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

submitted 1 year 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] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@sugar_in_your_tea @Holzkohlen so DRM free on steam is legit as it is on gog? If so, then I I just buy it on steam and not need a launcher or have any worries about not owning the purchase.

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

YMMV of course, but I've played several Steam games without Steam running at all when my kids were playing on my account on another computer. I just killed the Steam process and ran the games from the commandline, and it worked fine.

These were Linux native games, so I'm not exactly sure on the best method to play Windows games without Steam (I guess lutris like anything else, but I haven't needed to).

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

@sugar_in_your_tea @Privatepower42 I've got some tar.xz compressed archives with win32 or win64 Steam games and Proton on my NAS. Sometimes one needs to replace the steam_api.dll or steam_api64.dll with a fake dll if the game relies upon it but it works most of the time. I'm downloading them with steamcmd.