downloaded the game with the stand alone .exe and cant find the updates. tried running the application (which runs fine) but there is no update feature anywhere
Run the launcher (BGEE.exe); it's in your Program Files (x86)\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition folder. The launcher should detect a newer version automatically and create an Apply Update button. If not (and you're not already on v2014), click the diamond in the lower right-hand corner and choose Repair Install. Finally, if that doesn't work, go into your Data folder, delete the .beam and .status files, and try again.
launcher did not detect a new version, there is no diamond in the bottom right hand corner, deleted the .beam and .status files and tried again still nothing, ive also tried reinstalling many times and had no luck. is there and websites that may host a updater?
Oh BeamDog installs its own game pirated? The BeamDog client does not install the game in the program folder per default and it doesn't generate a "bgee.exe" neither. It also doesn't show if it's patched or not.
Edit: I just made the mistake of installing with the beamdog client. Reinstalling with the other client, which hopefully doesn't treat me like an idiot.
The Beamdog client only shows an available patch if there's a patch available. When you first install the game, you're installing the most up-to-date version of it (which is currently v.2014). So if you're looking at the main menu, where it says the build number, it should say "v1.0.2014". If your game is up-to-date, you won't see any patches available.
If you have the game but not the client (and you didn't install using Steam), that means one of three things:
1) You installed the game and then removed the Beamdog client 2) You installed the game using the stand-alone launcher 3) You're playing an invalid copy of the game
For #2, you should have a launcher (BGEE.exe) that allows you to repair your installation to the most current update. For #1, reinstalling the client will give you the client interface.
Something strikes me as odd about that image. Why is there an uninstaller? If it's supposed to be there, why don't I have one? (I have both the Beamdog and the standalone versions installed on the same machine, and the only uninstaller I have is in the client/standalone directory - not the game directory)
I wanna be special, too...
As a side note, @Dee, for the game to update that person would need to have a game registered to an account, right? Could it be something funky there?
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Are you sure you're running BGEE.exe and not baldur.exe?
Edit: I just made the mistake of installing with the beamdog client. Reinstalling with the other client, which hopefully doesn't treat me like an idiot.
If you have the game but not the client (and you didn't install using Steam), that means one of three things:
1) You installed the game and then removed the Beamdog client
2) You installed the game using the stand-alone launcher
3) You're playing an invalid copy of the game
For #2, you should have a launcher (BGEE.exe) that allows you to repair your installation to the most current update. For #1, reinstalling the client will give you the client interface.
I wanna be special, too...
As a side note, @Dee, for the game to update that person would need to have a game registered to an account, right? Could it be something funky there?