Good morning,

I am having a "small" Problem with Divinity Enhanced Multiplayer across platforms.

Has anybody ever played a Multiplayer session of Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition where one player has the Steam version and runs Linux(Manjaro) and the other Player has the GoG Version on a Windows 7 64bit System?

We have tried several(all?) possibilities to connect but nothing works.

-at first i didnt know that enhanced Needs 64 bit (im on a 32 bit Windows 7 System) =>doesnt work
-i installed Linux ubuntu (had no 64 bit Version of Windows at Hand)
-i have a Radeon hd 5770 gfx => doesnt work
-i tried the OpenGL 4.-on-open-source-driver-workaround (from the russion Forum, midshader=true etc.) => doesnt work
-i got my Hands on a old legit win7home Version from work and installed everything =>enhanced works YAY!
-we tried direct Connection via divinity (one Player in game, direct enabled in menu, other Player tries to join with the key displayed in the other Players Connection-menu) =>doesnt work (no connectio possible)
-we tried the same with IP adresses => doesnt work (maybe there is a Little room for retry, im not shure if we were able to get the port forwarding right)
-we tried installing a web-LAN (Hamachi, because thats available on linux)
-we could connect on the same "Network" we could see each other but i couldnt ping him (VPN error, Windows seems to not create a Network Connection for Hamachi, tried 5 different Downloads but every time there is no hamachi.inf in the Directory to create the Connection by Hand)

so that were our last 3 evenings from 9 to 12.

tl;dr

Has anybody ever played a Multiplayer session of Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition where one player has the Steam version and runs Linux(Manjaro) and the other Player has the GoG Version on a Windows 7 64bit System?

P.S. sorry for crazy CAPS but my autocorrect tries to correct the text for german language; so...much...red...

P.P.S. i just found that GoG Galaxy should have online Lobbys that can connect with steam Version, ill try that tonight but my Initial question still stands: is our Multiplayer Setup possible? (Linux/steam<=>win/gog)

P.P.P.S gawn darn it... so latest Steam/gog Releases arent on the same patch Version, ok another possibility to test... Looks like that was the main Problem why we couldnt direct-connect

OK

If we both have a gog Version 2.0.119.430 can we Play or do we still Need the lang.hotfix?
Will Galaxy patch my already installed Version or do i Need to redownload the game?
If i install Galaxy and the game gets patched, do i still Need another patch?
You write "If the GOG version is updated"; does it mean theres an update in the next time or does it mean when galaxy is finished updating?

Sorry for so many questions but the multiplayer documentation is a bit wonky.

By the way i apreciate the fact that there is a crossplayfeature at all :-)

P.S. by the way you write "which can cause crashes in multiplayer with Steam or the pre-Galaxy 2.0.119.430 GOG Version" but the 2.0.119.430 is the actual Version of the game to directly downlaod and should have the lang.hotfix already inside (thats what my gog library tells me =>gog-12)

P.P.S. ive got another one! if i get galaxy (im on Windows/gog) can i Play with my friend (hes on Linux/steam) via online Lobby or does he have to install galaxy too and link his steam Version to it so that we can Play?

OOOOOKAY
Ive done a Little bit more searching for myself.
Correct me if im wrong.

My friend with his Linux System and steam game Version can leave everything as is

I am going to install Galaxy on my Windows System which will then patch my GoG Version of divinity original sin enhanced Edition (i hope so al least, redownloading at 230kb/s would be a capital pain in the arse)

Any of us starts a multiplayer game and the other one can enter his game as the 2nd character via join/lobbysystem

that leaves one final question: apart from galaxy updates: do i Need to install the lang.hotfix on my System before the galaxy install and do i Need any more patches afterwards?

puh im sorry for my ramblings but 3 days of trying to connect leaves me a bit raw...
next time ill come to "teh interforums" right away :-D

Thank you very much.
Your help is highly aprechiated.

Ill get my System up to date (fun fact: requirements are not met for GoG Galaxy: Windows 7 SP1 needed; lol; that install cd realy IS old, but better than download :D) and then get Galaxy running.

We wont be able to try another Multiplayer Session till Saturday evening but ill let you know if everything works (read: mark thread as solved).

Again, thanks for your answers.

Works like a charm!

Looks like our main Problem was that we had different patch-versions of the game and the final patch for my gog Version wasnt provided by the normal downloader but only by gog galaxy.
Funny Thing is that the Version number given by Galaxy now is the same like the normal download.
(But i needed to download a rather big patchfile before everything was up to date)

Thanks again for your help

P.S: Lobby-System still doesnt work but direct link does so thats no big problem