Can I run this?

[matteste]

Sorry, but I am a bit computer illitterate. I have checked the recommended and minimum specs for this game and one part makes me uncertain if I can run this game.

My rig is getting on the years, but checking the system requirements, it says that the minimum required graphics card is a Nvidia GTX 970. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 which I think is supposed to be a better card, but it also mentions 4GB+ of VRAM. My card only has around 3GB of VRAM. Is it something that kills any opportunity to play this game or can it still be done?

EDIT: Now to be clear, I do not really care about graphics and the like (I am someone who plays a lot of retro games so graphics is a non issue), I would juts like to know if it is playable with this even if I have to use the lowest possible settings.

[KRON]

It can be launched. I mean, it does run on a Steam Deck. No promises about texture quality, though.

[♠.brT]

It should run fine(ish) in act1, probably the same in act2. But you may encounter issues in act3. (act3 is very heavy on performance, even with better gpus and good cpus). The game does have FSR, which might help with lower vram situations (i think). But again the issue you may encounter is act 3, and that is, depending on how you play it, several dozen, maybe over a hundred hours into the game, by that point you won't have a refund option anymore.

So yeah. If you can find youtube videos (or just ask other people) who have the same gpu and cpu that you have, and see what their experience looks like it, it might help you make a more informed decision.

[Brian_the_Brute]

I thought that card had 6MB VRAM.

I am running an older card than that (TitanX 8 GB) without issues.

RAM and VRAM are very important for BG3 though. I have a 13 year old system but with 32GB RAM / 8 GB VRAM I can max out everything in 4k.

[♠.brT]

Originally posted by Brian_the_Brute:

I thought that card had 6MB VRAM.

I think you mean 6GB VRAM.

There is a 3GB "variant" but it is very misleading, because though it carries the 1060 name on it, it's actually quite a bit different than the standard 6GB version. Less cuda cores for example. Nvidia really should have given a different name.

[PyroMonk]

the card has either 3 or 6 depending on which one you have - I got lows of 30fps on L4D2 game - You might need some mods to help the game run. The vram of your GPU is gddr5 so it's not a big difference in what we have now. You'll probably load as you're used to. But you may want to run the CPU settings higher than the GPU, or maybe 720p and use your Nvidia control center to upscale the sharpness.

[Mojo]

There are sites out there that will let you know if you can run certain games. One of them has almost the same name as your topic.

I am not sure how accurate the results are, but should be close I would imagine.

[Pyromaiden]

the real question is can you power walk it

[matteste]

Originally posted by Mojo:

There are sites out there that will let you know if you can run certain games. One of them has almost the same name as your topic.

I am not sure how accurate the results are, but should be close I would imagine.

I did in fact use Can You Run It, and this VRAM thing was the only thing that seemed like it was what was keeping it from saying that I could run it. Otherwise I should have been able to run it at minimum. The fact that it seems like such a small difference is the reason I am asking.

[Kellar]

It also heavily depens on your resolution and hz (frames per secobd). 1080p and 60hz its probably fine untill act 3, and even that is probably okay. If you rmturn down graphics.

1200 and up, and anything over 60fps will kill your pc.

And is it a laptop? If it is, assume 30-40% worse results, especially if its old.

[Kellar]

You could turn it down to 720p and 50 fps with minimum settings. That should easily run even on that settup on an old laptop, but it wont be pretty for todays standards.

[DudeAbides]

Baldurs Gate 3 is CPU intensive, especially in Act 3. So is your CPU also up to the task? If your rig is getting old it may not run without displaying micro stutters. I helped a friend build a new gaming system recently because his 2018/19 Dell gaming laptop couldn't handle BG3. There was excessive microstutters and texture loading.

[matteste]

Originally posted by Mushy:

Baldurs Gate 3 is CPU intensive, especially in Act 3. So is your CPU also up to the task? If your rig is getting old it may not run without displaying micro stutters. I helped a friend build a new gaming system recently because his 2018/19 Dell gaming laptop couldn't handle BG3. There was excessive microstutters and texture loading.

My CPU is, if I understood this correctly, a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz. According to Can You Run It it is supposed to be up to the task.

Also to answer the others, it is not a laptop. It is a proper PC that was built by my younger brother years ago with what, from that I understand, highest end parts at the time.

[Ajax]

Originally posted by matteste:

Sorry, but I am a bit computer illitterate. I have checked the recommended and minimum specs for this game and one part makes me uncertain if I can run this game.

My rig is getting on the years, but checking the system requirements, it says that the minimum required graphics card is a Nvidia GTX 970. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 which I think is supposed to be a better card, but it also mentions 4GB+ of VRAM. My card only has around 3GB of VRAM. Is it something that kills any opportunity to play this game or can it still be done?

EDIT: Now to be clear, I do not really care about graphics and the like (I am someone who plays a lot of retro games so graphics is a non issue), I would juts like to know if it is playable with this even if I have to use the lowest possible settings.

Hello, sry to be the bearer of bad news but i had the same video card few months ago and it runned, but with poor frames and artefacts on the vegetation.

[Brian_the_Brute]

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

Originally posted by Brian_the_Brute:

I thought that card had 6MB VRAM.

I think you mean 6GB VRAM.

There is a 3GB "variant" but it is very misleading, because though it carries the 1060 name on it, it's actually quite a bit different than the standard 6GB version. Less cuda cores for example. Nvidia really should have given a different name.

Lol, yeah should be GB ...a typo and I'm old. I remember when games had 4 colors, it took over an hour to download 1 MB, and big games came on 10-20 floppies.

Just having 3 GB definitely will impact performance. That's really BS about the 3 GB sharing the same name with the 6 GB one. It looks like they do share the same architecture and clock speed but they just made one to be half the card of the other. A little research shows that the 1060 was steam's most used GPU for about 5 years from 2017-2022, but it's outdated now if you had the 3 GB one and 8 GB is the new norm.

[MR67]

I run the game on an i5-760 with 16gb of RAM and a 6gb GTX 1660ti card, so my CPU is already below the minimum required. I have most settings at medium and the game generally runs OK, though with a bit of occasional lag while saving the game or during conversations. I think what's more important is that you have an SSD to run the game from.