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Posted May 06, 2015
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!!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

== BUG REPORTING ==

Please use: http://mantis.gog.com and include
1. steps to reproduce the bug (if possible)
2. screenshot or movie showing the bug (if possible)
3. Galaxy Client logs (see below)

Where can I find Galaxy logs on my computer?
On Windows 7 or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs

== FEATURE SUGGESTIONS ==

Please use: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy. For feature suggestions and votes on them please try do explain how Galaxy and its users will really benefit from it.

== IMPORT ALREADY INSTALLED GAMES TO GALAXY ==

1. For GOG games installed using installers from the last few months (so called Galaxy-compatible installers)
Click the Galaxy logo button on top of the sidebar and select "scan and import folders" - it will find all compatible games within that folder and add them to the Client.

2. For remaining GOG game INSTALLATIONS
Find the game in the Library (click on the image of the game), then click the More button and select "Manage Installation" -> "Import folder" and point the folder selector into the folder where that game is installed.

== KNOWN ISSUES ==
- throttling max download speed is not yet possible
- notifications related to incoming chat messages and friend requests does not always disappear instantly when consumed and may require reloading Store page
- games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
- Moving Galaxy from /Applications on Mac OS X will stop the app from working
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer
Post edited October 03, 2016 by Liosan
Posted July 03, 2015
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Hi Everyone,

Below you can find the changelog of GOG Galaxy.

Changelog 1.1.15 (September 7th, 2016):
Changes / Improvements:
• Added Wallet button in dropdown menu under user's avatar
• Performance improvements on UI speed and a little on CPU usage
• Enabled copying text in Galaxy forums
• History will now remember only the 100 most recent pages in history
Bugfixes:
• Fix for "Disk access problem" bug, which broke installation and updates of games. (Bug happened on Windows only, but general mechanism is better on OS X as well)
• Fix for Verify/Repair, which did not work in some scenarios (The above bug for example)
• Fix for "Server problem" while downloading backup installers or other goodies. They will now work, even if temporary download folder is same as destination folder
• Fixed situations in which Store page sometimes did not load properly after waking up computer

Changelog 1.1.16 (September 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• Galaxy now supports H.264 codecs
• Much better handling of paying using third party processors (PayPal, paysafecard etc.)
• Friends and chat window now scale with the system scaling factor
• New and prettier GOG Eula will be used in games
• Better handling of loading timeouts

Bugfixes:
• "INSTALLED" label will appear all pages of the library now
• Fixed a bug with game time tracking for some games. Galaxy will now register more than one minute:)
• Fixed a bug in which Galaxy in rare cases could not be able to update the game (bug rather existed in rollbacks)
• Galaxy will no longer show a little bit of bare code upon launching
• Fixed blurred images in sidebar expanded list mode

Changelog 1.1.17(hotfix September 20th, 2016):
• Fixed crashes and 'Disk Access Problem' caused by updating Galaxy from 1.1.12 (and earlier versions) to 1.1.16

Changelog 1.1.18 (October 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• More accurate game time tracking mechanism
• Improved mechanism showing current online status between friends

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to stop tracking game time

Changelog 1.1.19 (October 25th, 2016):
Improvements:
• We have removed download size from Galaxy updater. It showed faulty data, as Galaxy Updater doesn't download > 100mb each time and only downloads differences. It will come back in nearest future, when it will show correct data:)
• The first check for game updates will be done 15s after Galaxy starts, instead of 5 minutes.
• OSX: Improved mechanism responsible for removing old files left by Galaxy updates
• OSX: Improved the way Galaxy handles installing games into protected locations like /Applications; you will receive a password prompt about a "Helper tool" installation

Bugfixes:
• Fixed "Essential components missing" error which sometimes appeared after fresh installation
• Fixed a situation where failure in Updater could lead to Galaxy not being able to launch
• Fixed self-update on OSX to properly delete leftover files
• Fixed friends window losing functionality after network loss and reconnect
• Fixed blurry Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
• Galaxy will remember maximised window status

Changelog 1.1.20(November 2nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed installing XNA4 and other msi-based dependencies.
• Store page won't be reloaded twice upon logging in

Changelog: 1.1.21 (November 17th, 2016)
Improvements / changes:
• Added "with preview updates" suffix to Galaxy window title
• Small optimizations with memory and Galaxy loading time
• Small improvements with updater, it should fail less

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug with Galaxy refreshing pages
• Fixed occasional crashes

Changelog 1.1.22 (November 22nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will no longer freeze when downloading a game update and checking another game in library
• Galaxy should crash even less now:)

Changelog 1.1.23 (November 28th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will be now able to reconnect to internet correctly, if computer was put to sleep and then woken up without (initially) Internet connection
• Downloading of games/updates should have less impact on starting other installations

Changelog 1.1.24(December 6th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Downloading an installer with Galaxy and using it to install the game should not result in redownloading the whole game again
• Updater should no longer report over 100% progress on download

Adjustments:
• Increased timeout for failures during sign in
• Increased timeout for "Loading Timeout"

Changelog 1.1.25 (December 20th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed a crash when trying to install certain games (Game affected was 1979 Revolution: Black Friday).

Changelog 1.1.26 (December 23rd, 2016, Preview only)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 26th, 2017, Preview)
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 31th, 2017)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.28 (March 10th, 2017)
Changes / Improvements:
- Better support for differential patches. They are now seperate depending on game's language and system bitness
- Italian & Japanese partial support + more Spanish translations
- Improved checking for new available updates of the games
- We'll sort available DLCs alphabetically
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when Galaxy doesn't have permissions to the logs directory
- Fixed showing empty grey page after a while of inactivity
- Fixed infinite spinner after going to support page
- Fixed displaying of prices in cart when they were over 999 (Bug caused by a comma in the price)
- MacOS: Popup windows (for example chat) will no longer open as a tab but as a separate window instead
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak (~30MB upon GOG Galaxy launch)
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak while playing a game

Changelog 1.1.29 (March 14nd, 2017)
Changes:
- Changes in downloading mechanism, which allows for better control over download's flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed displaying progress of differential patches (It did not display the "Extracting" status)

Changelog 1.1.30 (March 16th, 2017)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash within games downloading mechanism

== PREVIEW UPDATES* ===

HOW TO ENABLE PREVIEWS?
Go to your Galaxy settings and check the option to receive preview updates.

HOW TO DISABLE PREVIEW?
- Uninstall Galaxy
- Download current installer from gog.com/galaxy
- Install Galaxy
- Import your games

Changelog 1.2.0 (March 22nd, 2017)
Changes and improvements:
- Cloud saves backup and syncing (supported games only)
- Screenshot capture with F12 (supported games only)
- In-game overlay with FPS counter and notifications (supported games only)
- Greatly improved chat, also in overlay
- Ability to enable or disable achievements, game time tracking, auto-updating games and more
- Desktop and in-game notifications system
- Ability to set bandwidth limit and scheduler
- New settings window
- Rarity information in achievements
- Abort button next to installation status
- Only one Galaxy Updater window will be shown in most cases
- GOG Galaxy updates will be downloaded in the background
- Games are now downloaded directly to their install directory, instead of a temporary location
- Galaxy changelog is displayed in Galaxy

Bugfixes:
- Fixed game time tracking issues
- Initial size of Galaxy Client window will respect Windows scaling
- Improved Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
- Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to redownload whole data in case of a failure of installation/update
- Thumbnail highlighting in media gallery now works properly
- Decreased client's network and CPU usage (especially for a lot of games)
- MacOS: Fixed situation when Galaxy Client could downloading due to App Nap
- MacOS: Fixed crash when logging out with "New post" popup open
- MacOS: Fixed game processes not being properly cleaned up after exiting
Post edited March 22, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted March 26, 2016
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For everyone who has a problem with missing api-ms-crt dlls in Client's versions post 1.1.5:
Please install one of those windows update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118401
You may need to update Windows to meet the requirements for these:
For Windows 8.1 and for Windows Server 2012: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2919355
For Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/976932

You can also try reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables 2015 (x86) if you meet above requirements.
Available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

If above instructions doesn't work for you, create a separate issue on mantis.gog.com and we'll try to help you individually.

Please note that this solution only helps with the missing api-ms-crt dlls.


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Answering this question: Why 1.1 doesn't work after updating to 1.2?

This is happening probably due to incompatible database from version 1.2, please delete this folder:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GOG.com\Galaxy\storage
usually
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\storage\

Then you'll have to use scan&import (menu under the top Galaxy logo) function to see your games back in Galaxy Client.
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Post edited March 27, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted May 08, 2015
Is this supposed to add multiplayer ONLINE functionality for Divinity: Original Sin? Installed Galaxy, updated game, went to Internet tab and it says not connected to Online community. Maybe I am not understanding....
Posted May 08, 2015
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steviez: Is this supposed to add multiplayer ONLINE functionality for Divinity: Original Sin? Installed Galaxy, updated game, went to Internet tab and it says not connected to Online community. Maybe I am not understanding....
The Galaxy multiplayer service shares the name Galaxy, but is a separate feature not tied to the Galaxy client itself. Galaxy multiplayer has been available optionally to game developers to use for a while now so it's up to Larian to add support to the game as I believe they announced before that they would. They might be waiting for the official launch of the entire Galaxy platform however.
Posted May 08, 2015
I have a bug report of sorts: Pillars of Eternity is marked as "not authorized" for me for some reason, which in turn causes the game not to import or update properly. I'm thinking this might have something to do with the fact that the GoG store page doesn't acknowledge me owning the game (despite it being in my library), which in turn might have something to do (my wild guess here) with the fact that I pre-ordered the game.

Also I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Galaxy hoping it'd fix the above error somehow and noticed that Mark of the Ninja got updated right after Galaxy got reinstalled even though I don't believe there were any updates to install.

Other than that some general observations:
- "Turn on windows startup" should *not* be on by default in my humble opinion
- On first startup user should be asked on what he wants the default game install folder, and default game/extras download folders to be (and obviously the default install folder should be checked for existing games right afterwards)
- It'd be nice to have some way to force an update check
- When first installing Galaxy my Mark of the Ninja had "Special Edition Upgrade" unchecked in Configure options for the game. I think such optional upgrades should be checked for and marked accordingly OR in case that's not possible their existance should be made more transparent to the user (perhaps show checkboxes for them on the activity page instead of configure one?)
Posted May 08, 2015
I seem to have quite a major problem that I'm unable to fix. After successfully installing the Alpha of the client and giving it a whirl for a few minutes, I've decided to change its install location and (therefore) uninstalled it. After I've reinstalled it to a new location, the client didn't boot. Nothing happend, no errors or anything else were shown, the process seemed to have been terminated. Since then, I'm unable to launch the client at all, even after several reinstalls to old and new locations, a ton of reboots and manually running GalaxyUpdater.exe or the GalaxyClient.exe from the client folders. Even the new Beta-Installer (1.0.0.871) didn't change a thing. The error code is always the same: Application initializer not allowing to continue execution. Return code: -24 (Could not install service.). I'm not shure if this is the right place to ask, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Log: pastebin.com/FjYAncy0
Posted May 08, 2015
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Swissendo: I seem to have quite a major problem that I'm unable to fix. After successfully installing the Alpha of the client and giving it a whirl for a few minutes, I've decided to change its install location and (therefore) uninstalled it. After I've reinstalled it to a new location, the client didn't boot. Nothing happend, no errors or anything else were shown, the process seemed to have been terminated. Since then, I'm unable to launch the client at all, even after several reinstalls to old and new locations, a ton of reboots and manually running GalaxyUpdater.exe or the GalaxyClient.exe from the client folders. Even the new Beta-Installer (1.0.0.871) didn't change a thing. The error code is always the same: Application initializer not allowing to continue execution. Return code: -24 (Could not install service.). I'm not shure if this is the right place to ask, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Log: pastebin.com/FjYAncy0
Please post this to mantis.gog.com, thanks!
Posted May 08, 2015
hi a question there' s a option for zoom? I m using gog galaxy on a TV 55" and is very hard to read texts. Ty and good job.
farewell
Posted May 08, 2015
Any blue response regarding Aliens vs Predator NOT having the client in the installer?

Anyone without galaxy, try it yet to confirm whether or not it still auto installs?

I've had a few other people make mention but not actually confirm with a clean install and no galaxy.
Posted May 08, 2015
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finalfabio: hi a question there' s a option for zoom? I m using gog galaxy on a TV 55" and is very hard to read texts. Ty and good job.
farewell
DPI scaling not going beyond 100% is a known issue, which means I doubt they have their own rescaling support yet either.
Posted May 08, 2015
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Swissendo: I seem to have quite a major problem that I'm unable to fix. After successfully installing the Alpha of the client and giving it a whirl for a few minutes, I've decided to change its install location and (therefore) uninstalled it. After I've reinstalled it to a new location, the client didn't boot.
Here is some info on a way to fix it: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_2/post147

This worked for me anyway.
Posted May 08, 2015
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Shmacky-McNuts: Any blue response regarding Aliens vs Predator NOT having the client in the installer?

Anyone without galaxy, try it yet to confirm whether or not it still auto installs?

I've had a few other people make mention but not actually confirm with a clean install and no galaxy.
Bundled with the AvP 2000 is not the GOG Galaxy, just a launcher app for the game so the multiplayer portion can work in-game. We'll be removing the launcher from those installers soon as you'll be able to use GOG Galaxy for that.
Posted May 08, 2015
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Shmacky-McNuts: Any blue response regarding Aliens vs Predator NOT having the client in the installer?

Anyone without galaxy, try it yet to confirm whether or not it still auto installs?

I've had a few other people make mention but not actually confirm with a clean install and no galaxy.
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Fallen_Zen: Bundled with the AvP 2000 is not the GOG Galaxy, just a launcher app for the game so the multiplayer portion can work in-game. We'll be removing the launcher from those installers soon as you'll be able to use GOG Galaxy for that.
VERY much appreciate your fast response mate. Thank you =D

I'm glad I didn't listen to those other members. Apparently they were not informed properly or maybe trolling me =(

Perhaps a mention of this on those games forum pages regarding topic? It will help others who rather wait =)
Post edited May 08, 2015 by Shmacky-McNuts
Posted May 08, 2015
I got in the Galaxy Beta and so far I successfully imported PoE into my library with the '+' icon (the first thing I tried was importing with the import folder option or something, but it didn't work and tried to download the complete game again :-/ )

Anyway, today after launching Galaxy I noticed there was an update for PoE. The Galaxy client started allocating files and then stated it needed to donwload 3Go of data files. I thought it was weird the update was this big, so I connected to the GOG website to check and the update is actually 96.6MB (1.0.4-1.0.5). Obviously I canceled the update by Galaxy and got the update the old way.

So what's happening there? Updating a game is the most basic feature of Galaxy...

Edit:
There's already a Mantis for this actually:
mantis.gog.com/view.php?id=2230
Post edited May 09, 2015 by Surlaw
Posted May 08, 2015
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Swissendo: I seem to have quite a major problem that I'm unable to fix. After successfully installing the Alpha of the client and giving it a whirl for a few minutes, I've decided to change its install location and (therefore) uninstalled it. After I've reinstalled it to a new location, the client didn't boot.
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Garrett24601: Here is some info on a way to fix it: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_2/post147

This worked for me anyway.
Awesome, worked for me as well. Thank you so much for the help!
Posted May 08, 2015
The Import of already installed games is much too slow. I tried to import "The Witcher" manually with the "Import Folder" option. Galaxy is comparing the files now for over 30 minutes amnd it is still not ready! Don't know what it is doing there.

ALso it still is not possible to chose the desired language: I have installed the German version of "Ceville" used "Import Folder" and switched the language before I did this in Dowwnload/Extras to German. Galaxy then shows "queued english".

There is still the option missing to sort games manually. I did so in my GOG Library because the GOG sort by title option simply is wrong (sort by sort-title and not by title - it's not good if different parts of a franchise are sorted wrong and it is easy to prevent this). Everytime I enter Galaxy I have just the option to sort by title or purchase and after I chose one my manually chosen order in my normal GOG account is affected as well.
Post edited May 08, 2015 by MarkoH01
Posted May 08, 2015
We need a Linux version of GOG Galaxy :) Please make it very soon.
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