Baldur’s Gate 3 may be a fantastic fantasy RPG, but Larian Studios also decided to follow an annoying PC gaming trend that could have been avoided.

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    It’s a launcher, if you aren’t interested in clicking through.

    And I agree. No reason for this game to have a launcher.

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      1 year ago

      It’s also trivial to skip the launcher by adding --skip-launcher to the Launch Options.

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        1 year ago

        I am going to try this tomorrow. But I have to figure out a way to default to Vulkan without launcher.

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          You can change your launch options to "install location/bin/bg3.exe" %command% to both disable the launcher and launch in vulkan mode. Use bg3_dx11.exe for the dx11 version.

          However, use caution, when I tried this, it did launch without launcher using Vulkan, but I didn’t have access to my saves for some reason. I switched back and may saves are back again. So, not sure what’s up with that.

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          There might be another command line option for using vk instead of dx. I’m not sure of that though.

    • Pratai
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      1 year ago

      No reason for ANY game to have a launcher.

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    1 year ago

    Game Reviewer: Let’s see, after early release they didn’t abandon it after taking in some beta money. It’s not flooded with pay to win or micro-transactions. It seems to play well and is getting good reviews. What can we complain about? I’ve got it! The damned launcher!

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        1 year ago

        Sure, sure. No argument, and upvote. It’s just nice that a game I purchased early access was actually completed and seems to be a banger so far. I usually avoid beta launches, and have yet to commit to another favorite, Kerbal 2. I’m thinking that may wind up as $50 abandonware. Having tons of fun with BG3 so far though. Happy gaming!

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    1 year ago

    Launcher are not needed. I should be able to do everything a launcher does in the game settings. All 3 of Larian’s games have a launchers.

    Anyway, I still love their games. Hope they drop the launcher for Divinity 3.