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Bet you thought you’d seen the last of these.

As it turns out, a few crashes and technical issues were still knocking about, so if you were getting stuck while loading saves, or trying to progress from Act 2 into Act 3, your corrupted saves should now be fixed!

Version numbers:
Xbox and PS5: 4.1.1.7143914
PC, Mac and Steam Deck: 4.1.1.7151330

I thought they may eventually tie the cycle to Short Rests. You wake up in the morning after the long rest and then move on to noon and evening.

Sadly the game is completely busted on Mac at the moment.

Was unstable before, but the combination of Patch 7/8 and MacOS Tahoe has made it utterly unplayable. Freezes most of the time before cutscenes and entering dialogues with spinning wheel of death.

I've read a lot of user comments about this issue and tried most things, however there is one thing I cannot try and that is disabling firewall/antivirus that could be causing conflicts (I'm using a work laptop without certain admin privileges). If you are able to give this a go and report back I'd be interested to see if it works.

I would love to see a mod that implements the Dead Eyes (in anyone of the other empty houses) for playthroughs while dealing with Auntie Ethel.

And gratefully here it is: College of Moon - Bard Subclass

I think it's better when the characters have their own agency and personality. Some being more forward and taking the initiative while others need to be wooed. I think BG3 has a good mix of themes and pace in terms of the romances. The one thing I would remove is the approval based system which leads to immediate attraction as soon as you hit a benchmark and replace it with something that feels more organic and less like a game mechanism. In BG3 it was very easy to gain high approval simply by being interested in the companions' story and helping them progress to learn more about them, which lead to that feeling that they were all just lining up to get with the PC as high approval often lead to immediate romantic interest. I would put it behind hidden triggers that are unique to each character, some like flirting and forwardness, others like courage, kindness or quiet confidence and if you want to romance someone you have to learn what they respond well to through dialogue, not by some number that pops up on your screen. There is also some areas where they could polish the interactions and try to ensure that the characters can read the room a bit better. It is ok if a few misunderstandings happen every now and then, that can be interesting and fun, but they should feel believable.

This would all be greatly helped by having more platonic routes as many have already requested. If getting to know the characters and becoming close to them didn't necessarily have to lead to a romantic attraction, the romantic pursuits would feel more special.

Hi all,

So, I just purchased BG3 for PC after playing it on my friend's PS5. For reference, I have an MSI Raider GE68HX 13VG with 32 GB of RAM and an 8GB graphics card. My SSD holds 1TB. Processor is 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13950HX (2.20 GHz). I'm running Windows 11 Pro 25H2. I have all windows updates. Graphics drivers have been updated.

When I try to play BG3 (and ONLY this game), my screen flashes on and off black with just brief glimpses of the game in between. These flashes happen about every second... so game play is impossible. This just began today. Yesterday, I played for hours with no problems. And there have been NO Windows updates in that time nor have I updated drivers (except as part of my troubleshooting for this game - even though ALL of my drivers are updated regularly). In two days of game play, this has happened 50% of the time. But today is the day. I played all day yesterday with no issues and today, I can't play due to the flashing. It's super frustrating and makes the game absolutely unplayable when it's happening (I just bought the game for PC after playing it on friend's PS5).

Here's some of the troubleshooting I've engaged in:

-Updated video drivers
-Turned off steam overlay
-Turned off lights on keyboard
-Tried various video configs within game
-Checked that refresh rate is consistent across monitor and game (240Hz). Also tried setting both to 60hz.
*-Once I turned off gaming optimization in windows, the game would play without flashing BUT it played super slow with extreme lag and low resolution graphics.*
-Turned optimization back on. Game flashes again.
-Restarted computer various times.
-Now, after turning back on, the flashes are back
-Refresh rate is, once again, set at 240 on everything
-Game sits in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\bin
-Loaded game from there and it still flashes
-Went back to STEAM and verified all files. Rebooted all. Game play continues to flash on and off with black screens and flashes of game.
-Tried playing under Vulkan - still flashes
-Set both BG3 files (bg3.exe and bg3_dx11.exe) to run as admin. Couldn't even start game on Steam after this. Could start game from .exe file but it still flashed.
-Cleared cache files in C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\LevelCache
-Started BG3 from .exe file with Vulkan then Direct. Still glitched but did start without Steam. Just loaded Larian launcher. But, still flashing on and off.
-Re-adding "run as admin" and adding disable fullscreen optimization. Trying to run again on Vulkan. Then will try Direct.
-Rebooted computer various times as needed. Still flashes when running game via .exe file or Steam.
-Removed/uninstalled Intel Killer Performance Suite (some say this ruins gameplay even though it was created to optimize gameplay).
-Turned off firewall and AV (both Windows).
-Tried to play again from both .exe file and Steam. Game still flashes on and off.
-After uninstalling Intel Killer Performance Suite, I notice I am running Raptor Lake Intel. Could this be the issue?

This is just such a mystery as Window updates can't be the reason for the change from one day to the next (there were none). Nor can drivers be the reason as I keep them up to date constantly and even tried updating them again. I also use a monitoring app to track my heat levels and run my laptop on a high-end cooler. So the mother board, CPU and the rest are cool as can be.

I'm at the end of my rope and going to ask for a refund unless someone can offer a fix on this. Yes, I have written to Larian about this. I hope to hear from them tomorrow (Monday) or Tuesday if they're US based.

Can ANYONE offer advice that will make the game work again? I love it and REALLY want to play.

Any advice would be so appreciated. TIA.

Game is unplayable still on my mac. Nothing fixes it.

How many of you are playing from a Mac that was provided by work/university etc.?

I'm pretty sure there's a firewall/monitoring program that I can't disable on mine which could be causing the crashes?

Having the same issue! Game gets the rainbow wheel of death when entering dialogue or cutscenes. Happens about 80% of the time.

Mac M1 Pro
16GB memory
MacOS Tahoe 26.2

I've tried everything suggested in all the forums; tried all settings at low (even though I get 60 fps on high), toggled all video settings in almost every permutation, tried fullscreen/borderless window, tried a clean chache/save/reinstall, I tried the "renice" command in terminal, I tried playing offline, I tried disabling cloud sync etc etc.

Nothing works. And the thing is, when I first got the game in January 2024 I played through the whole thing with this exact Mac on high settings without a single crash — so it's not a hardware issue.

I wish Larian would give some indication that they're aware of this because it's completely unplayable.

ever get an update on this? came back to play and im experiencing it too. pretty sure I also helped shadow and lae make the peaceful decision but so far my 5 most recent saves all kill lae'zel

Late player, my fault, but I actually feel to say something about dialogue lines: I wish there could still be a chance to better/correct some of them, that I found totally out of mood/situation. Minthara and the artifact apart (never met her, but I red a lot about that problem), many lines/answers from the characters are clearly not adapted according to the story evolution, most probably left for generic companion situations; especially Astarion's ones, who always result to be the more complicated: many of his random responses don’t really fit the romance, if you have one, like if you accept Raphael contract or the mindflyer tadpole. Certainly not expected, at that point of the game and kind of unsetting. I'm not the only one who noticed, it seems. Probably there are others, with other companions or in other situation, that I didn't see, yet (I'm checking).
A real shame, even if I understand that it's a huge game, but I see the team always cared about players feedback, so please... don't stop fixing such details, they're the beauty of the game.

When opening the Equipment Data Editor the files do not load. The only available options are the ones that come with the outfit currently being edited. I can remove them but cannot add anything. I've verified all files and reinstalled the toolkit. Any solutions?