Performance

[VANDEL]

I now reached act 2 and the game was normal, but when I arrived at the inn the game started to freeze too much, from 60 fps to 30 or 20,fps drop so much in inn last light

[maculator]

If your machine struggles with the few people in the inn you'll be amazed how much of a slideshow act 3 will be for you...

[Orion Invictus]

What are your specs?

[hannibal_pjv]

Still very fast at act3… but 5800x3d is still really good CPU….
My GPU is rather old. But this game is easy to GPUs…

[jonnin]

most video is only 24 fps. While that is a bit rough for first person shooters or other games where fast knee-jerk movements can skip frames, this game isn't like that. If you miss a frame, all that happens is someone's run animation or something slightly jitters and that only a tiny bit, hard to see unless zoomed in to point blank.

if its 'freezing' .. it is more likely struggling to do pathing for the 20 or so NPCs in the inn more than trying to draw anything. How many cores do you have?

[VANDEL]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

What are your specs?

my spec
amd ryzen 5 1600 six core
rtx 3060
ram 24gb
game on ssd

[Craqshot]

Originally posted by VANDEL:

my spec
amd ryzen 5 1600 six core
rtx 3060
ram 24gb
game on ssd

Game performance tends to be either CPU bound or GPU bound. Baldur's gate isn't really a GPU heavy game (no fancy ray tracing, reflections off water, etc.), but it is a CPU heavy game with a lot of things being calculated all the time. Based on your system specs and issue description, it sounds to me like you're performance is CPU bound. Your RAM and graphics card exceed the recommended requirements, but your CPU is about midway between minimum and recommended and probably closer to minimum than recommended.

• BG3 system requirements[www.systemrequirementslab.com]
  
• CPU Benchmark comparison[www.cpubenchmark.net]

Being CPU bound means that lowering graphic settings probably won't help because the lag is caused by the game trying to process everything that's happening and make decisions. You could try fiddling around some of the settings or making sure you don't have other issues like out of date drivers or junk ware hogging up the CPU in the background. But if you really want to see a performance improvement, you'll need to get a faster CPU. I run it on an AMD 7800 X3D and I've never experienced any lag.

[Burdpal]

Steam Deck performance is awful, just wanted to throw that out there. Some areas of act II and III are below 20 fps.