Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Chapter 3 Frame drop serious

Chapter 3 has a lot of meaningless crowds that affect the frame rate, and I feel like I should add an option to remove them

What are your settings? Frame rate cap enabled? Vulcan or DX11? Have you tried fiddling with different combinations of settings? Are you in full screen or borderless window? If the former, what’s your refresh rate?

Believe me, I've tried everything I can. And from what I've seen on other forums, there are plenty of people who share my problem

SSD, or HDD?

What are the specifications of your PC and have you experienced frame rate drops anywhere else? If the game has been running for a long time the performance does seem to drop due to a memory leak so I normally save the game and close it after every 5 or so hours when the effects become noticeable.

I have the same issue and it isn't the result of the memory leak, but happens straight from launch. It has nothing to do with graphics settings, or with an SSD as far as I can tell. I have the recommended specs listed on Steam, but Lower City goes to 20fps at moments even when everything is at minimum - even as GPU and CPU utilization remain low, temperatures moderate. It is the crowds doing some bizarre stuff that cause it, fairly certain and the same issue exists in other areas such as Act 2's Inn. Vulkan/DX11 make no difference, refresh rate and full screen neither, anything listed in the usual threads on performance. Nothing does because the problem lies in the game, I think.

ssd
I had 100+FPS in chapter 1, but only 40+FPS in Chapter 3
gpu and CPU usage is low

I have the same issues as well... and sadly, there's more people voicing this on Reddit and Twitter than in here.