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Does anyone have experience with playing Baldurs Gate 3 from GOG? (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have read it runs fine on steam but would rather buy it on GOG due to the lack of DRM.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have it. Installed/updated using Heroic. Works perfectly. I use the latest Proton-GE with it, and run the Vulkan backend (seems to have fewer bugs for me on AMD GPU than the DX11 version).

Running the latest Mint with the 6.1 OEM kernel and kisak-mesa drivers.

My wife has it installed with Galaxy on Windows. DRM-free means we can play co-op over LAN instead of being stuck with split-screen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The steam version is also DRM free IIRC.

Why does that make you able to play co-op over LAN?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Because she has my copy of the game installed on her PC too, so with one copy we're able to play together on two different computers instead of sharing a screen.

The lack of DRM means GoG doesn't care about whether I'm online on more than one PC. Steam does, meaning one of us would need to be in offline mode. In games that implement the Steam DRM this would mean that the person in offline mode wouldn't be able to play multiplayer.

Apparently that isn't the case with this game but I didn't realize that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The steam version is also DRM free IIRC.

steam IS drm...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, Steam is a store and a content delivery mechanism. It has the option to add DRM, which developers may choose to do, but don't have to. There are games which can be purchased on Steam and which can be launched without the Steam client, just like any normal program.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@schizosfera @endDRM could use your thoughts on this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Are you being sarcastic or are you asking for assistance? Please clarify.