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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    I thought this way in the beginning, but the way gog never even built a Linux client while valve literally made Linux a viable gaming platform from proton to steam deck, I buy all my games from steam now.

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      @nieceandtows Yeah, I love GOG’s DRM-free ethos and I’d love to support them, but they sure don’t seem interested in supporting me.

      I’d like for Steam to have good competition because monoculture is bad and competition is good for everybody. But if you’re a Linux gamer, nobody else compares to Valve.

      Itch.io is really the only other game store that shows anything like Valve’s level of support for Linux, and it’s great but it’s not a Steam competitor.

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      True. Linux client is a must for me. Their Windows launcher is kinda crap too. It has so much focus on trying to get all your games in one launcher but it’s not great as a launcher for any platform…

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    You should be able to add it to your steam library as a non-steam game and then in game options in Steam set up using Proton as long as you have Proton enabled for all games, not just verified games.

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          That doesn’t allow you to update the game though, so it doesn’t work out great for new games with frequent updates and a large download file size.

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              @Dubious_Fart @Raincloud I get this error when I play some games from GOG through heroic which happens on steam deck. Also, controller support is not great on gog through heroic. So, this makes me stay on steam to play games. Anyway, I hear that steam has drm free games so if BG3 and Star field are drm free then it doesn’t matter if it’s on steam or gog.

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        I thought Heroic was an alternative launcher for Epic Games, I guess I didn’t consider that it would work for GOG games as well.

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          Heroic supports Epic, GoG, and now Amazon games. Supports installs, updates, file validation, and uninstalls perfectly. I think for Epic it supports cloud saves as well, but I don’t use that feature and have heard horror stories from early adopters of it.

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    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.

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        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.

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    @Gnorv

    Great experience with lutris.

    So I installed Galaxy and run it through lutris…next I installed bg3 through Galaxy.

    Now I open lutris, open Galaxy through it, launch the larian launcher and launch the game 😅

    It seems an extra step, but running Galaxy through lutris works with the cloud saving and multiplayer flawlessly.

    Playing without problems around 200hours now with Vulkan and dx11