Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General New system requirements: 150 GB available space and SSD required

Start your Explorer to create a new folder on your SSD. (Example: D:\SteamLibrary )

Then, start your Steam Launcher, look at the upper left for [Steam] and in that menu select [Settings].
Then, go to the [Storage] settings, should be the 9. entry.
There you will see your current install destination.
Press the (+) button next to it to select the new folder.

Now, when you install a game, you should be asked where you want to install it. I advise testing it with another game first, to check if everything works.

I hope that helps.

Also, when you have made a new destination, you can press the [...] Symbol to make it your default install location, or delete it.

I think the SSD requirement is a bad thing since it will force many people into an expensive computer upgrade, and some people may not be able to afford it. Technically I fail to see why it should not be possible for Larian to make the game work for HDD but I guess it's no use complaining about that now. I have a 2TB SSD so personally I have no issues, but many will have.

Here is some advice for those of you whos computers don't meet requirements: Do not invest in an external SSD drive unless you are sure you have a USB port with a high version number. Larian will have to come out and tell people which version USB port will be minimum for running the game smoothly, but if they don't you may want to wait and then ask on the forum what works for other players. If you can afford it you should probably invest in an internal SSD drive since it will be needed for future gaming, and it will also increase performance of your PC in general. In case your hardware does not support a SSD drive you will need to upgrade your other hardware or buy a new computer. I would recommend not to be cheap about SSD drive space because you might need it in the future, for other games or whatever.

You will need 150 GB of available space and an SSD is required.

More and more games are requiring SSDs, tbh, so it's not really a surprise. Checking the min specs to make sure you can play a game should just be the first step, it's not a game company's fault if someone can't play a game because of hardware (barring bugs or other issues, ofc)

I have both - I have a VERY powerful rig - but as a matter of principle, this is terrible. My bottleneck ATM is more internet download speed and limits.
A shocking lack of optimization that is now common among modern devs.

I don't know by what merit or metric do you even feel in the position to GUESS a "terrible lack of optimization", let alone explicitly accuse the developers of it.
Maybe the game is just that freaking big. Did the idea even occur to you?

Especially for an isometric RPG - 99% of the game is spent watching from up high, not zoomed into a characters nostril, counting nose hair.

And I do find it suspicious that almost every big game being developed have requirements that require the latest in hardware. It is almost as if the game companies was working with hardware producers to force gamers to upgrade their computer as often as possible? Not good for the environment, and not fair to people who can't afford it.

The 150 GB of data is probably a necessity for the amount of content in the game, by that I agree. As someone who has been programming alot and know the workings of the PC in some detail I will allow myself to question the SSD requirement though as a pure necessity. And I do find it suspicious that almost every big game being developed have requirements that require the latest in hardware. It is almost as if the game companies was working with hardware producers to force gamers to upgrade their computer as often as possible? Not good for the environment, and not fair to people who can't afford it.

OR the fact that textures are increasing in resolution and audio in quality means that the amount of data to move is increasing as well and the incredibly limited bandwidth of old mechanical hard disks is becoming increasingly inadequate.

It's not even a novelty, incidentally. A lot of games have started to become sub-optimal experiences on mechanical hard disks for more than a decade at this point.
Battlefield 3 and 4 were already unbearably slow to load on one.

Yeah, you're fine. Minimum requirements for VRAM is 4GB.
You might not have everything set to maximum, you might have some framedrops in larger areas or textures loading late; but nothing too bad.

Actually, I forgot, I had upgraded my RAM to 32 GB RAM. 😁

So, on my laptop I have...

2 TB SSD
32 GB RAM
6 GB VRAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
i7 Intel CPU

Thursday can't get here fast enough, lol.

333 GB Left on my SSD.
16 GB RAM
3060 TI
I7

Let's go. It's time.

I have the same specs, except for RAM. What setting do you play on? Do you experience any freezes from time to time?

I just realized that everything set to "auto" and was at Medium. No freezing though, perfectly smooth.

When I get back on later today I'm going to push everything to Max and see how it goes.

However, I don't go past the ship because I don't want to spoil too much, so I'm not sure how helpful I'll be, but I'll let you know hiw things go on the ship at least.