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Revision as of 02:35, 8 July 2020

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition cover
Developers
Overhaul Games
Publishers
Beamdog
Former Atari
Engines
Infinity
Release dates
Windows November 15, 2013
macOS (OS X) December 16, 2014[1]
Linux December 16, 2014[1]
Reception
Metacritic 78
OpenCritic 75
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition on IGDB
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition on MobyGames
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition 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

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS; increasing the cap makes the game run too fast.

General information

Official forums
Unofficial wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Publisher website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
Icon overlay.png
macOS (OS X)
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Can be played without Steam running.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition\baldur.lua
macOS (OS X) ~/Documents/Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition/baldur.lua
Linux ~/.local/share/Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition/Baldur.lua
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 %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition\save\
macOS (OS X) ~/Documents/Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition/save/
Linux ~/.local/share/Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition/save/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphical settings.
Graphical settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 30 FPS. Frame rate can be customized in baldur.lua; however, frame rate is tied directly to the game's clock and changing it will adjust the game speed.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
A bit hard to see, but it's there under game options
Mouse acceleration
Acceleration not present
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
No built-in support; Beamdog supplies an officially-recommended Steam Controller configuration for the Steam release of the game.
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Ambient, sound effects, voice, music and movie
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Always mutes

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Simplified Chinese
Russian

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
2D
User created game profile, read important notes in the vorpx forum profile introduction.

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Issues fixed

Main PC unable to Talk after returning to human form

In this case, the "Talk"-button is greyed out.
Enable debug mode and restore silence state[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open baldur.lua.
  3. Under line 74, 'Program Options', 'Volume SFX', '100', add:
    'Program Options', 'Debug Mode', '1',.
  4. Save the file.
  5. Start the game and load the affected save and select the affected character.
  6. Press Ctrl+ Shift+/+r

Game not launching

Fix Data Execution Prevention setting[citation needed]

Ensure Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is set to the default (Windows programs and services only).

In-Game Audio Loss

Install OpenAL_Soft.exe[citation needed]

Download OpenAL_Soft.exe from this link and install into your game installation folder.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 2.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB


References