I noticed the Update prompt mentioning "Beta", despite me having unchecked the participate in Beta checkbox in Galaxy 1.2 settings, and the prompt had me chose between
"Update" and
"Update later". That's pretty much Microsoft newspeak for "Yes" and "Yes". And I haaaaate it, so much.
Intermission
WARNING: Once you've received this popup, the next time you restart Galaxy, you will be forcibly updated to the v2.0 BETA.
Sidenote: If you closed (quit) Galaxy after the prompt, DO NOT start a GoG game through the start menu shortcut. Doing so will start Galaxy first, which will then in turn update to v2.0 BETA. Starting the game EXE directly, or with a manually created shortcut, won't start Galaxy.
In case the update already happened, all you can do is...
- uninstall Galaxy, and reinstall v1.2 from an
old setup (Link: hosted by GoG).
- DON'T let Galaxy start automatically after the setup (untick the box).
- Then, before you start Galaxy, follow the steps in the "tl;dr" section below.
Furthermore...
After you're done, you
may have to import each of your games again, if you installed them to a custom path (which I did) rather than the default Galaxy suggested path. This is an annoying manual procedure and takes a ton of your time, especially if you have a few modded games, which may be validated and "repaired" (broken) when importing them in this way (which I have, and had happen to me - Fallout New Vegas, I think it was). You may want to backup-copy these games in their entirety (whole folder), and paste that copy back over the game folder after Galaxy is done... "repairing".
End of intermission.
Triggered by this, I did the research and, sure enough, the forum is full with absolutely fair outrage about it. Reading about how the client is, effectively, still very much a Beta, only confirmed my apprehension to update.
So I clicked "Update later", then went ahead and disabled autostart, added "/runWithoutUpdating" to the shortcut, made a backup of the folders, then chopped off any and all files and folders that could be connected to the already downloaded update. In particular, I removed...
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy ...
... \redists\GalaxyUpdater.exe
... \autoupdate
... \autoupdate-verified
... \temp\desktop-galaxy-updater
... \selfupdate.json
If anything breaks, I'll try to restore from my backups. I refuse to use a half baked, clu(s)tterfuck of a client, especially when it's being forced.
MY machine,
MY realm,
GTFO.
Extremely disappointed with GoG right now. I've been with them from the early days and never ever in my entire life accepted or installed Steam, still remember a friend of mine showing it to me when it was new back in the day, and I hated it. It was such a baffling concept to me,
"why would anyone, ever"... and here we are.
So, thanks GoG, I hate it.
*Addendum:
Out of curiosity, I exchanged the GalaxyUpdater EXE with the Windows Calculator EXE, just to see how often it would be called. The Calculator popped up a LOT. I deleted it after half a day, but I had to close the calculator about 4 times or so.
Also, I found this in the community wishlist:
Allow users to stay with Galaxy 1.2
Signal Boosting:
Open letter to GoG
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tl;dr:
To cleanly disable update, do the following:
0) Recommended: Make a backup first (ZIP the folders, put it somewhere in case you need it later)
1) Delete
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\redists\GalaxyUpdater.exe
2) Disable Galaxy autostart in settings
3) Add "/runWithoutUpdating" to the Galaxy shortcut
- Right click short cut, properties, "Target" box
- append a space and "/runWithoutUpdating" at the end (without quotation marks)
Should be fine now, but there may be some setup files already downloaded and "waiting" to be installed, which will never happen now, thus it's just dead weight on your harddrive. If you want to clean that up...
4) Optional - Clean-up: Delete...
Inside of
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy ...
-
... \autoupdate
-
... \autoupdate-verified
-
... \temp\desktop-galaxy-updater
-
... \selfupdate.json
5) Unrelated to update, but if you want to clear some space while we're already here...
- delete the contents of the \logs\ folder (mine was 600MB in size, jeez).
- after a few days, if everything works fine, you
may delete the backup ZIPs. I'd keep them, tho.
6) Make your voices heard by voting in this community wishlist topic:
Allow users to stay with Galaxy 1.2Click to expand...
