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Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

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Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn cover
Developers
BioWare
Publishers
Black Isle Studios
Interplay Entertainment
Engines
Infinity
Release dates
Windows September 24, 2000
Mac OS (Classic) September 2001
macOS (OS X) April 18, 2014[1]
Linux October 14, 2014
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn guide on StrategyWiki
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn 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

For the Enhanced Edition released in 2013, see Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

Key points

The GOG.com version is patched for compatibility with modern systems.
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS by default; increasing affects game speed.

General information

Baldur's Gate Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.[2] Includes Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal expansion.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Version differences

The GOG.com version is pre-patched for modern systems and includes the expansion.
Older versions, such as the original release, may have issues running on newer machines.
The Dungeons & Dragons Classic Anthology has issues installing on newer operating systems and needs a workaround for the Tutu mod (see Baldur's Gate Tutu).

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Throne of Bhaal
Windows
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename Movies.bif[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename Movies.bif

Patches

Patches are available to fix various issues.

Modifications

Baldur's Gate Tutu

The 'Tutu' mod known as BG1Tutu allows the importing of Baldur's Gate files into the Baldur's Gate II engine. For the Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection version copy BGate2.mpi from the CD into the installation folder prior to installing Tutu.[3]

Baldur's Gate II Fixpack

The BG2 Fixpack is a WeiDU compilation of fixes for Baldur's Gate II. Several modders began working on a new WeiDU fixpack to address the numerous bugs that have been identified. Fixpack currently includes all of the fixes addressed by Baldurdash (including the Game Text Update) and several hundred new bugfixes. The project is ongoing.

Baldur's Gate Trilogy

The 'Trilogy' mod known as BGT is an alternative to Tutu that also allows the importing of Baldur's Gate files into the Baldur's Gate II engine. In addition, BGT uses a dynamic system to transfer players from the end of Baldur's Gate to the beginning of Baldur's Gate II. For the Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection digital version, simply rename the Baldur's Gate folder to Baldurs Gate without the apostrophe to make it command-line syntax friendly. NOTE: Must have both Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II installed and their correlating expansions (Tales of the Sword Coast and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal).[4]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.
Character sound settings.
Character sound settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

Issues fixed

Screen flickering

Screen flickering on Nvidia cards[citation needed]
Turn off Vsync and triple buffering in driver control panel.
  1. Open driver control panel.
  2. Go to Manage 3D Settings (from the list on the left side) in Nvidia Control Panel.
  3. Select Program Settings Tab on the right window.
  4. Add baldur.exe (go to the folder where the game is intalled).
  5. Manually disable v-sync and triple buffering.
  6. Accept

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, XP
Processor (CPU) 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5.0 compatible

References