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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 16, 2015
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zippythezip: Hoe do you re download games to make a backup copy using Galaxcy?
I have Age of Wonders 3 installed and Galaxcy updated this and my other games, But now my only option is to "''''play" or "manage". Do I have to uninstall games to get downloads?
May be I should just stick to old downloader if was so easy to use.
It's a little non-intuitive currently. Click on the game in your library, then click on More->Download Extras.

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hstriepe: Cannot handle the Witcher 2.

First it dowloaded the 23GB of stuff (pain!) and then crashed - apparently on decompressing. I could not run GOG Galaxy at all. I deleted the file and uninstalled the entry.

I then downloaded the whole thing again (23Gb of more pain). It runs, but I cannot add it to the GOG library. What do I do?
If you've installed the game manually by the standalone installer (I'm assuming), hook it into Galaxy by bringing up the game's page in your library and doing: More->Manage->Import

I've done this with both Witcher 1 & 2 downloads from today and both games are present and working as expected on my end. Hope that helps. Oh, and make sure you are updated to the latest version of Galaxy - 1.0.1.917 as it seems to have resolved some issues with the Witcher games for me at least.
Post edited May 16, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted May 16, 2015
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zippythezip: Hoe do you re download games to make a backup copy using Galaxcy?
I have Age of Wonders 3 installed and Galaxcy updated this and my other games, But now my only option is to "''''play" or "manage". Do I have to uninstall games to get downloads?
May be I should just stick to old downloader if was so easy to use.
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skeletonbow: It's a little non-intuitive currently. Click on the game in your library, then click on More->Download Extras.

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hstriepe: Cannot handle the Witcher 2.

First it dowloaded the 23GB of stuff (pain!) and then crashed - apparently on decompressing. I could not run GOG Galaxy at all. I deleted the file and uninstalled the entry.

I then downloaded the whole thing again (23Gb of more pain). It runs, but I cannot add it to the GOG library. What do I do?
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skeletonbow: If you've installed the game manually by the standalone installer (I'm assuming), hook it into Galaxy by bringing up the game's page in your library and doing: More->Manage->Import

I've done this with both Witcher 1 & 2 downloads from today and both games are present and working as expected on my end. Hope that helps. Oh, and make sure you are updated to the latest version of Galaxy - 1.0.1.917 as it seems to have resolved some issues with the Witcher games for me at least.
I tried this twice. Ended up with an error or timing out.
Posted May 16, 2015
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hstriepe: Cannot handle the Witcher 2.

First it dowloaded the 23GB of stuff (pain!) and then crashed - apparently on decompressing. I could not run GOG Galaxy at all. I deleted the file and uninstalled the entry.

I then downloaded the whole thing again (23Gb of more pain). It runs, but I cannot add it to the GOG library. What do I do?

Later:
Another attempt at downloading gives me an out of disk space error after allocating some 23GB. There are 1.74TB left on this disk. Guess, it has trouble with math.

No response on my last mantis bug, so this look like a waste of time...
I have also been complaining about the Galaxy client and its inability to pause/resume a download just like the GOG.com Downloader does. They moved the location of the GOG.com downloader. Access it via web browser logon: Library > " Game" > More button > GOG DOWNLOADER LINKS.
Posted May 16, 2015
This gog galxy is a bunch of shit without being able to choose where to install, its basically useless, if you have a 128gb SSD like me as a boot drive and no way to change the install directory you are fucked.
Posted May 16, 2015
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LatexPlague: This gog galxy is a bunch of shit without being able to choose where to install, its basically useless, if you have a 128gb SSD like me as a boot drive and no way to change the install directory you are fucked.
Except that you can change the directory where it installs games to.
Posted May 16, 2015
I have an old Athlon XP processor that does not support SSE2 instructions. Will I be able to use the Galaxy client?
Posted May 16, 2015
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Melvinica: I have an old Athlon XP processor that does not support SSE2 instructions. Will I be able to use the Galaxy client?
I'm not sure if they've published or commented anywhere about minumum CPU requirements, but Galaxy is supported only on Windows 7 and newer and will be supported on Mac and Linux soon as well. Galaxy Client much like other gaming clients is just a highly customized web browser based on the Google Chrome engine, so if you can run a modern web browser on Windows 7 on your system and spare about 200-300MB of RAM and have enough RAM left to run games then you might be ok. Mind you an Athlon XP running Windows 7 is not going to be a screaming powerhouse of a machine either, so while Galaxy might run it is probably going to be sluggish, especially if you have low memory.

It probably takes less time to download and install it and test it yourself though than to speculate. Hope this helps.

NOTE TO GOG:

https://www.gog.com/galaxy download link for Windows is pointing to the old stale first beta release and not to the current beta which I'm guessing is probably not what you want. :) Might want to add a note to update that link on new releases unless of course it is intentional for some upgrade testing or something. :)
Post edited May 16, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted May 16, 2015
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LatexPlague: This gog galxy is a bunch of shit without being able to choose where to install, its basically useless, if you have a 128gb SSD like me as a boot drive and no way to change the install directory you are fucked.
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skeletonbow: Except that you can change the directory where it installs games to.
Unfortunately there is a bug experienced by some that prevents you from changing the game install location outside of the user directory. Everyone that I've seen mention it (including myself) seems to have a SSD as their main hard drive on which windows is installed.
Posted May 16, 2015
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uninvited: Unfortunately there is a bug experienced by some that prevents you from changing the game install location outside of the user directory. Everyone that I've seen mention it (including myself) seems to have a SSD as their main hard drive on which windows is installed.
Ok, I had a look at the bug report and added my own local setup/data/results as a datapoint of a working system so that hopefully it can help to narrow down what the differences are between working and non-working systems.
Posted May 16, 2015
I'm not sure if this was already mentioned on this thread, but Galaxy breaks 3d acceleration for me in Tie Fighter (1998) and X-wing (1998) completely. Hex editing exe file doesn't work. Installing vogons patch also just causes the game to crash to desktop once flight simulation starts. Luckily I had older installers for both games and reinstalled those.
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uninvited: Unfortunately there is a bug experienced by some that prevents you from changing the game install location outside of the user directory. Everyone that I've seen mention it (including myself) seems to have a SSD as their main hard drive on which windows is installed.
Can you install Galaxy client on your secondary HDD? I realize it's not as efficient as having it on your SSD, but it could solve your issue.
Post edited May 16, 2015 by revanbh
Posted May 16, 2015
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revanbh: I'm not sure if this was already mentioned on this thread, but Galaxy breaks 3d acceleration for me in Tie Fighter (1998) and X-wing (1998) completely. Hex editing exe file doesn't work. Installing vogons patch also just causes the game to crash to desktop once flight simulation starts. Luckily I had older installers for both games and reinstalled those.
Can you install Galaxy client on your secondary HDD? I realize it's not as efficient as having it on your SSD, but it could solve your issue.
I haven't tested with the Star Wars games but I've had various old DOS games go tits up launched by Galaxy during the alpha. Some games launch underneath Galaxy and have both Galaxy and the taskbar on top of them. Running them manually from the Start menu they work fine though. Filed at least one bug if not more in Mantle about that. :)

Soooo many more games to test but redownloading over and over and over just burns Internet bandwidth for the month so I've been limiting that somewhat and using the standalones. But... the big kicker...

The big enchilada...

The Witcher 3 is out in like 2 days (in North America!) and after that, productivity is taking a nosedive worldwide. Seriously. Beta testing Galaxy? Beta testing the website? Bwahahahahahaha... Try VISITING NOVIGRAD! :) GOG/CDPR don't realize it but their new game is going to slow down their beta testing. Hell even their own developers/engineers/marketing people etc. are going to not get any work done for months, face it. :)

Say hi to JudasIscariot sometime in the next 2 days because he's going to be doing Witcher cosplay game runthroughs on twitch or whatever, just you watch! No new game releases... but who will care? WITCHER! :)
Posted May 16, 2015
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revanbh: I'm not sure if this was already mentioned on this thread, but Galaxy breaks 3d acceleration for me in Tie Fighter (1998) and X-wing (1998) completely. Hex editing exe file doesn't work. Installing vogons patch also just causes the game to crash to desktop once flight simulation starts. Luckily I had older installers for both games and reinstalled those.
Can you install Galaxy client on your secondary HDD? I realize it's not as efficient as having it on your SSD, but it could solve your issue.
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skeletonbow: I haven't tested with the Star Wars games but I've had various old DOS games go tits up launched by Galaxy during the alpha. Some games launch underneath Galaxy and have both Galaxy and the taskbar on top of them. Running them manually from the Start menu they work fine though. Filed at least one bug if not more in Mantle about that. :)

Soooo many more games to test but redownloading over and over and over just burns Internet bandwidth for the month so I've been limiting that somewhat and using the standalones. But... the big kicker...

The big enchilada...

The Witcher 3 is out in like 2 days (in North America!) and after that, productivity is taking a nosedive worldwide. Seriously. Beta testing Galaxy? Beta testing the website? Bwahahahahahaha... Try VISITING NOVIGRAD! :) GOG/CDPR don't realize it but their new game is going to slow down their beta testing. Hell even their own developers/engineers/marketing people etc. are going to not get any work done for months, face it. :)

Say hi to JudasIscariot sometime in the next 2 days because he's going to be doing Witcher cosplay game runthroughs on twitch or whatever, just you watch! No new game releases... but who will care? WITCHER! :)
I think they know that witcher 3 is almost out lol. Hence the huge recent push and all the changes happening a bit fast, with way too many bugs! Because ready or not, people are going to be using galaxy for reals...
Posted May 16, 2015
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Dschayson: Thanks for the fast reply - i will add my data to the existing call.
I reinstalled the client several times and tried different locations - but nothing changed so far.

I'd like to give you the log here as-well:
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deadfloat: Hey,

I uninstalled Galaxy from Control Panel > Programs and Features > Galaxy.
It did not remove the folder GOG.com from C:\ProgramData\GOG.com
Had to remove it manually.
Where are you installing the Galaxy Client and where are your GOG games installed.
I used the Control Panel too and deleted C:\ProgramData\GOG.com manually the last times.
I do have 2 hard-drives, one for windows and other programms and one for gaming and data.
Both, Galaxy and all Games are located on the latter. (The same goes for my laptop).
At this very moment i have no GOG games installed.

Example:
D:\Games\GOG.com\GalaxyClient
D:\Games\GOG.com\AnyGOG-GameThatMightCome
Post edited May 16, 2015 by Dschayson
Posted May 16, 2015
Ok I've had a look and while the custom tags are the best library management solution that GOG has ever thought up, actually ASSIGNING them I'm finding intensely frustrating with menu disappearing or even the game card opening if I'm not super accurate with the mouse - PLEASE improve the interface!
Posted May 16, 2015
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skeletonbow: Except that you can change the directory where it installs games to.
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uninvited: Unfortunately there is a bug experienced by some that prevents you from changing the game install location outside of the user directory. Everyone that I've seen mention it (including myself) seems to have a SSD as their main hard drive on which windows is installed.
I have an SSD for Windows and programmes and have no trouble whatsoever to change the installation location, so that can't be it.
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