Merging my Steam account with GOG Galaxy?

[hisey606]

Is this something I want to do? I received a copy of Cyberpunk 2077 as a gift and to install the game I need to install it into GOG Galaxy which is like Steam I guess? It will allow me to merge my Steam account but I found no way to install the game into Steam directly.

[Snapjak]

It does not merge, it simply runs on top of Steam if you let it. Your GOG copy does not translate into a Steam copy.

[Brian9824]

Yes, you cannot add the game to steam.

[nullable]

You say merge, but I don't think that's what's occurring. I think you're making some assumptions and randomly swapping out terms because you want this to work a certain way.

If you've got a GoG license for Cyberpunk you play and manage it through GoG. This holds true pretty much any time you buy a game on a certain platform. You don't just get to move the license around to any other platform you decided you'd rather use.

[Randver]

You can integrate your Steam library into GOG Galaxy if your looking to streamline launching games by using only one client. It works for Origin, Uplay, Xbox, Epic etc too.

All of your games will show up in Galaxy and can be launched there no matter the platform you bought them on.

The games remain on the platform you purchased them, it's just making it easier to navigate all your PC games.

[crunchyfrog]

As other point out here, it really doesn't work like you might think.

You can run ANY program through Steam. All this means is you get the steam overlay and that's about it.

The actual accounts and soforth never connect.

However, if you want an ease of use, quality of life improvement that brings many platofrms under one launcher, I recommend using Playnite.

I have GOG games, Origin games, Epic, Steam and Amazon games all running through that.

[Randver]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

As other point out here, it really doesn't work like you might think.

You can run ANY program through Steam. All this means is you get the steam overlay and that's about it.

The actual accounts and soforth never connect.

However, if you want an ease of use, quality of life improvement that brings many platofrms under one launcher, I recommend using Playnite.

I have GOG games, Origin games, Epic, Steam and Amazon games all running through that.

Does Playnite let you load/navigate your large Steam library better/faster than Steam does?

I know Galaxy has issues with large libraries and Steam is painfully slow even with a fast connection, small thumbnails when dealing with large libraries, I have 5000 plus games and I have to divide them up into dozens of categories just to avoid a laggy mess when looking for something to install and play.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Randver:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

As other point out here, it really doesn't work like you might think.

You can run ANY program through Steam. All this means is you get the steam overlay and that's about it.

The actual accounts and soforth never connect.

However, if you want an ease of use, quality of life improvement that brings many platofrms under one launcher, I recommend using Playnite.

I have GOG games, Origin games, Epic, Steam and Amazon games all running through that.

Does Playnite let you load/navigate your large Steam library better/faster than Steam does?

I know Galaxy has issues with large libraries and Steam is painfully slow even with a fast connection, small thumbnails when dealing with large libraries, I have 5000 plus games and I have to divide them up into dozens of categories just to avoid a laggy mess when looking for something to install and play.

Well put it this way - I haven't seen issue with it yet. But then I don't get the problem with slowness on Steam either and my laptop is rather mediocre spec.
So I can't say definitively whether it will or won't for you.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Randver:

Does Playnite let you load/navigate your large Steam library better/faster than Steam does?

Playnite and gog galaxy are basically just launcher consolidators

You still have to run and install the various clients like epic/gog galaxy/steam/uplay etc

Steam is painfully slow even with a fast connection

I have 3k games and the steam library loads up totally fine with icons, steam community,etc

[Randver]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Randver:

Does Playnite let you load/navigate your large Steam library better/faster than Steam does?

Playnite and gog galaxy are basically just launcher consolidators

You still have to run and install the various clients like epic/gog galaxy/steam/uplay etc

Steam is painfully slow even with a fast connection

I have 3k games and the steam library loads up totally fine with icons, steam community,etc

Where I have issues is when I select one of my collections the thumbnails on the right will load very slow (and least in my opinion) and then if I change the sort (% Achievements, Steam Review, etc) it reloads the thumbnails all over again.

It's like it has to re-acquire them each time. Loading individual game information by selecting on the left isn't an issue.

I've played with all the settings, I use the smallest thumbnails and it still a laggy experience loading a collection and scrolling through it to see the games.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Randver:

Where I have issues is when I select one of my collections the thumbnails on the right will load very slow (and least in my opinion) and then if I change the sort (% Achievements, Steam Review, etc) it reloads the thumbnails all over again.

It's like it has to re-acquire them each time. Loading individual game information by selecting on the left isn't an issue.

I've played with all the settings, I use the smallest thumbnails and it still a laggy experience loading a collection and scrolling through it to see the games.

You probably need to enable GPU accellerated rednering in web views. I've tried treplcating your issue with my 3000 library and it basically loads about as fast as you can expect if you scroll down, switch views,etc. Maybe half a second before the thumbnails refresh

Alternatively you might be memory limited. In order for steam to load all the thumbnails I imagine would take up a ton of memory to store it in-memory. Othrewise it'll have to load all the humbnails from its disk cache, in which case you might be disk limited

[Randver]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Randver:

Where I have issues is when I select one of my collections the thumbnails on the right will load very slow (and least in my opinion) and then if I change the sort (% Achievements, Steam Review, etc) it reloads the thumbnails all over again.

It's like it has to re-acquire them each time. Loading individual game information by selecting on the left isn't an issue.

I've played with all the settings, I use the smallest thumbnails and it still a laggy experience loading a collection and scrolling through it to see the games.

You probably need to enable GPU accellerated rednering in web views. I've tried treplcating your issue with my 3000 library and it basically loads about as fast as you can expect if you scroll down, switch views,etc. Maybe half a second before the thumbnails refresh

Alternatively you might be memory limited. In order for steam to load all the thumbnails I imagine would take up a ton of memory to store it in-memory. Othrewise it'll have to load all the humbnails from its disk cache, in which case you might be disk limited

I have GPU accelerated enabled, 32 GB ram, Steam isn't on my SSD but it's on a 7200 HD so I'm not sure why you're seeing better performance than me.

Collections of less than 100 games aren't an issue but when I approach 200 or larger and have to scroll that's when I find it reloads the thumbnails when I scroll....so if I go to the bottom of the collection and scroll back up the thumbnails that loaded already are gone and need to reload.

It's almost like they are being deleted when they are no longer in view. I'm using the small thumbnails under interface elements at 1440 so maybe it's an issue with the Steam client cache only storing so much before it clears.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Randver:

Originally posted by Satoru:

You probably need to enable GPU accellerated rednering in web views. I've tried treplcating your issue with my 3000 library and it basically loads about as fast as you can expect if you scroll down, switch views,etc. Maybe half a second before the thumbnails refresh

Alternatively you might be memory limited. In order for steam to load all the thumbnails I imagine would take up a ton of memory to store it in-memory. Othrewise it'll have to load all the humbnails from its disk cache, in which case you might be disk limited

I have GPU accelerated enabled, 32 GB ram, Steam isn't on my SSD but it's on a 7200 HD so I'm not sure why you're seeing better performance than me.

Collections of less than 100 games aren't an issue but when I approach 200 or larger and have to scroll that's when I find it reloads the thumbnails when I scroll....so if I go to the bottom of the collection and scroll back up the thumbnails that loaded already are gone and need to reload.

It's almost like they are being deleted when they are no longer in view. I'm using the small thumbnails under interface elements at 1440 so maybe it's an issue with the Steam client cache only storing so much before it clears.

Well, I have a suggestion which might give you a start point to see what could be causing this.

Try starting Windows in Safe Mode with networking. Run Steam, and see if there's any change in behaviour.

Granted with safe mode it might be the same, especially if there's some issue with your PC not enabling the right graphics card or something.

But if it does work fine then, it should tell you that it's something on your system hindering it, and not likely to be hardware.

Worth a shot I guess.

[Randver]

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