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Posted April 25, 2017
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Hi,

welcome to the official GOG Galaxy forum thread. Please read the below info first:

== GOG GALAXY FEATURES IN GAMES ==

List of games supporting various GOG Galaxy features:
Achievements: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=achievements&sort=bestselling&page=1
Cloud Saves: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=cloud_saves&sort=bestselling&page=1
Overlay: https://www.gog.com/games?feature=overlay&sort=bestselling&page=1

== 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 (location described on mantis report page)

== 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 ==
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer

== CHANGELOG ==

1.2.49 (November 29, 2018)
- [Windows] Updater now requires administrator privileges to perform update of GOG Galaxy
- [Windows] Security of directories containing GOG Galaxy files has been improved
- [Windows] Updated Code Signing Certificate
- [Windows] Crash reporter has been added to Galaxy Communication Service
Bugfixes:
- Prevented several potential causes of "broken" games, where only way out was reinstalling
- [MacOS] Fixed a crash on shutdown when fatal error was shown

1.2.50 (December 13, 2018)
Changes & Improvements:
- Speed up startup time
- [MacOS] Strengthen up connection security with ClientService
Bugfixes:
- Fixed "disk access problem" when installing games, occuring mostly on fresh installation of GOG Galaxy
- Fixed a rare occurrence of a game update resulting in displaying "unknown game version"

1.2.51 (December 20, 2018)
- Improved Korean translations
- Fixed connection to notifications pusher in GOG Galaxy SDK

1.2.54 (March 14, 2019)
Changes and Improvements:
- Updated Chromium version to 71:
- Better performance
- Fixes playing Twitch videos on profiles
- Fixes playing Wistia videos
- Security fixes in the game installation process
- Security fixes in GOG Galaxy update process
- GOG Galaxy Updater should perform better under poor network conditions
Bugfixes:
- [macOS] Fixed passing multiple commandline arguments to games
- [macOS] Multiple "friend online" notifications will no longer appear when system wakes up
- Dates are now properly displayed in cloud saves conflict window

1.2.55 (April 17, 2019)
- Hotfix for unintentional opening of Facebook link after entering Forum

1.2.56 (May 06, 2019)
Bugfixes:
- [Windows] GOG Galaxy will fix the path to its internal services, if it finds it is wrong
- Updating of games' local dependencies (e.g. Dosbox) will be handled correctly
- Unexpected files in games' directories will no longer cause failure of games’ update

1.2.57 (June 12, 2019)
Changes and Improvements:
- Minor download speed optimizations
- Changes in PayPal payment flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed rare crash occurence when reordering games' updates and installations
- GOG Galaxy will correctly reconnect to GOG services after long time of no internet connection

1.2.58 (September 13, 2019)
macOS:
- Enabled hardened runtime, making our application more secure
- Implemented Apple's notarization

1.2.59 (September 23, 2019)
Overlay:
- [Windows] Fixed crash in Overlay affecting some games (including Fallout 3 (Radeon only) and Dragon Age: Origins)
Achievements:
- [Windows] Fixed issue with achievements sometimes not being saved while playing offline

1.2.60 Beta (07 October, 2019)
General:
- Updated CEF version to 3729 (Chromium to 74)
- Security fixes
Updater:
- Will no longer download updates at startup, they will be downloaded in the background, while the application is running
- [Windows] No additional UAC prompt during update

1.2.61 Beta (October 23, 2019)
Updater:
- Fixed an issue where non-admin users would not be able to update to newer versions of GOG Galaxy

1.2.62 Beta (October 30, 2019)
Overlay:
- Fixed crashes for various games

1.2.63 (December 02, 2019)
General:
- Updated CEF version to 3729 (Chromium to 74)
- Security fixes
Updater:
- Will no longer download updates at startup, they will be downloaded in the background, while the application is running
- [Windows] No additional UAC prompt during update
Overlay [Windows]:
- Now supports games which use Vulkan API (e.g. Jupiter Hell, X4: Foundations)
- Fixes crashes for various games

1.2.64 (December 04, 2019)
- Hotfix for launching games

1.2.66 (January 23, 2020)
- Added information about GOG Galaxy 2.0 Open Beta
- Optimization related to showing download progress
- Fixed an issue where Overlay did not launch for some games that use Vulkan
- [Windows] Updated code signing certificate
- [MacOS] Crash fixes

1.2.67 (February 24, 2020)
General:
- [Windows] GOG Galaxy will now show a warning when trying to run on non-NTFS file systems
- Improved security of the application
- Updated POCO library
GOG GALAXY Update:
- Fixes for bugs in the GOG Galaxy update process
Post edited February 24, 2020 by TheTomasz
Posted April 26, 2017
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skeletonbow: snip
God you don't know how much I want this to take priority (with bug fixes and some necessary 1.2.x improvements of course). But yea if this was done I would actually keep Galaxy full size. Right now there is just to much empty space not being used that I just don't even bother. I scale it down and keep it compact so it looks better. I really like attaching the friends list to right side of Galaxy, the less buttons clicks to do things in Galaxy the better.

I also think combining the search bar above the friends list and the invite friend pop up should be done. Why are we having to click another pop up (that makes three widows [Galaxy, Friends List, Add Friends]) when we can combine this and kill two task (possibly three) with one stone.

Why not make it so that when you search for a friend in the friends list, it will also shows an invite button if that person is not currently a friend all using the same search bar... why do we need the two separated by different pop-ups which can essentially be combined to do the same thing.

EDIT: They only thing I would change is make sure the the scroll pane for the main Galaxy page is in the middle with that content, not off to the far right. Similar to how MS handles this with the Xbox App on Windows 10, the left side should have a scroll pane for installed games (that shows when needed, middle should have scroll pane (that shows when needed), and the right should have a scroll pane for the friends list (that shows when needed).

I added a quick arrow to show what I am talking about...
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Post edited April 26, 2017 by BKGaming
Posted April 26, 2017
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BKGaming: God you don't know how much I want this to take priority (with bug fixes and some necessary 1.2.x improvements of course). But yea if this was done I would actually keep Galaxy full size. Right now there is just to much empty space not being used that I just don't even bother. I scale it down and keep it compact so it looks better. I really like attaching the friends list to right side of Galaxy, the less buttons clicks to do things in Galaxy the better.

I also think combining the search bar above the friends list and the invite friend pop up should be done. Why are we having to click another pop up (that makes three widows [Galaxy, Friends List, Add Friends]) when we can combine this and kill two task (possibly three) with one stone.

Why not make it so that when you search for a friend in the friends list, it will also shows an invite button if that person is not currently a friend all using the same search bar... why do we need the two separated by different pop-ups which can essentially be combined to do the same thing.

EDIT: They only thing I would change is make sure the the scroll pane for the main Galaxy page is in the middle with that content, not off to the far right. Similar to how MS handles this with the Xbox App on Windows 10, the left side should have a scroll pane for installed games (that shows when needed, middle should have scroll pane (that shows when needed), and the right should have a scroll pane for the friends list (that shows when needed).

I added a quick arrow to show what I am talking about...
I really wish the user interface was easily customizeable with a modular framework in a standardized manner, some kind of official modding setup or skinnability. I mean the CSS, JS, html files are all there and thus customizeable, but not in an official way of any kind that you can make changes to and have them survive the next update. Ultimately having options to customize the UI built right into the client would be the most user friendly, but allowing some amount of user customization via skinning etc. would be nice also. I've customized Steam in that fashion by changing font sizes and user interface element specifics via Steam's skinning capabilities for example.

It makes total sense to me for GOG to provide a single unified default user interface experience, but it makes equal sense to me to allow others to customize it to a certain degree also. I'm still trying to find the best way to be able to hack up the Galaxy client's UI that will both survive upgrades nicely, and be able to be disabled easily when problems occur in order to rule out customizations as a cause for any problems.

Hopefully they will include some small enhancements like I suggested for the friend list and scalable or configurable sidebar width in the future, among other nice ease of use features.

Yeah, when I made the mockup I didn't think about the scrollbar location there. It would have been a bit trickier to relocate the scrollbar but you're correct, the content area scroller should be to the left of the friend list in my mockup.
Post edited April 26, 2017 by skeletonbow
Posted April 26, 2017
Thanks for 1.2 @ GOG! Love my new overlay and the new sound when an achievement pops. You've outdone Steam in this regard :-)
Posted April 26, 2017
I like the overlay and the addition of notifications, but I would like to specifically disable notifications for achievements. While I don't mind achievements themselves, the notices tend to take me out of the moment when I'm playing a game. Thank you for listening, and keep up the good work. I like what I'm seeing!
Posted April 26, 2017
Why don't you make it OpenSource? Because of multiplayer DRM?
Honest answer please.
Post edited April 26, 2017 by Klumpen0815
Posted April 26, 2017
Somebody needs to clean up mantis some, close out some of really old bug reports that likely aren't in 1.2.x. It would be nice if someone could stay on top of these reports and it would also be nice if we could close our own reports.
Posted April 26, 2017
The close 'X' on the top right of the window no longer closes the application, it just minimises it to the system tray instead.

The previous version had an option (which I selected) to close the application instead leaving it running in the system tray. Will you be bringing this option back? It is annoying to have to take multiple steps to close the application.
Posted April 26, 2017
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AlbertCole: Is anyone else experiencing issues with the install process after the update? It always fails during the DirectX setup. I tested three games so far: Fallout Tactics Classic, Jade Empire and Mount & Blade (running Galaxy as admin).

Edit: A warning pops up saying "invalid command line option".
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JudasIscariot: I am not sure but perhaps running Galaxy as admin may have something to do with it? Can you try to reproduce the problem without running Galaxy as admin, please?

Just trying to eliminate variables with my suggestion :)
I tested some other games while running Galaxy without admin rights: Unfortunately the install process still fails during the DirectX setup (with the same warning). When Galaxy reattempts the install process, the issue repeats itself, but this time around the game gets installed.

Games without DirectX setup are installed correctly during the first attempt btw.
Posted April 26, 2017
Anyone else having issues with Galaxy not wanting to load? On the website everything loads fine but in Galaxy 1.2.6
I'm getting very slow loading to the point where images won't even load. I checked my internet speed and it's decent enough.

EDIT: Yep if I load www.gog.com it loads fast and error free... but if I try to load https://embed.gog.com/ in the browser, nothing but issues. It did finally load after multiple refreshes. Still missing images on game pages in Galaxy.

EDIT2: Galaxy is pretty much unusable right now for me... store is a blank grey page that won't load. Images in the sidebar for installed games won't load. Headline images for news on the game pages won't load.
Post edited April 26, 2017 by BKGaming
Posted April 26, 2017
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Post edited April 26, 2017 by Fairfox
Posted April 26, 2017
Is there a way on Galaxy to sort my games by the hours of game time spent? I can see how much time I spent on a particular game, but couldn't find a page to see all games listed (similar to activity section of Steam)
Posted April 26, 2017
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BKGaming: Anyone else having issues with Galaxy not wanting to load? On the website everything loads fine but in Galaxy 1.2.6
I'm getting very slow loading to the point where images won't even load. I checked my internet speed and it's decent enough.

EDIT: Yep if I load www.gog.com it loads fast and error free... but if I try to load https://embed.gog.com/ in the browser, nothing but issues. It did finally load after multiple refreshes. Still missing images on game pages in Galaxy.

EDIT2: Galaxy is pretty much unusable right now for me... store is a blank grey page that won't load. Images in the sidebar for installed games won't load. Headline images for news on the game pages won't load.
I had the same issues with images not loading on the game library pages, but left it sit there and a minute later I came back and they had finally loaded. I also get blank grey pages on occasion and if I grab the title bar of the maximized window and yank on it and it detaches to a normal window, then throw it back up at the top of the screen and it re-maximizes, then Galaxy forces a redraw and everything looks fine. It's done that on and off since it originally launched, but I've noticed it more often lately.

I believe this is due to their optimizations to make Galaxy use less resources when idle. I believe it detects idle and disables rendering etc. to reduce CPU load and whatnot, but then doesn't always detect activity to kick back into gear and refresh the screen again, so you have to force it, but since GOG has not found the wisdom to include a refresh button on F5 or CTRL-R like standard browsers, the only way to do so it would seem is to resize the window and back to force it. Happens a lot for me. The library sidebar icons for games randomly disappear and don't come back still too until you muck around with them a bit.
Posted April 26, 2017
After the instalation I can't run galaxy.
Seems like I need to download an api. I'm using Windows 8. Perhaps updating to 8.1 will fix it. Does somebody recomends just download that api individually?

With windows 7 in other PC galaxy goes fine.
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Post edited April 26, 2017 by nicohvc
Posted April 26, 2017
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I think it's worse than that... nothing wants to load all, even if I restart it, etc. I tried to delete the webcache to see if I could force it all to load again and now it's even worse. The store however does seem to load if I double click store a few times to force a refresh. I guess next I will try a re-install.

EDIT: It finally started working. Not sure what the issue was.
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Post edited April 27, 2017 by BKGaming
Posted April 26, 2017
Have you gone back to using underscores in foldernames again? The latest beta for example named a folder "HoMM 5 - Tribes of the East" while before that version and now again is calling it "heroes_of_might_and_magic_v_tribes_of_the_east".

Gotta say that the naming without underscores was a bit off for some games. One example is Arena. Guess what game that is.......... The Elder Scrolls....
And here's another nutt to crack for you guys "VtMB".....
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