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

submitted 1 year ago by Gnorv@feddit.de to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Questy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's understandable. I think my take on Galaxy has always been that it's just a utility for managing your library, because they don't do DRM on any games they sell, they don't need to have a client like Steam does. That's a big reason why I don't have an issue with their client Linux support as their client isn't a requirement to use your library of games. I will also say that Heroic runs better than the Steam client for me. I get a lot of weird flickering and stuff with the Steam launcher. Additionally it downloads some games insanely slowly. I have tried different servers and a number of the fixes I've found online to no avail. I bought BG3 on Steam and ended up waiting overnight for it to download. Heroic doesn't have that issue at all and can take advantage of my connection speed. Obviously those are issues that don't affect everyone though.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh weird, I haven't had an issue with Steam for a long time, and that's on both NVIDIA and AMD. Granted, this is on a desktop, not a laptop, so if there's any kind of issues switching with the iGP, I'm not going to see it. I've also never had an issue with download speed, but my Internet connection isn't super fast anyway (just 50 down).

My issue is that Heroic doesn't seem to fix controller issues, so games are hit and miss on my Steam Deck. It works fine on desktop though.

[–] Questy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really wish I could figure out the download issue. My connection:

Steam:

Heroic:

I have tried a few solutions I've seen in various Steam forum posts, and asked for advice on the Discord for Nobara. I'm a Linux newbie though and I don't have much knowledge to sort stuff like this out. I have also been having the disappearing cursor issue in some Steam games. Again, can't track down a solution that works, though I've tried a few things. My overall experience with Linux has been great, and I almost never boot Windows anymore, but there are some issues for sure.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's weird. Maybe a bad mirror?

[–] Toidi@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

Have you tried Limiting download speed in steam settings?. I followed a tip somewhere and set it to 10000000 (10gb/s) and it worked for me (I was having similar speed issues).