Oh cool then thats outdated information.

Sorry to have posted it then.

I dont own a mac myself, I just repeated what mac users said in this forum.




Err that makes no sense. The installation files are literally data ? I wouldnt be able to copy the game to my current harddisk and then install either.

Or is the OP trying to install the game to an external drive ? That too makes very much sense though because Mac is notorious for not having much harddrive space available.

i read it as he is trying to install to an exturnal drive which means into and out of a Usb port or perhaps thunderbold [difference is one was made to work on Windows and the other was Apple] either way its a well known cause of errors which anyone can google if they really want to know the ins and outs

p.s, i do own two Macs but mostly play games on Windows... the offline files have only just been updated in the last few days

That's not correct. You can set the GOG folder location to an external drive and GOG Galaxy will install the games there.

In this case for whatever reason the game refused to update, despite the update being almost the same size as the full install (135 vs 153 GB).

I ended up having to delete the game and then reinstalling it with GOG Galaxy to get the game to install.

I'd love to download the Mac offline installer, but as it's 54 separate 4 GB file downloads and the GOG Galaxy application fails to download the offline installer I haven't down that yet.

On a side note, the GOG Mac version of BG3 still has a broken launcher included in patch 7. If I run the app it opens a launcher where I can choose Rosetta or ARM64. Choosing Arm64 does nothing.

Fortunately there is an Arm64 version of launcher included, but I had to rename that to get it to work. I have no idea how anyone that's on an Apple Silicon Mac actually plays this game as the launcher is basically broken as installed. The only way I got it working was through experimentation and knowing linux.

Also cross saves only work if GOG Galaxy is running and GOG Galaxy on Macs is still somewhat broken in that you can't quit it.

ref - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/installing-application-software-on-external-drive/2a2233f1-9e2f-4fa8-bd58-bad7ec78c3ae

i'll include this for next time

Hi all!

On start, sorry for this "dumb" question - some may take it like that... but hey! Im beginner in PC games, lvl 2 hard nooob .. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Can some1 tell me plz where can I download the newstest PATCH from if I dont own GOG copy of Baldur's?
I've bought version on Steam soon after game released, but I cannot access it for long now (TL;DR - account lost, no recovery option)
Is there any download link/website erct?
Ive played v4.1.1.3624901

thx 4 help up front!
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Unfortunately, i fyou bought it on steam but want it on GOG, you'll need to re-buy it on GOG. Steam and GOG are not cross-compatible.

Once you buy it on GOG and download the installers, it's yours forever (unlike Steam, where account lockouts/loss means you lose everything)... but until you buy it on GOG, you're on your own.

Once you've purchased the game on GOG, it'll show up in your library and you can either use GOG Galaxy to install it, or download the installers and patches individually and install it manually from the BG3 tab in your library.
You might wait until Patch 8 comes out. I imagine that'll be pretty big, as it adds a lot of new content (sub-classes, etc) and new features (crossplay) that I suspect will result in change to a large portion of the code base. At a minimum, it'll be a large download. Worst case, they won't have a good way to patch in all the small changes and the "patch" will be a full reinstall.

Patch 8 is, allegedly, the past patch they'll be releasing. I'm sure there will be hotfixes, but those tend to be smaller and don't involve a full reinstall. Once Patch 8 is out, I'm guessing (with no insider knowledge... just an outsider's gut check) that you'll be past the worst of it.

crossplay is steam only

Gog and Mac users can fuck off at this point but yes patch 8 should be out soon

Did Larian ever confirm that crossplay would be Steam only? Last I heard, it was just the open beta that was limited to Steam and consoles, but everyone is going to get the patch.

Did I miss an announcement somewhere?