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better download settings (caps for size & speed, prioritizing, include extras, scheduling, etc)
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zpangwin Please consider giving more advanced download settings, similar to those in the steam client. There are also some settings that would be relevant to GOG specifically.
Steam current has these options that I'd like to see in Galaxy
1) Limit downloading/updating schedule from hh:mm to hh:mm
2) Limit bandwidth to nnn (the speed / rate of download)
3) Allow downloads during gameplay
4) Stats in download section showing network usage (rate, peak rate, size downloaded, size installed)
Additionally, I would like these related options as well:
5) Option to set a max total download size, e.g. "Stop downloading after nnn GB have downloaded in nn days"; this would be a huge help for those of us that have ISP download caps in terms of GB/month.
6) Option to download "FIFO" (as it currently does) vs a "Prioritized FIFO"; this would still be FIFO but all installs would be downloaded first, then all game backups, and then lastly any extras.
7) Options to automatically the download backup installer and/or extras with the game, so that clicking the Install button for a game would get everything.
p.s. - I apologize if the formatting is off; It would be really great if we could do basic formatting and especially if at least the newlines from this form were preserved/translated via some js such as text.replace(/\n/g, "<br/>") so it didn't look messed up after we hit continue ;-)
msithis Count me in. I also wanna see these changes in GOG Galaxy
evilhalfdead I'd love to see a download scheduling option. I have terrible internet, so I'd like to be able to set a schedule that downloads games when I'm asleep in order to avoid my regular browsing activities being interrupted without me having to go in and start/stop them manually.
Vulgaarimon Yeah, would at least love to see some form of control over download speed. I have a silly mobile "broadband" which may be good on some days, but on other days it's either there and there or horrible. Obviously on horrible days it's not a good idea to download anything, but when it's there and there it's something I'd still like to do, but can't because then I can't do anything else.
zpangwin disregard the p.s.; looks like it only happens on the preview page lol (still applies there though, if one of the admins wants to pass that on to the web devs)
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