Extreme Lag/Stutter

[KLEE]

Can anyone help? I have restarted, resetted, uninstalled, reinstalled, lowered my resolution and graphics settings to the lowest setting and my game stutters and lags so badly. I get stuck in some screens for a solid minute and the cut scene lag behind so the audio plays faster then the video. Maybe its my pc? I updated my graphics driver but maybe its my graphics card? Im not really sure can anyone help? I jus wanna see my vampy husband 😭

[Cali_Modify]

Same happening for me! is it the new update? im running a amd 5500 graphics card

[KLEE]

Originally posted by Cali_Modify:

Same happening for me! is it the new update? im running a amd 5500 graphics card

I have no idea!! I have a dell and my graphics card is an Intel so idk if thats why mines is lagging so horribly but i cant even play the game properly😭😭

[Nightfury93]

its the latest update, a lot of people(including me) are having this problem, plus other issues like laggy combat and bugged quests, and in some cutscenes characters are facing the wrong direction and/or don't have teeth...I swear they messed up more than they fixed with the new update. only advise I have is waiting until they hotfix it(hopefully sooner rather than later lol)

[Cali_Modify]

Apparently upon further investigation online it appears that the lagging/stuttering is related to destroying the stone animal pillars underneath the emerald grove. since the latest update destroying them causes them to fall into the void endlessly and bog down the game. i reverted my save to one before i had destroyed the pillars and the lag was magically gone, but as soon as i destroyed them and left the area the stuttering started up again.

[espacesinfinis]

Me too, also with freezes that require a hard reboot of my PC from time to time, since the last update. Argh.

[Cali_Modify]

This is specifically for Act 1, there are statues in the druid grove that can get bugged out and stuck in "falling into a chasm" mode permanently, causing a ton of game updates and adding an annoying delay on all actions.

Download https://github.com/Norbyte/bg3se/releases/download/updater-v3/BG3SE-Updater-with-Console-v3.zip and put DWrite.dll and ScriptExtenderSettings.json in your game directory "bin" folder, the console will start automatically as a separate window when you launch the game.

Load into a saved game

type anything(random letters or numbers for example) in the console and press enter, it should say "entering server Lua console."

Afterwards, copy paste in these commands:
TeleportToPosition("DEC_Druids_Statue_Wolf_A_Big_A_Destruct_471a3593-c5f2-4330-a245-babd7e292414",0,0,0,"",0,0,0,0,0)
TeleportToPosition("DEC_Druids_Statue_Bear_A_Big_A_Destruct_eed71bbc-faf9-491a-859a-e68a5e74ed74",0,0,0,"",0,0,0,0,0)
TeleportToPosition("S_DEN_TunnelTurret_001_02e3eda0-a507-4923-8f4f-91c8c4f9b0b0",0,0,0,"",0,0,0,0,0)

These three statues (wolf,bear,eagle) are the only ones I've seen that cause this bug, so this script teleports them into the void and they stop receiving updates.

[Nightfury93]

Originally posted by Cali_Modify:

Apparently upon further investigation online it appears that the lagging/stuttering is related to destroying the stone animal pillars underneath the emerald grove. since the latest update destroying them causes them to fall into the void endlessly and bog down the game. i reverted my save to one before i had destroyed the pillars and the lag was magically gone, but as soon as i destroyed them and left the area the stuttering started up again.

sadly for me this isn't my problem as I haven't touched the pillars, haven't even gone down there yet lol, oh well, I'm sure they'll hotfix it soon

[KLEE]

Originally posted by Nightfury93:

its the latest update, a lot of people(including me) are having this problem, plus other issues like laggy combat and bugged quests, and in some cutscenes characters are facing the wrong direction and/or don't have teeth...I swear they messed up more than they fixed with the new update. only advise I have is waiting until they hotfix it(hopefully sooner rather than later lol)

omg im glad im not the only one. Im sitting here thinking why my pc can handle the sims 4 and all of my cc but not baldurs gate?? Hopefully they will fix it soon i really want to play, i havent even exited out of the temple when u first launch into the game lol

[KLEE]

Originally posted by Cali_Modify:

Apparently upon further investigation online it appears that the lagging/stuttering is related to destroying the stone animal pillars underneath the emerald grove. since the latest update destroying them causes them to fall into the void endlessly and bog down the game. i reverted my save to one before i had destroyed the pillars and the lag was magically gone, but as soon as i destroyed them and left the area the stuttering started up again.

i havent even gotten there yet lol. mine is just in general even when customizing my character it was super laggy

[NRieh]

I had massive fps drop after patch3. It was a slide-show even while walking in act2 camp, literally unplayable. It got better, eventually, but I'm not sure which one did the trick. because I did all possible things. I updated my nvidia drivers, turned on max speed setting in samsung SSD utility, cleared in-game cahce and system temp stuff. In-game settings did not do anything (the difference between low and high was barely notice-able). Dynamic resolution thing did make is slightly smoother, but also blurry af. I'm on i53.5, 16gb ram, 1060gtx, win10, playing 1080p.

[KLEE]

Originally posted by NRieh:

I had massive fps drop after patch3. It was a slide-show even while walking in act2 camp, literally unplayable. It got better, eventually, but I'm not sure which one did the trick. because I did all possible things. I updated my nvidia drivers, turned on max speed setting in samsung SSD utility, cleared in-game cahce and system temp stuff. In-game settings did not do anything (the difference between low and high was barely notice-able). Dynamic resolution thing did make is slightly smoother, but also blurry af. I'm on i53.5, 16gb ram, 1060gtx, win10, playing 1080p.

I also updated all of my drivers (well I think). As for the ssd utility is that only in samsung computers? I may try that to see if it works other than that I have no idea how to fix the headache inducing lag 😭

[Chai_Skelton]

I'm dealing with this as well. The game was working great until yesterday it started lagging so bad its unplayable. I've been trying suggestions I've found but nothing has been helping so far :(

[KLEE]

Originally posted by Chai_Skelton:

I'm dealing with this as well. The game was working great until yesterday it started lagging so bad its unplayable. I've been trying suggestions I've found but nothing has been helping so far :(

im so sorry to hear that i am also actively looking for suggestions hopefully if theres another update or any suggestions i havent tried ill let you know and maybe it will fix it but yeah i jus wanna romance astarion 😭😭

[bellargh]

Hi! I'm also experiencing these issues. The audio for me is super bugged out as well, is that something you're dealing with too?

[KLEE]

Originally posted by bellargh:

Hi! I'm also experiencing these issues. The audio for me is super bugged out as well, is that something you're dealing with too?

The audio is delayed for me too! whenever the cutscene plays the video is delayed making the audio delayed as well.