US here. I'm trying it out to see how it works and if I have any problems.

Thus far, it seems spotty. I've sometimes had it download and sometimes it fails. I'm not sure why. It doesn't fail at first, normally after around 20 minutes or so. In the past I've been able to resume downloads after they fail, now it seems that I have to restart the download.

I'm not sure of what the problem could be or what is causing it (could be multiple things). This is new. Last items I downloaded were onto my Linux machine and that went fine, trying this out today on the Windows machine which is where I'm having difficulties.

It may be something with my windows setup, or something else. I don't know what is causing the difficulty. This is an HP machine with an AMD athlon and AMD card. (Linux machine where it worked fine a week or two ago was Intel...just for reference).

I checked, and I don't have cfosspeed installed.

I'm also having problems loading pages now. They hang trying to connect to menu.static.gog.static.com then time out after a few minutes. No matter what pc/browser that I use. I'm starting to think that comcast's network might be the problem, seeing how I can connect/download without any problems with a VPN.

I imagine that GOG may be using some local mirrors / CDN services and the one handling the US region is experiencing problems?
Maybe you should contact the customer service and let them know about the problem.

I submitted a ticket before I posted the first time. I haven't heard anything back yet. Planning on submitting another one tomorrow if I don't get an email.

That's my guess. I did submit a support ticket, but even in the best of times gog's customer service can be horridly slow, and Poland is not having normal times right now, so I'm not holding my breath.

This has convinced me to get a large external drive so I can keep a physical copy of my game library.

I've figured it is not on my end. It is some change they made to the servers that handle certain portions of the world or something going on their end. Higher traffic times affect how easily downloads go (so during higher traffic times it is more likely a large download will suddenly stop). To make matters worse, it appears they have cut the IP address to random addresses so that you cannot resume a stopped download. You cannot pause it or otherwise.

This is a little problematic as it prevents people from cerrtain areas from downloading larger files or games.

It is NOT an individual thing but affects everyone in certain areas.

My guess is that something changed with the way they implemented hosting or how they implemented downloads as it used to be even if it paused or stopped, you could always resume and continue downloading but that is no longer a possibility.

Tried on Win10, Win11 and now Ubuntu Linux 20.04.2 and 20.04.4

Is it still happening?

That is a good move. One of the benefits of DRM-Free software. You will find many open source projects that will help you keep your backup collection up to date.

This morning my offline downloader suddenly works again. Galaxy still gives an "E7- Game no longer available" error message.

So progress, of a sort, even if it's annoying and makes no sense to me.

And no progress today. This is becoming annoying AF. :(

If gog would simply acknowledge that they know some people are having problems with dl right now, and they're working on it, it would go a long way towards customer goodwill.

Check that nothing is set to run in compatibility mode for a previous Windows version. Check both the shortcuts and the executable properties. Source.

Very good tip, and one of the first things I checked. Unfortunately, still no joy. (and yeah, I checked both the shorts and the .exe's)

I'm still not able to download anything. I filed a ticket on May 17th. Customer Support haven't anything from support yet.