Anybody has the issue when the game is running semi-smoothly until it just totally freezes for 2-3 secs, then unfreezes and proceeds to work smoothly until the next freeze? I have a slightly below spec GPU (R9 270) that I am going to replace with RX 580 soon. I wonder if GPU is the real issue here though, can it bottleneck on the CPU? I have i7-10710U, which is newer than what they have in min. spec, but basically the same in benchmarks. The freezing issue is specific to BG3, I played a few other games on the same hardware without any freezing. While it freezes, I still can move my mouse around, it just doesn't change pointer shape when you move it over controls.
I notice that total freeze when using Vulkan. In DX11, the total freeze is more of a rough chop.
I've kept an eye on my particulars while running the game, and the consistent problem seems to be massive 100% usage GPU spikes that are causing the freezing in Vulkan and harsh stuttering in DX11.
Even if I turn my settings down to the lowest of the low, the GPU is still spiking very high using either V or DX.
I really, really hope that these are just things that need to be optimized because although I clear minimum specs, this game is making me feel as though my entire setup is garbage despite the fact that other relatively demanding games play fine on decently high settings.
My biggest worry is that I'm not seeing a lot of people specifically talking about performance issues, and these problems may get sidelined and written off as a minor inconvenience for a small handful of players that's not worth focusing resources on.
