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I'm running OSX 10.14.6 Mojave. I installed Baldur's Gate (vanilla, not ee) with GOG Galaxy. When I try to start the application, it shows up on my dock and bounces, but nothing else happens. There's no error message or window or anything. I can't quit the program, and have to force quit it with Activity Monitor. I've tried verifying the installation, reinstalling, and rebooting.

I contacted support, and they recommended a few things to try. The thing that did the trick was the following:

"There is a problem in Wineskin GPU detection code with High Sierra changes.

By default your wrappers may crash or fail to launch.

Currently you can work around this by launching Wineskin.app, going to Set Screen Options, and uncheck the Auto Detect GPU for Direct 3D option, and the wrapper should work normally."

You can find Wineskin.app by right clicking on the app and selecting "Show Package Contents". Navigate to "Contents/Resources/game" then right click on "Baldurs Gate 1.app" and Show Package Contents.
Post edited October 29, 2019 by peztali
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peztali: I'm running OSX 10.14.6 Mojave. I installed Baldur's Gate (vanilla, not ee) with GOG Galaxy. When I try to start the application, it shows up on my dock and bounces, but nothing else happens. There's no error message or window or anything. I can't quit the program, and have to force quit it with Activity Monitor. I've tried verifying the installation, reinstalling, and rebooting.

I contacted support, and they recommended a few things to try. The thing that did the trick was the following:

"There is a problem in Wineskin GPU detection code with High Sierra changes.

By default your wrappers may crash or fail to launch.

Currently you can work around this by launching Wineskin.app, going to Set Screen Options, and uncheck the Auto Detect GPU for Direct 3D option, and the wrapper should work normally."

You can find Wineskin.app by right clicking on the app and selecting "Show Package Contents". Navigate to "Contents/Resources/game" then right click on "Baldurs Gate 1.app" and Show Package Contents.
Yo this worked for me too, thanks a lot for sharing!
Thanks for the solution.
I had problems to start the game on permissions check.
I had to set the permission through the system settings security to allow the game to start.
On first run Wine downloaded a mono package.

After every quitted game a system control persmission problem appears in a window.
I can not avoid the window after quit when I tried to set the permission in system settings.
But when I click on do not allow the game to take the permission the window disappears without any circumstance.
Update: I have changed the display options in Wineskin like in BG2. I have no longer the system control permission problem.
Override Wine control to Automatic and disabled Use Mac Driver.

I used also a solution for Baldurs Gate 2 here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/cannot_run_bg2_complete_classic_on_mac_mojave_10146/post3
Post edited April 16, 2024 by infi
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peztali: I'm running OSX 10.14.6 Mojave. I installed Baldur's Gate (vanilla, not ee) with GOG Galaxy. When I try to start the application, it shows up on my dock and bounces, but nothing else happens. There's no error message or window or anything. I can't quit the program, and have to force quit it with Activity Monitor. I've tried verifying the installation, reinstalling, and rebooting.

I contacted support, and they recommended a few things to try. The thing that did the trick was the following:

"There is a problem in Wineskin GPU detection code with High Sierra changes.

By default your wrappers may crash or fail to launch check.

Currently you can work around this by launching Wineskin.app, going to Set Screen Options, and uncheck the Auto Detect GPU for Direct 3D option, and the wrapper should work normally."

You can find Wineskin.app by right clicking on the app and selecting "Show Package Contents". Navigate to "Contents/Resources/game" then right click on "Baldurs Gate 1.app" and Show Package Contents.
Locate Wineskin.app:
Right-click on the Baldur's Gate icon in your dock and select "Show Package Contents."
Navigate to Resources:
Inside the Package Contents, go to "Contents/Resources/game."
Access Wineskin Settings:
Right-click on "Baldurs Gate 1.app" (or similar filename) and select "Show Package Contents."
Disable Auto Detect GPU:
Launch Wineskin.app (now found within Baldur's Gate's package contents).
Go to "Set Screen Options."
Uncheck the option "Auto Detect GPU for Direct 3D."
Relaunch Baldur's Gate:
After disabling auto-detect GPU, try launching Baldur's Gate again.