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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II

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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II cover
Developers
Black Isle Studios
Windows Square One Games
macOS (OS X) Square One Games
Linux Square One Games
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Engines
Dark Alliance Engine
Release dates
Windows July 20, 2022
macOS (OS X) July 20, 2022
Linux July 20, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 63
OpenCritic 68
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Genres ARPG, Hack and slash
Themes Fantasy
Series Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II on HowLongToBeat
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II on IGDB
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II guide on StrategyWiki
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II on MobyGames
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II on Wikipedia
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view ARPG and hack and slash game in the Baldur's Gate series.

This game is a port of the 2004 PlayStation 2 / Xbox game of the same name.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Windows
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace logo videos with blank video files
  1. Download replacement files from here.
  2. Extract the video files to <path-to-game>\res, replacing the original files.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance II\bgda2.cfg[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
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 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance II\savedata
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance II/savedata
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance II/data/savedata

Save game cloud syncing

Video

In-game settings.
In-game settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
[1]
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
By default. Toggle with Alt+ Enter.[1]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default and forced to 60 Hz in Fullscreen mode.[1][2]
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Playing above 60 FPS will cause the game to run too fast and de-sync cutscenes and dialogues. Fullscreen mode is capped at 60 Hz / 60 FPS.[1]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game runs too fast

Frame rate higher than 60 makes the game run too fast, and the audio goes out of sync.
Workaround: Limit the frame rate

Limit the game to 60 FPS with RivaTuner Statistics Server or through Nvidia Control Panel.

Run the game in Fullscreen mode (Fullscreen mode caps the game to 60hz/60fps)

Game has no sound

Replace openal.dll[3]
  1. Install OpenAl Soft if it's not installed (Check if the file in the next step can be found)
  2. Locate oal_soft.dll in %APPDATA%\OpenAL\bin\Win64
  3. Copy the file to <path-to-game>
  4. Rename or delete openal.dll
  5. Rename oal_soft.dll to openal.dll

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
[4]

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5700
ATI Radeon 9600
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.14
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5700
ATI Radeon 9600
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 20.04
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5700
ATI Radeon 9600
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) OpenAL compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. It's a binary/encrypted file that can't be easily edited.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Verified by User:Diegoelcapo1231 on 2022-07-24
    There's no in-game resolution setting, it automatically runs at desktop resolution.)
  2. Verified by User:Macgovern on 2023-06-29
    Confirmed using RTSS 7.3.4.
  3. Verified by User:Vrubayka1 on 2023-05-28
  4. Steam - Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II - last accessed on 2022-07-12
    "This game comes with a 64-bit binary only"