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Posted May 06, 2015
Try the DRM-free online gaming platform.

<span class="bold">GOG Galaxy</span>: our truly gamer-friendly, DRM-free online gaming platform. As we shared our vision with the world, we promised auto-patching, social functionality like chat, friends lists, and achievements. We promised our own multiplayer support and cross-play with Steam. Most importantly, we promised truly optional.



Today we deliver.
The <span class="bold">GOG Galaxy</span> client enters beta, open to anyone, with the most important functionality ready to try, test, enjoy (and break) at your leisure. We're proud to have gotten this far, and we know that we couldn't have done it without you all - that's everyone who spent months in alpha testing, that's those of you who talked to us about your needs and expectations, and it's every single one of you that has supported us since ever. So thanks, GOG Galaxy is for you!

With the <span class="bold">GOG Galaxy Beta</span>, you can install your games in one click and keep them up to date automatically, the beta currently supports this feature in all but a couple of titles available here. You can also perform backups easily by downloading a standalone installer through GOG Galaxy. The beta features a friends list, game time tracking, achievements, and chat. You can now talk to each other, connect with your group of friends, and see what everyone is playing. You can also try out our online multiplayer & matchmaking solution that, in select titles, includes cross-play: platform-independent multiplayer between gamers on GOG.com and Steam. If you download a patch that breaks something or if you just change your mind, the app will soon feature a unique rollback option to restore a previous version of your game.

Best of all, GOG Galaxy is optional. If you don't want to use any additional software, your experience with us won't change at all. If you only want to take advantage of select conveniences, you can toggle them on and off. It's all totally up to you.

You can sign up for the <span class="bold">GOG Galaxy Beta</span> and find out more on <span class="bold">gog.com/galaxy</span>, where we tell you about the features and answer many of the questions you may have. We'll be watching the forums carefully, so feel free to leave a comment if there is anything else that you'd like to know!
Posted May 06, 2015
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MIK0: I think the best way to do it, and the one we should expect, is something that make you create backups that end up being the same exact file you would download separately.
Standalone installer prepared by GOG and downloaded from the website AND compressed folder of existing installation will never be exact same files. All it takes is a single meta file to alter the installation, not to mention that standalone installers are build differently than by just compressing game folder - they include actual inno installers.

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MIK0: Will there be a way to check if the standalone installer on your backup folder are up to date? That's one of the reason Galaxy exist instead of updating the downloader.
Features that never existed in the Downloader and were never planned for the Downloader are not the reason why Galaxy exists... From the point of games, the key reason is to make installation and game update seamless and as quick as possible. At this point adding system for tracking standalone installers is not planned, thank you for the suggestion though.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by Destro
Posted May 06, 2015
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hugo360pt: If you don't want to wait, you can download the beta from your library. It should be there already.
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invenio: I noticed this as well. Do you have to uninstall alpha before install beta, or you can just download and isntall the beta without any worry about having alpha already installed?

Or should I just wait for an autoupdate?
You can download the standalone installer and just install it over the alpha :) I just did that myself to try and see :)
Posted May 06, 2015
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Advanced89: Hi. Almost none of my already installed games are being recognized by Galaxy. 1 out of 18...
Same for most of you or maybe a failure on my side?
See here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_client_closed_alpha/post1683
Posted May 06, 2015
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Coelocanth: Wait, the backups that Galaxy creates need Galaxy to install them later on?
Nope, they don't. Right now in GOG Galaxy you can
A) install game from your Library, or
B) download standalone backup copy of that game from your library

Once you have A or B, Galaxy is not needed for anything beyond that point.
Posted May 06, 2015
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Destro: Nope, they don't. Right now in GOG Galaxy you can
A) install game from your Library, or
B) download standalone backup copy of that game from your library

Once you have A or B, Galaxy is not needed for anything beyond that point.
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Coelocanth: Okay, excellent! Thank you for clearing that up. But what was the comment about different versions? If you use Galaxy to DL the files for backup, will they still be compatible with later patches if you choose to DL the patches separately?
I assume by DL you mean downloading standalone installers (the same ones as available on the My Account page), then obviously it will work just as it always did, becuyse In that scenario Galaxy serves only as a Downloader for stuff on your Account page.
Posted May 06, 2015
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Destro: Nope, they don't. Right now in GOG Galaxy you can
A) install game from your Library, or
B) download standalone backup copy of that game from your library

Once you have A or B, Galaxy is not needed for anything beyond that point.
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cyboff: So that means if I want to have a backup and not to download game twice ( because e.g. Witchers, Wasteland 2, D:OS are huuuge...), I should download it as a backup, install from installer and import to Galaxy...
Do you plan a better solution in the future?
Yes, of course we do - this whole discussion comes from the following statement:
the only reason why games installed by Client are not trivially backupable yet is that the install script that is launched at the end of installation is not stored inside the installation folder to make it easy to re-launch it upon restoring that installation from whatever backup.

We plan to address during the beta, so every single of your installed games will be able to backed up at any time and by way you want, without any need to download the standalone installer.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by Destro
Posted May 06, 2015
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npalsensei: You may want to implement a bandwidth limiter. Every time Galaxy tries to download something, it kills my connection because it uses up all available bandwidth
See the little gear icon in the lower left corner? Click that and try limiting the amount of connections :)
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: See the little gear icon in the lower left corner? Click that and try limiting the amount of connections :)
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tfishell: Does that mean http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/bandwidth_limit is technically completed? If so, you might let people know how they can limit their bandwidth as a comment in that wish.
That's not technically speaking a good way to limit download speed. It can work for some, but for example on 1 connection I can pull 26-27 MB/s - which is still my entire bandwidth anyway. It's more of a techie paramter that can help with cases where game has a lot of tiny files or when, for whatever reason, a single connection doesn't max out your download speed.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by Destro
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: See the little gear icon in the lower left corner? Click that and try limiting the amount of connections :)
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npalsensei: Did that, still uses up all available bandwidth. Steam has a straight up bandwidth limiter.
Fortunately someone already requested this exact feature on the Galaxy side of the wishlist :)

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/bandwidth_limit
Posted May 06, 2015
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green.anger: Hi, guys! Does anyone know how to manually add an installed game? I've setup folders for installed and downloaded games, run folder scan and Galaxy found only 1/4 of all installed games. And I cannot find a way to add another one. By the way, can one add a game for which only distributive has been downloaded (prior to Galaxy installation)? Thanks in advance!
It depends on how long ago you downloaded an installer as we're updating our installers to be more import-friendly via Galaxy so if manually adding a GOG game doesn't work, you may need to re-download an installer or two.
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: It depends on how long ago you downloaded an installer as we're updating our installers to be more import-friendly via Galaxy so if manually adding a GOG game doesn't work, you may need to re-download an installer or two.
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green.anger: Ok, got it. Can I re-download an installer from within Galaxy without actually installing the game afterwards? I see option "Install from library", already tried it, worked for me, but there is no option "Download installer". Is it possible?
Yes, you can. Click on the gray button next to the "Install" button and look for "Extras", once you click the Extras button you'll see your bonus goodies on the right and the offline installer link on the left :)
Posted May 07, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Yes, you can. Click on the gray button next to the "Install" button and look for "Extras", once you click the Extras button you'll see your bonus goodies on the right and the offline installer link on the left :)
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green.anger: Silly me, I did see the "Extras", but didn't pay attention to the left column. You're being very helpful, thanks a lot!
No problem :) Enjoy your game(s) :)
Posted May 07, 2015
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Smannesman: I know this isn't a support thread, but does anyone know how to fix the "Failed to load game database" error?
It worked fine until I updated it just now.
Running as administrator doesn't do anything by the way.
Please report this on Mantis with your logs so that our devs can see what's up :)
Posted May 11, 2015
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skeletonbow: Either way, it would be nice to hear clarification about this from a blue as there is definitely confusion about it, and some of the communication I've seen a few days ago was a little polarized rather than either observer being able to consider that both situations could be true in co-existence.

Having said that, if anyone has directly observed the installation of a _specific_ game to be Galaxy downloading a preinstalled version, or directly observed it downloading an installer and running it with commandline options to run in the background hidden and expand itself, if they could provide the raw data of their observations here that'd be nice too and take some of the speculation out of things.
If you click install, it always downloads game in pre-installed form on per-file basis. Yes, there is an ntallation script executed at the end which might look like our installer file name and can get big depending on redists included, but it cerainly isb't the standalone installer being downloaded and launched. If there is any exception to this, I'm not aware of it.

There is a compression planned to speed up initial installation as well as support for byte differential patching to speed up updates. No ETA.

In regaerd to question about archiving installations - said installation script will be in future included with game installation for games that require it. This way the installation will be backupable and upon resoting it on a fresh OS all it will take will be launching the script to have it working.
Post edited May 11, 2015 by Destro
Posted June 30, 2015
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OldFagGamer: Hi,

Does galaxy client restore game time log after reinstallation?

Thanks in advance
Game time tracking is stored server side so you'll retain everything.
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