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Posted February 03, 2019
Hello everyone just want to start by saying that GOG is my choice above all others especially with DRM free and games ACTUALLY working on windows 10.

That being said something has been happening lately and its getting worse day by day. It seems that the GOG site and the GOG galaxy get slower and slower each and everyday.

It now takes over 2 minutes for my galaxy launcher to load. I would just not load it but when I click on game shortcuts it launches the gog galaxy. The gog site now takes about a minute per page to load. I get the spinning symbol and cant even do anything for about 30 seconds.

I have tried different browsers/clearing my cache and uninstalling and re-installing and nothing seems to help.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Posted February 03, 2019
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SirRotan: Hello everyone just want to start by saying that GOG is my choice above all others especially with DRM free and games ACTUALLY working on windows 10.

That being said something has been happening lately and its getting worse day by day. It seems that the GOG site and the GOG galaxy get slower and slower each and everyday.

It now takes over 2 minutes for my galaxy launcher to load. I would just not load it but when I click on game shortcuts it launches the gog galaxy. The gog site now takes about a minute per page to load. I get the spinning symbol and cant even do anything for about 30 seconds.

I have tried different browsers/clearing my cache and uninstalling and re-installing and nothing seems to help.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I find the site periodically goes through slowdowns, so don't have a solution to that. As for Galaxy, if you make a shortcut directly to the game's .exe file located wherever the game is installed, that shortcut will bypass Galaxy. If you install a game through Galaxy, the shortcut it crates will always launch Galaxy if it's not launched. A shortcut you create won't do that.
Posted February 03, 2019
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SirRotan: Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Ditch the galaxy launcher, start your games as normal applications.

The superiority of gog over the other shops is that it allows you to do that.
Posted February 03, 2019
What Telika said.
You don't have to use Galaxy to install and run your games.
Posted February 03, 2019
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Swedrami: What Telika said.
You don't have to use Galaxy to install and run your games.
You do if you want Cloud Saves, Achievements, and an easy one-stop place to access all of your games from the same interface (as opposed to a multitude of different desktop shortcuts).

What Telika says does not actually resolve the very legitimate points that the OP brings up.

Lately I also have been noticing Galaxy taking forever to launch. "Don't use Galaxy" is no solution at all. Rather, the solution is for GOG programmers to actually fix whatever is causing such issues to occur.
Posted February 03, 2019
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Lately I also have been noticing Galaxy taking forever to launch. "Don't use Galaxy" is no solution at all. Rather, the solution is for GOG programmers to actually fix whatever is causing such issues to occur.
Or maybe it's on the users' side. Galaxy doesn't take more than a few seconds to launch for me (Windows 7). There was an issue after a patch for a while where it took like 30-40 seconds for the program to start but they fixed that.
Posted February 04, 2019
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SirRotan: Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Make sure you are not near the space limit on your hard drive.

Presumably your hard drive isn't fragmented.

Make sure your firewalls allow galaxy through, and antirvirus software isn't messing with it.

See if you have other programs running in the background.

If you're using windows, perhaps compatibility mode and/or admin access will help.

Try installing somwhere other than Program Files.
Posted February 04, 2019
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BlueMooner: See if you have other programs running in the background.
Programs, or likely other services. XP by default had like 70 services active, while Vista and after had like 130 services. This is stuff like themes, File Sharing, Printer Spooling, etc... If there's enough services it will start utilizing Virtual Memory even if it degrades performance. I remember dealing with like 100Mb ram and having to turn off all the useless services for the system to actually run decently.
Posted February 04, 2019
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BlueMooner: Make sure you are not near the space limit on your hard drive.

Presumably your hard drive isn't fragmented.

Make sure your firewalls allow galaxy through, and antirvirus software isn't messing with it.

See if you have other programs running in the background.

If you're using windows, perhaps compatibility mode and/or admin access will help.

Try installing somwhere other than Program Files.
Or even better, install a SSD :)
Posted February 04, 2019
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blotunga: Or even better, install a SSD :)
That would help with fragmentation to a degree (speed-wise), as there's no delay for waiting for the head to move all over the drive.

But it's sorta moot. Price/Space wise it i don't think it's a good tradeoff yet. Maybe for an OS, but not for games, and not for a temporary directory/drive/other.
Posted February 04, 2019
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rtcvb32: That would help with fragmentation to a degree (speed-wise), as there's no delay for waiting for the head to move all over the drive.

But it's sorta moot. Price/Space wise it i don't think it's a good tradeoff yet. Maybe for an OS, but not for games, and not for a temporary directory/drive/other.
W00t? You can buy 1TB SSDs for under $150? Or under 75 for 500GB. Why would you even want a HDD except for backups?
Posted February 04, 2019
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Lately I also have been noticing Galaxy taking forever to launch. "Don't use Galaxy" is no solution at all. Rather, the solution is for GOG programmers to actually fix whatever is causing such issues to occur.
Hehe. GOG programmers fixing something. Good joke! :-)
Posted February 04, 2019
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blotunga: W00t? You can buy 1TB SSDs for under $150? Or under 75 for 500GB. Why would you even want a HDD except for backups?
I suppose that's the same argument for Tapes and Burnable CDs, DVDs and BlueRays too?
Posted February 04, 2019
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blotunga: W00t? You can buy 1TB SSDs for under $150? Or under 75 for 500GB. Why would you even want a HDD except for backups?
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rtcvb32: I suppose that's the same argument for Tapes and Burnable CDs, DVDs and BlueRays too?
Yes. A SSD is the most noticeable upgrade that you can make to any computer. I have a Core 2 laptop, 10 years old and it still feels great because I have a SSD in it. The cheapest SSD is better than the fastest HDD.
Posted February 05, 2019
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rtcvb32: I remember dealing with like 100Mb ram and having to turn off all the useless services for the system to actually run decently.
I remember an old xp site explaining what each process did and how to disable/turn off all the useless clutter microsoft made default.
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blotunga: Or even better, install a SSD :)
I've heard they don't last as long as HDD, so HDDs are still desirable for poorer gamers.
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