I just purchased witcher 3 this weekend and am trying to use galaxy to download it.
The download just hangs at about 86%.
so I close galaxy and restart it but then the download begins again at like 72%, it goes to 86% again and wont get any higher. Just sits there for hours at 86% until I restart galaxy and the same thing happens......


I tried downloading witcher 2 through galaxy a few months back and had a similar situation. Had to resort to using the download links.
I'm going to uninstall galaxy and never touch it again. I had zero issues with the old gog downloader.....
So many hours wasted trying to download 35gigs of witcher3.
I'll have to to try to the download links on the account page when I have the time.
I should have bought this game through steam.

fine. go gently caress the fountain-tips of majestic magik dickwolves. i didn't ask for your opinion.

Silly question: Why are you trying to download it via Galaxy if you yourself admit that the GOG downloader works better for you? Why don't you just continue to use the GOG downloader or your browser?

I'd ask if you ran out of harddrive space, but such a simple mistake seems like it would surely never happen...

I originally had the same problem downloading large games on Galaxy and found it to simply be Mcafee firewall getting in the way.
I know it is obvious but a lot of people (including myself) forget to try downloading with the firewall turned off.

I can't understand why would someone trust a service which is still in beta with 40 GB download when the other service is fully functional and reliable!

It's still in beta state, works for some, but not for others. I used to use Galaxy on one laptop (7x64) and GOG downloader on another (XPx32), no problems at all. Installed The Witcher 3 with full speed through Galaxy just a few days ago. I had only 60GB free space on games partition and were curious myself how this will go with 35GB installation when comes to move files, but everything goes smoothly. I'd suggest leaving a note along with your logs at mantis

Silly answer: The Witcher 3 in particular seems to have so many different files to download and install, that maybe it is understandable that many may want to let a client handle them, instead of going through 16 or so DLC installations manually, or tracking the incoming updates.

I choose to do that manually, but I can understand if someone else doesn't. It can be a bit of a PITA bread at this point, when TW3 is still receiving content and patches regularly.

Fair enough. I am not the trusting type, so try to do everything manually as much as possible, but you're probably right.

I guess I am the same at this point. The Witcher 3 seems to get updates and DLCs so often though that as soon as I've downloaded its offline installers and patches to my hard drive, more stuff has already come for it. :) Then again, that doesn't affect me that much as I am not really playing it yet (haven't even finished either TW or TW2 yet).

This is absolutely not an appropriate response. GOG should delete it. The achievements, the play time measurement, the auto update,... . The GOG downloader might get discontinued. GOG might add other cool features into Galaxy soon. ...

You basically advocate newer to user a newer technology. At first always the old techniques seem to work better.

Maybe he just wasn't sure that the GOG downloader works better. It's not officially supported anymore. GOG gives no guarantee that the downloader does anything anymore. The only safe way currently is the website.

Also according to them at least 700,000 people used Galaxy and most probably for Witcher 3. So many people trust this service who is in beta to download 40 GB. Probably it depends on what beta means exactly. I guess this is the reasonable choice. I do it similar but I will give Galaxy a chance in one to two years when it is tested better.

Gog see 700,000 people
I see 700,000 lab rats

About to download the game through the "backup copy" option.

The backup copy files amount to 25gb while the galaxy download was going to be 33gb.
Why is there an 8gb difference? That is quite big.

I think the originality of this post merits it not being low rated.

I've been around a long time, and I've traveled far and wide, but that is the absolute first time I have ever heard that particular slam. :P

Because the installers are compressed, while Galaxy downloads uncompressed files (beta...).
Not necessarily. A lot of people will have preloaded the setup-files and then used Galaxy to patch the game and start it. That's what I did btw.