I checked that mark, let it run the verify and still ended up with a broken install,

I really want to support this platform. But that's now 2 out of 2 games in a row that had issues like that. I had better results when I was using OCH in the mid 2000s.

I understand, http is not super reliable for big files. but wasting my time with a verifying process that apparently does absolutely nothing except slowly filling a bar does not increase customer satisfaction. Does your process simply not work for bigger files?

Galaxy client is not a valid answer here. I got here because I don't want dongles.

I have heard about the API the Galaxy client uses. If you would provide an official documentation that would be absolutely fine with me. But as far as I know the best we got is revere engineering the dongle. And for that I point back to my mid 2000s experience.

The worst thing about this in my opinion is:
You probably have some pretty usable internal documentation but you just don't publish it for the reasons I try to avoid steam and the likes. This is a problem.

Also your support platform is currently down and has been for weeks. I don't think I need to explain how that affects the situation.

I want to cooperate and support this. Otherwise I would have cut my losses and requested a refund. The games are available on Steam for the same monetary price and there they work.

Verify is simply just an integrity check, usually based on some hash value, like md5sum is often used to check the integrity of files.

Assuming there is no dark hole routers, bit-flip along the way, and MitM - there are server-side errors and there are client-side errors that can cause corruptions.

To be honest, Galaxy is just fine as you're not tied to it in any fashion or form, especially to download the bigger games. Install it and then move the installation around as you want, GOG games is pretty much portable like that. Otherwise you can use a download manager to download the offline installers.

Also, dongle isn't what you think - a dongle is a tiny piece of computer hardware that you physically stick into your computer.

I know what a dongle is and I used that word to avoid this stupid discussion of semantics in polite terms.

My experience in entering discussions like that is:
Play stupid games and win stupid prices. In other words there is no winning scenario, discard the option from start and don't honor that topic at all. People will always find some technicality if they want to.

Oh, it's not DRM it enhances user experience. Oh It's not a dongle it's required coprocessing. etc pp.
But then reverse engineering shows: Nope, was just a dongle, they just assumed nobody could prove otherwise, that's why the lost the follow up lawsuit.


And that's why I used a term it is so obviously not but clearly in the same camp. I don't want to to give any credit to that stupid concept.

It's like labeling everything useless and stinking as trash. But a rotting banana could also be fertilizer or ant food.

Right, and do you need a cookie or a hug with that rant?

I forgot that I am still on the internet where good faith is lost faith and explanations are wasted breath. As well as all criticism that's not pure ass kissing.

My bad.

I like how the only bit of sanscript's post you addressed was the footnote pointing about the word dongle instead of the bit about the topic at hand. That makes it pretty clear you're not genuinely looking for help and are just here to argue. I hope that attitude serves you better in life than it does here.

OH, nvm. No need for more food

If I was that unclear, maybe it was a miscommunication. My bad in that case. But I thought I made it sufficiently clear that I did not want to use the Galaxy client and explained why. So I really do not understand what is going on.

So I will try again
Please no Galaxy client I don't to use it. The draw to GoG was that I won' have to use proprietary nonsense and just buy files.
So I just dismissed everything relating that as I already stated: NO, not going to use it. Irrelevant for me.

Yeah, the checksum I hoped so too. But that's why I wrote that I used the verify option and the install still failed yes, the install I had a broken installation despite letting it run the verfiy first. I just tried to avoid repeating myself, but since multiple people did not get that. Maybe the error really is on my side.

It may not be installer related at all, since it's a file in your temp directory that can't be read - according to the error message. Could be that the installer needs to run some runtime installers.
Stupid question 1: Do you have enough space on that drive? Question 2: Is an AV running?

What's that has to do with it? I genuinely don't know. One has to disable the antivirus when downloading the files for a game, so then the files won't become broken?

I think you wanted to post that in another thread. (https://www.gog.com/forum/general/files_corrupted)
This is an unrelated issue.
The other one is resolved. (that one is 1 of 2, this one relates mostly to 2 of 2)

So I can say for certain:
1) yes
2) no
Some AVs interfere with downloads by adding markers to files. That they have already checked them for example. Which would and does regularly break checksum validations.
Also some of other/more questionable behaviors.

It is an MD5 check for individual files inside each installer file (package). That doesn't help if something else is wrong with the installer.

To check the integrity of actual installer files, you either need to download the Offline Installers via Galaxy, or use another program like gogrepo.py or gogcli.exe, which have access to the MD5 values for each installer file (package). Or use something else that has access to the GOG SDK/API or find the MD5 values in one of the databases available, and use those to check manually.

Ah, my bad.

Thank you both, I didn't know that and I had occasionally problems with 4GB files, shown as broken. +1 to both.

I doubt that it is connected, since the GOG installer files are packed and possibly encrypted, but it certainly is worth pursuing.
If you have a little experience running commands via command line, you should give the gogrepoc script (Kalanyr version) a try. I put that script on my NAS and it really was a game changer. The script works of course with Windows too, all you need is Python installed.
There is a thread on the forum with lots of hints. The link to the script on page 1 leads to an outdated version however, that's why I posted updated one.

Downloading the offline installers throgh Galaxy should work too, but I don't like the interface.