Can you explain how DownThemAll! works for downloading game installers? If i try it on the Witcher 3 page in my library and opt to install programs (.exe, .msi) all I get downloaded is one file 221 MB big, that I presume is the Galaxy installer that's prominent on the page.

P.S.: the view in my library is modified by Adalia Fundamentals and Barefoot Essentials, I don't know if they hinder the workings of DownThemAll? I have already clicked on not showing GOG Downloader links in my library, so the links should lead to the .exe and .bins of the Witcher, but how do I add them all in one click, like you say it can?

Nice little feature but mainly what kept it a favorite for so long is that it just did perfectly what it was created to do: download your games.

Some people reported trouble running it -loss of browser integration which needed resetting is a strong suspect here- but as somebody who used it without any trouble whatsoever, it was perfect. Yes as some keep reminding us you just can use Galaxy as a downloaded, BUT, and speaking for myself, I don't like it as a downloader simply because it's given me grief with crappy speed -never an issue with the standalone downloader program, and it's not a light program as such because of all the features it carries, and the occasional freeze.

So all you want is download your games via a simple and light program, that GOG downloader was it for quite a fair number of us. Yes you can use your browser/browser add-on but browsers do crash whenever they fell like, it not to mention they can corrupt a download. Personally speaking, never had corruption or crash with the downloader, hence always was my first choice.

It may have been abandoned for some time and so is no spring chicken, but it nevertheless kept going strong in doing its downloading job, which is what matters most and why it's still being used.

I think I used only GOG Downloader to download games. I didn't even know I could download using browser. Well, that's not so bad then.

Well this news is downright depressing! I've only ever used the GOG Downloader and found it perfectly suited to the task, with the exception of not providing comprehensive changelogs.

I hope the Galaxy Downloader really is an upgrade to the GOG Downloader! At a minimum it would need to queue downloads, allow the queue to be paused and resumed at will, and check file integrities after downloading. And those comprehensive changelogs would make a nice bonus!

Truth be told, in addition to not using GOG's Galaxy and downloader, I also don't use GOG's library interface. I download all my games via MaGog, which is immensely simpler and faster, allowing me to download multiple files from multiple games without the need to click on each game so as to open GOG's floating game sub-window.

But, anyhow, I just checked with the GOG library and the principle is the same.

Assuming you have DownThemAll! installed:
- From the GOG library, you click on the game in question (e.g. Witcher 3) and open the floating sub-window
- Ignore the "Download and Install Now" button
- Open the "Download Offline Backup Game Installers" tab if not already open
- Hold mouse button and drag mouse to select files you want (e.g. all installers, all installers and all bonuses, etc.), like you would select text in a word processor
- Right click on the selection and choose "DownThemAll!" -> "Save Selection with DownThemAll!"
- This opens a sub-window that allows you to choose which files to download (e.g. all selected, only exe, only zip, specific file(s), etc.), where to, and much more (the tool has defaults that you can change and customise based on your preferences, so you don't have to change most options anymore, once you have set them to your liking --- I practically never do)
- Once you set what you want, just click Download

what is gog downloader? lol

It's been quite some time since I last backed up my games, but I think I used gog downloader, mostly. So it's sad to see it go.

I generally use Galaxy to install and play games, but, as I said, it was rather useful for backing up games easily.

So you decided to undertake another attempt at forcing Galaxy at more people. Just like with the attempt to bundle Galaxy with the offline installers.

Let me be clear: this is a very, very bad anti-customer decision and I won't be coerced into using Galaxy. I will rather stop to buy games here.


If this isn't supposed to be one more step towards a mandatory Galaxy (and therefore towards DRM), please explain to us the disadvantage of having the Downloader. You ceased to develop it anyhow. So it doesn't cost you anything. If there is any reason to deactivate it apart from pushing Galaxy on unwilling customers, please explain. ... And yes, chandra, this is a request to you. Please do explain this anti-customer measure in your own words, if there even is any reasonable explanation for this move.

Yep. On a purely personal level I could not care less since I don't use it, or any other "downloader", and I don't see the need. At the same time I don't really see what the point of removing the option altogether is.

As a sidenote - this is important news to some users. Possibly quite a few users. I don't think GOG's preferred way of delivering important news - an unmarked forum thread - is really the best way to go. Then again the way the site is designed with quickly rotating news at the bottom where no one looks, there migh just not be a good way at all. So, uhm, what I'm getting at is FIX THE WEBSITE, BRING BACK VISABLE NEWS AND FREAKING USE THEM.

I still used the GOG Downloader to novify mean when any of my games get updates (not just ones I have installed) so can you please at least make it so I can sort my games by last updated so I don't miss any game updates? I really don't want to be forced to use GOG Galaxy just to be notified of game updates and I don't want to use any launcher for any reason if I don't have to and the only reason I have been using GOG Galaxy up until now was to download offline installers that the GOG Downloader wasn't able to like the Linux installers.

You know deep down inside that you wont get an answer man, its just safer to just ditch GOG now and be done with it. We are heading to DRM, its only a matter of time.

If it's such a small move as to not even post it as a NEWS thread, then this must mean that GOG finally added the features that were missing from the Downloader to Galaxy!

As far as I know:
1) single click download of all offline installer files for each platform (and another one for all extras),
2) checking if the files selected for download are already present or not at the download directory (so as to not download them again unnecessarily and not needing the user to manually check if the latest version is present),
3) checking the content of said files making sure there are no errors in it, and re-downloading only the necessary part of them if there were any (the Downloader even re-downloads part of the file if it was somehow damaged for reasons other than the network connection malfunctioning).

All points of great importance to me and that have been working perfectly fine until now without GOG breaking a sweat over it, so it must be great to finally have them in Galaxy! No sarcasm here at all, I really do want a nice featured "launcher / multiplayer manager / whatever else you'd like to call it" from GOG.

Checking... (I'm installing Galaxy 2 for the first time to check for this, I've only used v1 so far)

[30 minutes later... some of us live in the fringes of the developed world.]

Oh shiny, I like the interface better than Steam's, that's for sure.

So, back to business: NOPE...

Point 2 (and of course 3) were not implemented. From the user side, downloads work almost the same as downloading with a browser (with the exception it automatically sorts into a folder for each game, as did the Downloader). The only difference I see from v1 is one click to download installers and extras, but maybe that had already changed in v1 since the last time I had used it.

This is really "Good News" if I've ever seen them!

Not even a checksum to be seen. Even most people offering free software (gratis and/or open source) post some checksum for you to check your download.

A real "gold" nugget from the support article linked to in the OP of this thread: Yeah, I'm using one: the GOG Downloader.

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I really didn't want to buy into the critics in the posts above. Yes, I read you all and you are right.

I'm uninstalling Galaxy, cancelling my plans to buy anything else here until further notice, and this will probably be my last forum post unless there is a radical change in how things are being managed.

It's not just about downloads of course. It's been downhill for quite some time now, but this is the first decision from GOG that really puts me off.

I will download my files, and check occasionally for updates. Good bye.

Welp...knew this was coming. The Downloader was my preferred way to grab and install games off here way back in 2011 and I preferred it to Galaxy since starting games installed via Galaxy forced the client to start up. I don't know if that's changed.

*deep sigh* I'll miss its reliability, that's for sure.

It sure would have been nice if you had bothered to tell us that most of the GOG Downloader features are in Galaxy.

1. On the left side of the Galaxy client select All Games. This should cause the main part of the client to show your full library. It may take a minute or two to populate the list if its the first time Galaxy is run.

2. Select a game. This will take you to the games Galaxy page.

3. At the top of the page to the left of install is the extras button. Select it.

4. The games page in Galaxy should now show all of the download options including the Backup Installer.

5. It looks like it will dump everything in \GOG Galaxy\Games\*Game Title*\!Downloads. I don't know how to change the default download directory.

Hope this helps.

I agree with your three specific points and felt a strong urge to repeat them. ;) Hope you don't mind.