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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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I purchased BG3 after I heard that the devs did not include micro transactions. I simply purchased it to support the devs, I had no intentions of playing it. But, I have a Steam Deck and decided to download it and just try it out. I am 30 hours into the game and I don’t have the physical or mental ability to put this game down. Please send help. Thank you Larian for taking video games back to their roots.
It’s OK. It’s certainly playable. I have mine capped at 40 fps and I’m sinking a lot of time in the game without really any problems.
Mind you, I get a around 1-2 hours of game play on battery power.
Even when it’s connected to a charger, the graphics aren’t great, also not horrible, but again it’s certainly playable!
Oh, to have such wide-eyed innocence still! I wish you the best of luck as you progress... but given how very poorly the 3rd act runs on my beast of a gaming PC, I fear you may run into problems. Granted, until they actually finish the 3rd act this is all moot - you're better off starting a new game before entering the city proper.
Midway through Act 3 with my Ivy Bridge i7 and GTX 1060. Frame rates are certainly lower in the city, but I've encountered zero crashes or serious bugs. And while I've yet to finish the game, I've observed no drop in quality or quantity of content in Act 3. I must concur with another poster in questioning the avowed beastliness of your machine.
I think you're over exaggerating, either how poorly the game runs or how good your PC is. Mine is quite old, and the city does run noticeably worse but not unplayable by any means. It defaulted graphics to ultra (which is crazy for how old my machine is) and the city runs at about 25fps, which for a first person or action game would be unbearable, but a top down strategy game I don't even notice unless I look at the FPS counter.
I had a few issues when I got to town but I had been playing for hours at that point. Restarting the game made a lot of the low framerate issues that had been occurring go away.