Comment on I am LOVING Baldurs Gate 3
davetansley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m looking forward to it! I bought it on Steamdeck, but had to refund because I couldn’t get it to run decently… felt I would be doing it a disservice with all the compromises. So I’m not waiting for the PS5 release…
JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 10 months ago
I was considering getting it for my steam deck. If you don't mind me asking, how bad was the performance?
davetansley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, my problem is partly that I play docked, so every issue is magnified up to 50 inches… so take what I say with a pinch of salt.
I managed to get it to run at a fairly stable 30fps, but the settings were so low that everything looked pretty muddy and basic. You can turn off the FSR to get it to look less blurry at 800p, but it still looked pretty bad. Generally, everything just looked a bit unstable, you know? Hair was pixelated, lines were jaggy everything felt jumpy and gritty. I’m sure it would look better on the SD screen itself.
I also read that Act 3 onwards takes a further hit to performance… so at that point I decided to cut my losses. Shame… it’s the first game where I’ve genuinely felt the SD isn’t up to it.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I noticed the same as I primarily play docked too. But I got sucked into the game and just have been dealing with it. I figured on subsequent playthroughs maybe I’ll play it on my desktop PC.
davetansley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Phew… I was starting to think I was the only docked Steamdeck gamer in the whole universe!
Lutz69@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve played about 70% of my 20ish hours so far on Steam deck, and honestly, it’s awesome. Controls work out of the box since release. I don’t really care all that much about graphics, and they’re passable on the deck. I can imagine it’s probably really bad if you dock it and play on the big screen, but handheld it’s perfectly fine and very convenient. Drains battery like a mf, though.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you gotten to act 2 or 3? From what I’ve heard the deck plays fine until you get too far into the game, and then it is unplayable.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m playing on desktop mode and the graphics are more than good enough for me, but I’m not a AAA hound
Chailles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think I had a consistent 30 FPS on medium settings. Said performance degraded as the game progressed. My high end PC struggles with Act 3 for some reason, I don’t know where the bottleneck is there, but I decided from there that I wouldn’t even try to run the game on the Steam Deck there.