Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Windows Update just said my PC wasn't good enough for Windows 11

Windows just did an update on my machine, and told me that my system was not up to snuff for the new Windows 11.

I shall rant now ... thanks for letting me get this off my chest, I will feel better soon ...

OK, so tell me just what is gonna be so great about Win 11 that will make me want to buy a whole new machine? The jump from DOS to Windows was great, liked that a lot. The jump to WinXp was also great, happy to do it. The transitions from 7 - 8 - 10 left me wondering why they even bothered? Nobody really liked Win 8, and Win 9 was so bad they just skipped it. 10 is actually closer to XP, so I will accept that one, but I still hate a bunch of the features in 10 (like automatic full-screening when you drag a window too far to an edge, OMG that is awful).

Will BG III run on Ubuntu? I am just about ready to jump off the MS wagon. And no, I don't want to get locked in with Apple, either. Sheesh.

1. I do not recommend updating to windows 11. Bg3 and most games are still geared to Windows 10 and there is no need to upgrade at this time.
2. if you want to upgrade to Windows 11 - for some reason - then just go to your BIOS options and turn on TPM.
3. But seriously don't do that. TPM isn't that great - especially for individual users. It really more protects Microsoft intellectual property.


As a side note Bg3 EA runs way better on an iMac with MacOS. Don't hate :P

I didn't live through the Vista years just to immediately jump on whatever new version of windows MS pushes at me.

Don't upgrade unless there is a clear and obvious benefit, or unless you have no choice (and even then, no choice is rarely a good reason).

Well if your computer is old enough that it cannot upgrade due to the existing hardware then you would probably notice a huge improvement on performance a new machine.

Yaa for making things up about iMac

There's rarely much in OS updates that is particularly interesting any more. Generally Microsoft add features that make their life easier rather than yours. In the case of Windows 11, the new hardware requirements are because of new security and encryption features that are not strictly necessary. You can find hacker sites on the web that create respins of Windows 11 without ( what they consider ) bloat and junk, which work just fine on all machines that can run Windows 10, so the new hardware "requirements" are clearly not actually vital to Windows 11.

As for Linux, yes BG3 works fine under Ubuntu using Steam. Steam has an automatic compatibility layer, based on the Wine project, called Proton, which I have found runs almost all of my Windows games without problems. I don't recall BG3 having issues of any sort since patch one, once Larian had sorted out proper use of the Vulkan API. For performance reference, I am currently using a 2012 era 4 core Intel i7 processor, and an NVidia 1070ti, a combination which runs the game at max settings without any stuttering or artifacts.

Hope that helps.

Old AMD fx8350 black edition cpu and AMD 580 gpu. Running mostly high setting with few issues. I don’t run in max setting though. Game is fine IMO. I will be getting a new system eventually but I am happy with this one for now. Waiting on Starfield specs b4 upgrade.