Part of me wishes to complain how Steam Deck users get their own native version of the game. On the other hand I also understand that advertising the game as officially Linux supported will open a can of worms due to the thousands of different hardware combinations and driver versions. So yeah, not blaming Larian for their decision.

Can anyone copy the "Steam Deck" version to a Linux desktop to see how it runs? :grin:

@melkemind: I believe they did a Linux version as they sort-of promised it in their Kickstarter. This was of course all the way back in 2013 and the native version required a user-made patch to run on anything other than proprietary Nvidia drivers. Personally I'm currently playing through it using the Windows version with over 63 hours in already and I haven't encountered any crashes or issues.

The way I see it - BG3 runs fine using Wine/Proton on desktop. Could it run better as native? Possibly, but then again nowadays I'm fine with playing Windows games in Linux as long as they run almost on par.

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The people who approved this are most likely not gamers to begin with. They would know this is very common in many games.

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I'm more than happy to see this available in open source form regardless if part of ScummVM or Standalone. Even though a bit dated, it still remains as one of the scariest games I played.

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I tried asking the developer over on Steam regarding GOG Linux version but it seems my post is being deleted.

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Lazy devs, no Linux version on GOG and updates took forever to arrive.

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Esync patches are still disabled in this release. Sticking to 10.10 until NTSync makes an appearance.

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I can never forget this game as its' part of my favorite bands (Blind Guardian):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdAg9cU8_-M&list=RDvdAg9cU8_-M [External Link]

Hopefully it will be a decent remaster, not a quick cash grab. Really wanted to buy NwN2 but they did a piss poor job at that.

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Nice surprise though I wish they would just release the second game on GOG at this point, it's already been out for more than 3 years.

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So does this mean I can finally start the game? For the past months I've been downloading the latest builds on GOG but never actually playing it.

On the other hand I appreciate the devs' continued support of the game, if anything it means this wasn't just a cash grab on the game's good name.

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Maybe this will open up the way again for more GOG releases.

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