When somebody tells you “fuck off, I don’t want your business”, believe them.

My solution is “have a large game collection, and move on to the next game”. The odd bad game will likely get better in a future version of Wine. Proton 9-something even picked up support for some of the fussier Japanese VNs (but not well enough for IMHHW, alas).

It’ll be another 400 years before Valve makes the “this title has no icon” text not look like total ass, but finally somebody over there took a whole minute to grab an icon from steamgriddb dot com

I have quite a few games where the native linux build is broken, too. World of Goo came out in 2008, and shockingly still works great today. I think #2 is gonna be great on Linux, too.

So they called it an “Orange Pi”, but it is not an ARM SBC.

That’s an interesting choice.

I’m not sure how much influence you can really have there. Steam is supposed to have every dependency sorted out for you. A native linux game should have a fixed environment, it runs in a bit of a canned distro such as “Scout” (Debian 16.04 iirc).

If the Linux build is broken, you’re usually best off to change it to run Proton.

Quite a few drm-free game builds still come with “steamapi.dll”. It’s supposed to be neutered, but maybe it still saw dregs of your steam install and tried talking to steam anyways? It might just need a “steam_appid.txt” file (with just the appid # inside) to nicely ask it to back off. Or the game might go merrily along with removing the steam dlls.

Most games sold on steam do a “does your account really own this” check. There is a “goldberg emulator” that I’ve heard deals with that, haven’t tried it myself.

And a few hours later, 3.4.10 is out. This is already more OS churn than I want, for a game I that don’t have. :p

99% of the time, that means SteamOS is getting sleeby and needs a reboot. (Some component of wine or something is not very good at cleaning up itself. You could try to chase it down, but trust me just rebooting is easier. Welcome to Linux.)

ProtonTricks may be the app for your problem. It can run Winetricks specifically targeting the prefixes that Steam sets up for each individual game. Soo, (I do not have BG3) run Protontricks, pick the game, wait, find that Winetricks starts off at a really awkward point in its UI, pick add an application, cancel, find yourself at a better menu, choose “Install a Windows DLL or component”, and check off the appropriate dot net version.