Originally Posted by Blackheifer
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.

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

Sarcasm aside other than the SSD, is there anything else that was added as a requirement? I think the EA requirements and the new requirements are for the rest identical. I am a worried about my video card in particular as it is the Achilles' heel of my laptop. Unlike the SSD, I can't change this one and I have no plans for buying a new laptop in the next two years.

As for crashes, I've had those very rarely and never with this game in EA. I will really see how it goes and if it really needed, I guess I will search how to upgrade the C: driver memory on my laptop. After all, I will have my save files and the game might run just fine until the last chapter where the big city is introduced. But I really do not want to bother with that at the time being.

Last edited by Scales & Fangs; 22/07/23 06:51 PM.