Deviations for ground-state forces amount up to 0.0293 eV/Å and 0.0026 eV/Å, respectively, with the most significant deviations for the forces being observed for the C-C triple bonds in acetylene, cyanoacetylene, and diacetylene. The comparison of the first three singlet and triplet excitation energies gives a maximum error for singlet excitations of 0.0102 eV and a MAE of 0.0017 eV. The maximum error and MAE for triplet excitations is of only 0.0015 eV and 0.0005 eV, respectively. Most importantly, the accuracy of GAPW excited-state forces is comparable to the one of GAPW ground-state forces: The largest errors for the excited-state forces of the first singlet and triplet states are smaller than 0.0303 eV/Å and 0.0472 eV/Å, respectively, with the most substantial deviations originating again from C-C triple bonds.