Baldur's Gate 1, 2, and Icewind Dale get patch 2.7 with Apple Silicon support and fixed cloud saves

Beamdog has shipped patch 2.7 for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition, and Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition — the same update that entered beta last February is now rolling out automatically to all players on Steam and GOG.

The two headline changes are proper Steam cloud save integration and native Apple Silicon support. Cloud saves on Steam are now controlled through the Steam client itself rather than buried in each game's own gameplay options menu — which, as Beamdog quietly acknowledges, is how every other game on the platform already works. GOG Galaxy cloud saves are also fixed and functioning correctly. On the Mac side, native ARM support means faster launch times, better overall performance, improved rendering, and lower battery drain on laptops — useful news given Apple's plans to eventually phase out Rosetta 2, the translation layer that previously let these x86 games run on M-series chips.

Patch 2.7 also adds a wave of community-translated languages: Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear picks up Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Russian; Baldur's Gate 2 gets Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, and Ukrainian; Icewind Dale adds Hungarian and Japanese. There's also a smarter language-switching system for the Siege of Dragonspear campaign — if you're playing in a language SoD doesn't support and switch to that campaign, the game now automatically falls back to English instead of showing a broken or incomplete option.

These are the kinds of quality-of-life fixes that matter for games sitting 14 years out from their Enhanced Edition releases. The fact that Beamdog is still pushing meaningful updates — cloud save plumbing, platform-native builds, new localizations — is a good sign for anyone who keeps these classics installed.