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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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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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[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (13 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.

[–] Harrison@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago (5 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?

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 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.

[–] YayIguess@lemmy.world 7 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.

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 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.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 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.

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