(Mac) Degraded Performance after Patch 6 & Hotfix 21

[beccalynnartist]

After patch 6 and the most recent hotfix, the frame rate, resolution, and buffering on my system (2023 Mac Mini, M1, 32GB RAM) has SEVERELY degraded. I cannot play at any frame rate, resolution, or low video settings without serious lagging and sudden,unplayable frame rate drops. I used to be able to play BG3 at full specs without any issues. Now I have to run the dials like crazy. I see nothing addressing this for MAC users and I am definitely not the only one! Can we expect a hotfix for this soon?

[beccalynnartist]

Whoops I meant M2 chip. And I have already tried cleaning my cache MULTIPLE times to no avail.

[denumerable]

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=939080#Post939080

[MightySlaytanic]

I definitely notice a great performance drop, especially on cut-scenes but also on normal gameplay on M1 Max after Patch6. Even on hotFix 22.

[beccalynnartist]

Originally posted by denumerable:

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=939080#Post939080

-Bummer looks like their forums are down right now. I'll check this thread tomorrow! I appreciate your help.

[beccalynnartist]

Originally posted by MightySlaytanic:

I definitely notice a great performance drop, especially on cut-scenes but also on normal gameplay on M1 Max after Patch6. Even on hotFix 22.

- Its crazy! I was excited to see a hotfix roll in today but it does not address the Mac problem at all which is beyond frustrating. It feels like I've tried everything but are open to literally ANY solution at this point save buying a PC lol

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by beccalynnartist:

Originally posted by MightySlaytanic:

I definitely notice a great performance drop, especially on cut-scenes but also on normal gameplay on M1 Max after Patch6. Even on hotFix 22.

- Its crazy! I was excited to see a hotfix roll in today but it does not address the Mac problem at all which is beyond frustrating. It feels like I've tried everything but are open to literally ANY solution at this point save buying a PC lol

Buying a PC for gaming is a wise decision. Even a console would be wiser than a Mac. There are like no reasons to buy a Mac just for gaming. It is like trying to say a Fiat Topolino is a real car.

In the meanwhile make sure to inform Larian Studios about your issues.

via email [e-mail]

or

via online form https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

[MightySlaytanic]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by beccalynnartist:

- Its crazy! I was excited to see a hotfix roll in today but it does not address the Mac problem at all which is beyond frustrating. It feels like I've tried everything but are open to literally ANY solution at this point save buying a PC lol

Buying a PC for gaming is a wise decision. Even a console would be wiser than a Mac. There are like no reasons to buy a Mac just for gaming. It is like trying to say a Fiat Topolino is a real car.

In the meanwhile make sure to inform Larian Studios about your issues.

via email [e-mail]

or

via online form https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

You should consider that there are people like me that has a PS5 console and a MacBook Pro laptop that's used for work and between PS5 and a MBP with M1 Max and 64GB off ram the latter is the best one (before patch 6) since it could run BG3 in 4K Ultra above 30fps (even 60fps with FSR) with mouse and keyboard.
No one buys a Mac for gaming but a lot of people has a Mac and it worked very well with BG3, better than on a current-get console, before Patch 6 was out.

[beccalynnartist]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by beccalynnartist:

- Its crazy! I was excited to see a hotfix roll in today but it does not address the Mac problem at all which is beyond frustrating. It feels like I've tried everything but are open to literally ANY solution at this point save buying a PC lol

Buying a PC for gaming is a wise decision. Even a console would be wiser than a Mac. There are like no reasons to buy a Mac just for gaming. It is like trying to say a Fiat Topolino is a real car.

In the meanwhile make sure to inform Larian Studios about your issues.

via email [e-mail]

or

via online form https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

Yeahhh I am very used to hearing this from PC users. Given my line of work (photographer, filmmaker) I have used the Mac ecosystem for a long time. I did not intend to get into BG until I heard great things. I cannot be my fault for purchasing the game with the system I already had if Larian pulled it out for Mac and PC. But alas, if I get more into gaming and win the lottery, I will consider getting an ADDITIONAL system, haha.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by beccalynnartist:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Buying a PC for gaming is a wise decision. Even a console would be wiser than a Mac. There are like no reasons to buy a Mac just for gaming. It is like trying to say a Fiat Topolino is a real car.

In the meanwhile make sure to inform Larian Studios about your issues.

via email [e-mail]

or

via online form https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

Yeahhh I am very used to hearing this from PC users. Given my line of work (photographer, filmmaker) I have used the Mac ecosystem for a long time. I did not intend to get into BG until I heard great things. I cannot be my fault for purchasing the game with the system I already had if Larian pulled it out for Mac and PC. But alas, if I get more into gaming and win the lottery, I will consider getting an ADDITIONAL system, haha.

An alternative would be making use of a streaming service such as GeForce Now. But yeah, for a photographer Mac is a fine choice. Just not for gaming.

[tenkster]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by beccalynnartist:

- Its crazy! I was excited to see a hotfix roll in today but it does not address the Mac problem at all which is beyond frustrating. It feels like I've tried everything but are open to literally ANY solution at this point save buying a PC lol

Buying a PC for gaming is a wise decision. Even a console would be wiser than a Mac. There are like no reasons to buy a Mac just for gaming. It is like trying to say a Fiat Topolino is a real car.

In the meanwhile make sure to inform Larian Studios about your issues.

via email [e-mail]

or

via online form https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

So I agree with this sentiment for games that don't endeavor to work on Mac at all, but Mac is a first party supported platform by Larian Studios, so it is not unreasonable to expect the same degree of quality control that a console or PC would receive by the developers. As someone who also works in software development I'm aware this isn't always possible, but if you're gonna present people with the option you also need to follow that up with QC.

Amazingly the steam deck and linux circumvents this by just providing a lightweight shim that allows for near native support for Windows games, meaning that Linux users see all the same support that Windows users do. That's a unique case tho, Mac, much like a console, has it's own world of hardware that needs to be accounted for to run natively.

[denumerable]

This conversation is silly. BG3 was working near flawlessly on my M1 Max 10/24c @ 4K/30FPS and mostly Ultra settings before Hotfix 21.

Mac gaming is crushing it lately. It's unfortunate that these hotfixes borked the game for us, but hopefully it will be fixed soon. There is a way to rollback to hotfix 20 but it is too much work for me to deal with -- unless they don't get it fixed in the next month or so. I'll just rollback and lock the game at that point if that's the case.

[MightySlaytanic]

Originally posted by denumerable:

This conversation is silly. BG3 was working near flawlessly on my M1 Max 10/24c @ 4K/30FPS and mostly Ultra settings before Hotfix 21.

Mac gaming is crushing it lately. It's unfortunate that these hotfixes borked the game for us, but hopefully it will be fixed soon. There is a way to rollback to hotfix 20 but it is too much work for me to deal with -- unless they don't get it fixed in the next month or so. I'll just rollback and lock the game at that point if that's the case.

I've opened a ticket on Marian site and they've already contacted me via mail asking for info about my machine. It was working perfectly in 4K 30+fps with ultra settings on M1 Max 10/32c and 64GB ram and now it's almost unplayable. I'm sure they will fix it but I hope it will happen very soon!

[Monsieur Fredo]

Originally posted by denumerable:

This conversation is silly. BG3 was working near flawlessly on my M1 Max 10/24c @ 4K/30FPS and mostly Ultra settings before Hotfix 21.

Mac gaming is crushing it lately. It's unfortunate that these hotfixes borked the game for us, but hopefully it will be fixed soon. There is a way to rollback to hotfix 20 but it is too much work for me to deal with -- unless they don't get it fixed in the next month or so. I'll just rollback and lock the game at that point if that's the case.

How do you rollback to a previous version ?

[tenkster]

Originally posted by Monsieur Fredo:

Originally posted by denumerable:

This conversation is silly. BG3 was working near flawlessly on my M1 Max 10/24c @ 4K/30FPS and mostly Ultra settings before Hotfix 21.

Mac gaming is crushing it lately. It's unfortunate that these hotfixes borked the game for us, but hopefully it will be fixed soon. There is a way to rollback to hotfix 20 but it is too much work for me to deal with -- unless they don't get it fixed in the next month or so. I'll just rollback and lock the game at that point if that's the case.

How do you rollback to a previous version ?

I did a write-up on how to perform the rollback, here's a link

[tordlin]

I got the same issue after this hotfix.

Guys do you have any new info?