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StaxelHow Does One Play Staxel without Gog Galaxy?(3 posts)(3 posts)
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Posted October 06, 2019
I thought Staxel would make a nice relaxing game and since Gog is DRM free... I downloaded it using the standalone files, started it. Error, something about can't find gog galaxy. A look at the shortcut shows it is calling gog galaxy. (edit: actually, the shortcut points to [installdir]\bin\Staxel.SteamLauncher.exe . Hopefully edited to be gog, but really gog galaxy?)

Well, apparently not so DRM free if gog galaxy is required. Am I missing something? If a game manager is required, but not mentioned on the store page, I should be able to get my money back.
Post edited October 06, 2019 by drrhodes
Posted October 06, 2019
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drrhodes: I thought Staxel would make a nice relaxing game and since Gog is DRM free... I downloaded it using the standalone files, started it. Error, something about can't find gog galaxy. A look at the shortcut shows it is calling gog galaxy. (edit: actually, the shortcut points to [installdir]\bin\Staxel.SteamLauncher.exe . Hopefully edited to be gog, but really gog galaxy?)

Well, apparently not so DRM free if gog galaxy is required. Am I missing something? If a game manager is required, but not mentioned on the store page, I should be able to get my money back.
I've tested the offline installer on a second PC that doesn't have Galaxy (or an internet connection for that matter) and the game launched fine, the launcher just gave me a warning that Galaxy integration won't work without Galaxy and after that the game ran fine.
Not entirely sure what the problem on your PC might be, the installer you downloaded may have gotten corrupt or perhaps your antivirus is blocking something.
You can try launching Staxel.Client.exe in the game folders to bypass the launcher and see if that works.
Posted October 07, 2019
Thanks, mmodri.

I finally got it to work. For some reason a certificate file wasn't installed. I got a copy from discord by one of the helpers. It was named, ".dat" (yep, no filename). Still didn't help, so I tried re-installing over the existing game. That seemed to help along with changing the executable from the steam launcher to a dotnet launcher (per the helper).

It does take a while for the connect-to-galaxy test to time out when galaxy is not installed.
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