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Baldur's Gate

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

Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate cover
Developers
BioWare
Black Isle Studios
Mac OS (Classic) Graphsim Entertainment
Publishers
1998-2006 Interplay Entertainment
2006-2012 Atari
2012-present Beamdog
Retail (Japan) Sega
OS X MacPlay
Engines
Infinity
Release dates
Windows December 21, 1998
Mac OS (Classic) July 17, 2000
macOS (OS X) October 13, 2003
Linux October 14, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 91
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate on HowLongToBeat
Baldur's Gate on IGDB
Baldur's Gate guide on StrategyWiki
Baldur's Gate on MobyGames
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

Baldur's Gate is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RPG game in the Baldur's Gate series.

General information

Unofficial 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
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

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
The Original Saga. Pre-packaged with WineD3D. Bundled with Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.[1]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Version differences

The Original Saga bundle includes the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

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

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the base game is 1.1.4315, available from Patches-Scrolls.
The latest official patch for Tales of the Sword Coast is 1.3.5521, available from Patches-Scrolls.

Bugfixes and text update

Baldurdash bugfixes and text update fixes bugs, in-game texts and descriptions, and adds tweaks. Refer to that page for further details.

GemRB

A Source Port of Infinity Engine games designed to be compatible with multiple Platforms & add new features such as increased moddability over the original engine.

https://gemrb.org

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

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use G3: Widescreen Mod. To adapt the UI, use the GUI mod on top of it.
Multi-monitor
Use G3: Widescreen Mod. To adapt the UI, use the GUI mod on top of it.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS by default. Frame rate can be customized in the game's .ini file up to 60 FPS; however, frame rate is tied directly to the game's clock and changing it will change the game speed.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Set in config.exe.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Ambient, Sound Effects, Voice, Music and Movie.
Surround sound
4.0[2]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 1
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Simplified Chinese
Official localization by TWP(第三波),Only for local distribution versions
Traditional Chinese
Official localization by TWP(第三波),Only for local distribution versions
Polish
[3][4]
Russian
Official localization by «Akella» – local retail and GOG.com version.
Russian
ArcaneCoast.ru:
1) Fan translation by prozh
2) Fan translation by Refiler
Spanish
An Improved translation by Clan DLAN is available.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6 Co-op
Online play
6 Co-op
The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

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.

"Not enough free disk space" error followed by shut down on large capacity partitions

Install Windows compatibility fix
  1. Download custom compatibility fix from here.
  2. Either use command line to install the compatibility file or run the batch file as an administrator to do it automatically.

Flickering in menu and in-game

Use DDrawFix

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 1.0
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

Modifications

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.

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business is a mod that restores missing and cut content from the game's release. Available both for the original version and for the Enhanced Edition. List of all changes can be found here.

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