Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Horrible Performance

Whatever you all did this last patch, performance has considerably dropped. I am getting constant freezes, especially in combat but also outside of combat as well. The performance of the game has just gone to Avernus. I have been playing since EA first released, and this is just god-awful, it has never been this bad. I am running the game full screen, the vast majority of my graphics settings are medium or low, and while my specs will say I have HDs, I actually have SDHDs, basically a HD/SD hybrid.

I haven't had any issues running the game prior to this patch.

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: MSI
Model: MS-7977
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x5e
CPU Stepping: 0x3
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3504 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 31.0.15.1659
DirectX Driver Version: 31.0.15.1659
Driver Date: 6 23 2022
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1c03
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.77" (23.98" diag)
53.1cm x 29.9cm (60.9cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 6143 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Headset Earphone (Plantronics B

Memory:
RAM: 16343 MB

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1906300 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 85681 MB
OS Install Date: Nov 14 2020
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: 5e91712c9189c661486eafefc58f526e931c9697

Storage:
Disk serial number hash: e042ca84
Number of SSDs: 0
Number of HDDs: 3
HDD sizes: 2000G2000G21G

Can confirm my performance is also terrible. CPU jumps to 100% every 5 minutes and causes a full game freeze for up to 10 seconds. Did not happen prior to this patch.
I also have a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz

My pc however has an RTX 3060, wih 32 GB of DDR4 2133 and 2 ssds running in raid 0 over sata.

Yep, i am experiencing that too--I didn't run task manager to check CPU useage, but it definitely was getting up there because I had the solid 10 second freezes too, especially right before cutscenes or right before combat starts.

AND you have more memory than I do with 2 SSDs instead of 2 SDHDs, so I think yours lends more credibility to this being a game issue--although the fact that I didn't have it happen prior to this patch should still prove that imo.

That is weird, for me, the performance has improved a lot with patch 8, I was pleasantly surprised. In previous patches, I have had similar issues to the ones you described.

I am playing on a laptop (ASUS TUF GAMING FX504GM_FX80GM)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (12 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 /Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630

Funny thing is even on the lowest settings this issue still occurs.

My processor only has 4 cores... not 12.

Base Speed 3.5 Ghz
Sockets 1
Cores 4
Logical processors 4
L1 Cache 256KB
L2 Cache 1 MB
L3 Cache 6 MB

i5-4670k OC 4,3GHz
16GB
4TB SSD Samsung 870EVO (not a NVME)
RTX 2060 6GB


First i thought those freezes related to my overclocked CPU, but reading this thread it seems its not related to having it OCed.
Also my CPU (not GPU) on highest graphical settings + DLSS 2560:1440 runs a bit hot (Aircooled only with a mediocre Heatsink) on 67°C and its cpu usage is around 90-100%,
BUT the freezes are not happening when it hits 100%.
Freezes even occur at 95%-97% as i see it on RIVA TUNER STATISTICS in that moment.

And its very frequently. So my best 5 cent is, its something related to DATA in the Pipeline to be calculated and somehow this is not very well handled.

Hopefully this gets some traction with Larian, would love to see them continue to address performance although I can understand if that comes later.

Same for me, 10 second freezes every few minutes

They did something with shadows. I turned shadows to low, cloud quality to low and disabled lighting shadows and now im running at 50-60% cpu without any spikes or freezes.

i havent noticed any crashes. but the fps drops are insane.
the moment i put my cursor over objects characters etc fast it instantly drops to low 40s mid 30s from 75-80.
when im checking areas with the camera real quick fps drops at the same rate.
when characters cast spells fps also drop.
thats new, i never had these issues till patch 8.