Need help with optimal in-game settings

[NoOne[PH]]

Hi everyone. I could use some advice on what in-game settings I should have (graphics-wise). I have a rather old system: i5-6600, msi gtx 1060 6gb vram, and 16gb RAM. Would appreciate what in-game settings I should have inorder to optimize the game's performance. Thanks for reading and cheers! :)

[Doomvora]

I have a fairly recent system but I run everything at its absolute lowest, there's an auto detect option you can use to see what the game thinks you should use and then just tweak it from there.

[Vheissu]

with 6gb, ram you will probably want to turn down texture and model quality - test the different settings and see what helps.

Definitely turn off ambient occlusion, and lower shadow quality and fog quality.

If your gpu supports DLSS, it will provide a significant performance boost.

Finally, you may want to test if performance changes significantly when selecting DX11 or Vulkan in the launcher.

The steam overlay has a setting to display fps which will help you. Good luck!

[Hawke]

The game should run fine on this system on low with DLSS, low/medium textures, and screen-sized resolution.

Though, if you installed on HDD, some cut-scenes will look odd (models and textures not loading on time). Also, the number of auto- and quick-saves might need adjustment.

Edit. Cannot comment on the performance in the last Act. Haven't played on the current patch.

[stage]

At 1080p at max setting, most of the time the game uses between 4 and 5 gb VRAM so, running everything on High textures will be fine.

For the rest you can check this videos 12:20 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Kc8025H7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMNBIb4LJqI

[NoOne[PH]]

Originally posted by Hawke:

The game should run fine on this system on low with DLSS, low/medium textures, and screen-sized resolution.

Though, if you installed on HDD, some cut-scenes will look odd (models and textures not loading on time). Also, the number of auto- and quick-saves might need adjustment.

Edit. Cannot comment on the performance in the last Act. Haven't played on the current patch.

Unfortunately, my gfx card does not support DLSS. Would I benefit using FSR?

[Hawke]

It should help, though, according to this guide* FSR 1.0 looks slightly worse than DLSS.
*https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/baldurs-gate-3-system-requirements-pc-performance-and-best-settings-to-use

Launcher option: DirectX 11
Model quality: Low
Texture filtering: Trilinear
Shadow quality: Low
Fog quality: Low
Ambient occlusion: Off
Everything else: Ultra preset equivalents

Could try to start with these settings and see how it performs.