Interesting. You are right, right now it is grayed out. I'm 99% sure it was available in the past, so there must have been some problems with it and it got disabled. I'm just too used to making sure auto update is disabled that I didn't even notice I must now opt-out manually during installation.

Sorry for the noise.

Auto-update always worked as it does now, however if I recall correctly they originally had the option not greyed out but it didn't actually do anything then either, it just hadn't been properly greyed out IIRC. That was a very very long time ago near when the client first came out if memory serves correct.

Yeah, I normally disable auto-update per-game during install and am glad they show the option during install - however, I don't normally install with Galaxy, as I prefer to download the installers and install them separately myself and patch. One has to shut down Galaxy to do that cleanly though, especially if there are standalone patches to install, otherwise once the installer finishes it instructs Galaxy that it just installed a game, and before you can go and install the patch manually, Galaxy tries to download the entire Internet. :)

Do you know that feeling when someone tells you something that should have been really obvious to you and come up pretty early on in your though process? I hope not, because I'm having that right now and it's not fun.
Thanks.

I have no idea what you are talking about ;)

Mann sieht den Wald vor lauter Baeumen nicht ;) ?

Ja, und zwar als Förster. :) This sounds pretty good actually. I gotta take a closer look later.

I hope Google Translate is correct, yes, I am circumcised?

Thank you for inquiring.

No Kleetus,

How often have I told you, use google translate not gxxxgle translate.

The first is for normal translation and the second for the rest. ;)

Thanks for the replies! Of course i meant games i already have downloaded on my drive. I think GOG downloader is more easily manageable than GOG Galaxy when downloading games for offline installs but GOG downloader doesn't let me log in and it seems GOG also deleted every GOG downloader thread in the forum which is a shame!

No, but GOG archived the original forum a couple of years ago to cut down the load on the servers or somesuch, so you can't search the existing forums and find threads that are more than about 2 years old - you have to search the archives to find older forum posts. Galaxy was released around that time and GOG Downloader has never been updated since so nobody's really talked about it much.

You can use Google to make life easier by doing: "site:www.gog.com GOG Downloader" which should find discussions both in the forums and the archives etc.

Having said that, I'm not sure if you'll find any information truly useful to you in 2016 though as the program hasn't been updated in over two years, and it will probably be removed soon along with the downloader links anyway, as there are broken GOG Downloader links for some games showing up and GOG has been encouraging people to move over to using Galaxy for downloading lately and fixing the broken links as a lower priority. The writing is on the wall...

I didn't know GOG downloader could provide indication that there's any updates available. i must have forgotten it. Anyhow it doesn't work to be able to log in on it anymore.

That explains it! Thanks for letting me know. GOG Galaxy is a bit to cumbersome for me downloading installers and extra stuff. It's hidden in to many clicks for my taste and there seems not be any easy way to keep stuff as installers and extra stuff uploaded on the hard drive.

What GOG could do is to build in a feature in GOG Galaxy that checks the drive containing the exe's and extra stuff to notify if there's any updates available. Like the "Scan and Import Folder" function (which never works) does.

GOG Downloader if left running in your systray will tell you whenever game updates are available which GOG has manually flagged on their end. That will not detect updates which they have not flagged however.

Within Galaxy once you've brought up your library view you simply click on the down-arrow for a given game and drag to "Backups & Extras" and let go. From there you click on the individual installers/patches/bonus goodies you want to add to your download queue. It's not a lot of clicks to get to, however they add up if you want to download everything and would prefer instead to have a one-click download-all type option.

It's not really much different than downloading things using the browser or Downloader in that respect, but the fastest way to do it all would probably be the gogrepo.py script floating around the forums.

For various reasons, I doubt Galaxy will ever compare one's download folder with what is available on the server and notify of pending new files to download (updated or otherwise). I just don't think it will ever be a priority for GOG personally. I do think however that once someone reverse engineers the Galaxy API or GOG publishes it that someone will write a custom downloader/library management app that does do this however as I think there is likely a big huge demand for it in the community. In a sense it would be kind of like gogrepo.py using the Galaxy backend and possibly with a simplified non-web-browser-based GUI, so it could be fairly lightweight. I can definitely see a huge demand for something like that within our lil community here for sure, especially people using ancient computers still made from vacuum tubes that are running Windows 2.0 and whatnot which seems common here. :)

I second the gogrepo python script. It takes some setting up, but once you get it working right it will download your entire library and update what needs updating. I run it about once a week and keep my library up to date.


EDIT TO ADD: It will catch updates that GOG doesn't report to your notification bar too, since about 1/3rd of my games seem to show no updates, including the Witcher 3 and Pillars of Eternity (thanks for preordering, right?).

That sounds something that would come in handy! How do you install it?