Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Can I run game with new system requirements?

This is my PC. It runs game poorly on high settings with some things disabled.

Operating System
Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 8400 @ 2.80GHz 64 °C
Coffee Lake 14nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1064MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. B360M H (U3E1) 44 °C
Graphics
DELL P2417H (1920x1080@60Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (ASUStek Computer Inc) 49 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 (SATA ) 36 °C
223GB Crucial CT240BX500SSD1 (SATA (SSD)) 34 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)

I know I’ve said this on this forum before, so apologies for the repetition, but I found Windows 11 performance really poor, especially with DX11, until I disabled its inbuilt Game DVR, so that might be worth a try if you’ve not done so already and don’t actually use it.

When looking recently, I also noticed that there was a Windows KB update late last year that was meant to fix some game performance issues, so it looks like making sure you’re updating the OS regularly is worthwhile especially if using Windows 11 which seems to be notoriously worse for gaming than its predecessor.

But while I’m no hardware expert, your specs look to beat the updated minumum requirements so far published at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/, though I imagine it’ll make a difference whether the game is installed on your SSD.

The i5 chip and 16g Ram meet the MIN requirements yes

Your system could use more Ram if you have room available but W11 is not as good as 10 for gaming and 'average' is as good as I would expect

Given that they've upped the requirements, t'would be good to release an EA patch that would allow us to evaluate at that level.

Did the performance change during EA? I haven't actually tried until way back then on release.

And that still ran surprisingly well on a 16GB / Ryzen 3 / 1050ti combo.

I barely play any graphics blockbuster games these days (haven't actually played a GAME this year so far). More recent, Ryzen 5 5600 and RX 6600 have become very affordable for a decent budget gaming combo though over here. Otherwise, GPU prices and the market in particular is still batshit insane. And it seems customers seem to roll with it. (Rumors have it even a 500 bucks RTX 4060 is going to ship with but 8GB of VRAM, and but 8 PCIe Lanes :PCMasterrace:).

yes a lot of extra Graphics have been added in the patches but your Ryzen chip and Gpu would take that in their stride ... imo the upgrade to 5600 & 6600 would not be worth the $ in your case unless you perhaps have a kid to pass down the old one too and i agree prices are bullshit but people buy them

[s][/s]Depends what your ryzen 3 is today. For example my ryzen 3 3100 bottlenecks this game with faster GPUs heavily. I am lookout for 5600 upgrade to replace 3100 at it will benefit heavily if paired with faster GPU. 1050ti is not that GPU. If you do not upgrade that CPU upgrade is not needed either.

16Gb RAM is fully enough. This game for example never uses more than 16Gb. There are quite little games in world that require more than 16Gb still. For memory ir is much more important to optimize that the 16Gb is running optimal speed. Even more so with Ryzen CPUs that have internal bus clocks tied to RAM clocks normally.

Thanks for the replies.


I still have the 3100 (2020) too. I wouldn't care as much about bottlenecks. But for a tactical combat RPG, to have a stable 30+ fps minimum was okay... which I did have back then, despite the really old 1050ti (from 2016/2017).

There's one more demanding game on the lookout, which is Arkane's Redfall probably (great studio, but the trailers and gameplay don't excite me quite yet). So updating the mainboard Bios and swapping the 3100 for a 5 5600 would be an option as well. But the GPU certainly is the biggest bottleneck. Officially it has been below minimum specs ever since the launch of EA.

Wouldn't it have been for the outrageous prices, I would have likely replaced it by last year already. Well that, and that there haven't been any new 75W TDP GPUs (like the 1050ti) capable of Full-HD gaming in years. Energy costs are also rising, after all. And even entry level cards such as the RX6600 are 130W TDP. If I buy one of those, I'm going to undervolt for sure.