Kalanyr: I don't think the problem can be related to number of games unless people are having a different problem to me, it's not the library page that's failing to load, it's the game page ( the page that shows when you click on a game) which is why the error occurs at the gsme update step rather than the Library scan step
mrkgnao: I do believe they are talking about something different that only affects very large libraries (certainly 4k+ games, perhaps even 2.5k+ games). I have "only" 2.2k games and have not seen it yet.
I'm specifically talking about
both. I get both the very slow loading of the library, with occasional GOGbear AND failure to load game cards once we've clicked on the game. Both GOGrepoc and the browser's console provide the 500 error.
In Gersen's case, the GOGbear has completely taken over, so he cannot even experience the game card loading failure any more, but if his library were to load, he would experience the card loading issue too.
timppu: For the record, with my about 2500+ games, I don't recall experiencing the "library pages load" problem yet, especially with gogrepoc.
The library load issue starts happening once you go above 4k games, but you can still see how the library apge loads significantly logner than any other GOG page, once you hit ~2.5k. It also does not affect GOGREPOC or Galaxy, only the website itself. Although it does make Galaxy incredibly slow to start.
Game card load issue affects GOGREPOC though.
timppu: I am unsure how much I've ran into the game card loading problem either in gogrepoc or web page, but now I happened to notice it. I think I haven't run gogrepoc for many months (until yesterday), last time probably Dec 2023.
I've recently also noticed that on the web page when I try to see games' game cards in my library, it at least sometimes takes quite a long time before the page opens. i don't recall if I've experienced it before, I figured GOG is just having some performance issues right now or something. (I just tried that right now, takes maybe 4-5 seconds to open a game download page in my library, not sure if that is considered abnormally slow, should it come within a second or so?).
Compare the 4-5 second library load time with the load time of any other page (store, forum, etc). That is what I consider normal. Anything longer is not normal to me. And in my case, the library takes over 10 seconds to load, if it loads at all. I honestly think that there is a timeout settings of some sort. If it loads within ~12 seconds, you're fine. If it takes longer, you get a GOGbear. And the more games you own, the longer it takes to load.
While the game card issue may be a general performance issue to an extent,
I find it very suspicious that an account with few games does not seem to suffer from game card loading issues, while account with high number of games suffers them constantly. mrkgnao: Gersen, who has 5k+ games, has not been able to access any of his games at all from the web browser for over a year now (
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/post1420).
timppu: That issue should have a thread of its own. I wasn't aware of that discussion until your link.
I had actually linked Gersen's post too, under "two".
SargonAelther: If, for whatever reason, you have trouble believing me, then see these two posts from users with libraries above 4k:
One Two