hotfix#21 ruined my game on macOS

[小白兔白]

hotfix#21 ruined my game on macOS

my is MacBook Pro Apple M1 Max 64 GB RAM

Baldur's gate 3 was running good on this mac until this hotfix#21 hits me down

now the performance is intolerable

[Beren]

Same problem after update... ( Macbook Pro 16 m2 pro )

[小白兔白]

i've read larian's forums, their Community Manager post this reply

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Hello! Sharing this here as well:

The team is currently investigating this issue with the performance on Mac. In the meantime, to alleviate the issue, they have recommended following these steps:

- Make sure you've updated to the latest Hotfix (21 as of this message)
- Switch to Borderless video mode (Settings > Video > Borderless Window)
- Lower the resolution (Settings > Video > Resolution)
- If the FPS are still low, turning on FSR mode (Settings > Video > Gamma Correction)
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and then i've tried those steps, unfortunately still unplayable, the only thing we can do is waiting

[LuzyCat]

same issue... (Macbook pro 16 m2 pro)

[filovirus]

I have same issue. M1max 32GB.

[biggsy29]

As seen in other threads concerning this issue, people mentioned that they forced the Game Mode on by opening Chess and going to full screen.
I tried this and an information box came up to say Game Mode was on, I left chess running opened BG3 in another window and yes it worked and the game ran fine.
So it’s obvious that for some reason the last patch is somehow not forcing the Mac into Game Mode , I sent a message to Larian giving them the info but just got the standard computerised reply suggesting remedies that have been tried over and over.

[Luthien Telperien]

Originally posted by biggsy29:

As seen in other threads concerning this issue, people mentioned that they forced the Game Mode on by opening Chess and going to full screen.
I tried this and an information box came up to say Game Mode was on, I left chess running opened BG3 in another window and yes it worked and the game ran fine.
So it’s obvious that for some reason the last patch is somehow not forcing the Mac into Game Mode , I sent a message to Larian giving them the info but just got the standard computerised reply suggesting remedies that have been tried over and over.

I LOVE YOU
I can finally resume my game ( and close act 2 that I was suppose to close last week end).
And now that you mentioned Game Mode, made me realize that it hasn't been launching with the game since March 9th update, as you said, the game runs as any other software on the machine thus the poor performance.
THANK U, you genius mind !

[triggerhappy45]

Any update? I too am having these issues on a brand new maxed out m3 with 64gb of ram.

In truth, I am relieved in away-- as I thought it was the macbook. I was feeling underwhelmed by it's performance. Good news it's just this last patches fault. 😅

[Brandon]

£3000 laptop moment I guess

[jcsparks]

I think it's the Edge Panning setting. I normally run with that off and it was turned on again after the latest patch. I turned that off and so far it's been running much better for me.

Settings > Gameplay > Camera Options > Edge Panning.

Cut scenes are still really bad, but the in-game play is better.

[joshua.sihyun]

Having same issue on macbook pro. Very frustrating. Every single update is one worse for Mac users.

[rjsshelby]

Even with game mode on via opening Chess, the videos are extremely slow and leaves the game unplayable. Please provide a fix!!

[skare]

Same here. Took a few months of and continued the game today. M1 Ultra studio here and previously run with ultra-settings super smoothly. Now laggy as hell. Thank god it's happening on others too so maybe it will be fixed. Break continues then.

[kylecross]

Same, M3 Pro. Was super smooth two weeks ago. took a break, came back and now it's unbearable

[CastAsHuman]

Me too with an m2 Mac studio ultra

[cwolf]

Originally posted by 小白兔白:

hotfix#21 ruined my game on macOS

my is MacBook Pro Apple M1 Max 64 GB RAM

Baldur's gate 3 was running good on this mac until this hotfix#21 hits me down

now the performance is intolerable

I experienced the same horrible performance degradation after upgrading to hotfix 21 on my 15" M2 MacBook Air today.

I was able to restore the previous (quite good) performance by using Time Machine to restore an older copy (hot fix 20) of the Baldur's Gate 3 app to "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldur's Gate 3.app"

The only drawback was that there were a couple of saves I had made while running from hot fix 21 that can not be loaded by the older hot fix 20 version.