Hi, i recently bought the game (it's my first game on GOG), and i can't find out how to create an icon for the game.
I can play the game well, but i don't like to have to open GOG Galaxy everytime i want to play (yes, i'm a little picky), so please, if anyone knows how to do it, tell me. Thanks.

I alredy tried that, i opened the game folder, but i couldn't find out what was the correct one. I attach a photo of the game folder, please help me to find out whic one is it

Edit: Nevermind, it was pretty hard to find, but it was here: C:\GOG Games\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64
Who had the idea of putting the .exe there?

Thanks for your help.

Try goggame icon.

It should do it by default, however the game's default shortcut launches the game through Galaxy, so if that's not what you want the only way to do it is to make the shortcut yourself. If you don't know how to do that, go into the directory where the game is installed and look for witcher3.exe, it's buried a few subdirs deep under bin/x64 or something like that. Create a shortcut wherever you like which points to that executable and it will launch the game directly without Galaxy.

So it's buried a bit deeper?

If you can't find it, go in Windows explorer and select the root directory of the drive the game is installed on, then in the upper right corner "Search" box type "witcher3.exe" and Windows Explorer will find it for you. Right click and drag on it and drop it on your desktop or quicklaunch area and choose "shortcut". That's the easy way.

I can find it,no problem.But it looks like Galaxy as you say has buried it
deeper than normal.As I don't use Galaxy as yet then,all we can do is
work on what files the user shows us.That was my next step but the OP
has disappeared:-)

It doesn't matter where one bought the game from (GOG, Steam, Origin, Uplay) or how they install it, the game will have the same directory structure with the executables in the same place. In other words, this isn't because Galaxy decided to put it there, it's because CD Projekt RED decided that is the directory structure they will use for this game. ;)

Lots of games have subdirectories with executables in them and while the most common practice is to have the game's launch executable in the primary root of the installation, it is not unusual for it to be in a subdirectory either. There is no official standard even if there is a more common practice however. It is a rather trivial issue though, as it is easy to use the file manager to locate a file even if the filename isn't known (*.exe in the game subdir using Windows Explorer search). If someone is not used to doing such things it might be a little confusing I suppose, but it is good to know how to use such tools to easily find things autonomously too. :)

In my case, double clicking on the icon, only launches Galaxy, or just brings it up if it was already running. Game is not starting at all that way. Manually cliclink "Play" in Galaxy or just directly by the .exe file work fine.

Could it behave so because I have set custom installation path, with non-Latin letters? I recall there being some issue with importing Witcher 2 saves if the player's Windows username included such non-standard characters, so maybe Galaxy gets a bit confused with the game path too.

Yes correct,but most exe/launchers are in the main folder and it's been there everytime I
needed it for whatever purpose:-)Cheers.

Yeah, the default shortcut does that intentionally if installed via Galaxy. Nothing to do with non-Latin chars in that case, although there are some bugs with that in some recent games/software such as GTA5 and a few others I've heard of as of late that escape my mind ATM.

The only way to have a direct launch shortcut that I'm aware of is to install via the standalone installer without Galaxy, or to make your own shortcut currently. That may change in the future perhaps based on feedback and priorities I imagine.

Probably more often than not, but it's good to know how to find it properly if it isn't as it's not universal. Beats having to hop on Google or forums when things differ from the norm anyway. :)

No problems.