Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems PS5 - Massive small freezes in Splitscreen

Well that provides a bit of hope.

Keep us up to date on if that breaks again?

Hmm… nothing changed in ourgame.
Did in the meantime anybody get some answer from larian?

I haven't received any feedback from support so far. I highly doubt that the problem will resolve itself. The issue is still very prominent for us and is greatly affecting our enjoyment of the game. I somehow get the impression that Larian wants to offer the game on as many platforms as possible. Now the Mac is being added and later the Xbox. I hope they don't bite off more than they can chew with this as more issues may arise there as well. We need to continue being loud!

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It's probably best if we all post a bug report here. They're more likely to see it.

Most people already did report there 3 weeks ago as it was linked many times in this thread but so far haven't got any kind of reply to it. Plus if they didn't see this thread yet then that would be a totally other level of incompetency.
Split-screen being such a little share of people they probably won't even acknowledge it before Xbox release when it adds more people having these problems.

Apparently no one got a response.

I sent 2 reports and nothing...
Let's keep waiting, after having bought a game that we can't play.

This Thursday they release an update, but I think it is so that it can be played on MAC, I don't think they will touch split screen, but hey, there is 1% hope hahaha

I reported it via the bug report form quite early in the thread and got a reply from their bug team almost immediately - it felt like their words were well chosen though. They didn't say they were working on it per se, only that they were aware of the issue, and told me to monitor their social media. So tbh I wouldn't hold up hope that this is a priority for them to fix - which is pretty awful given i'm sure they've been aware since well before launch. It actually makes me think that they know its a very difficult fix and may relate to the Ps5 simply being unable to run it smoothly with the what they have ported / optimized it and that there isn't an easy fix.

I wouldn't be surprised if this remained an issue now until they released an enhanced edition of the game. Not sure it would even be fixed then.

Hi all,

We've been having increasingly worse freezes during gameplay; summoning, character switching, Cursor disappearing making your turns in combat really frustrating (this might be tied to frame freezing, not sure) Just wanted to add to the growing pile of complaints for the PS5 splitscreen.

At first we were happy to march through the issues, because it is a fantastic game and is everything I would want in a D&D game, so thank you Larian for that. But now that we're in Act II we've found our sessions getting shorter and shorter due to the growing/persistent performance issues, it's a damn shame. I'm very tempted to just wait for a sale on PC and pick up two copies there.

Just to add on, we've tried doing the "fix" of having only one save, that didn't work for us, we've had 1 save to 10 saves, the issues were persistent for all those situations.

Really hoping we get an update that can help split screen co-op players get a smoother experience.

Thank you all.

Everything looks ugly, we will have to suck it up and forget about the game for now, if I had known I would never have bought it, a great game but unfinished, it is as if we were playing a game still in development

Yeah, my partner and I are having the same issue (I picked a necromancer wizard as well) to the point we had to stop playing. Here is hoping it gets fixed soon.

Confirming and just reported the bug.

As others said, it becomes increasingly worse. We are playing for about 35 hours at the moment and unfortunately, it has become impossible to continue. The frustration has overtook fun.

Some people proposed the idea of playing single player with two customized characters and letting the second controller join in during battles or vice versa. That would be a desperate solution given that we paid handsomely for this game but it shows how much people like it.

I found something that significantly helps: turn off the internet connection on your PS5. This got rid of the cursor bug completely and cut the lagging and freezing at least in half. We’re at a little over 30 hours, just barely into Act 2 and it was unbearably buggy and laggy. Now it’s totally playable, though certainly not perfect.

I'll try it when I get home to see if it helps and I'll report back with whatever.

As soon as you get to the very end of Act 2 it seems to get better. We're in act 3 now and the freezes are mostly gone.

For me, however, the situation is quite annoying, I started the game in split screen mode but seeing the number of bugs I disconnected the player (remaining his character in the party) and we exchange the controller when it's the other's turn but for a couple of of days the other player's character no longer follows the party automatically as he did before and so now due to this bug the game has become unplayable for the two of us and I don't know how to unblock this situation, can anyone have any advice on how to make him follow me again (I have tried grouping, long and short rest, pushes, kill and revive, load an old save, do some tests in the camp but none of that worked) please HELP ME

Turning off internet on ps5 didnt change anything for me, appart from bugging the characters and giving control to my character to my partner.

Edit: Just had cursor bug too while offline

Hello fellow players,

After 30+ hours, in Act 1, started to have freezes that are becoming a nuisance to the experience of the game. Really hope that the coming patches address this situation.

I have also opened a bug report.

I am not sure that I have been discussed before, but removing split screen and playing with two controllers on PS5 did the trick to have a nice (although inferior) experience.
The trick is to configure the second controller to be an assist controller. That allows basically to have the two controllers controlling the first player.

To use an assist controller, go to [Settings] > [Accessibility] > [Controllers] > [Use Second Controller for Assistance], and then turn on [Use Assist Controller].

Strange. We’ve played about 3 hours since turning off internet and haven’t had a single cursor bug (previously we had it at least 2-3 times per fight). Lag is significantly reduced as well. Only other thing I can think of is that after I turned off internet I restarted my PS5…

I found this approach through a couple of commenters on Reddit so I’m not the only one who’s experienced it working. I encourage everybody to try it to see if it works for you.

We’ll see if it continues to work but so far it’s been a huge improvement. The only downside is we do need to go back to camp to assign characters which is a minor annoyance compared to all the other BS we were dealing with.

You solved the problem of the characters not following you by putting the PS5 offline because it doesn't solve anything for me. Do you happen to know other even more complex methods to solve this problem, thank you in advance.