BG3 has WIndows 10 as recommended OS

[josephggarcia]

Because BG3 has a recommended OS of Windows 10 in the requirements, does that mean windows 11 is not yet certified to run BG3? I'm seeing stability issues and I'm wondering if it's worth downgrading.

[アンジェル]

Sistermatic™ lähetti viestin:

Le'vita lähetti viestin:

You will still likely get issues with Windows 10, but literally EVERY game will run better on Windows 10 than Microsoft's Adware 11.

Bill really doesn't need defending but this game runs fine on Windows 11.

Might I also suggest you spend 10 minutes learning how to turn the 'adware' off. I certainly got a lot of crud on a new system but I get none of it now. Took about a day to work out how to knock it all down.

Thomas D. lähetti viestin:

Those that say that this game runs better on Windows 11 probably had a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up Windows 10 installation before (they probably even caused themselves) and the upgrade / reinstallation of Windows 11 fixed some stuff.

I've been using Windows since Windows 3.0 and this comment is not even remotely accurate. My last Windows 10 ran a business, CNC/laser equipment (and my games) for nearly 5 years. It was never reinstalled in that time. It only just got handed down to my kids and it got a refresh.

Most of the time, it's people putting too much ♥♥♥♥♥ on their machine, not doing updates, clogging up the drives, operating a dirty machine and installing to much 'utliity' software that messes the OS up. It's rarely the OS.

I could not agree more.

[guard65]

To be truthful about windows, it is still NT 4.0 with window dressing or perhaps still dos without a preemptive command interface that runs a gui.

.Net is the foundation of the new Windows as they move everything to web versions of all software (and subscription only).

[Orion Invictus]

guard65 lähetti viestin:

To be truthful about windows, it is still NT 4.0 with window dressing or perhaps still dos without a preemptive command interface that runs a gui.

.Net is the foundation of the new Windows as they move everything to web versions of all software (and subscription only).

So how come it doesn't have the same limits as before, if it's the same?

Or is this one of those "all technology is built upon older technology" things? Because if so, perhaps you should complain about pin tumbler locks, which haven't changed in any significant way since the technology was invented 6000 years ago.

[Incunabulum]

josephggarcia lähetti viestin:

Because BG3 has a recommended OS of Windows 10 in the requirements, does that mean windows 11 is not yet certified to run BG3? I'm seeing stability issues and I'm wondering if it's worth downgrading.

OS' are not 'certified' to run specific games.

The game was developed when W10 was the standard OS, anything that runs under W10 is going to run fine with W11 - which is just W10 but with forced ads.

[Incunabulum]

guard65 lähetti viestin:

To be truthful about windows, it is still NT 4.0 with window dressing or perhaps still dos without a preemptive command interface that runs a gui.

.Net is the foundation of the new Windows as they move everything to web versions of all software (and subscription only).

Yeah, yeah and Starfield is still running on Gamebryo.

[lailaamell]

just play it on 7 its stable and probly runs better than 10 does

[Orion Invictus]

lailaamell lähetti viestin:

just play it on 7 its stable and probly runs better than 10 does

You sure about that? I recall many users having to find workarounds to get it to run on Windows 7.

[wtiger27]

I run BG3 on Windows 11 and it performs and is very stable. For the last 9 months. Just like it did on Windows 10 last year.

[Darkbolt{AWG}]

no one with a brain runs a NEW OS like win 11 on release. It is a solid 2 years before i even think about win 11. But windows as a whole is becoming more and more bloated and bill gates is a total scum bag i hope the Netherlands nail him to the wall for all the people he killed with the poison shots.

[Simon McAllister]

Le'vita lähetti viestin:

You will still likely get issues with Windows 10, but literally EVERY game will run better on Windows 10 than Microsoft's Adware 11. I am running BG3 on a VERY good PC, that I've done thorough software tweaking on as well for the sake of performance and the game still stutters. Drives me up the wall to no end, and I beg that Larian can address this ASAP.

Not an opinionated thing, 'me telling you that Win 10 is the better choice'. Online searches give an embarrassingly high return for 'Windows 11 performance issues'. That's what happens when you deliberately tell your software guys to bake ads and AI into an OS.

I personally hate the whole 'setting up a computer with another OS' thing, but Win 10 is what actually works. If you feel like it's worth the time (pretty much your entire day if OCD) then go back to 10, prolly yeah.

Works fine on Windows 11. Only problems I had were related to the fact the CPU in the PC was suffering a slow death over the course of a few months. Which was confirmed because one night both my monitors went black and the PC would go past the post phase on restart. Was a common problem with Ryzen 7 5700Gs. Probably was defective right out of the box.

[myxlmynx]

Doesn't really matter. Will run on any Windows from 10 up, and also on Linux with Proton it runs flawlessly. Which is what you should be using anyway. Microsoft is not interested anymore in providing a decent operating system with Windows. It's mostly to steal data from their users, train their AIs and to drive them into their expensive cloud-based subscription models. Windows 7 was the last decent version of Windows, and it will only get worse as time goes by.

[Sundancer]

running windows 10 game runs flawless never had a crash in nearly 400 hours

[Mike Garrison]

Sistermatic™ lähetti viestin:

Le'vita lähetti viestin:

You will still likely get issues with Windows 10, but literally EVERY game will run better on Windows 10 than Microsoft's Adware 11.

Bill really doesn't need defending but this game runs fine on Windows 11.

Bill is long retired from Microsoft, for what it's worth.

[Orion Invictus]

Mike Garrison lähetti viestin:

Sistermatic™ lähetti viestin:

Bill really doesn't need defending but this game runs fine on Windows 11.

Bill is long retired from Microsoft, for what it's worth.

True, but he's the target of right-wing conspiracies, so...

[Yesat]

What you will often see is that recommended are minimums. If you have something better or newer, it will also work. So Windows 8 has not been tested, Windows 10 and 11 work, so they'll ptu Windows 10.