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Hi,

welcome to the official GOG Galaxy forum thread. Please read the below info first:

== GOG GALAXY FEATURES IN GAMES ==

List of games supporting various GOG Galaxy features:
Achievements: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=achievements&sort=bestselling&page=1
Cloud Saves: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=cloud_saves&sort=bestselling&page=1
Overlay: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=overlay&sort=bestselling&page=1

== 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 (location described on mantis report page)

== 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 ==
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer

== CHANGELOG ==

1.2.49 (November 29, 2018)
- [Windows] Updater now requires administrator privileges to perform update of GOG Galaxy
- [Windows] Security of directories containing GOG Galaxy files has been improved
- [Windows] Updated Code Signing Certificate
- [Windows] Crash reporter has been added to Galaxy Communication Service
Bugfixes:
- Prevented several potential causes of "broken" games, where only way out was reinstalling
- [MacOS] Fixed a crash on shutdown when fatal error was shown

1.2.50 (December 13, 2018)
Changes & Improvements:
- Speed up startup time
- [MacOS] Strengthen up connection security with ClientService
Bugfixes:
- Fixed "disk access problem" when installing games, occuring mostly on fresh installation of GOG Galaxy
- Fixed a rare occurrence of a game update resulting in displaying "unknown game version"

1.2.51 (December 20, 2018)
- Improved Korean translations
- Fixed connection to notifications pusher in GOG Galaxy SDK

1.2.54 (March 14, 2019)
Changes and Improvements:
- Updated Chromium version to 71:
- Better performance
- Fixes playing Twitch videos on profiles
- Fixes playing Wistia videos
- Security fixes in the game installation process
- Security fixes in GOG Galaxy update process
- GOG Galaxy Updater should perform better under poor network conditions
Bugfixes:
- [macOS] Fixed passing multiple commandline arguments to games
- [macOS] Multiple "friend online" notifications will no longer appear when system wakes up
- Dates are now properly displayed in cloud saves conflict window

1.2.55 (April 17, 2019)
- Hotfix for unintentional opening of Facebook link after entering Forum

1.2.56 (May 06, 2019)
Bugfixes:
- [Windows] GOG Galaxy will fix the path to its internal services, if it finds it is wrong
- Updating of games' local dependencies (e.g. Dosbox) will be handled correctly
- Unexpected files in games' directories will no longer cause failure of games’ update

1.2.57 (June 12, 2019)
Changes and Improvements:
- Minor download speed optimizations
- Changes in PayPal payment flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed rare crash occurence when reordering games' updates and installations
- GOG Galaxy will correctly reconnect to GOG services after long time of no internet connection

1.2.58 (September 13, 2019)
macOS:
- Enabled hardened runtime, making our application more secure
- Implemented Apple's notarization

1.2.59 (September 23, 2019)
Overlay:
- [Windows] Fixed crash in Overlay affecting some games (including Fallout 3 (Radeon only) and Dragon Age: Origins)
Achievements:
- [Windows] Fixed issue with achievements sometimes not being saved while playing offline

1.2.60 Beta (07 October, 2019)
General:
- Updated CEF version to 3729 (Chromium to 74)
- Security fixes
Updater:
- Will no longer download updates at startup, they will be downloaded in the background, while the application is running
- [Windows] No additional UAC prompt during update

1.2.61 Beta (October 23, 2019)
Updater:
- Fixed an issue where non-admin users would not be able to update to newer versions of GOG Galaxy

1.2.62 Beta (October 30, 2019)
Overlay:
- Fixed crashes for various games

1.2.63 (December 02, 2019)
General:
- Updated CEF version to 3729 (Chromium to 74)
- Security fixes
Updater:
- Will no longer download updates at startup, they will be downloaded in the background, while the application is running
- [Windows] No additional UAC prompt during update
Overlay [Windows]:
- Now supports games which use Vulkan API (e.g. Jupiter Hell, X4: Foundations)
- Fixes crashes for various games

1.2.64 (December 04, 2019)
- Hotfix for launching games

1.2.66 (January 23, 2020)
- Added information about GOG Galaxy 2.0 Open Beta
- Optimization related to showing download progress
- Fixed an issue where Overlay did not launch for some games that use Vulkan
- [Windows] Updated code signing certificate
- [MacOS] Crash fixes

1.2.67 (February 24, 2020)
General:
- [Windows] GOG Galaxy will now show a warning when trying to run on non-NTFS file systems
- Improved security of the application
- Updated POCO library
GOG GALAXY Update:
- Fixes for bugs in the GOG Galaxy update process
Post edited February 24, 2020 by TheTomasz
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BKGaming: ...
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Venom: Games installed via GOG Galaxy now have shortcuts that also point to GOG Galaxy, so that you will get all the features (game time tracking, achievements, overlay, multiplayer, cloud saves etc.) when launching games via shortcut.
Is it intended that every time a game is verified/updated the shortcut reappears on the desktop even if it was removed?
It's so annoying.
Post edited March 23, 2019 by user deleted
since some updates ago galaxy is no longer working on my mac os sierra 10.12.5 . It closes just a few seconds after startup, after it has logged my account i guess, tried to start it without logging in and i doesn't crash i think. I am trying to troubleshoot this, reistalling and rebooting didn't fix the issue. How do i completely uninstall it for a fresh reinstall on mac os? i haven't found much on this issue so i guess it is pretty uncommon
Just thought I'd pass on some positive news ....

Galaxy 1.2.10 now doesn't monopolise my machine. In fact, I'm typing this with Galaxy still running, which was not possible with 1.2.9.

The updating of Games now seems to work instead of continually crashing.

A major step forward with this build.

Thanks.
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grassotto: since some updates ago galaxy is no longer working on my mac os sierra 10.12.5 . It closes just a few seconds after startup, after it has logged my account i guess, tried to start it without logging in and i doesn't crash i think. I am trying to troubleshoot this, reistalling and rebooting didn't fix the issue. How do i completely uninstall it for a fresh reinstall on mac os? i haven't found much on this issue so i guess it is pretty uncommon
Before you do this, you could file a bug report (so we can see what it was) on http://mantis.gog.com/ - details on how to do it are there.

To completely uninstall GOG.com Galaxy on MacOS, close the application and perform those actions in MacOS terminal (deleting these folders):

[i]rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/GOG.com/Galaxy/
rm -rf /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy
rm -rf /Applications/GalaxyClient.app/[/i]

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RTA: Just thought I'd pass on some positive news ....

Galaxy 1.2.10 now doesn't monopolise my machine. In fact, I'm typing this with Galaxy still running, which was not possible with 1.2.9.

The updating of Games now seems to work instead of continually crashing.

A major step forward with this build.

Thanks.
Could you please tell me how many (approximately) games you have indexed in Galaxy Client?
Post edited June 14, 2017 by Johny.
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grassotto: since some updates ago galaxy is no longer working on my mac os sierra 10.12.5 . It closes just a few seconds after startup, after it has logged my account i guess, tried to start it without logging in and i doesn't crash i think. I am trying to troubleshoot this, reistalling and rebooting didn't fix the issue. How do i completely uninstall it for a fresh reinstall on mac os? i haven't found much on this issue so i guess it is pretty uncommon
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Johny.: Before you do this, you could file a bug report (so we can see what it was) on http://mantis.gog.com/ - details on how to do it are there.

To completely uninstall GOG.com Galaxy on MacOS, close the application and perform those actions in MacOS terminal (deleting these folders):

[i]rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/GOG.com/Galaxy/
rm -rf /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy
rm -rf /Applications/GalaxyClient.app/[/i]

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RTA: Just thought I'd pass on some positive news ....

Galaxy 1.2.10 now doesn't monopolise my machine. In fact, I'm typing this with Galaxy still running, which was not possible with 1.2.9.

The updating of Games now seems to work instead of continually crashing.

A major step forward with this build.

Thanks.
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Johny.: Could you please tell me how many (approximately) games you have indexed in Galaxy Client?
Thanks, a fresh reinstall didn't fix it, it actually gives me an error when i first launch galaxy after reinstalling it, i reported the problem and uploaded the logs on mantis.gog.com
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BKGaming: ...
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Venom: Games installed via GOG Galaxy now have shortcuts that also point to GOG Galaxy, so that you will get all the features (game time tracking, achievements, overlay, multiplayer, cloud saves etc.) when launching games via shortcut.
Is there anyway to turn this function off? The reason I like GoG is it doesn't force or insist I run something in the background I don't want. I don't care for the in-game functions GoG Galaxy offers and would rather not have it force-start itself when I run a game. If I wanted it, I'd have it start-up with my system on boot/log-in by default.

I am not a social gamer, I don't need to be reminded how long I've had a game running (not necessarily playing as I fallen asleep at the keyboard before), achievements are tracked in-game if they have them, I don't play on multiple systems (and know how to find my saves if I really need them), and overlays are pretty much useless without the features.
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Venom: Games installed via GOG Galaxy now have shortcuts that also point to GOG Galaxy, so that you will get all the features (game time tracking, achievements, overlay, multiplayer, cloud saves etc.) when launching games via shortcut.
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StahnAileron: Is there anyway to turn this function off? The reason I like GoG is it doesn't force or insist I run something in the background I don't want. I don't care for the in-game functions GoG Galaxy offers and would rather not have it force-start itself when I run a game. If I wanted it, I'd have it start-up with my system on boot/log-in by default.

I am not a social gamer, I don't need to be reminded how long I've had a game running (not necessarily playing as I fallen asleep at the keyboard before), achievements are tracked in-game if they have them, I don't play on multiple systems (and know how to find my saves if I really need them), and overlays are pretty much useless without the features.
I second this, it would be nice for it not to always make Galaxy shortcuts by default...
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bakagringo: Thanks for the clarification. I like to see GOG as a pioneer for consumer-friendliness, and I understand that being in that position makes things more rigid. It is not my intention to put you in a bad light, but I would like to stress that with the recent emergence of web-apps, and increasingly privacy-invading systems, I am worried about GOG not having an option to completely disable tracking. By completely, I also mean completely removing trackers such as Twitter buttons (Clearly I also showed the client connects to Twitter). I understand that some users may want to connect their GOG profile to external services, but I would like there to be an option to disable these systems completely for users who do not wish to be tracked. Since you have a client I believe you should be able to do this client-side without using cookies.

Also, while I am able to block the communication with an application firewall on Mac Os, this is slightly more challenging on systems like Windows where networking works differently.

Furthermore, while analytics is mainly for your own purposes, is it limited to you only, or does Google use it for other means as well?

Thanks for the rapid response.

Edit: I meant twitter.
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Johny.: I understand your opinion on tracking and that you're trying to "hide" yourself from it.

Other than website - Galaxy Client doesn't directly connect to google/twitter/fb. I can't respond whether we can add an option to disable all of it on website, but we won't disable re-captcha on demand, which is also "connected to google" - or youtube, which is also google's (although Galaxy downloads only the thumbnail until you play the video). Forum pages have some JavaScript APIs for facebook loaded etc.

I don't know for sure whether google use the data for other purposes than showing us statistics, but I guess they (companies you mentioned) use big data, algorhythms, neural networks to gather some information and e.g. personalize ads for you. It's too much data to use by a person, but big data algorhythms can handle it.
Okay, so I'm a couple of weeks late to this but it still seems worth asking. Does the browser portion of the Galaxy client save cookies and website data between sessions, and if so how can the user delete that information?
Why my screenshots from little nightmares get broken?
Attachments:
I have been unable to connect for a few weeks. 1.2.11. Anyone else?
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BattleAngelAlita: Why my screenshots from little nightmares get broken?
That looks pretty psychedelic.

Are you able to use the printscreen button and then Control + V into MSPaint? If you are able to use the copy & paste method with the printscrenn button, I have a temporary solution you might be able to use here:<span class="bold">LINK</span>

Hope that helps.,
Post edited June 19, 2017 by kittehoverlord
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kittehoverlord: Are you able to use the printscreen button and then Control + V into MSPaint?
No, printscreen dones't work. Got just black screen.
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BattleAngelAlita: Why my screenshots from little nightmares get broken?
Someone from my team told me that we might have a fix for that screenshot issue - waiting to be released together with another feature. I don't know when it will be released, though.
Hey,

we have released Galaxy 1.2.12. It contains the changes (regarding language codes) that were released on Beta before.

It also contains some minor Frontend fixes.

As always, all the changes you can find in the changelog :)