Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Hotfix 4 causing textures to stripe

Screengrab for lighting/texturing issues

I was a little late to the game, but it's been running phenomenally on the auto-detected ultra settings up until hotfix 4.

Now, depending on lighting, I get that the effect shown in that screen grab. I haven't changed anything in the settings at all. Hardware is an M1 Macbook Pro 14".

Has anyone else experienced this? I can't seem to find a fix when searching...

It is not just the textures, patch 4 also made so much more not work.

Several companion dialogues are not voiced, some options are missing, somne animations fail to appear. I feel like i'm playing a Beta test. But i paid for a fully funcioning game.

I hope they make all of this work quickly or give an option to roll back to patch 3.

Same here on Mac. It looks awful. Super distracting. I am surprised such an obvious graphical bug made it to production - it is everywhere not just in dimply lit areas but bright as well. 80% of my dialog type interactions have this obnoxious bug. Is there a way to roll back in steam? The game was fine before this patch so I would rather play it without the graphic bug than what ever the patch gave.

Try Wipe Clean the entire Cash of the Game and Campaings.. in evry Major Patch i have to do this..
already beated the game more then 11 times too becouse of this Shitty Situation..
and the Truth is the Best Patch so far was 2.0
(3.0 was when the Shit start to Broke Really Hard.. when they Try to Please Halsin and Karlach Fans..)

They are the responsible for the State the Game is at the Moment..
(they Broke the entire Game just to Please some Players..)

I was Having a Blast with this Game at Lounch and 2.0 the game was running perfect..
just some Frame Drops in Act 3 but nothing that Broke like it is now..
i Just Had to actually avoid a Bunch of Quests and NPCS to manage to Keep Playing..
but i Reach a Wall actually, i cannot tolerate this anymore.. so i gave up on the Game..

Okay, no more blaming other fans for bugs in the game.

Im not Blaming the Fans they Have nothing to do with it actually.
im Blaming Larian for their imcompetence..
i actually like that they are trying to Please fans thats a cool thing to do..
but its a Shit thing to do if yu took away the enjoyment of a Bunch of players for a Few..
do yu really beleave that this is Fair or Ok ?

(they should Fixed what was Broken First instead of adding things that broke the game even more.. just that, 1 year later or more then yu Fix the Shoehorned characters.. But First yu make a Stellar Game running.)

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I wonder if anyone is experiencing companion portrait glitches wither it be joining party or class changing? There are some playthroughs I've had where their portrait looks smeared or a scarred across the face.

To be more specific, I've had Laezel's portrait completely smear on joining after rescuing her from the tieflings, and Astarion's portrait scar when changing his class.

It's not a bfd or anything but it's certainly hideous.

Only other graphic like issues I've experienced is full detail not loading in conversations and making textures look very blotchy, this is with quality mode and performance mode on PS5 btw.

Same here on Mac Pro Max 16”

I’m experiencing this same issue it seems. Shared some screenshots in this post https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=920610#Post920610

Is there any way to mitigate this problem by changing certain graphics settings, or do I have to wait for a code fix?

I can't say I've experienced any stripe textures on PS5 version. That's pretty bad judging by the images I've seen. It looks like to me that dds texture translation has become broken on PC somehow.
Is it only with characters and gear? Also another question would be, do the lines move with your characters? Regardless it will have to be something the devs will have to fix, adjusting Graphics setting may not fix this.

Personally I'm a modder for PC games, tho I don't play it on PC for two reasons, (1) being that my current PC can't handle it and (2) it's more stable on PS5 version, they are packaged and translated differently.

Also came here to report the same graphics issue that that Grafumbly is showing in their screenshots. Only I can't take screenshots because I'm playing in HDR and Steam for Mac doesn't seem to be able to cope with that. Running on a 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro.

Hello, new to the forum and the game, really loving it.
I have signed up to report the same bug on my M1 ultra:

I have found that if I set the shadow quality to low, that the bug disappears. Not ideal as a solution as everything else is fine on ultra settings, but it is a work around until the bug is fixed.
Also noteworthy, if I replay the same part of the game twice, without closing and restarting the program, then the bug disappears, seems to be that than the shadow data is cached and fine to use, but on reloading the program and playing the same scene again, it reappears.
Hope this info is of use to somome.

Moving this to Technical & Gameplay issues!
The team is aware of this issue and they are looking into it

Ah, it would seem to be that this issue has been resolve in the recent patch! Yay!
Shadowheart was lacking in dark depth with lesser shadows!