete game folders and afterwards checked the added games with the backup folders and they weren't changed (exact same number of bytes). So if you're quick, you can disable the update before it does *&!# up your game.
Posted May 07, 2015
I have the client and all my games installed on my D drive (HDD) right now. Can I move a specific games install folder to the C drive (SSD) and just import the folder again to the client? Or would I just have to use the installer and install it on my C drive?
Posted May 07, 2015
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Harwin21: I have the client and all my games installed on my D drive (HDD) right now. Can I move a specific games install folder to the C drive (SSD) and just import the folder again to the client? Or would I just have to use the installer and install it on my C drive?
I haven't tried it, but I believe moving the files might actually work. The only problem might be if the game requires certain registry entries that specify the install directory in some way. Simply moving the files will leave to old registry entries unchanged and the game may not run properly, assuming that Galaxy doesn't take the extra step of re-creating/altering the registry as well.
Posted May 07, 2015
I added a friend to my Gog Galaxy Beta Chat client and it showed him offline until I exited out of the gog client and re-opened it. I believe I did not show up to him either until he did the same thing.

Also if the chat client is hidden and you click Gog Icon on the windows taskbar , it opens up the chat box if it's already open but you need to click the chat box again to actually start typing in it once again.

Love the new beta features so far.
Posted May 07, 2015
On a positive note: I just fired up Aliens vs. Predator 2000 multiplayer for about 20 minutes to give the multiplayer a test run again and it worked fine, but when I exited the game I checked to see if Galaxy had game tracking working yet and it shows I played the game for 21m. I exited the client and started it back up to say if that stuck between invocations and it did indeed, so it looks like game time tracking is now working at least for AvP, but presumably for all games.

My appreciation and gratitude to the Galaxy devs for getting that working! Thanks!
Posted May 07, 2015
Tried to import "Gods Will be watching" via manual import through the library - game was already installed there and is running fine. Galaxy aborted with "broken installation"

Galaxy Log:
2015-05-07 01:27:34:355 [galaxy_client][Information]: Loading minimanifest C:\Program Files\Gods Will Be Watching\goggame-0000000000.info
2015-05-07 01:27:34:355 [galaxy_client][Information]: Loading minimanifest C:\Program Files\Gods Will Be Watching\goggame-1207664883.info
2015-05-07 01:27:34:356 [galaxy_client][Error]: The game installed at 'C:\Program Files\Gods Will Be Watching' has 2 standalones. Should have exactly 1. Cannot continue.

Funny error message "exactly 1" how often will they have 1.45533 standalones? ;)
I'd also like to know what these 145MB updates are that Galaxy does every time I import a game.
Posted May 07, 2015
Anyone know how to change the instalation languaje? It´s English for default.
Posted May 07, 2015
The search button for the forum doesn't work (1.0.0.871).

Click it nothing happens.

Edit: My net was down. Ignore .....
Post edited May 07, 2015 by chaostop
Posted May 07, 2015
So, besides friends stuff, does anyone see anything changed from the last alpha build to beta?
Posted May 07, 2015
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marcusghost: Anyone know how to change the instalation languaje? It´s English for default.
Libary -> "Not all Games supported right now" -> Downlaod Extras -> Lang: .......

there u can select the lang. it's a beta client... use the gog downloader or direct dl instead
Posted May 07, 2015
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marcusghost: Anyone know how to change the instalation languaje? It´s English for default.
If a game has multiple installation languages available, go to your library, click on a game, then click "More" and then "Configure". There'll be a drop-down menu to change the language. Most games have an option to change the language in-game, though, so this only works if a game actually has separate installers for different languages.
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