Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition on Steam

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  1. Aryvandaar

    Aryvandaar Active Member

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    I already have BGII:EE running on a virtual machine but I would prefer to play it on Wine. Steam in Wine works, but I can't seem to get BGII:EE to run. It's quite the nutcracker.

    BGII:EE debug:

    I'm running Manjaro Linux with the 314 kernel, and I have the winbind package installed, and I even tried to install the secur32 library but no luck.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    I have seen screenshots of Baldur's Gate enhanced and it looks amazing.
    Since you are using Steam, did you disable the In-Game Community overlay?
    Does it even try to launch?
    When you launch in Steam, what tries to automatically install?
    ex: Dot NET Framework, VC Dist, Direct X
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    I tried to disable steam in game but it didn't do anything. The game does try to launch, but it fails after a few seconds. I installed directx and other needed packages for BG2 so I don't get prompted for installation of those programs at launch any more.

    Current BG2 EE debug output:

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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Are you able to run any other games in Manjaro?
    I don't see any 32-bit errors, so you must have all the correct libraries installed.
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    Yes, I run The Witcher 2 in Steam on Linux.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Did you install vcrun in the virtual drive? Might as well install all of them:
    • vcrun2005
    • vcrun2008
    • vcrun6
    • vcrun2010
    The "munmap_chunk() invalid pointer" error has something to do with glibc and C+
    I don't know much about it, but maybe glibc needs to be re-installed?
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    Yeah, I installed all those packages. I will look into my C++ and glibc packages. Thank you for the pointers.
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    Hey guys. Want to read a funny story?

    I set up Neverwinter Nights 2 on PlayOnLinux today and I set a virtual desktop, and I thought, could be it so simple with Baldur's Gate 2 EE as well? Yes indeed it was! Game starts now, and I feel really dumb. :p
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    I had the same problem with Arkham Asylum when I first started testing it. If I didn't use a virtual desktop, the game would play sounds, but there just was no game window opening. Using a virtual desktop solved the problem.

    I actually also had a problem with Thief as well. It just crashed on launch, but using a virtual desktop let me play the game. So I always use virtual desktop now.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    don't feel dumb, Wine surprises me the same way over and over.
    Right now I'm having problems with Tower of Guns, and I have a feeling its something simple, but can't figure it out.
    This is the reason for our Guides, so people don't have to get frustrated with a game that won't run, when it really will.

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