Posted December 24, 2024
Post edited December 24, 2024 by ASTR0NAVT
DigitalAlpaca7
New User
Registered: Oct 2017
From Poland
whbinder
New User
Registered: Jun 2020
From United States
Posted December 26, 2024
I mean. That's not really a solution though. Sure. We can use parsec, or a VM or even Chrome Desktop as a Band-aid to the situation. But this has been an issue for years now and needs to be actually fixed by GOG.
Mean.Jim
Meanie
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted January 15, 2025
I just ran into this problem. I finished building my new gaming PC, and since I only have one monitor, I I'm using RDP from my old PC to set things up so I can play games while I'm copying files from my backup drive. I got my GOG games copied over, but I went to install Galaxy to download some new games tonight and got the error.
theiansanity
New User
Registered: Oct 2019
From United Kingdom
Posted February 07, 2025
Running MacOS Sequoia 15.2
Also getting the
"GOG Galaxy - Error / Connection to GOG Galaxy Communication Service was lost / Galaxy will now shutdown"
popup on startup.
the shell script to start the communication service before GOG Galaxy did work for me, but it was annoying so I kept looking...
Turns out I had disabled GOG Galaxy in the Settings -> Login Items & Extensions
(I routinely turn things off in here after enduring the horrors of Windows for so many years)
Enabling it made it open no problem every time... Leaving this here in case anyone else has the same issue.
Also getting the
"GOG Galaxy - Error / Connection to GOG Galaxy Communication Service was lost / Galaxy will now shutdown"
popup on startup.
the shell script to start the communication service before GOG Galaxy did work for me, but it was annoying so I kept looking...
Turns out I had disabled GOG Galaxy in the Settings -> Login Items & Extensions
(I routinely turn things off in here after enduring the horrors of Windows for so many years)
Enabling it made it open no problem every time... Leaving this here in case anyone else has the same issue.
pglombardo
New User
Registered: Nov 2012
From Malta
Posted March 05, 2025
Got an email today saying there was a new Gog client.
1. Deleted the old install from /Applications.
2. Downloaded the latest package
3. Installed & Launched
4. "Connection to Communication Service was lost and could not be restored! GOG Galaxy will now shutdown."
I had hope for a second...
Most software companies use error reporting to monitor the pain their users are going through. I guess this isn't true for Gog. They don't even check these forums.
1. Deleted the old install from /Applications.
2. Downloaded the latest package
3. Installed & Launched
4. "Connection to Communication Service was lost and could not be restored! GOG Galaxy will now shutdown."
I had hope for a second...
Most software companies use error reporting to monitor the pain their users are going through. I guess this isn't true for Gog. They don't even check these forums.
Post edited March 05, 2025 by pglombardo
sgoldberger002m
New User
Registered: May 2020
From United States
Posted September 06, 2025
Also getting the
"GOG Galaxy - Error / Connection to GOG Galaxy Communication Service was lost / Galaxy will now shutdown"
popup on startup.
the shell script to start the communication service before GOG Galaxy did work for me, but it was annoying so I kept looking...
Turns out I had disabled GOG Galaxy in the Settings -> Login Items & Extensions
(I routinely turn things off in here after enduring the horrors of Windows for so many years)
Enabling it made it open no problem every time... Leaving this here in case anyone else has the same issue.
I'm almost certain messing with these caused me to have this problem, but toggling all the GOG login items back on did not solve my problem.
Post edited September 06, 2025 by sgoldberger002m