A Performance Guide for Baldur’s Gate 3 Potential FPS Boost
If you are having Baldur’s Gate 3 performance issues, lag issues or low FPS, you are not alone. Many users have reported the same problems. Let’s see what can be done to make our gaming experience better. The main optimization is not in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Updated September 6, 2020: Baldurs Gate 3 requirements increased recently, but only the Free Disk space. Your computer still needs a CPU equal to a Core i5-4690 or AMD FX-4350. And a Graphics card equal or better than a GeForce GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 280X. Also your System Memory should be at least 8 GB. The controls listed below are the default controls for the pc game: (some may also work for Mac) Camera Backward - S,., Baldur's Gate 3 for the Macintosh Game Video Walkthroughs 3DS.
Possible solutions to low FPS
CPU Settings
Baldur’s Gate 3, due for an early access launch on Google Stadia, Steam, and GoG on Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT, will include Mac platforms. We've got a big surprise for Mac fans. Baldur's Gate 3 will.
There are a few things you could try:
Close other programs (especially CPU and RAM heavy programs like web browsers).
Give Baldur’s Gate 3 High priority via task manager.
1) Run Baldur’s Gate 3.
2) Open Task Manager [CTRL+SHIFT+ESC].
3) Switch it to the More details view if required using the “More details” link in the bottom right corner.
4) Switch to the “Details” tab.
5) Right click “Baldur’s Gate 3.exe” on the list -> “Set priority” -> “High”.
OPTIMIZE NVIDIA SETTINGS
If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, you can do some things to tweak your settings even more. These tweaks require that you go into your NVIDIA 3D settings, from the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Tip: Remember to keep your graphics card driver updated! Especially never graphics card will get a lot of performance boosts from just updating the drivers.
- Open the NVIDIA Control Panel (right-click on your desktop and choose it from the menu).
- Click Manage 3D settings.
- You can either change the settings for all programs and games, or you can do it for select programs. Select Global Settings or Program Settings and find Baldur’s Gate 3 on the list. If you choose Global Settings, the changes will affect all programs and games.
- Set Maximum pre-rendered frames to 1.
- Set Preferred refresh rate to “Highest available”.
- Set Power Management Mode to “Prefer maximum performance”.
- Set Threaded optimization to ON.
- Set Vertical sync to OFF.
- Click apply and you can now close the control panel again.
Getting rid of junk files
A. Clearing PC from temporary files.
Those files don’t do anything, but they can take up a considerable amount of space and can slow down your PC even if you still have a lot of space on your storage device(s).
It’s especially helpful for those who have installed Windows for a few months and never really cleared junk from PC properly. You can alternatively use some utility programs such as CCleaner, but you still need to double-check whether all of those junk files are removed from your PC. How to do that:
• Press Win + R to open the run box -> type “prefetch” -> remove all junk (some files may not be deleted but it’s OK)
• Press Win + R -> type “%temp%” -> remove all junk (some files may not be deleted but it’s OK)
B. Run disk cleanup
Yet again there might be some programs that can do that for you, but if you don’t have one or you are not sure it actually removes the junk files – do the following
• Go to windows search and type “disk cleanup”
• Open the program
• Checkmark every file category that’s available and press OK
Maximization of power usage
• If you for some reason don’t want to use BHP, go to Power Option in Windows Control Panel and set it to High Performance. This will allow your CPU to use as much as power as possible.
Baldur's Gate 3 Mac Minimum Requirements
• Turn off C-states in BIOS*
- This one is highly optional and I don’t recommend anyone doing that unless you know what you are doing! For example, for some motherboards not all C-states need to be turned off. C-states are the mechanisms that your motherboard uses to save energy. When C-states are turned off, CPU cannot be bottlenecked by the lack of power input from your motherboard. Disabling of C-states works very well with the High Performance power mode described above.
Game Shortcut
If you have the game shortcut on your desktop.
Baldur's Gate 3 Macos
1. Right click on it and press properties and the Compatibility tab.
2. Tick override high DPI scaling Behavior. and choose Scaling performed by (Application) in drop down menu.
3. Tick Disable fullscreen optimizations.
4. And tick Run this program as an administrator.
How do I update my video card drivers?
- -Press Windows + R.
- -Type “DxDiag” and click OK.
- -After the DirectX Diagnostic Tool loads, select the Display tab.
- -The video card’s name and manufacturer are listed in the Device section. The current driver version is listed in the Driver section.
- -Visit the driver manufacturer’s website to obtain the most up-to-date driver. Contact the driver manufacturer for assistance with updating the driver. If the computer is under warranty, contact the computer manufacturer.
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When I got the chance to play Baldur's Gate 3 in early access, I jumped on it—I've been a Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast for roughly 40 years, going back to Blue Book Basic D&D as a small child in the late 1970s. To the best of my knowledge, I've played every licensed D&D and AD&D computer RPG ever made. They haven't all been winners, but the original Baldur's Gate was probably the most widely loved of the franchise—it boasted an expansive, interesting world with bold voice talent and characters.
The new entry in the Baldur's Gate series is, unfortunately, not cut from the same cloth. The game's rendering engine is incredibly beautiful, but the characters it renders are shallow, trite, and frequently downright hateful—and the storyline, at least for the first 15 hours, is pretty similar.
What this game misses the most is tabletop camaraderie—even the ersatz version you get from a good computer RPG. Even if lawful good and chaotic neutral characters butt heads on the other side of a DM's screen, an adventuring party should feel as though it has real bonds and a unified purpose. That sense of togetherness didn't emerge in the first 15 hours of Baldur's Gate 3—and maybe that matters more to me than to you, but I imagine I'm not alone in wanting a D&D quest to feel like a shared experience.
I'll try to avoid any serious spoilers, but it's impossible to talk about the storyline's issues without at least a couple of minor reveals—which I'll limit to the first two hours or so of gameplay.
You are in way above your paygrade
I went into Baldur's Gate 3 effectively blind. I knew nothing about the storyline and just sort of hoped for either the return of Minsc and Boo or a worthy successor to their colorful antics, along with a rich Dungeons & Dragons setting, presumably largely urban. I waffled over character creation—I've always preferred to play magic-users, but the first few levels of a wizard's life are incredibly painful due to their lack of hit points, quickly exhausted spells, and inability to wear decent armor or hit the broad side of a barn with their silly little newbie staves.
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Fighters, on the other hand, tend to be a bit boring—wear the armor, swing the weapon, hit the baddie—but they're much heartier initially, particularly in games that start you off without a party. Ultimately, I decided to put on my robe and wizard hat. Being a level-nothing wizard isn't as bad as it was in earlier rulesets—you have inexhaustible cantrips available to you now, which do damage pretty close to a starting-level fighter's. At level one, you'll still lose almost any fight to any other level-one character class, but at least it is a fight.
Normally, the first couple of levels of a D&D game that begin with level-one characters have you taking on rats in a sewer or maybe a few particularly unathletic wolves. Baldur's Gate 3 decides instead to put you on an Illithid Nautiloid, surrounded by mind flayers and intellect devourers, in the midst of a three-way fight between the Illithids (mind flayers), red dragon-riding Githyanki, and the occasional cambion.
For perspective, think of Star Wars Episode IV, but imagine that it opens with Luke waking up in Darth Vader's Star Destroyer—and instead of Imperial lackeys, every crew member is a Sith with mind control powers. It's under attack by a Mandalorian fleet, which hates you as much as they hate the Sith. And you don't have Han, Chewie, Obi-Wan, or even C3PO to help.
When your wide-eyed, clueless wandering is interrupted by Leia—ahem, I mean, Lae'zel—she's more than snarky. Her hatred is palpable when she describes what she wants to do to your character: '[slice] you from navel to nose.'
Oh, and there's a time bomb in your brain, too. If you could ask C3PO for advice, he'd probably suggest a new strategy: letting the Illithids win.