Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems patch 8 problems

Shadows seem broken or something with patch 8. The difference between low and high is nearly not noticeable. Most grass and flora no longer have shadows, the shadows that are visible are not as dark. A lot of flickering shadows on the characters faces in dialog scenes.

Here is shadows from Patch 6 and shadows from Patch 8. You can see the grass on one picture has shadows while they are missing in the second, as well as how dark the shadows are.

Working Shadows


Broken Shadows

Annoyingly, when you play a melody as bard, the "notes" around you do disappear in photo mode, and that would be the one instance where I'd like to see an effect in the snapshot.
Also when playing violin, the bow (or fiddlestick or whatever the correct word is in English ) disappears from view ! Leaving photomode brings it back. So you can't get a decent photo of a violin-playing bard.

I'm noticing sometimes if I use Alt key to see what items are around me and move the camera around with the Q,E the text jitters.Doesn't always happens but it happens frequently enough.It's just the text that jitters not the game itself.

Even with the update that they just put through I still can't use the the item action button. This is so frustrating because all I want to do is play my game.

You can also try setting the camera rotation to one of the mouse buttons. Then move the cursor over the name of an item while pressing ALT, the camera rotation mouse button will not work. Until Patch 8 this was fine. I am unspeakably disappointed.

The new hotfix has made things much worst.

1.Hovering the mouse icon on a "RED" enemy makes the attack icon laggy.

2.Sometimes looting a corpse makes the opening of the bag animation laggy.50/50 if it happens.(with ALT-key pressed at the same time)

3.Pressing the ALT key to show all loot around (especially with alot of dead bodies around) makes the text on the bodies jitter/lag alot when turning the camera around

4.Turning the camera while pressing the ALT-key to display a bunch of dead bodies can sometimes cause stutters.

5.The map UI on the top right is jittery when turning the camera around.

This is not jitter/lag. If the cursor is over the name of the object while ALT is pressed, the camera will stop rotating. Don't you get it?

Speaking of jitters I'm getting strange instances of jittering UI icons as well, such as spell icons when selecting new spells on level-up. This is on PS5. Nothing major though.

More annoyingly, the map in the Lower City now gets severe FPS drops when scrolling around on it after they added shopkeeper icons.

What you're describing is totally a different issue and I noticed it too.Camera panning stops as soon as the mouse hovers over loot.

What I have Is a different issue.When there's lots of corpses/loot around and I press the alt-key to make them visible it makes ALL text jitter and lagg when panning the camera around.The TEXT is jittery/laggy.IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CAMERA STOPPING.

Yeeeees, I'm sure it has nothing to do with it!