Is there any mod or configuration that optimizes bg3? help :(

[Brunodax324]

I have an Asus 1660 and an i5 processor. With that, no matter how much I play and set the graphics to a minimum, the game runs at a maximum of 30 fps and the most important thing is that the game stops completely for small periods. It is very annoying and I think that of all my hours of gaming, 30% is just waiting on loading screens and waiting for it to go to higher fps.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Brunodax224:

Is there any mod or configuration that optimizes bg3? help :(
I have an Asus 1660 and an i5 processor. With that, no matter how much I play and set the graphics to a minimum, the game runs at a maximum of 30 fps and the most important thing is that the game stops completely for small periods. It is very annoying and I think that of all my hours of gaming, 30% is just waiting on loading screens and waiting for it to go to higher fps.

Long story short: no

The best you can do is applying all the tips you can find here
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3065050571
But even then your FPS is still limited due to your hardware

[Thomas D.]

If the game stops for small periods of time then this kind of sounds like an overheating problem where the system gets throttled / stopped for small periods of time to cool down again.

You are using an notebook, don't you? That's kind of an common issue for (gameing) notebooks. Especially if you are using them for longer periods of time and there is plenty of dust accumulated and / or the thermal paste isn't that well anymore. Especially considering that when you just buy them they already often operate at their thermal limits (from that point it only goes downwards) until you get exactly this experience or even worse (blue screens / shutdowns).

You could try to clean it (but don't do so if you aren't familiar with such things otherwise you might damage it). Also you could try to increase the speed of the fans (which will make it noisy). Often you have kind of a tool software that was preindtalled on the notebook to do so.

Also you could decrease graphics if not already lowest. Stuff like resolution, anti aliasing and lighting or shader specific stuff usually takes the most performance. Lower them first. Textures only matter if you don't have enough VRAM (GPU RAM not virtual RAM) and / or RAM.

For the loading screen issue. It is really recommend to install the game on a SSD! It's literally recommend to do so for any newer game. My guess would be that you have installed it on an HDD, then yeah it will be slow! There is an option in-game to decrease loading times if you use a HDD.

But the best you can do is to install it on a SSD if possible.

Some notebooks allow to upgrade / add an additional SSD (via Sata or preferred via NVMe). But if you aren't much into the tech I recommend not to do that yourself.

Other than that your next best option is to upgrade your system.

I for example play it in 4k, everything maxed, even some increased settings via GPU driver and it runs constantly with 60 FPS+ on a computer that's 1 and a half years old. Also the loading times aren't that high (fast SSD).

[Brunodax324]

Originally posted by Thomas D.:

If the game stops for small periods of time then this kind of sounds like an overheating problem where the system gets throttled / stopped for small periods of time to cool down again.

You are using an notebook, don't you? That's kind of an common issue for (gameing) notebooks. Especially if you are using them for longer periods of time and there is plenty of dust accumulated and / or the thermal paste isn't that well anymore. Especially considering that when you just buy them they already often operate at their thermal limits (from that point it only goes downwards) until you get exactly this experience or even worse (blue screens / shutdowns).

You could try to clean it (but don't do so if you aren't familiar with such things otherwise you might damage it). Also you could try to increase the speed of the fans (which will make it noisy). Often you have kind of a tool software that was preindtalled on the notebook to do so.

Also you could decrease graphics if not already lowest. Stuff like resolution, anti aliasing and lighting or shader specific stuff usually takes the most performance. Lower them first. Textures only matter if you don't have enough VRAM (GPU RAM not virtual RAM) and / or RAM.

For the loading screen issue. It is really recommend to install the game on a SSD! It's literally recommend to do so for any newer game. My guess would be that you have installed it on an HDD, then yeah it will be slow! There is an option in-game to decrease loading times if you use a HDD.

But the best you can do is to install it on a SSD if possible.

Some notebooks allow to upgrade / add an additional SSD (via Sata or preferred via NVMe). But if you aren't much into the tech I recommend not to do that yourself.

Other than that your next best option is to upgrade your system.

I for example play it in 4k, everything maxed, even some increased settings via GPU driver and it runs constantly with 60 FPS+ on a computer that's 1 and a half years old. Also the loading times aren't that high (fast SSD).

What I don't understand is that I don't have a laptop, I have a computer that has 16 GB of ram, an i5 processor and a 1660 super Asus graphic card. I had understood that with that at least the game would go fairly well for me. I also tried to change it to an SSD but my SSD has less than 100 GB of space so I can't download Baldurs Gate on it. Also, another thing with my computer is that it takes half an hour to turn on completely, do you know why that is?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Brunodax224:

Originally posted by Thomas D.:

If the game stops for small periods of time then this kind of sounds like an overheating problem where the system gets throttled / stopped for small periods of time to cool down again.

You are using an notebook, don't you? That's kind of an common issue for (gameing) notebooks. Especially if you are using them for longer periods of time and there is plenty of dust accumulated and / or the thermal paste isn't that well anymore. Especially considering that when you just buy them they already often operate at their thermal limits (from that point it only goes downwards) until you get exactly this experience or even worse (blue screens / shutdowns).

You could try to clean it (but don't do so if you aren't familiar with such things otherwise you might damage it). Also you could try to increase the speed of the fans (which will make it noisy). Often you have kind of a tool software that was preindtalled on the notebook to do so.

Also you could decrease graphics if not already lowest. Stuff like resolution, anti aliasing and lighting or shader specific stuff usually takes the most performance. Lower them first. Textures only matter if you don't have enough VRAM (GPU RAM not virtual RAM) and / or RAM.

For the loading screen issue. It is really recommend to install the game on a SSD! It's literally recommend to do so for any newer game. My guess would be that you have installed it on an HDD, then yeah it will be slow! There is an option in-game to decrease loading times if you use a HDD.

But the best you can do is to install it on a SSD if possible.

Some notebooks allow to upgrade / add an additional SSD (via Sata or preferred via NVMe). But if you aren't much into the tech I recommend not to do that yourself.

Other than that your next best option is to upgrade your system.

I for example play it in 4k, everything maxed, even some increased settings via GPU driver and it runs constantly with 60 FPS+ on a computer that's 1 and a half years old. Also the loading times aren't that high (fast SSD).

What I don't understand is that I don't have a laptop, I have a computer that has 16 GB of ram, an i5 processor and a 1660 super Asus graphic card. I had understood that with that at least the game would go fairly well for me. I also tried to change it to an SSD but my SSD has less than 100 GB of space so I can't download Baldurs Gate on it. Also, another thing with my computer is that it takes half an hour to turn on completely, do you know why that is?

Most likely defective hardware. Is your OS on that SSD?

[Thomas D.]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Most likely defective hardware. Is your OS on that SSD?

Based on what? Long booting times? If so, thats probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Originally posted by Brunodax224:

What I don't understand is that I don't have a laptop, I have a computer that has 16 GB of ram, an i5 processor and a 1660 super Asus graphic card. I had understood that with that at least the game would go fairly well for me. I also tried to change it to an SSD but my SSD has less than 100 GB of space so I can't download Baldurs Gate on it. Also, another thing with my computer is that it takes half an hour to turn on completely, do you know why that is?

I5 isnt telling much without the generation. If its one of the first I5s that ever existed it might be just to slow. If its an actual I5 it will be ok. I5 means nothing but "Midrange". An newer I3 is even faster than the earliest I7...

I for example use an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X you could google for benchmarks to see where your CPU would rank in comparison. But probably thats not your main issue.

To the graphics card. My RTX 4070 (which is OC and has good cooling so more power than the default 4070) is definetly more powerful than the 1660X. Especially if Ray Tracing is activate and / or high resolutions are chosen or high your VRAM gets full (mine has 12 GB).

Btw. the recommend GPU for this game is a NVidia 2060 Super which is definitly more powerful than your 1660. And I doubt that this GPU will be able to run it on Max settings on a high resolution.

Have you really already decreased all the details, especially resolution and deactivated Anti Aliasing? As also some of the below settings like Volumetric something and Ambient Occlusion? You could even go lower by activateing DLSS / AMD FSR on a lower quality with a low resolution (yeah in this case activateing = lower quality = faster).

If you want to go even lower you could decrease the Texture Filtering Quality in the NVidia control Panel or forcefully deactivate stuff like Ambient Occlusion. But dont just set anything you dont know to false or the lowest settings (sometimes this is the worse setting or has no real performance gain).

Also the non SSD mode is called "slow disk mode" or something like that, activate it. But I still recommend to install this game on a SSD! Remove some stuff to get enough free space or buy an additional one (check if you have sufficient NVMe Slots if you are going for such an SSD but even a SATA based SSD will be an improvement).

Still, I recommend to check your temperatures and or increase the speed of your fans. Use for example something like HWiNFO to check your temps.

To the long boot times, is it possible that you have activated RAM Self Test or something in your Bios? Was it always this way? If not, have you done a BIOS update since it happened? If so, check if there is an option in your BIOS called "Memory Context Restore", if so deactivateing it would drastically increase your Boot up time (but might cause an instable system in some cases, especially if your RAM is overclocked / operating outside the Specs).

Another thing could be that your Windows is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up somehow (regarding boot time and performance issues)...

[SoggyShrimp1]

Originally posted by Brunodax224:

I have an Asus 1660 and an i5 processor. With that, no matter how much I play and set the graphics to a minimum, the game runs at a maximum of 30 fps and the most important thing is that the game stops completely for small periods. It is very annoying and I think that of all my hours of gaming, 30% is just waiting on loading screens and waiting for it to go to higher fps.

Yes, Remove windows defender for good and set everything to performance. Will add 2 gigs of ram