Mac Users with Resolution/Display Window Issues

[Josephus]

BG3 respects resolution choices, even if your Mac is set to a different res.

This can cause the screen to appear black with just the Gauntlet cursor or cut off.

To fix:
1. enable all resolutions in MacOS System Settings, then Displays Menu on the left nav.
2. If you are having problems seeing the game, set your res to highest on menu (for now)
3. Launch game and you should now be able to get to options.
4. In Video, set ASPECT RATIO and not RESOLUTION.

It will report Aspect Ration and Resolution to be the same but XDR and promotion displays work a bit different from Others.

Once you set Aspect Ration to the highest, quit the game and go back to settings and set your desktop res back to your preferences. Now run the game and it should display in all its Glory!

[completepancake]

Hi sorry I'm extremely clueless about Steam and upon game launch it goes to fullscreen but it's way too big for my laptop screen and I'm only seeing like 1/4 of the game. So a couple questions about the steps in your fix.

1) can you explain what window I'm supposed to be in to get to "Settings/Display" - my Steam preferences menu doesn't have Display as an option.

2) "in Video" - where or in what window would I be seeing this? Is this an in-game setting?

[Josephus]

Originally posted by completepancake:

Hi sorry I'm extremely clueless about Steam and upon game launch it goes to fullscreen but it's way too big for my laptop screen and I'm only seeing like 1/4 of the game. So a couple questions about the steps in your fix.

1) can you explain what window I'm supposed to be in to get to "Settings/Display" - my Steam preferences menu doesn't have Display as an option.

2) "in Video" - where or in what window would I be seeing this? Is this an in-game setting?

You need to navigate to System Settings in MacOS, not Steam, then click Displays in the left hand menu.

[completepancake]

in System Preferences, in the Display menu my only options are

Resolution: Default for Display / Scaled
Brightness [slider]
[check] Automatically adjust brightness
[check] True Tone
Presets: [Apple XDR Display (P3-1600 nits)]
Refresh Rate: [ProMotion]
At the bottom are links to access settings for "Universal Control..." and "Night Shift..."

[Josephus]

Originally posted by completepancake:

in System Preferences, in the Display menu my only options are

Resolution: Default for Display / Scaled
Brightness [slider]
[check] Automatically adjust brightness
[check] True Tone
Presets: [Apple XDR Display (P3-1600 nits)]
Refresh Rate: [ProMotion]
At the bottom are links to access settings for "Universal Control..." and "Night Shift..."

You should see a toggle that says "Show All resolutions" with a warning about scaling impacting performance (false). Likely your game is set for 4k res by default in the config file for Windows Machines. Larian could change the defualts for Mac Install.

[Kriss Hietala]

Does mac version has fsr2 ?

[lavboj]

Originally posted by completepancake:

in System Preferences, in the Display menu my only options are

Resolution: Default for Display / Scaled
Brightness [slider]
[check] Automatically adjust brightness
[check] True Tone
Presets: [Apple XDR Display (P3-1600 nits)]
Refresh Rate: [ProMotion]
At the bottom are links to access settings for "Universal Control..." and "Night Shift..."

mate but i cant get into full version on mac yet, its just says the same thing that was before

[Leahpatra]

Originally posted by completepancake:

Hi sorry I'm extremely clueless about Steam and upon game launch it goes to fullscreen but it's way too big for my laptop screen and I'm only seeing like 1/4 of the game. So a couple questions about the steps in your fix.

1) can you explain what window I'm supposed to be in to get to "Settings/Display" - my Steam preferences menu doesn't have Display as an option.

2) "in Video" - where or in what window would I be seeing this? Is this an in-game setting?

I am also struggling with this! Cant see 3/4 of the game

[completepancake]

Originally posted by Josephus:

Originally posted by completepancake:

in System Preferences, in the Display menu my only options are

Resolution: Default for Display / Scaled
Brightness [slider]
[check] Automatically adjust brightness
[check] True Tone
Presets: [Apple XDR Display (P3-1600 nits)]
Refresh Rate: [ProMotion]
At the bottom are links to access settings for "Universal Control..." and "Night Shift..."

You should see a toggle that says "Show All resolutions" with a warning about scaling impacting performance (false). Likely your game is set for 4k res by default in the config file for Windows Machines. Larian could change the defualts for Mac Install.

Unfortunately, I listed all the toggles/settings that I see. There's nothing that says "Show All resolutions".

[Josephus]

Originally posted by Kriss Hietala:

Does mac version has fsr2 ?

No sorry. With the M2 you do not need scaling of any kind.

Intel Macs, good luck.

[Leahpatra]

Originally posted by completepancake:

Originally posted by Josephus:

You should see a toggle that says "Show All resolutions" with a warning about scaling impacting performance (false). Likely your game is set for 4k res by default in the config file for Windows Machines. Larian could change the defualts for Mac Install.

Unfortunately, I listed all the toggles/settings that I see. There's nothing that says "Show All resolutions".

I've just seen a video where the "show all resolutions" is under the advanced options when you have Ventura 13.3 or newer, so I am updating mine as I didn't know it hadn't done it automatically. No idea if it will work but I see no other options rn

[Josephus]

Originally posted by Leahpatra:

Originally posted by completepancake:

Hi sorry I'm extremely clueless about Steam and upon game launch it goes to fullscreen but it's way too big for my laptop screen and I'm only seeing like 1/4 of the game. So a couple questions about the steps in your fix.

1) can you explain what window I'm supposed to be in to get to "Settings/Display" - my Steam preferences menu doesn't have Display as an option.

2) "in Video" - where or in what window would I be seeing this? Is this an in-game setting?

I am also struggling with this! Cant see 3/4 of the game

OK All, You can also edit the User Config file manually.

Launch a Finder instance.
From the root, or Macintosh HD, Navigate to Users, then Documents, then Larian Studios, then Baldur's Gate 3, then open graphicSettings.lsx in TextEdit.
Look for screen width and height, type in a sane set of numbers and save.

Try to run game.

If it makes it worse, then you can use Steam to verify the local files and it will overwrite your config changes. Essentially a reinstall.

[Josephus]

Originally posted by Leahpatra:

Originally posted by completepancake:

Unfortunately, I listed all the toggles/settings that I see. There's nothing that says "Show All resolutions".

I've just seen a video where the "show all resolutions" is under the advanced options when you have Ventura 13.3 or newer, so I am updating mine as I didn't know it hadn't done it automatically. No idea if it will work but I see no other options rn

I am on Sonoma. I did not consider Ventura. I forgot about that as soon as Sonoma Beta dropped.

[Josephus]

Originally posted by completepancake:

Originally posted by Josephus:

You should see a toggle that says "Show All resolutions" with a warning about scaling impacting performance (false). Likely your game is set for 4k res by default in the config file for Windows Machines. Larian could change the defualts for Mac Install.

Unfortunately, I listed all the toggles/settings that I see. There's nothing that says "Show All resolutions".

Click the "Advanced" button at the bottom of the Displays window and check "Show Resolutions as List."

[Brykner]

The way I solved the problem of not seeing the resolution was to just change the actual resolution of my monitor until I could see the options of the game, and then I was able to tinker from there.

[artcrazy.pulatie]

I am having the same problems i put my resolution at the highest and I ca see artwork but when I get to the users agreement it is zoomed to the right side of my screen