Mod BG3 on Steam Deck (Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Version) | BG3 Mod Manager Tutorial #steamdeck #bg3

[Music] hello everybody Welcome to the channel today I'm going to show you how to mod Boulders Gate 3 the steam version on your steam deck Steam OS I don't actually own this game on my steam so shout out to my friend Sneaky Snake here's the one that shared his library with me his steam Library so that's why I could like test this out on my steam Deck with the steam version so shout out to you thank you for making this video possible and without further Ado let's just get started okay so before we go any further I'd like to introduce you to my secondary channel it's called grownup cooking other than gaming cooking is also a passion of mine so I'd like to share some of my cooking dishes recipes on that channel if you like gaming you like eating and you want to support me please go over there and subscribe to that channel I'll give you some sneak preview right now all right we're going to kill it you ready oh my God oh my God all right oh God just put the a so did you enjoy that watch the full video at grownup cooking links in the description okay let's get started the first thing you need to do is download the BG three mod manager I'll leave a link in the description and here I've got four mods that are downloaded from Nexus it's actually one mod horns of farun I'll like demonstrate this mod this mod just like if it works uh when you create a character let's say you create a human character you can't like select its horns because it doesn't have horns but with this mod on uh you would have an option to select horns and this mod needs these other three dependency mods for it to work so that's why I'm going to install all four of these mods all right that'll be for a demonstration later and also you'll need to have lutrus so if you don't have lutrus go here to your discover Store and type lutrus and you see this orange bether thing this icon yeah download and install this all right that's what we need and make sure you have your game and you've at least played it once because we need to have the prefix folder available so to go into its prefix folder go to home and then make sure you have your hidden folders unchecked so you can see them do steam Steam and then go to steam apps okay and then compact data all right and for Boulders gate it's 1086 940 this is the directory this is the prefix folder okay if we go in here go to the C drive and then users steam user app data local Lan Studios we actually want this path all right so that's why we need to run the game at least once because it needs to generate this prefix folder for you to get this path okay so with that out of the way let's get started okay let's go back to your home directory first thing we're going to do we're going to create a folder inside the home directory I'm going to call it mods okay go inside this folder and create another dark tree called bg3 okay inside here I'm going to call I'm going to create a new folder called prefix this where I'm going to store the prefix folder for my um mod manager okay and here the mod manager that you downloaded okay I'm going to create another folder inside the bg3 folder called bg3 mod manager okay and then I'm just going to unzip that inside here okay so are you following along uh you can pause the video if you want to follow along so now if you take a look inside my home directory I've got a mods folder and then a bg3 folder I created a prefix folder it's empty right now and I've got a bg3 mod manager folder which I've unzipped my um mod manager zip so I've extracted all the files here all right so that's the structure now let's open up lutrus and we're going to install this mod manager okay so once lutrus is um opened up click on the top left the plus button add game add locally installed game okay I'm going to call it bg3 mod manager and then under Runner select wine go to game options executable going to go to the home directory mods bg3 bg3 mod manager and then bg3 mod manager.exe and then wine prefix I'm going to select home and then mods bg3 and then prefix okay all right and then run options I think you can just use any like y g or proton G I'm just going to keep it at the default y g 825 okay let save and then now I'm going to install net 4.7 7.2 it's required for this to run so go here select the game go to the bottom here where there's a wine click that up arrow and then wind trick and then it's going to generate the prefix folder for this mod manager you can see if we go back to our prefix folder it was empty before now it's generating the prefix folder here you can see yep it's working so wait for it okay now wirix is booted up select a default wi prefix okay install a Windows D or component okay and then we're going to select this one net 4.7.2 to okay and it's going to take a while like you got to click these that probably take 10 to 15 minutes I'll probably fast forward this part but if you want to see the progress like because it feels like it's doing nothing it feels like it's doing nothing but if you paste this command I'll leave the command in the description right what we can do is we can open up your like click the startop button go to all applications k k for console all right let me all right k for console let me shrink this down a bit got a lot of popup right and then we can paste this press [Music] enter okay you can see like it's doing its thing so we know like it's working because like if you don't have this console screen you don't know if it's running or not and you probably Panic like I do so yeah this is good to let you know that you're installing it's going to download and install yeah so net 4.7.2 yeah it takes a while so yeah I'll fast forward this part so I'll skip this part okay so that took around I I think 15 minutes at least so once it's done once it's done it stops and you get that uh wi Trix like the window again so we can close the console we're lucky that we have this console to see it working because if you're waiting 15 minutes not knowing what's happening you're going to think it's crashed you know you're going to panic so okay let's close the console and we're back here so let's check if we got it installed click on installer Windows do or component click okay and then you go here and see it like it installed all this it installed net 4.0 4.5 yeah so that's why it took so long but ultimately we wanted this 4.7.2 so if you like select this it installs all of it I think it's like a dependency so that's why it takes so long okay so now that we got it installed we can quit out of wirix okay go back to our dolphin so our file manager okay and go to like mods bg3 the prefix folder okay go to C drive users theme user app data local all right so see we've got two locals here one is the original game this is where our game prefix folder we've got this Lan Studios remember I told you we needed this right so we going to drag it over to our prefix folder the same path and we're going to link it here so link so we linked it so we link these two together it's a link all right now that's done we can run our bg3 mod manager from lutrus so play it all right now it's loading up okay and then it says select folder we don't have to do anything here just click cancel okay now it's booted up and we're greeted with this the preference so let's select out game data path so we need the game data path which is um we go back to our compact data all right no let's do it from scratch assume you don't know so go to home and then the hidden folder do steam theme theme apps and then you here this is where your Steam games are stored the game folder for your steam gam so go to common and then here we got Boulders gate three and we got a data folder this is the data folder we need so I'm going to copy this path and I'm going to paste it here paste and then the game executable path is actually is actually um it's actually in common both is Gate 3 go to the bin folder and we got the bg3 exe here see okay so this is where my path is so I'm just going to copy this bg3 exe I'm going to paste it here as well so this is exactly the path of the executable so I'm going to copy it and I'm going to paste the executable path here paste all right so you might want to pause this screen if you are following along this is the path okay and then yeah that's basically it basically it here so I'm just going to save save settings okay and then I'm going to anything else no okay just cancel out of it okay so game data folder not valid please set in preferences and refresh okay let's see how we can refresh this can we refresh uh refresh mod updates okay so I refreshed it okay now import mod so go to file import mod and if you remember I put my mods in my downloads folder so home so I'm going to use this uh back slash and then home this is my internal um SSD for my steam Deck the Home deck and that in my downloads folder let me see downloads downloads folder I've got the bg3 mod video this is where I put my mod mods so I'm going to select all four of these mods that I downloaded from Nexus mods I'll leave a link for this mod um if you want to like use it it's called horns of faren I think that's how you pronounce it so I just highlighted all four of these open and then it's importing the mods okay so you got some overrides here you just you just leave them here okay and so these are the inactive mods and this is the active mods so what we need to do is is we need to move the inactive mods over just drag them to the active mods and then go to file and click save order and that's it guys that's how we managed to install the mod manager and you can use this to manage the mods for your um bg3 game the steam version all right let's test it out test it out okay so I'm just close my mod manager and I'm going to open up my steam to boot up the game okay so I've got two borders gate three here this is the one this is the steam version that's from Sneaky Snake my friend thank you shout out to you thank you for sharing your game library with me so I could do this tutorial this is the non steam version that I normally play which is way easier to to do I've got a video to how to mod the non steam version but yes this is the steam version which a lot of people have issues with that's why they're leaving comments on my other video saying you know I've got the steam version it doesn't work yet that's why I'm doing this video all right let's just launch the game and let's see if the mods work okay here we go here we go so if you remember I said that if the mods work I could create a character and like a human race which normally you can't select its horns but now with this mod on I can select horns for a human character or any other character any other race okay the new game okay all right now we're creating the character and if you see let me select human race then I go select the attributes normally if you go down here you don't have horns you see here I've got horn style for human see that I can add horns to human race yeah that means that the mod is working all right obviously I haven't tested every single mod but um yeah let me know if you're using this and you know some mods don't work I wouldn't be surprised like but uh I think most mods work uh with this mod manager but um yeah if any case that it doesn't let me know in the comments and I hope this video helped you out if it did please leave a like and sub subscribe to the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one later okay so the guide that I use for this video is right here it's in the Steam Community it's by the minotaurus so shout out to you great guide It's really detailed and I really like it he does all these screen captures and you know it's really easy to follow so shout out to you he did miss a little part where you have to create that wi prefix folder like he does mention it but he doesn't specifically say that you need to to create that prefix foldo yourself and look at this look at the comments so idiot called major Bush says it fails entirely so many thing missing like making the folder for wine prefix and other minute little details so I think it's minor little details I'm not sure what minor little details is he's talking about it's probably about um you have to close the window and you need to move cursor the mouse cursor to click on the x button I think that what he means like it's not detailed enough that that's why this guy fails entirely like he's aing idiot like I read these comments and I'm like yeah so anyway shout out to you the minotaurus thank you for creating this guide and I'll see you guys later

Channel: Grown Up Gaming

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Keywords: steam deck, baldur's gate, baldur's gate 3, baldurs gate 3, baldurs gate, game modding, bg3, bg3 mod manager

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Length: 18min 43sec (1123 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 08 2024