GOG Galaxy games install directory

PaulStat · 29 May 2015 at 11:35

I noticed the other day that my gog games were installed to c instead of d. So I moved the directory over to d and changed the settings to install to d:\gog games. I then couldn't launch the witcher 3 (I only have one gog game).

So I decided to suck up my mistake delete the witcher directory and redownload the game with me new settings. All looked good as it was downloading on to d, once the download finished however it tried to install to c again and couldn't because there wasn't enough space.

Any ideas?

Witcher1979 · 29 May 2015 at 11:38

Not sure about your issue now, but if you move games to a different drive, I moved Witcher from E: to my SSD which is C:. You just move the game, add the new location to galaxy. Restart Galaxy then goto gog.com, login and click install next to Witcher 3 in your library and it will pick up the install. I had to do it this way and it worked fine.

chroniclard · 29 May 2015 at 11:38

Dont bother with Galaxy just download/install it without the client?

I have Witcher 3 from GOG and just downloaded the install files.

Witcher1979 · 29 May 2015 at 11:42

chroniclard said:
Dont bother with Galaxy just download/install it without the client?

I have Witcher 3 from GOG and just downloaded the install files.

Some people like the achievements

Sega Mega Dave · 29 May 2015 at 11:49

Did you move both the download directory and install directory to D?

PaulStat · 29 May 2015 at 12:19

Sega Mega Dave said:
Did you move both the download directory and install directory to D?

Yes

Woogie · 29 May 2015 at 12:35

So even though you have changed the directory to D within the settings of GOG itself as the default location it is still downloading to the C drive?

Hmmm Uninstall GOG and re-install it

PaulStat · 29 May 2015 at 13:05

Not quite it downloads to D and installs to C

Woogie · 29 May 2015 at 13:11

Hmm, I changed my directory and it seems to have worked fine. Strange.