Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Slow Forum Performance

The state of the forums is one of the main reasons I stopped giving feedback during Early Access.

Will we have to use those forums for the support of BG3, or will there be another, more appropriate way?

PS: Even posting this single message was quite the struggle. It's so slow I don't know if I have to click Reply or Quote or both... And it times out when I click on 'Post Reply'. x_x

Are there any plans to fix the forums before launch?

It's not a good look if you have an influx of folks trying to post bugs on the official forums when the game launches and they are unable to get the forums to load.

This site is at times unusable.

I've only been a member for a couple of weeks but performance seems to have really worsened in that short time.

Is the site attracting more bots as release date approaches?

Out of curiosity I visited the UBB.threads website a couple of nights ago to check what the latest version of the software was and their site took forever to load. The latest software version was the same as this site's - v7.7.5.

Just tried the UBB site again and it took 55 seconds from 'Open Link In New Tab' to the page appearing. Pretty shoddy whichever way you look at it.

I agree that the forums seem worse than ever at the moment. Though I’m away from home right now with patchy internet connectivity and that’s probably making it even worse (and is why I’m not around as much as usual).

The latest update I got from Larian’s community management team is that the main problem seems to be with UBB Threads and not something Larian can directly influence, so it’s interesting to see that backed up by Beechams’ research. The bad news about that is there’s no quick fix, and what’s really needed is replatforming the forums. And that isn’t going to happen before release.

And as Alodar says, that’s going to be really frustrating both for new users and all of us when we want to talk about our first experiences playing the game.

Unfortunately all we can really do is cross our fingers. Though I’ll ask if there’s any discussion with UBB Threads about the shoddy service.

Aaah, the old UBB Threads. It’s always the blasted UBB Threads.

*considers googling “UBB Threads,” decides it doesn’t even really matter*

It is really worse the last days. I would like to participate more, but since the loading times are so frustrating, I only look into a few threads anymore.

OH GOD CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HASTE ME.

Oh no, we're going back in time to 1992 with the 14.4 dial-ups baby!

I've had this same issue intermittently, going on like 3 years now.

They really should have migrated their boards in anticipation of the EA. Failing that they should have migrated their boards in anticipation of the actual launch. How much does it cost to get some decent boards? I thought we were raking it in here lol. I mean low hanging fruit.

It takes me roughly 90 seconds to load a topic on these forums bookmarking straight to the BG3 section. Loading the main forum directory can take like 3 minutes sometimes just spinning wheels. Often it feels like I'm in a cabin in the woods waiting for a satellite to pass overhead, not chilling in suburban Cali with the fiber and a cable plugged straight into my rig from the wall. Pretty middling. I guess we got a couple custom emojis and a grip of legacy from their previous titles, but I'd rather have boards that could handle image attachments without relying on 3rd party hosts, and some flavor that's like specifically BG3 oriented, cause I really don't care about Divinity or DOS or DOS2 or the German language versions of each, which all load simultaneously. Bookmarking directly to the BGIII forums categories helped a bit, but this always seems to happen whenever there's a new patch or something that pulls a big influx of traffic. like say the release of the full game hehe. I mean seems like something we could have seen coming hehe

I wonder how these forums will go when the full game is released?
A lot more players looking for information won't speed things up.

Atleast it will slow players down posting spoilers!

The fact that a simple PHP forum such at this one is still that slow after months is mindblowing to me. This is the kind of task that would take any competent sysadmin a couple of hours max to fix.

From the UBB website:


"The Ultimate Bulletin Board since 1997".

Not come very far have they? As mentioned by Black_Elk the software is seriously lacking in some of the most basic features.

Can we hire Beechams as a contract specialist to go fix the problem? Beechams, you can replatform an entire website right? Like 5 mins tops?

Pay him a "success stipend".

Honestly though this feels like one of those things that should be higher priority.

I don’t care if it has extra features as long as it loads normally. I have never been on a forum that is so slow all the time.

Long delays of at least 15 seconds on loading pages on these forums at the moment, and have failed to post more than once.

Someone cast guidance on Beechams

This is me as well. I don't need all the fancy features, I just want it to work. In fact, I'd rather NOT have all the newer forum features like emote reactions for comments, upvotes, etc. Keep It Simple Stupid.

MACTE VIRTUTE!!!

My worry is, if the forums are this bad, and for me its Horrible,

I hope this isn't a reflection how the game will play.