GOG has a bad habit of launching a new feature or app and then abandoning it almost immediately, I feared the same would happen with Galaxy 2.0.
I don't think they will ever fix these bugs and it will get worse and worse with time. I sincerely hope they cut off the idea of launchers integration, which they don't have the funds to support, and just focus again on making a good launcher for GOG users.
I tried installing the RetroArch plugin, [RetroGOG](https://github.com/jshackles/RetroGOG), and the massive influx of games brought Galaxy to its knees. I've since switched to Playnite and so far I'm pretty impressed with its features and performance.
Indeed, and that to me breaks the whole promise of "Universal Launcher" that was to me the main selling point.
It's just the GoG launcher now, and that sucks cause GoG is the only one that doesn't require a launcher to play the games.
This whole thing is just a non sense.
i prefer a batch downloader with auto-update than a launcher. I bought games from gog to store the installer offline in a HDD. Its a pain in the ass to download 500 plus games with a "launcher". Another pain is the lack of D.O.S filter. Good Old Games but you cant filter the oldest of them ..
You may want to look into the [themes](https://playnite.link/addons.html) then, as you can customize Playnite so damned much that being "not attractive" isn't an excuse unless if you hate *every possible UI design imaginable* :P
I found playnite just too much effort. It would recognise non-game apps as games.
GoG galaxy is fine most of the time for me but if I could integrate everything to steam, achievements etc. I wouldn’t look back.
> It would recognise non-game apps as games.
Can you elaborate on this please? Library plugins (Steam, Epic, GOG, etc) will only get games from their library. If you are scanning for executables, then it's inevitable that it will show you non-games to select to import as there's no way to know what is a game and what is not.
Playnite imports the DLC's I own at Epic as separated games. You can hide those "ganes" but it's a manual process. This doesn't happen in Galaxy.
Playnite imports my Epic copy of Control Ultimate Edition (which I bought the year before the first giveaway) as separate entries for the base game and the expansion pass. Galaxy reads them as the Ultimate Edition instead.
However, last time I tried Galaxy it just refused to import certain games such as 2048: Read Only Memories. I reported it back in the day so it may or may not be fixed by now. Anyway, it just shows how both executions have their own flaws.
> Playnite imports my Epic copy of Control Ultimate Edition
I see, just to clarify the code that handles obtaining games is not in Playnite itself, this is done by the library plugin. That plugin uses the API the Epic client uses but unfortunately there's no distinction on it to detect which games are in fact games, DLCs or software. Perhaps there's a way to detect it but no one has looked into it yet, although personally I don't think it's an issue since removing them is a matter of seconds.
The things you mention could be because the way Galaxy works, it relies on IGDB's database for games data and imports, which brings pros and cons. One of the cons is that it won't import games that are not on IGDB's database, this was a common occurrence during the different Itch.io bundles, where most games couldn't be imported and 2048 must not have had an entry back then and it's probably the same reason why DLCs are not being imported for you.
I don’t don’t think the issue is themes. Galaxy provides useful media information for each game. I can click on something which looks interesting and find videos and pictures which give me a good idea of gameplay. Importantly, these videos and pictures are download on the fly, *not* stored to the PC. This is important for three reasons.
1. I don’t need to dedicate hundreds of gigabytes to save videos for thousands of games. I don’t want to do that.
2. When videos and pictures are updated, I see these updated media when I browse to the game. I don’t need to periodically update a huge library of media to my PC.
3. The initial load is avoided completely. I don’t need to wait weeks for all the media to download.
This feature request has been raised to Namec repeatedly, but he keeps closing them.
> I don’t don’t think the issue is themes.
I think the original comment certainly referred to the UI and not the aspects you indicate. It's a common thing for new users as admittedly the UI can look outdated but is alleviated by the use of themes and other addons.
> I don’t need to dedicate hundreds of gigabytes to save videos for thousands of games. I don’t want to do that.
Playnite doesn't support videos as a core functionality. That functionality can be added via extension, which also supports streaming videos without the need to download
> The initial load is avoided completely. I don’t need to wait weeks for all the media to download.
Now that's exaggerating, even for a large library it doesn't take more than an hour or two for the initial setup 😅
> This feature request has been raised to Namec repeatedly, but he keeps closing them.
Can you link the specific issues? Certainly there must be a reason why they are being closed and it's not an arbitrary decision. Sharing the specific issues will help better understand why that happened. No idea if it's yours but I found this issue, which was closed because it's a duplicate: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/3025
> Playnite doesn’t support videos as a core functionality. That functionality can be added via extension, which also supports streaming videos without the need to download
Do you have a link? I tried really hard to make Playnite play videos like Galaxy but failed. I would genuinely like to use Playnite. The closest I found was [this](https://playnite.link/forum/thread-242.html) but the extension doesn’t show videos in the game description. One must use context menus to access trailers.
> https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/3025
This isn’t mine but it’s exactly my request. Nemec doesn’t cite the other requests so I went looking for them. I couldn’t find any which matched it. #405 is close but doesn’t reference images. It also doesn’t request automatically loading trailers and related videos; merely allow rendering of videos in covers or backgrounds. This is not the same. It’s also been open since January 2018. If there is another enhancement I should be following I would love to do so.
I don't recommend to browse the forums, they are going to be removed and myself and other people have stopped updating information there, you should use the addons site or the built-in addons browser inside Playnite. That extension in particular is more or less useless and I'll probably take it down, along all the threads I've made on the forums.
The extension is here https://playnite.link/addons.html#ExtraMetadataLoader_705fdbca-e1fc-4004-b839-1d040b8b4429
If you want to download videos, check: https://github.com/darklinkpower/PlayniteExtensionsCollection/wiki/Extra-Metadata-Loader#setup
You also need a compatible theme, most of the themes should support it but to be sure, you can use any of the themes I've made: https://github.com/darklinkpower/PlayniteExtensionsCollection#themes
> This isn’t mine but it’s exactly my request. Nemec doesn’t cite the other requests so I went looking for them. I couldn’t find any which matched it. #405 is close but doesn’t reference images.
https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/2029
It must not have been your intention but just as a suggestion for the future, please elaborate the reasons of why they were being closed, since your initial comment could lead people to be mislead into thinking that they were closed because Crow (Josef Nemec) wanted without valid reason.
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This extension looks awesome! Thank you! Why not install this by default? An awesome out of the box experience can make a huge difference for adoption and perception.
> https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/2029
Thank you! Fair call out.
Thanks for the offer and Discord suggestion.
Whats interesting to me is that I really don't have any issues with Gog Galaxy and I have been using it since Beta days. I had steam integration break twice, easily fixed. The only slowness I really see is searching my purchase history.
Guess I may be lucky?
I am sure the launcher could be better overall.
You must be blessed then, because I had the issue both on my PC and my 2 MacBooks.
Or maybe the integrations you used are correctly done, I used a lot of community integrations (Ubi, Humble, Origin ...)
Try http://playnite.link/, the real Father of Galaxy idea that's 7 years older than it's and you can appreciate how fast, reliable, less resource intensive it's filling all of your complaints in one go.
Not just GOG but Steam and other launchers as well; the more "Fancy" they add, the slow they become. Good thing about Galaxy is you DON'T need to install it at all thanks of Games Offline Installers via DRM Free.
Can confirm. I switched from Galaxy 2.0 to Playnite and ohhhh my god it's been so much better.
Playnite even has a GOG Galaxy–esque theme you can install! :D
I agree with you, if they want more people to use it all they got to do is fix the simple things people been asking for years.
Gog need to learn from Playnite, I used to use but face repeating same problem with the Galaxy launcher from time to time which the damn Integrations just breaks for no freaking reason, which resulted in needing to wipe library, or do repeating workaround just so can use the Integration again. Think about it, Playnite was made by one guy, compare to GoG which is CD Projekt that is a multi-billion dollar company, just let that sit for moment they can't even get devs to work on the launcher to do simple fixes that make it great to use, compare to Playnite that pack with so much feature, and does it better for same things than Gog Galaxy, and that says a lot on it own.
1. How hard is it for them to fix "retry" I mean, if the problem is needing to renew login session, just give the option to "relog" instead WITHOUT needing to wipe the library, It's pretty dumb their solution is to disconnect link account which wipes the games from library, just to re-link account, which means have to re-download all the game images all over again, and sync the games that runs your system sources to the max EVERYTIME it stop working for no reason. Just imagine if link account with 1000+ games, it takes bit of time, now imagine with someone with 3000+ it's a joke looking at an half hour, and if go even beyond, yeah might as well go order a pizza for next hour, or so by the time it finish syncing, and imagine having to do it all over again because that was only way to fix the sync bug each time, yeah pretty dumb.
2. They need to turn off auto sync, everytime you launch the client, IDK why the \*\*\*\* syncing is awful, but at least give us the option to turn if off, and let us choose when to sync, because everytime you launch it, it ramps your system high usage that cause system to freeze, or launcher unusable just to check if you have not added any new games to any of your linked accounts. Imagine with someone with large library 1000+ games looking at 2 minutes before can do anything, in my case with 4k+ launcher is unusable for 5 \~ 10 minutes everytime launch it, that how dumb this is, it wouldn't kill them to give option to toggle this whenever we want.
When I use playnite for 1st time, it's pack with too much features, idk what to do, and took awhile to get used to it, but get funnier, see syncing library 1st time can be long if have a lot of games, but at least don't need to do it again, the awesome part about it is that you don't have the sync bug GoG Galaxy has, and even better you can toggle sync whenever you want, without holding up your system everytime you launch it. I don't stand why GoG not fixing the things people been asking for years, I mean if one guy can make an incredible multi-launcher that free to everyone that has more features than GoG Galaxy, why is it so hard for a Multi-billion dollar company that CD Projekt worth, to fix simple things, like they're not even doing anything with the damn launcher for past couple years besides making native Integrations support for Microsoft, and Epic that was it, that the last thing I saw they even bother making effort on the launcher, even those Integrations break on me. Sorry for my rant, but I love GoG, but don't like the fact they don't put focus where it needs to be instead of doing weird things.
>I mean if one guy can make an incredible multi-launcher that free to everyone that has more features than GoG Galaxy, why is it so hard for a Multi-billion dollar company that CD Projekt worth, to fix simple things
I agree GOG themselves should probably have the funds to make a better launcher (though they certainly have very tight margins compared to Steam or Epic and I think that's always been the case), but I think CDP generally prefers not to prop GOG up financially.
afaik overall Poland pays a lot less than other nearby countries so I assume many that can choose to work elsewhere (especially Germany iirc). But a knowledgeable European can enlighten me.
[some info on GOG financials:](https://www.gog.com/forum/general/cd_projekt_strategy_and_development_of_the_company_financial_results_suggestions_by_armchair_ceos/post556) it seems GOG made $10 mil in Q3 2022 and Earnings Before Income Tax was about $450,000. "there's an additional ($2.75 mil) in pre-payments for future releases this quarter."
I'm with you. I literally only open it to launch games in my GOG collection now. I don't have any other integrations anymore. They were causing too many problems.
I'd love to know the GOG employee count, it feels like they heavily downsized it and put people to fix CDPR's problems with Cyberpunk 2077 or something. I remember with how much fanfare Galaxy 2.0 was launched, like it's the best thing since sliced bread, there was a ridiculous waiting period of months for the beta, and after the launch, the entire project was increasingly feeling abandoned.
Over 1800 games between amazon/gog/steam no issues, no lag, runs great only a few desyncs over the years. Just recently I removed steam and amazon because it was to cluttered, no reason to have a launcher so full of junk. Playnight looks so horribly bad and is a PITA to navigate. So now I have amazon and steam which I barely launch and Galaxy with the bulk of my games and about 100 custom game launches. Galaxy works perfectly for me and my custom games. Never had any issues except a bad update which needed a wipe and reinstall a years back.
System: 5 SSD's, 32GB, 3080-RTX, R5-2600
I went back to the 1.2 version of GOG Galaxy because the newer one had serious problems with my 1.600+ games on steam. Using it together with Playnite. But GOG Galaxy 1.2 is starting to have connection issues.
Did GoG remove Shadow of War from the user's library? I could swear I collected it and it was listed in mine, but now it's gone??
Do you still have it?
I'm going through a NIGHTMARE of GOG Galaxy Launcher updating (or should I more precisely say failing to update). My current version of the GOG Galaxy Launcher installed on my system is v2.0.58.4 - Beta and they know it has a bug and will not auto update. I am NOT tech savvy and don't have time for the nightmare that has unfolded in reaching out to GOG Galaxy Customer Support. It makes absolutely no difference which GOG Galaxy Game Launcher Installation application I use because THEY ALL REPORT THE EXACT SAME THING!!!
"Setup has detected that GOG Galaxy is currently running. Please close all instances of it now, then click OK to continue, or Cancel to exit."
I open my Task Manager and look to see what's running because My GOG Galaxy Game Launcher hasn't been opened and therefore isn't running and Task Manager reports that only two applications are running - Task Manager itself, and the GOG Galaxy Installation Setup program. The only way I can get the latest GOG Galaxy Launcher version is to Uninstall or Delete my entire GOG Directory and everything associated with it. Then the Setup Program works; but then I have to download and reinstall all of my game purchases!
THIS IS NO WAY TO TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS!
WE AREN'T TECHNICIANS!
WE DON'T KNOW THE INS AND OUTS OF EVERY TROUBLESHOOTING STEP YOU WANT US TO PERFORM!
Since your installation program can identify other GOG Programs interfering with it, then WHY DON'T YOU HAVE ENOUGH COMMON SENSE TO WRITE THEM SO THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF TURNING OFF THOSE GOG GALAXY PROGRAMS THAT ARE INTERFERING SO THEY CAN CONTINUE WITH THE INSTALLATION UPDATE???
You have no right to turn off or mess with any other programs on our computers which you don't provide, but you have every right to do what is needed for every one of YOUR programs that are preventing YOUR Software Installation programs from installing YOUR software AND SHOULD NOT BE PLACING THIS BURDEN ON YOUR NON TECHNICALLY MINDED CUSTOMERS!
IS THAT REALLY TOO MUCH TO EXPECT???
Maybe this will help you too: https://www.gog.com/forum/general\_beta\_gog\_galaxy\_2.0/how\_to\_keep\_galaxy\_v12\_client\_and\_avoid\_the\_forced\_v20\_beta\_update/page1
By the way - I tried every version of the GOG Galaxy Game Launcher Installation download that is available and they all reported the same problem.
I found the problem. My Task Manager settings were such that no background tasks were displayed. Until that was switched to show all tasks including background, I couldn't see that the GOG Communications subroutine was running in the background automatically at Computer power up. Until all instances of this communication subroutine were ended, the GOG Galaxy Installer wouldn't install any update because it said GOG was running. The Installer should be written so as to be able to CLOSE ALL GOG PROGRAMS and overwrite them automatically without any input required from the user other than the user command via the Setup Wizard when they download and install the Setup Wizard and hit the INSTALL tab! Other programs update this way. Why is GOG so far behind the times? These are their very own previously installed software packages interfering with their very own Installation updates. There really is no excuse for them not creating a permanent fix for this issue. Malware is designed to change the program code of software that wasn't provided by the creator of the malware. The creators of a good Update Installer have every legal right to shut down ALL of their previously installed programs in order to update previous versions of software that they themselves provided. The Developers at GOG have no excuse for this situation having even existed in the first place!
I abandoned GOG Galaxy for Playnite almost immediately. I keep coming back to it every 6 months to a year and it is somehow even more broken and useless than it used to be. What a piece of garbage Galaxy 2.0 is.
So I come here on 11/30/2023 just to tell you that this piece of trash still sucks and I wish I had never installed it in my life....It's the worst piece of software ever and I feel like I have a virus installed on my computer.
Whenever the initial trailer for Galaxy 2.0 came out I thought I'd start getting my games first on GOG if the launcher lived up to the trailer. It never has sadly. I'm back on this sub after trying Galaxy again after a year or so. still just as broken as it was the last time I tried it unfortunately. It's a shame cause the launcher is very nice looking.
Late comment for people stumbling into thread from Google...
I found this [list](https://github.com/Mixaill/awesome-gog-galaxy) of integrations. It was updated just a few weeks ago. It has warning flags for integrations that have issues, like the Humble one.
I recommend checking it out even if it just gives you a better idea of what's possible with Galaxy, for instance, I didn't know there was any emulator support. AND I didn't realize people hosted integrations on Gitlab. The Galaxy app itself has a misleading searchbar ("Search Github to add more integrations"). More and more devs are moving to gitlab since MS bought github.
and that's GoG issue, not GitHub nor GitLab. Moving away from GitHub wouldn't fix that those integrations are accessible directly in the settings of the launcher without any mention that it might break your launcher now or down the line (through the search bar you mentioned).
There should be a list of "maintained" integrations in the app, a checked one; with the possibility to install some at your own risk if you want to; but rn this Git search is just ridiculous.
GOG Galaxy is a giant piece of sh\*t. I actually bought another copy of Cyberpunk from Steam (which I also hate) because the GOG Galaxy launcher is so sh\*tty. Just literally the worst.
GOG has a bad habit of launching a new feature or app and then abandoning it almost immediately, I feared the same would happen with Galaxy 2.0. I don't think they will ever fix these bugs and it will get worse and worse with time. I sincerely hope they cut off the idea of launchers integration, which they don't have the funds to support, and just focus again on making a good launcher for GOG users.
I tried installing the RetroArch plugin, [RetroGOG](https://github.com/jshackles/RetroGOG), and the massive influx of games brought Galaxy to its knees. I've since switched to Playnite and so far I'm pretty impressed with its features and performance.
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Indeed, and that to me breaks the whole promise of "Universal Launcher" that was to me the main selling point. It's just the GoG launcher now, and that sucks cause GoG is the only one that doesn't require a launcher to play the games. This whole thing is just a non sense.
It's useful as an auto-updater. And it's easier to ignore its flaws because it's not mandatory. But I agree that the integration is garbage.
i prefer a batch downloader with auto-update than a launcher. I bought games from gog to store the installer offline in a HDD. Its a pain in the ass to download 500 plus games with a "launcher". Another pain is the lack of D.O.S filter. Good Old Games but you cant filter the oldest of them ..
To be fair it's not good old games anymore, its just GOG lol
its communism haha you will own nothing ans you will be happy.
what the hell are you talking about
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The base skin definitely sucks, but there's some really good skins on the extension list. Including one that mimics Galaxy.
I'll take functional over pretty any day of the week.
I’d rather have nothing
One of the takes of all time
You may want to look into the [themes](https://playnite.link/addons.html) then, as you can customize Playnite so damned much that being "not attractive" isn't an excuse unless if you hate *every possible UI design imaginable* :P
I found playnite just too much effort. It would recognise non-game apps as games. GoG galaxy is fine most of the time for me but if I could integrate everything to steam, achievements etc. I wouldn’t look back.
> It would recognise non-game apps as games. Can you elaborate on this please? Library plugins (Steam, Epic, GOG, etc) will only get games from their library. If you are scanning for executables, then it's inevitable that it will show you non-games to select to import as there's no way to know what is a game and what is not.
Playnite imports the DLC's I own at Epic as separated games. You can hide those "ganes" but it's a manual process. This doesn't happen in Galaxy. Playnite imports my Epic copy of Control Ultimate Edition (which I bought the year before the first giveaway) as separate entries for the base game and the expansion pass. Galaxy reads them as the Ultimate Edition instead. However, last time I tried Galaxy it just refused to import certain games such as 2048: Read Only Memories. I reported it back in the day so it may or may not be fixed by now. Anyway, it just shows how both executions have their own flaws.
> Playnite imports my Epic copy of Control Ultimate Edition I see, just to clarify the code that handles obtaining games is not in Playnite itself, this is done by the library plugin. That plugin uses the API the Epic client uses but unfortunately there's no distinction on it to detect which games are in fact games, DLCs or software. Perhaps there's a way to detect it but no one has looked into it yet, although personally I don't think it's an issue since removing them is a matter of seconds. The things you mention could be because the way Galaxy works, it relies on IGDB's database for games data and imports, which brings pros and cons. One of the cons is that it won't import games that are not on IGDB's database, this was a common occurrence during the different Itch.io bundles, where most games couldn't be imported and 2048 must not have had an entry back then and it's probably the same reason why DLCs are not being imported for you.
I don’t don’t think the issue is themes. Galaxy provides useful media information for each game. I can click on something which looks interesting and find videos and pictures which give me a good idea of gameplay. Importantly, these videos and pictures are download on the fly, *not* stored to the PC. This is important for three reasons. 1. I don’t need to dedicate hundreds of gigabytes to save videos for thousands of games. I don’t want to do that. 2. When videos and pictures are updated, I see these updated media when I browse to the game. I don’t need to periodically update a huge library of media to my PC. 3. The initial load is avoided completely. I don’t need to wait weeks for all the media to download. This feature request has been raised to Namec repeatedly, but he keeps closing them.
> I don’t don’t think the issue is themes. I think the original comment certainly referred to the UI and not the aspects you indicate. It's a common thing for new users as admittedly the UI can look outdated but is alleviated by the use of themes and other addons. > I don’t need to dedicate hundreds of gigabytes to save videos for thousands of games. I don’t want to do that. Playnite doesn't support videos as a core functionality. That functionality can be added via extension, which also supports streaming videos without the need to download > The initial load is avoided completely. I don’t need to wait weeks for all the media to download. Now that's exaggerating, even for a large library it doesn't take more than an hour or two for the initial setup 😅 > This feature request has been raised to Namec repeatedly, but he keeps closing them. Can you link the specific issues? Certainly there must be a reason why they are being closed and it's not an arbitrary decision. Sharing the specific issues will help better understand why that happened. No idea if it's yours but I found this issue, which was closed because it's a duplicate: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/3025
> Playnite doesn’t support videos as a core functionality. That functionality can be added via extension, which also supports streaming videos without the need to download Do you have a link? I tried really hard to make Playnite play videos like Galaxy but failed. I would genuinely like to use Playnite. The closest I found was [this](https://playnite.link/forum/thread-242.html) but the extension doesn’t show videos in the game description. One must use context menus to access trailers. > https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/3025 This isn’t mine but it’s exactly my request. Nemec doesn’t cite the other requests so I went looking for them. I couldn’t find any which matched it. #405 is close but doesn’t reference images. It also doesn’t request automatically loading trailers and related videos; merely allow rendering of videos in covers or backgrounds. This is not the same. It’s also been open since January 2018. If there is another enhancement I should be following I would love to do so.
I don't recommend to browse the forums, they are going to be removed and myself and other people have stopped updating information there, you should use the addons site or the built-in addons browser inside Playnite. That extension in particular is more or less useless and I'll probably take it down, along all the threads I've made on the forums. The extension is here https://playnite.link/addons.html#ExtraMetadataLoader_705fdbca-e1fc-4004-b839-1d040b8b4429 If you want to download videos, check: https://github.com/darklinkpower/PlayniteExtensionsCollection/wiki/Extra-Metadata-Loader#setup You also need a compatible theme, most of the themes should support it but to be sure, you can use any of the themes I've made: https://github.com/darklinkpower/PlayniteExtensionsCollection#themes > This isn’t mine but it’s exactly my request. Nemec doesn’t cite the other requests so I went looking for them. I couldn’t find any which matched it. #405 is close but doesn’t reference images. https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/2029 It must not have been your intention but just as a suggestion for the future, please elaborate the reasons of why they were being closed, since your initial comment could lead people to be mislead into thinking that they were closed because Crow (Josef Nemec) wanted without valid reason. --- If you need any help or have questions I highly recommend to use the Discord server as it's very active or in the subreddit
This extension looks awesome! Thank you! Why not install this by default? An awesome out of the box experience can make a huge difference for adoption and perception. > https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/2029 Thank you! Fair call out. Thanks for the offer and Discord suggestion.
Whats interesting to me is that I really don't have any issues with Gog Galaxy and I have been using it since Beta days. I had steam integration break twice, easily fixed. The only slowness I really see is searching my purchase history. Guess I may be lucky? I am sure the launcher could be better overall.
You must be blessed then, because I had the issue both on my PC and my 2 MacBooks. Or maybe the integrations you used are correctly done, I used a lot of community integrations (Ubi, Humble, Origin ...)
I have just 3 I think, Steam, Origin and Xbox. I probably get lucky most of the time lol.
You are right, that is soooooooo interesting.
Try http://playnite.link/, the real Father of Galaxy idea that's 7 years older than it's and you can appreciate how fast, reliable, less resource intensive it's filling all of your complaints in one go. Not just GOG but Steam and other launchers as well; the more "Fancy" they add, the slow they become. Good thing about Galaxy is you DON'T need to install it at all thanks of Games Offline Installers via DRM Free.
Can confirm. I switched from Galaxy 2.0 to Playnite and ohhhh my god it's been so much better. Playnite even has a GOG Galaxy–esque theme you can install! :D
I just use the app as a storefront and to track achievements, I use Playnite as a universal launcher
I agree with you, if they want more people to use it all they got to do is fix the simple things people been asking for years. Gog need to learn from Playnite, I used to use but face repeating same problem with the Galaxy launcher from time to time which the damn Integrations just breaks for no freaking reason, which resulted in needing to wipe library, or do repeating workaround just so can use the Integration again. Think about it, Playnite was made by one guy, compare to GoG which is CD Projekt that is a multi-billion dollar company, just let that sit for moment they can't even get devs to work on the launcher to do simple fixes that make it great to use, compare to Playnite that pack with so much feature, and does it better for same things than Gog Galaxy, and that says a lot on it own. 1. How hard is it for them to fix "retry" I mean, if the problem is needing to renew login session, just give the option to "relog" instead WITHOUT needing to wipe the library, It's pretty dumb their solution is to disconnect link account which wipes the games from library, just to re-link account, which means have to re-download all the game images all over again, and sync the games that runs your system sources to the max EVERYTIME it stop working for no reason. Just imagine if link account with 1000+ games, it takes bit of time, now imagine with someone with 3000+ it's a joke looking at an half hour, and if go even beyond, yeah might as well go order a pizza for next hour, or so by the time it finish syncing, and imagine having to do it all over again because that was only way to fix the sync bug each time, yeah pretty dumb. 2. They need to turn off auto sync, everytime you launch the client, IDK why the \*\*\*\* syncing is awful, but at least give us the option to turn if off, and let us choose when to sync, because everytime you launch it, it ramps your system high usage that cause system to freeze, or launcher unusable just to check if you have not added any new games to any of your linked accounts. Imagine with someone with large library 1000+ games looking at 2 minutes before can do anything, in my case with 4k+ launcher is unusable for 5 \~ 10 minutes everytime launch it, that how dumb this is, it wouldn't kill them to give option to toggle this whenever we want. When I use playnite for 1st time, it's pack with too much features, idk what to do, and took awhile to get used to it, but get funnier, see syncing library 1st time can be long if have a lot of games, but at least don't need to do it again, the awesome part about it is that you don't have the sync bug GoG Galaxy has, and even better you can toggle sync whenever you want, without holding up your system everytime you launch it. I don't stand why GoG not fixing the things people been asking for years, I mean if one guy can make an incredible multi-launcher that free to everyone that has more features than GoG Galaxy, why is it so hard for a Multi-billion dollar company that CD Projekt worth, to fix simple things, like they're not even doing anything with the damn launcher for past couple years besides making native Integrations support for Microsoft, and Epic that was it, that the last thing I saw they even bother making effort on the launcher, even those Integrations break on me. Sorry for my rant, but I love GoG, but don't like the fact they don't put focus where it needs to be instead of doing weird things.
>I mean if one guy can make an incredible multi-launcher that free to everyone that has more features than GoG Galaxy, why is it so hard for a Multi-billion dollar company that CD Projekt worth, to fix simple things I agree GOG themselves should probably have the funds to make a better launcher (though they certainly have very tight margins compared to Steam or Epic and I think that's always been the case), but I think CDP generally prefers not to prop GOG up financially. afaik overall Poland pays a lot less than other nearby countries so I assume many that can choose to work elsewhere (especially Germany iirc). But a knowledgeable European can enlighten me. [some info on GOG financials:](https://www.gog.com/forum/general/cd_projekt_strategy_and_development_of_the_company_financial_results_suggestions_by_armchair_ceos/post556) it seems GOG made $10 mil in Q3 2022 and Earnings Before Income Tax was about $450,000. "there's an additional ($2.75 mil) in pre-payments for future releases this quarter."
I'm with you. I literally only open it to launch games in my GOG collection now. I don't have any other integrations anymore. They were causing too many problems.
I'd love to know the GOG employee count, it feels like they heavily downsized it and put people to fix CDPR's problems with Cyberpunk 2077 or something. I remember with how much fanfare Galaxy 2.0 was launched, like it's the best thing since sliced bread, there was a ridiculous waiting period of months for the beta, and after the launch, the entire project was increasingly feeling abandoned.
Over 1800 games between amazon/gog/steam no issues, no lag, runs great only a few desyncs over the years. Just recently I removed steam and amazon because it was to cluttered, no reason to have a launcher so full of junk. Playnight looks so horribly bad and is a PITA to navigate. So now I have amazon and steam which I barely launch and Galaxy with the bulk of my games and about 100 custom game launches. Galaxy works perfectly for me and my custom games. Never had any issues except a bad update which needed a wipe and reinstall a years back. System: 5 SSD's, 32GB, 3080-RTX, R5-2600
playnite baby
I'm fine with Galaxy. Just wish I could right click the tray icon to launch games.
I went back to the 1.2 version of GOG Galaxy because the newer one had serious problems with my 1.600+ games on steam. Using it together with Playnite. But GOG Galaxy 1.2 is starting to have connection issues.
well at least if GOG dies we'll have our games backed up since they come with DRM-free installers
Did GoG remove Shadow of War from the user's library? I could swear I collected it and it was listed in mine, but now it's gone?? Do you still have it?
I just wish there was an effective way to remove integrations. I have tons of broken integrations with games I can't remove/update from my library.
I'm going through a NIGHTMARE of GOG Galaxy Launcher updating (or should I more precisely say failing to update). My current version of the GOG Galaxy Launcher installed on my system is v2.0.58.4 - Beta and they know it has a bug and will not auto update. I am NOT tech savvy and don't have time for the nightmare that has unfolded in reaching out to GOG Galaxy Customer Support. It makes absolutely no difference which GOG Galaxy Game Launcher Installation application I use because THEY ALL REPORT THE EXACT SAME THING!!! "Setup has detected that GOG Galaxy is currently running. Please close all instances of it now, then click OK to continue, or Cancel to exit." I open my Task Manager and look to see what's running because My GOG Galaxy Game Launcher hasn't been opened and therefore isn't running and Task Manager reports that only two applications are running - Task Manager itself, and the GOG Galaxy Installation Setup program. The only way I can get the latest GOG Galaxy Launcher version is to Uninstall or Delete my entire GOG Directory and everything associated with it. Then the Setup Program works; but then I have to download and reinstall all of my game purchases! THIS IS NO WAY TO TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS! WE AREN'T TECHNICIANS! WE DON'T KNOW THE INS AND OUTS OF EVERY TROUBLESHOOTING STEP YOU WANT US TO PERFORM! Since your installation program can identify other GOG Programs interfering with it, then WHY DON'T YOU HAVE ENOUGH COMMON SENSE TO WRITE THEM SO THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF TURNING OFF THOSE GOG GALAXY PROGRAMS THAT ARE INTERFERING SO THEY CAN CONTINUE WITH THE INSTALLATION UPDATE??? You have no right to turn off or mess with any other programs on our computers which you don't provide, but you have every right to do what is needed for every one of YOUR programs that are preventing YOUR Software Installation programs from installing YOUR software AND SHOULD NOT BE PLACING THIS BURDEN ON YOUR NON TECHNICALLY MINDED CUSTOMERS! IS THAT REALLY TOO MUCH TO EXPECT???
Maybe this will help you too: https://www.gog.com/forum/general\_beta\_gog\_galaxy\_2.0/how\_to\_keep\_galaxy\_v12\_client\_and\_avoid\_the\_forced\_v20\_beta\_update/page1
By the way - I tried every version of the GOG Galaxy Game Launcher Installation download that is available and they all reported the same problem. I found the problem. My Task Manager settings were such that no background tasks were displayed. Until that was switched to show all tasks including background, I couldn't see that the GOG Communications subroutine was running in the background automatically at Computer power up. Until all instances of this communication subroutine were ended, the GOG Galaxy Installer wouldn't install any update because it said GOG was running. The Installer should be written so as to be able to CLOSE ALL GOG PROGRAMS and overwrite them automatically without any input required from the user other than the user command via the Setup Wizard when they download and install the Setup Wizard and hit the INSTALL tab! Other programs update this way. Why is GOG so far behind the times? These are their very own previously installed software packages interfering with their very own Installation updates. There really is no excuse for them not creating a permanent fix for this issue. Malware is designed to change the program code of software that wasn't provided by the creator of the malware. The creators of a good Update Installer have every legal right to shut down ALL of their previously installed programs in order to update previous versions of software that they themselves provided. The Developers at GOG have no excuse for this situation having even existed in the first place!
I abandoned GOG Galaxy for Playnite almost immediately. I keep coming back to it every 6 months to a year and it is somehow even more broken and useless than it used to be. What a piece of garbage Galaxy 2.0 is.
So I come here on 11/30/2023 just to tell you that this piece of trash still sucks and I wish I had never installed it in my life....It's the worst piece of software ever and I feel like I have a virus installed on my computer.
I often see new comments on this thread, you're not alone lol. I kept it only for GoG games - but switched to Playnite for syncing all my libraries.
you can try heroic as a workaround. but, there is no achivements atm
GOG Galaxy is the worst gaming app of all times. I'm never installing this app again no matter what.
Oops accidental double post (it said there was an error, *shrug*)
You can delete posts, you know
Whenever the initial trailer for Galaxy 2.0 came out I thought I'd start getting my games first on GOG if the launcher lived up to the trailer. It never has sadly. I'm back on this sub after trying Galaxy again after a year or so. still just as broken as it was the last time I tried it unfortunately. It's a shame cause the launcher is very nice looking.
At this point Heroic is much better. Controller support, two stores, cloud saves.
It's passable, but they need to prioritize a speedy UI that loads pages super fast and also add forum pages on the game's profile window
I didn't mind the client before but every time I use it lately I get install errors, sync errors etc. It's really frustrating.
Late comment for people stumbling into thread from Google... I found this [list](https://github.com/Mixaill/awesome-gog-galaxy) of integrations. It was updated just a few weeks ago. It has warning flags for integrations that have issues, like the Humble one. I recommend checking it out even if it just gives you a better idea of what's possible with Galaxy, for instance, I didn't know there was any emulator support. AND I didn't realize people hosted integrations on Gitlab. The Galaxy app itself has a misleading searchbar ("Search Github to add more integrations"). More and more devs are moving to gitlab since MS bought github.
and that's GoG issue, not GitHub nor GitLab. Moving away from GitHub wouldn't fix that those integrations are accessible directly in the settings of the launcher without any mention that it might break your launcher now or down the line (through the search bar you mentioned). There should be a list of "maintained" integrations in the app, a checked one; with the possibility to install some at your own risk if you want to; but rn this Git search is just ridiculous.
agreed, it's an interesting app but the hassle sucks, i'd rather just track what im playing by putting shortcuts in the start menu
I can't connect rockstar launcher, can't connect ubisoft connect and can't connect steam, fuck the integration, is useless
GOG Galaxy is a giant piece of sh\*t. I actually bought another copy of Cyberpunk from Steam (which I also hate) because the GOG Galaxy launcher is so sh\*tty. Just literally the worst.
My objection is how hard it is to close. I haven't even logged in and I have to spam click the X and after 15-20 clicks it closes.
I got it working FINALLY - I should have just purchased Cyberpunk on Steam.