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

No, I have not encountered that particular problem.

Unfortunately this has greatly affected my enjoyment of the game. Constant stuttering and lagging on the PS5 version any time these minor actions like switching characters or spells casting…

I have tried the following:
1. Removing all saves except one
2. Cleaning up inventory and sending items to camp
3. Playing in offline mode

Nothing improves the situation. Currently at the end of Act 1 35 hours in.

It worked for me putting the ps5 offline. Like you said The problem still exist, still have the lag, but I think cut the lagging and freezing at least in half. Thank you, it's playable now. Shandowhwart summoning would took like 25 to 30 sec, now is like 10 sec.

I have tested the PS5 offline trick. I don't know if it is some sort of placebo effect, but it does seem to improve the situation.

Yesterday I tried playing offline and the truth is that the delay goes from 8 seconds to 2.5/3 seconds when changing characters.

It is somewhat more playable, in fact, we were playing yesterday and we are going to continue even with this delay.

Thanks to whoever posted this on the forum we can now continue the game.

A new update is coming tomorrow, hopefully it will be even better. It's something.

Thank god the “login crash” but led us to playing offline too. Still borderline unacceptable, but it is at least within the realm of being playable.

Confirming that playing offline decreased the freezing to 2 seconds.

This is crazy my younger fellows. I remember back in the late 80s I used to spend hours with my cousin to connect our ancient console to the TV in order to place Space Invaders. Our enthusiasm was so big that it could tolerate anything.

It's not exactly the same now, but I'm still powering through this ridiculous freeze because I rarely feel so hyped up with a video game anymore as I do with BG3.

Sucks for me and my boyfriend who play couch co op with our friend who plays with us online. I guess we’re doomed to 15+ second 0fps freeze lag from doing basic actions and the cursor/target disappearing all the time.

We had so much fun with divinity 2 playing together, it’s a real shame baldurs was released in this state and we still have zero acknowledgment from Larian

When we were forced into offline because of the PSN issue the other day, the multiplayer option in the menu disappeared so I couldn’t assign my wife her companion character. So I was in control of 3 and her only 1.

Is there a work around for this? Or am I missing something?

Seems like an oversight that if you’re offline you can’t assign characters in split screen play?

You need to send the companion to camp by talking to them and make your wife talk to said companion in camp to take them with you again.

Oh wow thank you, I appreciate the quick response. Kind of an annoying work around but better than leaving her with one character.

I was getting annoyed by that (other than the lag/freezing) but someone has posted here on this topic a few pages ago. As the First player you can press "options" and then enter "multiplayer", there you can assign any character to any player party.

When you’re offline there isn’t the multiplayer option. I’m familiar with selecting multiplayer while in the pause menu screen and reassigning characters but that didn’t seem to be an option when playing offline.

So my partner and I have persisted with a long (loot all playthrough) and the issue became untenable. We were at 80h mid act 2 and summoning is taking almost 1 min, there is freeze lag in other normal actions as well like levelling up, opening inventory etc...

It's a shame we've had to resort to this - very disappointing, BUT we are having a much better time using the PS5s assistance controller function. We basically don't bring in player 2, but set the second ps5 controller as an assist controller that player two controls.

This means we get some of the coop experience ( they control 2 characters in battle) and they can control characters in general play (albeit not at the same time as the other player). It doesn't feel so bad for ex to just say - hold on I'll disarm or lockpick, let I'll talk to this NPC cause we need X y or z skill etc... and the other player waits. The main cost is not being able to do things simultaneously.

The benefits are numerous:
* primarily - there is no freeze lag cause technically it's single player but with two custom characters

* crucially also though - the screen is merged, but you still have two controllers active and the hand over is seem less.

* also very grateful it runs the game in 60 FPS so generally just nicer.
We def recommend fellow ps5 split screeners give it a try.

In the meantimeI have not yet received any feedback from Larian. I have also tried the instructions with the assistant controller and the internet turned off. Is it possible to play as a different character while using the Assistant Controller? I couldn't figure it out and that's why we abandoned the idea as it's also impractical when one person is steering left and the other right. Turning off the internet didn't work at all in fact it had the opposite effect. When the internet is disabled the multiplayer option in the main menu disappears forcing us to reassign characters through the camp. That was no option fur us because yesterday we experienced the worst lag and freezes ever!
Without giving away any spoilers we are relatively close to the end of Act Two and it got so bad that we almost considered quitting the game. However we pushed through but I must say it was absolutely no fun. I felt more sad and frustrated while playing.
But then the closer we got to the end of Act Two the better the performance suddenly became. For the first time yesterday and after 60h gameplay we experienced smooth animation of a summoning spell in split-screen mode. lol
I could also suddenly switch between characters without any issues.
However during combat I had the problem that one character could no longer move at all. The indicator was missing. Attacks worked so he could move through attacking but regular movement was impossible throughout the entire battle. Tomorrow the next patch is set to be released and I hope it addresses the performance issues on the PS5. I haven't found any information about what the patch includes yet except that it's supposed to be quite large once again.

So when using an assist controller you can't control two characters simultaneously. You need to decide who is steering the party at any given time and the secondary player assumes control when they want to intervene.

Not ideal, but for us it's worth it for the non split / merged 60fps experience. Closer to DOS anyway.

Bump.
Us are just like everyone else. The game is becoming unplayable. We do really hope today's patch will fix this issue, otherwise we will stick to assistant controller trick for now on. :PRAY: :PRAY:

Patch 3 fixed the issue

Haven't had the time to try it out properly, but I just updated to the latest patch, opened up split screen, tried to change characters and I got no freeze/lag. Seems to be working?

Same here, haven't had time to check this out properly, but it looks like patch completely fixed the issue. Character switch went from 5 second lag to like none. Love you.

And summon is not 15 seconds anymore, but instant.