Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems [MacOS] Game freezes on almost every dialogue/cutscene

I've replied to a few threads here recently of people having similar issues, but thought I'd start my own thread to bump this topic. I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on macOS Tahoe 26.3 on an M1 Pro (16 GB) via Steam, version 4.1.1.7151330 (Patch 8).

Since the latest MacOS update (Tahoe), I literally can't play BG3.

For context: in Jan 2024 on macOS Sonoma (Patch 6) the game ran on high settings, 60 fps, with almost no crashes and I completed a full playthrough. After updating to macOS Sequoia (~Patch 7/8), I began getting intermittent dialogue freezes (every hour of gameplay or so), but it was still playable. Since updating to Tahoe (Patch 8), freezes occur almost every time (spinning wheel).

I have to force-quit, so no crash report is generated.

Things I've tried:
- Clean reinstall of BG3 with full removal of local files
- Fresh player profile and new campaign/save
- Steam Cloud cleared and resynced with only new save (tried offline too)
- No mods present; mod/config/profile files reset
- Game files verified; launched outside Steam client
- Graphics minimised (lowest settings, low resolution, windowed/fullscreen)
- Cache and user folders regenerated
- Background apps/overlays eliminated; clean boot tested
- CPU priority adjustment (renice) tested

I don't know if this tells us anything but the game runs smoothly when not entering/exiting dialogue or initiating a cutscene. And loading screens are still quite fast.

I'm not sure if there's anyone at Larian still working on the Mac port, but the latest silent patch did not fix these issues.

If anyone has had the same difficulties I'd love to know if a fix was found. I love this game.

I'm having the same problem with my PS5. Everything was working perfectly and I was enjoying my run. I updated it, but crossplay started to lag a little, then the next day it was completely awful. The game is so slow that it takes my character 5 to 10 seconds to take a single step. This time I got really pissed off and reported the bug by making a real complaint (not that it helps much). It's not possible that every damn time they release an update there's always something wrong. And they don't dare to tell me that maybe it's a mods problem, because the game was running fine until they did this update. And neither is my PS5, since I tried everything, even clearing the cache, but the other games are fine. So they created the problem with that update.