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Revision as of 17:20, 23 March 2019

Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate cover
Developers
BioWare
Publishers
Black Isle Studios
Interplay Entertainment
Japan Sega
Engines
Infinity
Release dates
Windows November 30, 1998
Mac OS (Classic) July 17, 2000
macOS (OS X) October 13, 2003
Linux October 14, 2014
Baldur's Gate guide on StrategyWiki
Baldur's Gate on Wikipedia
Baldur's Gate
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Baldur's Gate 1998
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn 2000
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition 2012
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition 2013
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2021
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II 2022
Baldur's Gate 3 2023

For the Enhanced Edition released in 2012, see Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS by default; increasing affects game speed.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Baldur's Gate Wiki
Sorcerer's Place - Fansite dedicated to roleplaying and Dungeons & Dragons games
Spellhold Studios - A modding community for the Infinity Engine, Neverwinter Nights and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
GameBanshee - Walkthroughs and strategy guides for Bauldur's Gate and its expansion, Tales of the Sword Coast

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Released on 5 CDs or 1 DVD.
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.[1] Includes the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Version differences

The GOG.com version includes the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion as well as improved compatibility with modern versions of Windows.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Tales of the Sword Coast
Windows
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Baldur's Gate Tutu

BG1Tutu allows the importing of Baldur's Gate files into the Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn engine. Refer to that page for further details.

Bugfixes and text update

Baldurdash bugfixes and text update fixes bugs, adds tweaks. Refer to that page for further details.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\baldur.ini[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6 Co-op
Online play
6 Co-op

Connection types

Issues fixed

Stuck keys during character creation

Try hitting the stuck key again or using Alt+Tab to switch away from the game.

Crash after intro videos

The game will crash if the paths in baldur.ini are too long. Try to install the game on a lower level of the directory tree if you have this problem.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5.0 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 8.5
Processor (CPU) 233 MHz G3
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References