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Baldur's Gate 3 is a game of the year contender - but how does its PC release stack up in terms of visuals and performa…

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wife and I are loving it but it needs some tunning for sure. Performance struggles and crashes are pretty common, and my wife clipped through a door just after the tutorial section. Didn't do anything crazy, just walked right on through a locked door.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Agreed on the tuning needed, but I'm surprised to hear how many have had crashes. I haven't had a single crash in like 50 hours of playing and another 50hours with it idling while I take breaks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I agree it's odd. For some it's constant and others it's unheard of. Hopefully they're able to track it down. 3 patches since release is a good sign.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Vulkan crashed on me on launch day. And I haven't had a crash since then with 30 hours of play now. I would play more but I work long hours during the week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My cousin is having crashing but we realized she had her video settings too high for her pc to handle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't had any crashes, but I've had loads of other issues. Laezel constantly breaks requiring a reload, scripts sometimes don't fire correctly so you don't get an important buff or item necessary to progress, my characters constantly end up naked after going to camp because it wants to hide their armor automatically and doesn't unhide it when you leave, my proficiencies are often not applied to rolls, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy, haven't experienced anything like that. Do you meet the minimum specs, and are you running it on an HDD or an SSD?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I3 12100f, gtx 1060 3gb, and ssd on Linux. We since switched to steam deck where we have only had 1 crash. I should be hitting a bit over the minimum specs but my bet is I was running out of vram in cutscenes where the detail is higher.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

4GB of VRAM is in the minimum requirements, seeing as you have a 12th gen Intel you really might want to look at getting a GPU upgrade. You can find used 6600/XT's or 6700's for pretty cheap and that would roughly double (or more) your performance in pretty much every game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is a good catch, I clearly glossed over that. I recently gave most of my rig a facelift as I was bottlenecked by my old CPU. A GPU is 100% next in line but thankfully we're still enjoying the game on our Decks.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah the game runs fine on SteamDeck, which is Linux. It's the 3gb of vram.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I walked through a cracked stone wall when I tried to attack it.