Originally Posted by Scales & Fangs
Originally Posted by Blackheifer
Originally Posted by AusarViled
A SSD versus HD wont make that much of a difference for this game outside of loading times, this is not a game that is a shooter or a platformer [assuming your having a modern HD and not one of those HP Pavilions from 10 years ago, at 3200 rpm- if you do your going to have a very very bad time.] Games mostly store calls in memory, as long as you have 16GB of Ram you should be fine ... if not try to reduce page file limit in your system. DO NOT EVER INCREASE PAGE FILE LIMIT ON A HD, YOU WILL REGRET IT LOL.

This is not good info.

1. They literally state in the MINIMUM specs that you need an SSD.
2. It absolutely makes a huge difference having an SSD versus a regular hard drive - the "pipe" for an SSD is much larger and faster than for an a regular HD.
3. In the event of the system needing to create a swap file - which is a 100% chance with Bg3 - an SSD Swap file will wildly outperform a HD Swap file. The HD swap file may actually crash the system.

Also, if you have not played the full game or helped to make it why would you give advice against what the developers recommend?


I naively expected the requirements to slightly go down from EA (you know optimization and stuff) but it is what it is, so I guess I will work with what I have.

Well at least you admit it, but you should know that the specs have gone UP since the game was in EA not down.

And look, maybe your framerates will just bottom out in Baldur's Gate and you will be slugging along and Larian wants to be able to say "Hey, we said you need an SSD" - because Larian takes framerates REALLY seriously.

But you are opening the door for a crash to occur.

If this is what I think it is your only other option is to increase your laptop RAM to 64-128 GB so you can just load the entire game into memory. Wheee!

Last edited by Blackheifer; 22/07/23 06:16 PM.
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