Can somebody confirm for me what region this is?

I bought the box set a few weeks back to replace my original damaged disk, only to find that it is the US version that doesn't work on my PC unless i change the region to US... which im too stuck up to do. :P

So i might get it from here for the bonus stuff & DRM free.

Normally GOG games should work in all regions. Can't 100% confirm it here though, because i own a boxed version of BG and so didn't buy it here.

Only exception so far seems to be Commandos btw which is hardcoded to refuse working on systems with the region setting "germany" because of nazi symbols. ;)

There was a game once on GOG which didn't like hungarian locale, but that was a technical issue, not a legal one.
Since GOG is an international site that prides itself for being available all around the globe and since the Australian ASCII (or whatever) code page is probably more or less the same as the U.S. one, I would be extremely surprised if the GOG version didn't work.

1) The Baldur's Gate folder has a config menu where you can set the region.
2) I think the gog.com Baldur's Gate is the UK version. If you want to patch the game, you may need to download the UK patch.

What's the reason if the game on gog is already patched? Or do you mean unofficial patches?

Gog.com games ARE NOT region filtered. NEVER.

PC games are not region filtered, too.

But system language conflics and differing keyboard layouts can cause some interesting wrinkles in the gaming experience, or simply a total lack of functioning in the less diligently coded games.

Not quite true. While GOG.com games aren't region filtered, per se, oftentimes the games are localised versions, and may contain any changes, censorship etc. that came with said localised versions. The GOG.com version of Fallout, for example, is the UK version. You need to apply patches to get it to display children properly, and there are some minor differences in language (mostly drug references). Is it "region filtered"? Not really, but it is a specific version of the game and players should be aware that they're not always getting the "perfect" release.

I imagine this usually has to do with licensing (maybe the publishers don't want to release the slightly more controversial version worldwide), or simply what they happen to have lying around. For instance, the Canadian release of the Fallout Trilogy (boxed version) comes with the UK version of Fallout as well. Maybe that's just what Interplay have decided is the "final" version of the game, or maybe they don't even have the original US version anymore. At least in cases of censorship (some more severe than others) there are almost always fan-made patches to fix this.

Thanks to someone gifting this to me and confirm that in all likelihood there is no regional prompting in this version.

I remember with my UK purchased originals of this and number 2 that during install I would be prompted that it was not possible to use the game due to my OS being Japanese. This does not happen with this version and the game appears to run and play with no problems.

I think the version they use is the UK one, however if you go into the Config it shows a list of Regions, with the default being Region 0 (no region specified), Region 6 being United Kingdom, Region 7 Continental Europe, regions 1 - 5 being American regions, etc. Dunno what'll happen if you change them or if they are indeed the regions the game will work in (normally you have one region for an entire area, like region 1 for US, region 2 for Europe, etc, seems a bit weird).

Hope that helps.

EDIT: I've attached a pic of the config showing the regions if that helps.

If you bought the 4-in-1 boxset, then patching Tales Of The Sword coast with the latest international patch fixes the region issue. I had the same problem.

Cheers!

Saves me buying it a 3rd time...