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to put simply, the game won't install, to ellaborate, I tried installing over a few days, everything was going well, then when it was around 57 gigs done, it randomly jumped down to 20 gigs, i tried to just let it continue and now it encountered an error and the "retry"download option did nothing, finally i tried restarting GOG galaxy, now the install button is grayed out and there doesn't seem to be a way to download the game without uninstalling and trying again over the next week and hoping the same exact [EXPLETIVE] thing doesn't happen again, is there any help for me?

and after posting this the download resumed, sitting at about 40 gigs...
Post edited October 14, 2020 by Kuradamax
This question / problem has been solved by smugglyimage
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Kuradamax: to put simply, the game won't install, to ellaborate, I tried installing over a few days, everything was going well, then when it was around 57 gigs done, it randomly jumped down to 20 gigs, i tried to just let it continue and now it encountered an error and the "retry"download option did nothing, finally i tried restarting GOG galaxy, now the install button is grayed out and there doesn't seem to be a way to download the game without uninstalling and trying again over the next week and hoping the same exact [EXPLETIVE] thing doesn't happen again, is there any help for me?

and after posting this the download resumed, sitting at about 40 gigs...
have you tried another drive? It's a strange error.
Post edited October 14, 2020 by smuggly
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Kuradamax: to put simply, the game won't install, to ellaborate, I tried installing over a few days, everything was going well, then when it was around 57 gigs done, it randomly jumped down to 20 gigs, i tried to just let it continue and now it encountered an error and the "retry"download option did nothing, finally i tried restarting GOG galaxy, now the install button is grayed out and there doesn't seem to be a way to download the game without uninstalling and trying again over the next week and hoping the same exact [EXPLETIVE] thing doesn't happen again, is there any help for me?

and after posting this the download resumed, sitting at about 40 gigs...
Try clicking 'verify', as others have mentioned in other posts on this subject.

-edit- fixed verb tense
Post edited October 15, 2020 by alcaray
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Kuradamax: to put simply, the game won't install, to ellaborate, I tried installing over a few days, everything was going well, then when it was around 57 gigs done, it randomly jumped down to 20 gigs, i tried to just let it continue and now it encountered an error and the "retry"download option did nothing, finally i tried restarting GOG galaxy, now the install button is grayed out and there doesn't seem to be a way to download the game without uninstalling and trying again over the next week and hoping the same exact [EXPLETIVE] thing doesn't happen again, is there any help for me?

and after posting this the download resumed, sitting at about 40 gigs...
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smuggly: have you tried another drive? It's a strange error.
alright it happened again, i'm going to try this and install to a different folder [EDIT i mean drive], be back in a few days.

(y'know i'm sure this happened on steam when i was trying to install DOS2, guess larian REALLY has it out for me! ha!)
Post edited October 15, 2020 by Kuradamax
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smuggly: have you tried another drive? It's a strange error.
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Kuradamax: alright it happened again, i'm going to try this and install to a different folder [EDIT i mean drive], be back in a few days.

(y'know i'm sure this happened on steam when i was trying to install DOS2, guess larian REALLY has it out for me! ha!)
Did you try "verify" as I asked?
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Kuradamax: alright it happened again, i'm going to try this and install to a different folder [EDIT i mean drive], be back in a few days.

(y'know i'm sure this happened on steam when i was trying to install DOS2, guess larian REALLY has it out for me! ha!)
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alcaray: Did you try "verify" as I asked?
That option didn't appear
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alcaray: Did you try "verify" as I asked?
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Kuradamax: That option didn't appear
I'm not a Galaxy user so I could not give you better instructions on how to find this function - sorry. The good news is that in this thread: https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/bg3_crash_as_soon_as_you_hit_play

a fine user by the name of _Pax_ gave us this procedure:

"In the Galaxy client, go to that game.

Up top, there's a button just to the right of the one marked [PLAY], with two little circles-on-lines. CLICK THIS.

That opened a little menu. Choose Manage Installation - it's the third option from the top.

That opened a new little menu. Choose Verify & Repair - it's the last option at the very bottom.

Sit back and wait for Galaxy to do it's thing."

Enjoy!