BE CAREFUL!! Fanboys will lie about Steam Deck Performance.

[NoobOrFeed]

This Game Runs ♥♥♥♥ on Steam Deck. This Game is s far from being verified.
Fanboys will lie to you about the Performance, but the FPS are all over the place between 15 - 40 on lowest settings.
By the time you leave Charakter creation and tutorial and realize how Bad this is running, its too late to refund.

[DarkSilhouette]

On deck atm running med settings generally 40-50 fps. Cyro utilities + fan. AAA game on handheld u a scrub whadya expect. I have D4 running 60fps med settings lvl 80 runnin nitemare dungeons with minimal dips.

[ChuckWhistle]

I've been playing on it since early access. By no means is it beautiful or perfect but it's quite serviceable after some tinkering. When FSR 2.1 arrives it will hopefully iron things out even more. Portable Baldur's Gate 3, plays wonderfully with a controller and the UI is perfect.

[ChuckWhistle]

Publicado originalmente por DarkSilhouette:

On deck atm running med settings generally 40-50 fps. Cyro utilities + fan. AAA game on handheld u a scrub whadya expect. I have D4 running 60fps med settings lvl 80 runnin nitemare dungeons with minimal dips.

What settings are you using in cryo utilities?

[s_greyjoy]

runs fine on deck.

1280x720 (looks just as good as 1280x800, just small borders on the top and bottom...not a big deal).
mix of medium and ultra settings. the important ones are ultra quality amd fsr and tsaa.
capped the framerate to 30. it's playable if you cap at 40, but i prefer the stability of just 30.

constant 30 fps, except for highly populated areas (goblin camp with dip into the high 20s when theres a lot of goblins on screen) and the dialogue scenes will dip momentarily sometimes.
this is perfectly acceptable for a handheld imo. i also preordered the ps5 version for the cross save capability later on :)

[Snake Bit]

It runs like ♥♥♥♥ even on the recommended pc specs.

[Quadsword]

That hasn't been my experience at all. On low settings, the game generally stays at a locked 30 fps. I only get dips in heavily populated areas (although I've heard optimization in act 3 is pretty rough).

Plus, let's not forget that the Steam Deck is a handheld PC with specs many times lower than even BG3's minimum system requirements. The fact that it runs at all is kind of a miracle.

[AI NPC]

The steam deck is pretty weak, what did you expect? If you want to use a handheld console-lite, the Asus ROG ally is probably a better choice. But better yet play it on PC or Console when its out.

[NoobOrFeed]

After 30hours and getting into act 2 i can tell you Performance gets worse.

Everyone lying to you is just playing the tutorial or a fanboy. Claiming steady 30fps on mid preset is just a lie.

At the end of act 1 on lowest settings you cant even keep 20fps in the underdark and grymforge. Fps there goes down to 15-20 and you have to be there for hours. I almost abandoned the game there due to being almost unplayable but paying full price without a chance to refund kept me going.

Its so funny to see people not understanding the problem here. Its not about the Steam deck Performance. I know the decks is weak, cant handle most new games and will be sold soon once i find a good laptop.

The problem is that the game is being labled "verified". That clearly gives a wrong impression of the game. This is wrong advertisiment. You dont expect that performance on a verified game. Barely running on 15-30 fps is not a verified game.

And once you get out of the tutorial and character creation, you realize how bad this game is actually running. But you are way past the 2 hour refund mark...

[NoobOrFeed]

Act 2 average FPS in lowest settings possible: 15-20!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ liars

[Slayerof100]

Exactly this. Even with fsr2 and everything on low it still doesnt feel right. Unplayable for me on the steam deck. I do not understand how they can call this verified

[Kafik]

Publicado originalmente por Slayerof100:

Exactly this. Even with fsr2 and everything on low it still doesnt feel right. Unplayable for me on the steam deck. I do not understand how they can call this verified

http://howmanydayssince.net/8/12/2023

[Jairoe03]

Publicado originalmente por NoobOrFeed:

Publicado originalmente por Zaris:

15-40 fps? Sounds like normal performance for a former EARLY ACESS game playing on a CONSOLE released 1 MONTH EARLIER out of fear of Starfield? 3 red flags, i would say it's a wonder it even starts on steam deck.

You dont get the problem here. It has a verified status. If you play other verified games, BG 3 should never have this status.
You cant even start the game out of the box without fiddling around and switching to proton Experimental. How can this be verified?

If it says playable, i am ok with that

I played it on Steam Deck and with tempered expectations it is fine, using fine in a loose sense. BG3 is a demanding game so the graphics are very low but again you are running it on a handheld, what are you expecting. The control layout for controller is actually much better than expected; surprisingly surpassed expectations albeit mouse and keyboard still better but I wouldn't mind running the game on controller on a PC.

Verified status is deserved as long as people understand what graphic performance should be on a handheld. And the settings auto revert to Steam Deck settings so it is actually playable out of the box without any fiddling. Not sure whats wrong with your Steam Deck, try updating it.

[Dank Sidious]

Publicado originalmente por Jairoe03:

Publicado originalmente por NoobOrFeed:

You dont get the problem here. It has a verified status. If you play other verified games, BG 3 should never have this status.
You cant even start the game out of the box without fiddling around and switching to proton Experimental. How can this be verified?

If it says playable, i am ok with that

I played it on Steam Deck and with tempered expectations it is fine, using fine in a loose sense. BG3 is a demanding game so the graphics are very low but again you are running it on a handheld, what are you expecting. The control layout for controller is actually much better than expected; surprisingly surpassed expectations albeit mouse and keyboard still better but I wouldn't mind running the game on controller on a PC.

Verified status is deserved as long as people understand what graphic performance should be on a handheld. And the settings auto revert to Steam Deck settings so it is actually playable out of the box without any fiddling. Not sure whats wrong with your Steam Deck, try updating it.

Have you reached moonrise tower or ACT 3 yet? The game is fine on deck for the first chapter, in dungeons and emptier parts of ACT 2, but the heavily crowded areas of ACT 2 and Baldur's Gate itself are not even fine. The game cannot hold solid 30 in the more demanding areas.

[Dank Sidious]

Publicado originalmente por Mal:

Publicado originalmente por Slayerof100:

Exactly this. Even with fsr2 and everything on low it still doesnt feel right. Unplayable for me on the steam deck. I do not understand how they can call this verified

http://howmanydayssince.net/8/12/2023

Necro or not it's still a relevant topic. The performance on Deck is substandard. and FSR2 isn't going to help because it's a CPU bottleneck not a GPU one. If anything FSR2 is only going make it worse, because GPU wasn't the issue in the first place.

[Kriss Hietala]

vulcan wrapper + fsr2 and it runs great on steamdeck. I've just turned on the fsr ultra performance preset and fps are fine.