Hey folks. Just installed Linux and was setting up same games. However, when I launch Baldur's Gate: EE, I get no sound. Any ideas what could be causing it? Its been a long time since I used Linux (Ubuntu 16.04), so any help will be great!

I have not had these issues, but if I did, the first thing I would do is update my kernel. I'm no Linux expert yet so that's all I can give you.

The first thing? Far more likely they are missing some dependencies:

Eh hem. Check dependencies. Then update the kernel. :P

I *said* I wasn't an expert. :) I had a similar issue happen to me and after a million steps of debugging, I ended up updating the kernel and that was the magic solution. So that's why I said that. And updating the kernel is usually painless and easy (so far for me anyway).

You ever notice how after you reboot from updating the kernel there is still a previous entry for the earlier kernel available? That's in case the new kernel doesn't like your hardware and crashes, freezes or otherwise decides not to start. It's not a minor operation. Believe Ubuntu does a fair amount of testing with them. Personally, kernel updates have also been painless & easy for me (assorted distros).

The thread-o-mancer! I have re-awoken this post to tell you how to do it. if you are on Linux mint, or a Debian derivative, do this.

apt install then paste the entire dependency block, shown under system requirements. (This you could go library by library but it will take a lot of copy/paste just do like so

apt install libc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libjson-c2:i386 libopenal1:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libexpat1:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1:i386 libjson0:i386

it will go through all of your libs, and install the ones you need. I had this problem and now its verified fixed.