Baldur's Gate 3 PC Tech Review: Polish That Puts Other AAA Games To Shame

Digital Foundry: A massive, runaway hit, Baldur's Gate 3 is an exceptional PC release and a brilliant game. In this video review, Alex Battaglia discusses what appeals to him about the game, discusses the proprietary game technology and of course, delivers optimized settings to maximize performance without losing much at all from the fully maxed out experience.

[just_looken]

Wow i am always one to be like ok on a digital foundry video but this just smells like either copium or a paid video.

Head to the steam community tech section every hour there is a post with low fps/crashes/save gone or pc os broken now.

Here is some threads made today with over 20replies of players going past act 2 with bad fps broken saves quest lock bugs or are now naked do too inventory wipe.

You know why they have low amount of players finishing there game? because in this forum hundreds reported by act 3 there saves were corrupted.

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All made within the last 18 hours over 30 pages of issues that all go around the game being broken after over 2 years of public testing.

Digital foundry calls this a technical marvel? f off

[repsahj]

Thanks for the links bro. I hope that when I play it on ps5, there won't be any problems like what happened on pc.

[just_looken]

Hopefully there is no issues from the pc on the ps5 version but as you can see some of the pc issues are years old.

They should buckle down get the pc version all fixed up then worry about console ports that is my hot take.

[WhiteHawk]

Yeah, this is a low for DF, it’s well known they released this game months early to avoid other games, specifically Star Field and they may be releasing patch’s with tons of fixes but that’s only because there’s tons to fix and still is, bugs, glitch’s and stutters. DF should be ashamed.

[Ashby_JC]

The game released 1 month early not MONTHS.

They smartly released early to avoid being in a release window with Starfield. As for bugs and glitches. If you had played the game you would realize how vast it is and it is bound to have it. There have been 3 hotfixes since release that have addressed bugs and glitches...that is a given with ANY game.

The same thing is going to happen with Starfield on release.

Many are having a great time with minimal bugs and glitches lets not act like this is some widespread problem when it is not. So DF has nothing to be ashamed of.

[dumahim]

Through the first 40ish hours I put into Act 1, I had 3 crashes. One of them being a Vulkan error. Since then, either because of Act 2 or because of the updates, I've had the game get stuck at loading at 60% like 4 times and once leading to my saves disappearing (easily fixed by moving local saves to a different folder). I wouldn't have expected Alex to have gotten that far into the game putting that many hours into it so he can do his analysis. Yes there's some issues, but in the big picture of it all, it's been very good.

[NotoriousWhiz]

"Yes there's some issues, but in the big picture of it all, it's been very good."

I mean, your post sounds like some pretty big issues to me, but I guess maybe that's normal for a PC game. I'm just a console pleb. On console, most games don't crash, lock up, or prevent your save data from being accessible.

[dumahim]

3 crashes in 40 hours and one of them being a Vulkan error. I most certainly have console games that'll crash that infrequently. The getting stuck when loading thing is a new development and not sure it's down to an update or just later game content. And no, it doesn't "prevent your save data from being accessible." It's still there, just have to move them from one folder to another.

[Ashby_JC]

In my experience Steam discussion forums can be quite toxic. Not saying people are not having issues but just about all PC games are going to have people having issues but the vast majority myself included are having an exceptional experience. So I must be getting paid?

[anast]

It does put other releases to shame though.

[Bladesfist]

The silent majority are probably in the same camp as me, no crashes whatsoever, no framerate issues but a couple of bugs encountered

[Andy_Dee]

I've been playing nonstop on a newly built pc with 0 crashes and zero issues overall.

A lag or stutter here or there maybe. Can't even remember.

A game of this size has less issues than any other modern game more or less.

Even god of war ragnarok had issues. Final Fantasy doesn't have a lot of issues either what I remember.

But other than that. Issues are common with all triple AAA games!

[CrimzonRaven]

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[Binarycode]

ROFL, It's a PS4 game or worse graphically.lol.

There's nothing amazing looking with this one, sorry to burst anyone's bubble. It's ok looking and that's it.

There shouldn't be any issues, because it's not pushing the envelope.

[just_looken]

sadly in todays gaming lansdscape ugly games can destroy hardware look at gollum on pc its all about optimization not the way it looks.

This game on pc eat's up ram and makes gpus bleed you half to play for awhile in a single session but it builds up.

[dumahim]

Everything I've seen about the game is it's very easy on the GPU and RAM (unless you play 5 hours without restarting the game). It's the CPU that suffers.

[just_looken]

@dum?

Really i own the game got the crashed 2 times in 5ish hours of play one via vram

So i half to upgrade my 4090 then to be like yours?

[dumahim]

@just_looken

lol, seriously? I was running the game just fine with a 1070 in early access when it wasn't optimized yet. I now have a 4070 and it's doesn't run much better because I'm still on the oldish CPU. Just look at the DF video here. A 2060ti runs it at max settings at 1440p and hits 100fps. The official recommended specs is a 1060! With max settings I'm using 5.3GB of VRAM. Alex in the linked article talks about only using 4.5 with maxed out settings.

[just_looken]

Well i was just on it still getting owned by missing 99% of the time and watching ai hit me 3x to my 1

48-54fps

Guess i do not have this magic version yeall got

[Ashby_JC]

SMH

100 percent wrong. If you had played the game...on PC you would not be saying this nonsense.

[Binarycode]

Are you telling me it's an amazing looking game. Because I have it and it isn't.

[Angyobangyo]

" There shouldn't be any issues, because it's not pushing the envelope. "

Imagine thinking you know better than Digital Foundry. I am confident it looks better than Life of Black Tiger.

[Binarycode]

I do.

It's a Youtube channel nothing more.