Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems (Xbox Series X) audio delay & beard texture issue & more

I’m new to posting and reporting issues so please bare with me. Not sure if these issues have already been mentioned somewhere, but here we go.

A persistent issue I’ve had since release has been delayed audio when my Tav and companions, plus enemies, get hurt or affected by an effect, (both inside and outside of combat) it doesn’t play the pain/reaction sound until a few seconds after the action takes place. It happens probably approximately 90% of the time unfortunately.
There also seemed to be no audio in the start menu when booting the game, and once you press start and the camera pans down underneath, the audio finally starts playing but is still delayed by quite a few seconds beforehand.

Another consistent issue I have is the beard textures, they are very patchy and half invisible. It effects all the short beard styles. It seems to be either more or less visible/invisible, depending on the viewing angle, I’m not sure if it’s an issue with the alphas or what. The beard texture itself doesn’t quite look like hair either. I’m not sure if it’s partly because of the game quality level? (I play on quality mode on series X) But I’ve heard it was an issue on the PC version so I’m guessing is a texture bug? (plus the short hair textures on side of my Tavs head are a bit patchy too I think, but the beard is much worse)

I have also (up to the day of this post) had the game crash twice on start up. Once while loading a save from start up. But the game runs fine the second time afterwards. *EDIT* 16/12: game crashed 2 more times, it seems to always crash on the first time I start up the game, but loads fine the second time I open the game. Not sure why it’s happening as the game runs fine for the most part.

Lastly it’s not a bug but a query, quality vs performance seems to not be much different, and I’m not sure what quality the game runs at in quality mode? I was hoping the game would be able to be run in ultra mode (probably naive of me admittedly) since I heard the PS5 version runs in ultra, so not sure if that is something that will be possible on the Xbox? If anyone knows? (on the Series X that is, as I play on the Series X)


(I hope I gave an accurate description of the issues I’ve been having, not sure if I need visual examples or not)

Audio delay is still prevalent, sometimes the delay gets worse, has no one else experienced this issue? Or the buggy beards? I hope I’m not the only one then (might have to report it officially).

But does anyone know what quality the Xbox series X version runs in? (If anyone reads this lol)

You’re not the only one, it’s the same with me and a lot of other Xbox users. I’ve seen people talking about similar problems on Reddit but the main problem is the save issues so I think they are focusing on that first.

Thanks I’m glad to know I’m not the only one then, and yeah I figured the save issues were more important, was just wanting to make sure I posted it just in case they might see it. Thanks again though for letting me know.

Got exactly same problems as You.

I have this issue too.

On top of that there is delays in combat where you attack and then it takes almost a minute for the attacks to actually go through. I'm sitting there waiting for the attack to go through before I can do another attack or a final attack depending on if the character has more than one attack or bonus attack.

Then there is the lip syncing problems that happen from time to time in the game on the Series X as well.

Next is the texture popping. I mean really there will be a solid color on the body be it skin, clothing, armor, whatever then it takes about 30 seconds for the texture to pop in and actually show the texture of the skin or the clothing or the armor.

So the beard issue and audio delay isn't the only thing but other issues as well going on.

Yes I have that exact issue too, weird pauses before the action actually takes place after selecting an attack, forgot about that. And yeah the textures sometimes take a little while to load in properly too, I agrees there’s more than the two issues than I stated but I admittedly I forgot about one of them, and haven’t gotten around to adding to my list yet. But thanks for confirming my issues and explains the other ones, as I’ve definitely encountered those two unfortunately. Here’s hoping they’re working on those issues.

Texture popping and other issues shouldn't be a thing in this day and age of video games.