Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Forum

I have an M4 Pro Mac Mini booting MacOS 15.3.1. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is currently on sale at GOG.com at a 70% discount for the base game so I figured I'd try it with Crossover since the couple of YouTube videos I saw of the gameplay looked really interesting and I am a fan of the earlier seasons of the "reimagined" version of the Battlestar Galactica TV series which launched in 2004, especially the initial miniseries.

There is no Crosstie for this game in Crossover's database so I created a Windows 10 64-bit bottle, installed DirectX for Modern Games into the bottle, then downloaded GOG's "offline backup installers" for the game's 1.5.113 version and installed from there. The installation proceeded without incident, I exited the installer, enabled DXVK in the bottle, then launched the game. At the Ultra graphics preset the game looks great and plays perfectly. My "testing" was very brief but there were no crashes or glitches and everything looked amazing and performed smoothly.

I also tested D3DMetal alone, D3DMetal with ESync, and D3DMetal with MSync and didn't see any difference in performance – no surprise since Battle Galactica Deadlock is a DirectX 11 game. So I went back to DXVK which usually seems to be the best bottle setting for DirectX 11 games.

I have no idea when I will actually have time to play this game but I am looking forward to getting to it one of these days. I did play through the first two tutorial missions and the game is really fun and looks amazing. The "replay" option at the end of each battle is incredible – instead of some cutscene you get a shaky-cam review of the battle you just played in real time which looks like action right out of the TV show! I love it!

As I write this all 8 DLCs are also on sale at GOG.com at a 30%-40% discount for each. I'm going to hold off because I still have no idea when I'll have time to play the base game I already own. Really can't wait to put aside some time for this. So say we all!

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock crashed with a WINE error the first time I attempted the third campaign/tutorial mission, after choosing initial deployment position and before the FTL jump-in animation was displayed. I relaunched the game, loaded my last save, and the crash did not repeat. I tried to get that crash to repeat several times by doing the exact same thing I had done before that crash but the game worked flawlessly after that one incident.

I read an earlier report from someone who was able to play the first two tutorial missions but was crashing at the third tutorial mission so I thought this might be worth mentioning even though it happened to me only one time. As long as that crash remains a one-off or only a rare occurrence easily worked around by simply loading the last save, I’ll still say that the game is a 5-star compatibility rating with Crossover for Mac. So grab your gun and bring in the cat!

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock crashed with a WINE error the first time I attempted the fourth campaign mission (the one after the third campaign/tutorial mission), after choosing initial deployment position and before the FTL jump-in animation was displayed. I relaunched the game, loaded my last save, and the crash did not repeat. I tried to get that crash to repeat several times by doing the exact same thing I had done before that crash but the game worked flawlessly after that one incident.

So it looks like this crash might be something that might happen at the beginning of some or even all missions after the first two tutorials, but almost no progress is lost (just the time spent setting up the initial deployment positions at the very beginning of a mission) and the game proceeds normally following a relaunch and a load of the last save.