Hey everyone,

We’ve just released a new hotfix for you!

This hotfix addresses some issues with the launcher crashing on certain hardware configurations, issues with crashing when loading Act 1, and we've also fixed the Vulkan "Device Lost" error that was impacting some players.

Thank you to everyone who has sent us crash or bug reports, emailed our support team, and notified us on socials, Discord, Reddit, Steam and our forums about these issues! All of these reports, feedback and suggestions are incredibly valuable to us and help us pinpoint and fix issues as quickly as possible for you.

Thank you for being with us on this journey!

Changelist:

• Fixed "Device Lost" Vulkan API error message.
• Fixed the launcher crashing on startup on certain hardware configurations.
• Fixed a crash when loading Act 1.
• Fixed an issue with specific interfaces being displayed incorrectly at lower resolutions.
• Fixed not being able to reach the skeleton with the damaged headpiece in the blighted village.

back to wonder how many months away that "closer than we think" patch 6 is supposed to be.

On the plus side, the new Pathfinder game is only about 1 week away. So that will give us plenty to do while BG3 is working on the next big content patch.

Have a great day!

What happened to this promised community update? It's been a few months now, and sure we've gotten a patch in the intervening time, but I would like to know this information. It'd be useful for all forum posters/EA players/etc to know how Larian parses community feedback and uses telemetry so we could better focus our efforts. At the very minimum, it would just be interesting to simply hear more about Larian's thought process.

Larian has graciously narrowed the time frame down to between now and then.

They also announced that they are cautiously optimistic it will be released sooner or later.

Hey, I'm serious, it would be a nice start to al least know what Swen Vincke thinks that we think.

That would narrow down the margin, I guess.

Hi Jess, just a quick feedback. When trying to launch bg3.exe I now get the following error message: "The code execution cannot proceed because Galaxy64.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."

Is this intended to prevent players like me from bypassing the launcher?
Using the launcher starts the game just fine.

This happened after a clean install with the GOG offline installer files.

Its also quite possible that patch 6 is also "more far than Swen thinked" ...

I mean, there was a huge lot of changes in patch 5 ...
Sadly some of them bringed lot of bugs. :-/
If Swen didnt count with them, it only makes sence that delivering next patch will be prolonged by fixing those bugs. :-/

I had to switch to directx after the latest patch, but vulcan is working again now.

Same issue here, I've been running a custom group of 4 since the game launched and now after the latest hot fix it's throwing the "The code execution cannot proceed because Galaxy64.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program my fix the problem." error.

I really hope the (eventual) rise in popularity of the Steam Deck will somehow convince developers and publishers to dial it back a little with these goddamn useless launchers and clients.

This is not intended. GOG packs the offline installer files and we've alerted them of this missing file! Thanks for flagging.

I guess the launcher makes sense during EA for Larian to help gather metrics on how players interact with the game, problems they encounter, crash reports etc. The launcher is optional, though (i.e. you can launch the game without it).

But speaking of Steam Deck, I would love to see more games supported natively for Linux. Wine and Proton help a lot but I still hope that there will be a Linux version of Baldur's Gate 3 eventually. From what I know, the Stadia version needs to run on Linux servers so my hope is that would make it easier to launch a Linux version of the game at some point.

Excellent. Thanks a lot for the follow-up Jess! Much appreciated!

Oooh the necromancy book of Thay looks really wicked now.

I'm in the blighted village. I went down the well, fought the phase spiders and left.
Now I want to go back down to get the amethyst, but trying to enter has now become impossible.
First it tells me to "use jump to reach", for all 4 party members. Of course you can't jump into the well from outside. But in the end I had one member take a jump from before the well to a spot closer to the well.
After that, the message changed to "can't reach".
So I could get into the well once, but not a second time.

Well, the game is Vulkan anyway, so as long as the game works with Wine/Proton ( Patch 5 failed this particular test ), there is little Windows influence left, other than executable load format and some calling conventions. The performance impact should be slight, really.

If the Steam Deck does become popular and encourages developers to target the SteamOS runtime, that would obviously be preferable ( for me, at least ); but I would predict that there would still be significant moaning from the Linux community because many seem to care about "Free Software" more than Linux, and consider Valve and Steam to be as evil as Microsoft and Apple.

Personally, I don't use Linux because it is "Free Software"; I use it because Linux is a fast, efficient, stable and configurable platform that (unlike Microsoft and Apple) and does not constantly try to manipulate me, control my experience, or waste my computer resources running pointless crap in the background. It's not problem-free, of course, but nothing is perfect.

I didnt notice any change. O_o

Sound like yet another effect of "can't reach" bug ... there is a lot of them in Patch 5 ...
If i had to gues, i would say that someone is trying to experiment with implementation of Z axis to give this game real verticality ... first steppes are allways harder.

I presume you know about other two entrances?

On further reflection, the first visit was possibly before the installation of the latest hotfix.
So that hotfix would have caused the inaccessibility.
@RagnarokCzD : I knew about the second entrance, but I accidentally burnt the web-bridge while fighting the ettercaps. So it would seem that only Laezel can still pass with a long jump. Will go search for the third option. Thanks.

The weirdness doesn't end there. So I was standing in front of an alternative passage and clicked on a spot behind the hole to move on.
But the party turned around, ran out of the building , back into the open, to the well and went down that way.
So you can't move them in the well, but they will take the road through the well to go from point 1 to point 2 in the passages nder the village.

I could list two pages of reasons why private launchers may be convenient for developers and publishers, but it doesn't change the problem: they are a nuisance for the final user.
What's even more important, they are superfluous even for their main goal (which is usually A- forcing you to create an account with that company B- direct data gathering) as the same results can be achieved with an IN-GAME integration, without external bloatware.

Pathfinder game? hadn't heard about this one. You happen to have a link to it? Thanks

Seriously?

The new one coming in few days is this one:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1184370/Pathfinder_Wrath_of_the_Righteous/

Follow up from this one from 2018:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/640820/Pathfinder_Kingmaker__Enhanced_Plus_Edition/

Sweet, ordered. Hopefully Larian will release another race or something by the time I finish this game.

Thanks ordered this one here. Will give me something to play for a while

This hotfix v4.1.1.1223666 can offend someone's religious feelings. Please do not name versions with "666", v4.1.1.1223667 be better!

Lol. If that offends them, they probably won't be playing this game. That would be the least offensive thing to them. 😃

Oh. Or are you saying you are offended? 😮

It didn't hurt me personally, but it's a devilish hotfix!

Maybe it was intentional. After all, they do have a whole devil theme going with the game. Zariel, Avernus, Raphael, all the tieflings, Panels from Hell...

Ya know, not a lot of people really talking much about the devil theme aspect of the story. The focus is usually more on mind flayers and the Absolute. Gotta wonder, how much of everything happening is really spawned by the Hells?

Hail Satan!

As an Atheist the above means nothing to me.

Its funny, I love the story elements of magic, demons, angels, Gods and of course D&D, but in real life I reject all superstition. It's been said that humans need to love and they need to believe, but I think more accurately humans need to engage in imagination or imaginative play. I think belief is not needed.

Anyway, I am off to spill some salt and ignore black cats while walking under ladders.

Being a Christian who knows and loves Christ, it isn't just superstition, imagination and myth and belief. I know the Lord Jesus Christ, not just as a belief, but as a best friend. I can't even begin to tell you all the miraculous things He's done for me and my family.

That said, I also have no issue with things like this. Christ died that the sins of the world are wiped out. Only one sin remains; do you reject Him and His sacrifice? No sins are therefore held against me, for I have accepted Him, love Him and want to be like Him.

And Satan has no power but what people give him. 666 also has no power unless someone gives it power. Either way, I belong to Christ, so nothing anyone does can truly harm me. Kill this body, and send me to paradise sooner. That's all you'd do.

I live therefore, in peace, for I know my ending, and it is good. Call it a delusion if you like, but my "belief" makes me happy, gives me peace, and makes me a better person. Christ provides me security, love, and true joy. There is nothing but positivity with Him.

To NOT have such assurance. To believe that when you die, there is nothing?... How are you NOT insane with fear of death? Truly, it takes more faith to believe there is no God than that there is one.

To believe that all things just accidentally developed into all we know is like Larian creating BG3 by randomly scrambling all the code together until the game, over time, simply developed into what it is now but without glitches. Our universe, after all, is infinitely more complex than this game, yet randomly creating this game in such a way, especially without glitches, would be beyond logical reasoning. It requires incredible faith indeed.

I've decided to stop ignoring you Reggie. I'm sorry we've had issues in the past, and I'm sorry if I insulted you or hurt your feelings. I've recently had a return to Jesus moment, and he pretty much told me that I need to stop getting so cranky with people out here. So I truly am sorry.

Anyway, I laughed at your post. Worshiping science and believing in it are like worshiping and believing in Sylvanus. After all, isn't science really just studying the nature of all things and the rules that all things abide by?

I view God like he is a master programmer and the world and all of nature and science are just one massive, complex super fast computer. The Bible teaches that all things are created by the word of God. Likewise, everything in a computer generated world is created by line upon line of computer code. So, all of nature and science is dictated and controlled by the laws of the universe just like a computer generated world is controlled by the laws that the computer programmer puts into place. Larian, therefore, is the god of Baldur's Gate 3. If they dictate that a character can jump a hundred feet through the air and do a Hulk smash, then that is the rule that governs that world.

So to worship science, it is like a computer generated character worshiping the computer and not the programmer who thought up that characters existence and actually programmed them into being. It is the worship of something unintelligent that was created by and used buy someone intelligent to create the intelligent instead of giving respect and honor and worship to the one who created the intelligent one.

This has been Deep Thoughts by GM4Him. Thank you.

Well religion is one of few things i dont debate about ... in english.
This was just joke from Futurama.

Who's debating religion? I was just giving food for thought.

Many ask, "Why should I accept Christ?"

I ask, "Why not?"

Even, let's just say, I'm wrong. What are the benefits?

1. I believe my moral crimes are forgiven, so I'm not weighed down by guilt.
2. I trust everything is going to work out okay, no matter how bad it gets.
3. I learn to be a better person and less of a jerk; a work in progress.
4. I feel bad when I hurt people, do it makes me want to change my ways.
5. I believe I will live forever in paradise, so not as much fear of death.
6. I have someone worth living for even when everyone else fails me.
7. I know I'm loved, even when no one else loves me.
8. I receive guidance in making decisions so I don't ruin my life as often.
9. I get miracle after miracle happening in my life that can't be simple coincidence, like sudden financial support days before losing everything, a loan being approved just days before getting kicked out of my apartment so I can buy a house for my family in a whole different state God told me to move to, healing when there was no medical cure, etc.
10. In short, peace, joy, and love.

What are the benefits to not believing?

1. I can do whatever I want and numb my conscience so I don't feel guilty about it. I never have to answer, really, to anyone. I can live 100% how I want and trample whoever I want under my feet because, after all, if I don't answer to a higher power, who is there to be good for? Why not eat, drink, cheat, steal and kill as long as it makes me happy, because my next breath could be my last?

Anyway, not debating. Just my viewpoint.

I feel like the BG3 Forum, especially the Latest News/Patch Announcement subsection, isn't the best place for proselytizing your religion...

If you're going to do it, at least put it in BG3: General and tie it to dialogue/ideas/themes in the game. Or better yet, use the forum's General - Chat section.

Indeed. No politics or religion, please. All faiths and beliefs or lack thereof is great for what ever makes people happy, but do it at home.

Sorry. Yes. Got carried away. You're right. It's amazing how something as simple as the number 666 can cause a topic to get derailed. A mention of atheism here, and Hail Satan and Science there...

So, Next Patch! I'm really hoping to see some incredible changes. I hope they remove height advantage and fix some of the bugs and make camping supplies and especially inventory management more fun and easier to use.

Er, quite. It's even summoned me out of hiding. I noticed that number as a file size through rather bleary eyes earlier on; I need more sleep.

It would be interesting to see it in the 420 hotfix