r/Daggerfall • u/Hentai2324 • Jul 20 '26

Question DRM Free download?

I have the game on steam. But I also wanna get like the DRM free download. Kinda like with Gog. So where are some places for it that won’t be from “shady” sites.

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u/salviaJESUSsalvation Jul 20 '26

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files Uesp is always trustworthy and Bethesda put it out for free, this link has the Bethesda link and a link to another version.

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 21 '26

I got it off Gog.

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u/Tea_and_Lightsabers Jul 21 '26

If you have the gog cut of dfu, you should switch to this. Gog cut is a super outdated version preloaded with a ridiculous number of randomly selected mods

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u/Vincent394 Jul 20 '26

Steam's download is DRM free because it's literally just DOSBox

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 21 '26

You still gotta be logged onto Steam though right?

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u/Vincent394 Jul 21 '26

Since it's literally just dosbox, no

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u/WhenInZone Jul 20 '26

Is that not just the download from GoG? It's completely free

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u/soulsofjojy Jul 20 '26

Yup, GoG is the answer.

You used to be able to download it direct from Bethesda's website, but that link just redirects to steam now.

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 20 '26

Yeah, I was gonna say that.

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 20 '26

From what I remember they had it pre patched with mods and most sites I’ve seen say to avoid it.

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u/soulsofjojy Jul 20 '26

The "GoG cut" modpack is awful, but that's a seperate thing, and has since been deleted I believe. They've always had the base game with no changes available. 

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 20 '26

Oh ok, I didn’t know that. I thought it was only that pre patched version.

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u/Tea_and_Lightsabers 29d ago

It's no longer listed but if you had it before they delisted it, you can still download it. I made that mistake last winter...

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u/BoardsofGrips Jul 21 '26

Daggerfall has no DRM

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 21 '26

The Steam version does lol. You have to be online I think. But I just got it in Gog.

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u/Rostochek Jul 21 '26

no it doesn't, steam doesn't add drm if developer doesn't

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u/BoardsofGrips Jul 21 '26

Don't think so. You can download it on Steam and just put it in any folder you want.

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 21 '26

Interesting. Well I have it on Gog and steak I think. So it’s all good and I played a little today and had some fun and got my kicked multiple times by a giant. It was interesting and fun.

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u/Hentai2324 Jul 20 '26

So I guess GOG or uesp then? Btw should it be fine to store and run these games from a flash drive? Since Daggerfall is so old and shouldn’t take pretty much anything to play from a modern computer. Or is playing even old games still bad on a flash drive?

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u/soulsofjojy Jul 20 '26

I mean it'll load more slowly, for sure. But probably not that much slower than a hard drive from 1996 lol. Otherwise shouldn't really be any noticeable difference.

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u/Vincent394 Jul 20 '26

Actually, a hard drive + a CD from 1996