Hello y’all, I’m at my wits end. I got the GoG version of BG3 (cause DRM free yay!), but for the love of me I cannot get it to work. I’ve done so much googling and so many workarounds, I’ve installed .net, I’ve skipped the launcher, I’ve used the alternate .exe, I’ve tried proton experimental and 8 and hotfix, but nothing has got me even as far as a loading screen. I just get a flash of black then crashed back to desktop. If anyone has any insights or help I would greatly appreciate it, I’m using Heroic right now but honestly I’ll do whatever to get this thing working.
Hate to say it, but I refuse to buy games on other storefronts since I got the deck (I love the drm-free aspects of gog). Until other companies put in the effort to support Linux, I don’t see how they deserve my money.
Honestly, same, my buying habits did a full 180 (I use to wait to get a game on GoG, now I never do). But my witcher 3 I had on GoG worked great even if it was a little less convenient, and BG3 seems like a game I’ll want to have forever, so I figured why not. Unfortunate that they had to go and give me a reason why not…
cause DRM free yay!
BG3 doesn’t use Steam for DRM, only for distribution. You could zip up the game’s folder and burn it on a million floppies or whatever, and play the game wherever you like.
Interesting. What works for me is an install from Heroic, adding exe to Steam, and also a flag –skip-launcher for it. AFAIK .NET is only needed for the launcher.
Have you tried adding it to Steam as a non-steam game and then forcing compatibility for it to proton experimental in Steam?
Yep, with both exes, no dice. Currently waiting for my lutris download as a next step to try
Try Bottles. Lutris almost never works for me, Heroic is a bit better. But once I discovered Bottles, I’m basically never using anything else. Bottles can also automatically add an entry to Steam for your game. So any non-Steam game on my steamdeck is via Bottles.
