Define "stop supporting." Do you mean it will no longer be available and you won't be troubleshooting problems for it, or do you mean that it will stop functioning entirely? (e.g. you can no longer log in?)

This downloader (3.0.25.0) is causing my whole computer to slow down. I have media sharing set up from my PC and others can usually watch video files without any issue. When I have this downloader going, that becomes impossible. This is when it's only downloading at 2mb/s so it's not that the disk is being overloaded by download speed or anything.

Even just opening a text file on my main drive, which is an SSD, takes a long time. Restarting my PC takes forever. Then after the restart and it's all back to normal, until I start the downloaded and it happens again.. It is definitely this downloader causing the issue. Nothing else.

I actually took your words for it in the original thread in which the new downloader was first announced, that's why I didn't/don't even bother to try it with Mono, as my knowledge in Mono itself seems to be non-existent :-)

Great news. The old downloader never worked well for me. Looking for to using this one.

I like the new downloader, it works perfectly fine for me. Sad to see it doesn't work for some people.

Before the update to 3.0.25.0, I was getting constant .NET errors but the program would never crash, now that I have updated to 3.0.25.0, I'm still getting relentless .NET errors, at least every 15 minutes, and once every hour, it will stop responding and crash completely, which has prevented me from completing any downloads that are not corrupted due to the crash. Like a guy previously mentioned, there is no integrity check in this version as there was in the 0.9 downloader where the broken segments would redownload, now I have to redownload every file and pray for no crashes, which I haven't been that lucky yet.

Actually, the preparing stage of the downloader is an integrity check, problem is that you have no way of knowing how it's going. Assuming a 3-part installer (exe, 1.bin, 2.bin), if one of the 3 files is corrupt, it will be redownloaded. Same thing happens with the chunks, only problem is that usually the corruption happens at the merge state, not at the download. If it's on the download, it will redownload it at once, as was happening with Raptor.

Thanks for the response on that, makes a lot of sense, just wondering if you know why my files won't install or why I keep getting the .NET exception errors?

No idea about the .NET errors, I did get a few (6 total during 3 days and 250GB downloads? Something like that) which were mostly due to ArmA Gold Edition. When the files are done merging, check the folder for any remaining chunks. If there are any, then the merging probably failed. Best way to check the integrity is once a file is downloaded (and merged), to remove it and re-add it to the downloader, thus triggering an integrity check. Game will either be added as "Completed" or it will start downloading it again.
P.S. also suggests using [url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/10/13/8999004.aspx]this tool to verify the installation of .NET 3.5 SP1

Thanks but I will keep using the old downloader as the new one seems to require .net which is something I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot stick.

The old downloader still works for games, but not for the extra content.
I hope GOG doesn't phase it out, otherwise I'll just use FDM as per usual.

Why?

It's a huge bloatware. Hundreds of megabytes to install for no reason. Many system files modified on your OS, processes running in the background slowing down your PC.

And there are so many versions and variants of it .. and so many dependencies, software that needs a particular version to work, and you have to install so many of these .net versions .. side by side .. or god knows how ..

And it doesn't give you anything that you couldn't do without.

It's just a huge crapware by MS and I refuse to use any software that requires dot net.

Quick question: the update notices are only available with the downloader?

Weirdly enough, I've only had to install 2 versions, the .NET 4.0 and the .NET 3.5 SP1. No program ever complained about missing .NET, no program ever refused to work. It might be because I'm on Win7 and have installed the "developer" part of .NET (since I do need it to compile), but there aren't any processes of .NET being run to slow down the PC.
Also, it is true that you can do without .NET, assuming you write all the functions the .NET library provides yourself. Same could be told for DirectX, OpenGL, SDL or any other library.
I won't tell you that you must install .NET, I'm only telling my version of it.

Since the 0.9.x is discontinued, I don't think they've added that functionality to it.

I'm definately using an old version (0.9.30 I think?). Why? Because the current version doesn't work for me at all.

And I don't mean that downloads hang, or even that it has problems connecting to my account. The program itself fails to run. I think it's been this way ever since the version switched to 3.xx - I download the new version, install it, run it, and I get the 'Gog.com Downloader has encountered a problem and needs to close' error message.

Every. Time.

Every. Version.

So, since 0.9.30 works for me, I'd like to be able to stick with it. Well, ok, I'd *LIKE* to be able to figure out why the new version doesn't work for me at all.

For reference, in case anyone has any ideas that might help, I'm running WinXP SP3.