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I've maintained for a while that changing Shadowheart's character arc in Act III rather than Act II is more in line with traditional storytelling, where she'd double down on her misbelief at the midpoint, rather than already overcoming it.

This however seems to prevent Shadowheart's Act III sandcastle romance scene...

So, I'm a little confused regarding Karlach's ending, as it sometimes seems to be skipped altogether, and sometimes forces you into one outcome:

I am seeing a strange visual artifact in certain Lower City interiors, and I am trying to determine if this is a known BG3 issue or something specific with my setup.

The artifact appears as large, faint blue concentric circles (almost like a target pattern) on some walls and floors. It is most noticeable on reflective hardwood floors and other shiny surfaces.

A few observations:
-The circles move with the camera
-They become much less noticeable when I zoom in closer
-They are visible in screenshots
-Acts 1 and 2 were fine as far as I could tell
-Rivington is completely fine
-Even parts of the Lower City are fine
-The issue only seems to occur on certain Lower City interiors, specifically upstairs of the Blushing Mermaid

Troubleshooting I have already tried:
-Vulcan and DX11
-HDR on and off
-DLSS on and off
-Different AA settings
-Lowering graphics settings
-Fullscreen and borderless
-Clean NVIDIA driver installation
-Clearing NVIDIA shader cache
-Clearing BG3 level cache
-Reinstalling the game

System Specs:
-RTX 5090
-Ryzen 7 9800X3D
-240HZ OLED monitor


Other games are totally artifact free, and I have not noticed any visual issues outside of a few specific interiors in the Lower City.

Has anyone else seen this before or been able to reproduce it? I am mainly trying to determine whether this is a known lighting/reflection artifact in Act 3 or if there is a setting I am overlooking.

Video attached

[video:google]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ROK5KhfUTWQTBMggdcXwbPVjb0oCLRSf/view?usp=sharing[/video]

Screenshots attached

[img]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gN_6QNMSZ4y_VLFexgAD0u9C5pl1iTPX/view?usp=drive_link[/img]

So I have had this issue with this quest for a couple of months now, before that I could get it to work but not anymore. Game up to date so I think it must be a recent patch causing the issue?

Hag dead in Act 1. Act 3. No sign of Fake Grizzly in the Blushing Mermaid, Show invisible doesn't show her - she's simply not there at all.
In the basement lair I can do show invisible, kill a shroom or 3, chuck faerie fire, create water and just about anything else with my party and no sign of Ethel whatsoever - invisible or otherwise.

I see this is an issue reported countless times on steam forums, reddit etc and still bugged?

You don’t need Vulkan to play. I run the game with DirectX11 just fine. Vulkan is only the default option, so you can switch to DX11 in the launcher and keep playing.

Hello,

I just wanted to say that I have also had this issue. We had just gotten to the Iron Bank and we were mid fight when my connection crashed. I was the host so I continued playing so I could save after the fight. But next time we tried to play no-one could join via crossplay. The one PC player and one Steamdeck player could join via other means.

Would also love a way around this as the only issue is the Xbox player as they have no other options for joining. It's an honour mode run as well, so we cannot re-load a previous save.

OK.

I think we dont really disagree on much, if anything.