All this time later I realized that I dun derped ... from the initial steps in the first post about keeping the 1.2 on I focused purely on the Galaxy folder in the Program Files, not the ProgramData folder and here I was wondering why it was still prompting me at random intervals to update it. Just nuked all the relevant files in there and bam no update reminder since the start of this current session.

I noticed due to the fact that some of the icons (even in the Program Files folders) were the new icon of the 2.0 yet I am running 1.2 .. few searches later found what I missed.

Cancer removed~

Do you have the option "Test upcoming features in GOG Galaxy public betas" unchecked in "Settings\General"?

Yes, it was just a weird event apparently. Old launcher works for me still, at least for now.

Hi, I have the same probelm as everyone here: I have W7, no intentions to upgrade to W10 and the only option now is to intall Galaxy 2.0 that requires W8 at least. Do you have any solution for this?

Best solution to that is to not install 2.0 lol. Windows 7 is good and has so much better compatibility with older stuff so I dont think you should ever even remotely consider changing it to 8, I have Window 10 on the PC and 7 on the Laptop so best of both worlds ^_^

The 1.2.67.58 setup file in the first post still works fine then if you follow all the steps outlined in the same post there shouldn't be any issues. I personally made the mistake of missing a few files to delete from the comp post-install but using a shortcut to the Galaxy.exe with the extra parameters has seen it run fine. Even on my Windows 7 Laptop same thing no issues.

I'd just like to bump this thread to point out that Galaxy 1.2.67 STILL works better than the current embarrassment that is Galaxy 2.0.

Can't update. Sad and pathetic.

I don't boot 1.2 up as often as I used to, but when I do it's nice to have a program that works as intended huh?

If I had any gripes? a dark mode and option to choose more then 5 previous game versions would be nice but these requests will fall on deaf ears in favor of the 2.0 derailment.

First world problems~

I tried the 2.0, and came back to the old way again.
Still cant sort by purchase date, cant stop linking steam in my sort pile, and I still dont like it.

So after all this time is there a way to stop the pop up asking to update? and can we remove the the blue bar along the bottom saying we need to update?

Windows?

Do a search of your Galaxy folder in Program Files for *.exe .. either rename or delete everything with the word Update in it, then goto ProgramData folder and then repeat the process in the GOG.com (support too I think? I forget..) folder - a easy way to identify if it's the proper file it has that new purple O as the icon, hell you'd be better off just nuking everything that has the new logo on it it's what I did.

After I did the above, I no longer get that annoying blue bar at the bottom.

If the way I typed this up doesnt make sense, goto the first post of this topic for a bit more detail.

2.0 is crap. It crashes whenever I try to launch a game, and it keeps throwing up error messages when I try to update. Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't help.

In regards to my previous post seems my info was slightly off and worded wrong..

In 1.2.67.58 when I goto the game pages from the side menu (games installed on my pc) I have no blue bar at the bottom, but when I view any actual pages from the GOG site itself it displays that little blue bar (and my Library from the drop-down menu), individual game information pages via the Library are free of any blue bar though.

First world problem but atleast it doesn't outright force the update after you remove all those pesky .exe files with the purple circle icon in all the previously mentioned folders .. you still need to use that specific command line in a shortcut when launching Galaxy however. Annoying af but it'll never be addressed due to the 2.0 focus that the GOG team now has~

Edit: also Gday Zulu, nice to see another Auzzie around ^_^b

Just got a new PC. Tried this out (again) and it seems to be working still. Pleasantly surprised, given how horrifically incompetent GOG's support staff have been relating to many issues I've been trying to get them to address in the past 2 years. I have a support ticket that's still going (but with 5 new numbers assigned to the same contact for no reason except to try and pretend it's not the same complaint) since July 2020. I've seen multiple other tickets receiving repated 2 to 3 month wait times before even a first response, and frequent 1 to 2 month delays between replies, and some contacts even being closed without an answer, which gives me flashbacks to Ubisoft support. Not quite Valve level of abusive but comparing that closely to Ubisoft still puts you squarely in the "making Epic look good by comparison" pile.

After 19 years of using Steam and still having many gripes with Valve/Steam, I could at least kinda make my peace with them.

The client actually works, it has a lot of functions that are actually useful or which I can at least hide or ignore. The client allows me to download my games at an actually decent speed, also, it runs stable, shows no crashes and does not hog lots of CPU power and memory just by running in the background doing nothing. Also, so far I never had problems with the support, which was always and actually, you know, supportiv. I really can't see any abuse here, but maybe you want to elaborate.

GOG and Galaxy on the other hand have increasingly shown to be a bloody joke over the last years. Galaxy is a hot mess in more than one regard and I've actually have caught myself not playing games simply because of this dumbster fire.

Right now I am trying to download CP 2077 and my overall download speed is about 1 to 2 Mb/s on average. Download rates constantly jump up and down, they've reached 14Mb/s for some seconds, only to fall back to 1.5 Mb/s and since then, they fluctuate between 1 and 3 Mb/s. And I am talking about a completely new rig, direct connection to my router without using Wlan and a clean install of Windows and Galaxy. And every now and then, the download completely stops for several minutes without any indication why.

And no one can tell me that this is a problem of my internet provider or of some wonky internet node - I've visited my best friend last week, who is living 800 km away from me, and I've actually toted my rig to his place just to test this, with pretty much the same results. The only thing that differs is that my DL rates on Steam, which are more than decent at my place already, actually exploded due to him having an internet connection five times as fast as mine.

And the Galaxy client itself is a bloody joke, it's more a nuisance than anything else, let alone that it would deliver any aditional value. It is slow, it is wonky, it hogs resources for no reason whatsoever. And having to go to Github and download and install repositories myself in order to correctly connect my Steam account, because the files GOG provides with its updates are /still/ outdated, is a bloody joke of its own.

All while GOG is perfectly aware of all of this, all while people complain about the Galyxy client, its many problems and abysmal download rates time and again /for years/. GOG once was the underdog that convinced with fair pricing, easy to install games that would /not/ require a bloated, disfunctional mess of a client, a support that cared and overall good value. By now, all of this has changed quite dramatically.

When I catch myself time and again that I not play a game because it's connected with GOG and the Galaxy client, something is very, VERY wrong and messed up. In fact and as I see it, Steam might not be the best thing that ever happened to gaming, but at least it offers great functionality, an overall good support and, most important, decent download rates - all things that I can't say about GOG and Galaxy anymore for a looong time now.

After almost 4 years of having the company not just refusing to fix a service-breaking issue but actively being abusive toward affected customers, I'm well past the point of no longer willing to give them a chance to make peace unless they go REALLY out of their way to do more than just fix the issue. If there is ANY other option than Steam to play games through, I'll actively recommend people buy elsewhere over supporting Valve. When looking at new games, if it's only available on Steam, I won't buy it, and that will continue even if they fix the reason it wouldn't result in me getting to play the game anyway. "The client actually works" - apart from the fact that it was confirmed near the end of 2019 to be causing harm to some users with migraines and epilepsy, and across the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, was found to be affecting users with a few less severe conditions as well. Recent updates have also been severely impacting the "not hog system resources" claim as well, from what I've seen. And this ties into... I've had plenty of issues with GOG as well, and most of them revolve around the horrific mess that is Galaxy 2.0 and their refusal to provide support for the objsectively-better (by which I mean actually functional) 1.2 version. That said, there are 2 MASSIVE points in GOG's favour which make this far less of an issue than Steam's problems. GOG Galaxy 1.2 is still downloadable directly from GOG servers, and fairly simple user-side edits allow the prevention of it auto-updating to Galaxy 2.0 and becoming a mess. But more importantly, you don't even need a client app, if they ever do stop allowing 1.2 to connect to their network, you'll still be able to download your games from GOG without using it. Updating is more complex that way, but the fact that the option exists is a safety net that Steam doesn't have. If you have issues, such as the Steam client having been a confirmed health risk for almost 4 years and counting, Valve don't give you anything like an adequate solution to work around the problem, and have by contrast taken steps to actively disable workarounds involving the use of older client versions to try and circumvent the harm caused by the use of an up-to-date client. There was a time where there were legitimate reasons to argue that Steam was a huge boon to gamers, and was a major positive influence in the gaming market as a whole. That time is, unfortunately, long past. I'm not arguing "GOG is good, Steam is bad" here, not at all. I'm arguing "GOG is pretty bad, but at least it's not quite as bad as Steam" because I haven't seen GOG's support staff try and coerce a customer into self-harm, but I can't say the same for Steam.

GOG is actually bad enough that I've moved most of my wishlist and been actively buying games on Epic instead recently, and given what they've done, that should tell you a lot about my opinion of GOG these days... and defending them by comparison with Steam should tell you even more about just how bad Valve's conduct has been (I'm aware of at least 3 countries which have legal investigations of Valve in progress in some form because of these issues, very slow process unfortunately but it's happening).