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Posted March 13, 2016
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johnnygoging: ya
Haha. Genious!
Posted March 13, 2016
Just wanted to add that I also download most of my games directly through the web browser, and I rarely encounter problems. ( And my internet connection is far from ideal. )

The problem is most likely on your end, but I have no idea why or what exactly... Just start by trying a different / more recent browser, as some have already suggested.
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johnnygoging: ya
All your games are belong to us!
Post edited March 13, 2016 by CharlesGrey
Posted March 13, 2016
I see the misspelled title will keep this forum alive.

Is there a way I can change the title, this is getting more and more embarrassing thanks to the creativity of you guys :D Come to think of it, changing the title would ruin the fun for some :)
Posted March 13, 2016
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Stryder2931: That is one thing I wish they did have. Some type of file check at the end of the download to ensure it was done correctly.
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hedwards: That's why I wind up using downloaders. There's no particular reason why they couldn't use Bittorrent, Jigdo or something similar. Bittorrent itself allows you to just download the bits that have been downloaded incorrectly, you don't have to have it connecting clients together.
Yea, let's make GOG to use torrents to download games we bought....and by that i mean get a torrent file of the game we hadn't bought, now you know why.
Posted March 13, 2016
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drealmer7: it's definitely not a GOG issue that persists I think.
I know GOG do have problems with web downloading, but it impacts so a small percentage of users that support states they won't fix it. I know of this problem since I run into it regularly. Problem: If you have, like me, two IP addresses, One for me and one for my ISP, then gog's download logic can't work.
Posted March 13, 2016
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hedwards: That's why I wind up using downloaders. There's no particular reason why they couldn't use Bittorrent, Jigdo or something similar. Bittorrent itself allows you to just download the bits that have been downloaded incorrectly, you don't have to have it connecting clients together.
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Spy_Gentleman: Yea, let's make GOG to use torrents to download games we bought....and by that i mean get a torrent file of the game we hadn't bought, now you know why.
All I get from that is that you're still learning English.

Other stores offer torrents for downloads. I don't see why GOG can't.
Posted March 13, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Also, please make sure to update your browser(s) to the latest stable version just eliminate any potential browser-side issues.

I would definitely update Firefox to version 45 as that also adds a plethora of security fixes :)
yeah, i love the "your display driver has stopped working and successfully recovered" feature on firefox 45 when you watch html5 youtube videos. ;-P
Posted March 13, 2016
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rz4: Now I don't know what counts as a good internet connection for you personally but I can download at 5,5-6 Mb/s but as many said that they don't have any problem with downloads it must be something on my end after all.
I guess the connection can be speedy, yet have some kind of issues, like losing packets or getting corrupted packets or something like that all the time. Dunno.

Of course if you never see this problems while downloading dozens of gigabytes from other sources with the same browser, then it appears to be something wrong specifically between your computer and the GOG download servers. Maybe you get connected to some shitty GOG servers, while I am lucky to get a connection to the good ones?

I presume Steam downloads work for you because they are not direct http downloads either, but have some internal download integrity checking of their own, something that http browser downloads don't. So just because Steam downloads work for you, doesn't tell for sure if you are having some issues with your connection.

As I said, it would be nice to get some p2p functionality... but then I presume GOG would integrate that to their Galaxy client, so you would still have to use it to get the extra functionality. I am not sure what exactly GOG can do to fix the issues some (like you) have when trying to download directly with a web browser, without using any other kind of clients, even p2p "clients" (putting the ""s there as I know the distinction between servers and clients in a p2p network isn't quite the same...).

EDIT: Ok I just saw you were thinking of giving Galaxy a chance after all, after learning it allows you to download the offline installers as well, just like e.g. the GOG Downloader did... Hopefully it provides you with better success rate downloading them.
Post edited March 13, 2016 by timppu
Posted March 13, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Also, please make sure to update your browser(s) to the latest stable version just eliminate any potential browser-side issues.

I would definitely update Firefox to version 45 as that also adds a plethora of security fixes :)
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timmy010: yeah, i love the "your display driver has stopped working and successfully recovered" feature on firefox 45 when you watch html5 youtube videos. ;-P
Must be a Windows thing, I suppose. Never had that happen on my Linux install :)
Posted March 13, 2016
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timmy010: yeah, i love the "your display driver has stopped working and successfully recovered" feature on firefox 45 when you watch html5 youtube videos. ;-P
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JudasIscariot: Must be a Windows thing, I suppose. Never had that happen on my Linux install :)
It's not, I've been using Firefox since forever and haven't encountered it. :P
Posted March 13, 2016
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hedwards: That's why I wind up using downloaders. There's no particular reason why they couldn't use Bittorrent, Jigdo or something similar. Bittorrent itself allows you to just download the bits that have been downloaded incorrectly, you don't have to have it connecting clients together.
End up like Humble or groupee torrents where there is 1 seed (and get the invetible people complain about speeds when there are like 5 seeds and a few hundred leechers) or even worse dead.
Posted March 13, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Must be a Windows thing, I suppose. Never had that happen on my Linux install :)
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omega64: It's not, I've been using Firefox since forever and haven't encountered it. :P
Then I don't know...maybe it's a driver issue. I know Nvidia recently released updated drivers for Windows a couple of days ago so if anyone is getting driver resets from watching html5 youtube videos I can only recommend updating ASAP.
Posted March 13, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Then I don't know...maybe it's a driver issue. I know Nvidia recently released updated drivers for Windows a couple of days ago so if anyone is getting driver resets from watching html5 youtube videos I can only recommend updating ASAP.
it is the driver, but it's the most stable driver for me and i updated around 2 months ago. i could update but then something else would break. best leave it alone ;-)
Posted March 13, 2016
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rz4: ... So I search around in the support section and what do I find again and again? Use galaxy. That's the solution. ...
Hm, the support section is very likely wrong in this case. GOG Galaxy is completely optional. This means that if you cannot download through your browser you can just ask for your money back but of course have to give the GOG support team the chance before to fix the issue, especially by upgrading your browser to the newest version. After all you cannot expect the GOG team to support all possible versions of older browsers.

I think it goes without saying that all GOG games should be fully downloadable with just an ordinary browser in the overwhelming number of cases. After all it's just a download.
Posted March 13, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Then I don't know...maybe it's a driver issue. I know Nvidia recently released updated drivers for Windows a couple of days ago so if anyone is getting driver resets from watching html5 youtube videos I can only recommend updating ASAP.
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timmy010: it is the driver, but it's the most stable driver for me and i updated around 2 months ago. i could update but then something else would break. best leave it alone ;-)
I don't know. I mean if it breaks when you do simple things like watch a youtube video in html5 then who knows what else is wrong with it? Well, it's your system and your choice :)
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