Complete overhaul of the Galaxy client.
Application Details:
| Version: | 2.0 |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | https://www.gog.com/galaxy |
| Votes: | 12 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.17-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
- Installing
- downloading games
- playing games
- syncing savegames
- integrations
- showing the overlay (see below)
What does not
- The UI is very slow especially if you move or resize the window
- The overlay will not contain content in the main tile (it will claim that there was no internet connection) but it will still show your friendlist and you can toggle FPS
Workarounds
Install corefonts via winetricks. That will at least solve the black-window error
What was not tested
- Messenger
- Notifications
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Note that installing corefonts or setting a DLL override for libgles2.dll is not necessary anymore.
The installer said that there were an error because of missing components at the end but I have not yet had any problems that could go back to that.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux Testing "Trixie" | Nov 09 2023 | 8.17-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | xw | |
| Show | Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 17 2023 | 8.8-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Igor Zinovyev | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux | Jun 03 2022 | 7.7 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Ivan Potapov | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Apr 20 2022 | 7.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Oreeeee | |
| Show | Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 12 2021 | 6.21 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Darren Wilkinson |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 44985 | Many applications using CEFv3 Angle OpenGL ES 2.0 for H/W Accelerated Canvas and WebGL display blank/black windows (disabling or removing 'libglesv2.dll' is a workaround) | NEW | View | |
| 48847 | dotnet471: often gets a critical section timeout | NEW | View | |
| 49492 | GOG Galaxy 2.0 plugins do not work in KDE | UNCONFIRMED | View |
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by Ilia Efimov on Wednesday October 18th 2023, 5:30
2. Run installer with gamescope --force-composition --xwayland-count 2 -- wine GOG_Galaxy_2.0.exe
3. If it fails find wine_profile_dir -iname "*galaxy*", will find something like GalaxySetup.exe
4. After installation, it will run without gamescope
by Ozan on Sunday August 6th 2023, 13:43
by thisguy on Wednesday April 19th 2023, 22:37
remote-config.gog.com/components/webinstaller?component_version=2.0.0
and with a fresh prefix, it installed flawlessly, started flawlessly, but I ran in to an error with rendering, and it appears to be some libcef related issue. Not sure how to log the error (its also a GUI popup error).
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
32GB DDR4
Manjaro (as of 20/04/23) with standard 6.2.1 kernel
WINE 8.5
by Dasein on Saturday March 19th 2022, 14:02
by Dasein on Saturday March 19th 2022, 14:03
by gardenapple on Saturday March 19th 2022, 14:08
by Dasein on Saturday March 19th 2022, 14:31
But the installer for the GoG Galaxy Client itself (and any pre-requisites that it might bring alongside it) was more along the lines of what I was thinking.
It seems to have issues with more recent updates and using stuff like Lutris or Proton on something like the Steamdeck doesn't necessarily help :/ Since GoG themselves didn't want to support Linux outright. It would limit Linux Gamers to lose the features like the Multiplayer ones, or Cloud-Saves, or Integrations etc etc.
by Dasein on Saturday March 19th 2022, 14:35
by gardenapple on Sunday March 20th 2022, 4:52