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How are you specs compared to the requirements? Particularly the RAM and GPU
I seem to remember a game (probably Deus Ex Mankind Divided) that I bought before upgrading my PC. I could play the beginning at 30 FPS lowest settings (maybe even reduced the resolution), but there was a cutscene that I simply could get past. I assumed it had something to do with how, up to that point, the map was small and manageable, and how I was reaching the more open parts of the game with simply too much stuff to remember/render
Specs are fine
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3050Ti, and 32GB RAM, it's a Legion 5 (2021)
All games mentioned run 100fps+ on High and I was watching the graphs, temperatures of 60-80C on the CPU and 50-75C on the GPU so those were fine (at least for a laptop)
What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but, the weird thing is that, except for Baldur's Gate 3, I already played all these games in my laptop before. I was just replaying them for fun, I just didn't know if somebody else had the same issues.
I think I'll just make another clean install and see what happens, this situation has me so confused tbh haha
Could be a failing harddrive/ssd. Often times games will load a shitload of assets right after the intro cutscene, and hit the storage for a bunch of shit. Try installing a game to a different storage device (a flashdrive would be slow but if it has enough space it should work as a test) and see if the issue persists.
I'll definitely try that tomorrow when I wake up, I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 and it still won't work, thanks for that recommendation, I have an external ssd so maybe it'll work like that.
Dumb question, but your gpu drivers are up to date correct?
Yep, every driver is up to date. In fact I just did a fresh windows install once again, updated all drivers once again, and the problem still persists.
The games however are stored in a secondary ssd, so the next thing I'm gonna do is install them on the main, and some of them on an external one, just in case it's a faulty SSD.
If that's not it then I have no clue.
Couldn't tell you what the problem is, but I once had an issue with BioShock. The rerelease to be precise. The game would boot up just fine and I could access the bonus museum thing just fine, but as soon as I tried starting the actual game, the screen would go black and the sound of after the loading screen.
Couldn't figure out what happened and just ended up deleting/uninstalling it because I didn't have the time to fix it/diagnose the problem.
Yeah I'm about to give up with these games as well and just not play them, I just finished a clean Windows install again and it still didn't work, I feel like I'm going insane here haha